Right? Like - talk about having the luckiest version of XKCD’s Ten Thousand!

Oh! Is that the new “Science, Technology, Engineering, AI, And Math” Curricula? 🪦

Language is complicated and messy. There’s plenty to suggest that for the people that coined the term, they meant for gay to apply to all genders. Then a prominent group of gay women claimed the term lesbian as a specific type of gay woman.

We can argue that lesbian was a specific group of women, not meant to mean all gay women. However, because there’s no equivalent ‘male only’ gay, over time their usage drifted to mean all homosexual men and all homosexual women respectively.

Since language is descriptive, not prescriptive, we can’t say the new usage is wrong, just that it’s different from what the terms used to mean.

Sucks that our society is structured to make marriage such a large gamble. While the asexual wife thing sucks, I hope you two can connect on other levels for a rich and fulfilling relationship (since it’s not all about sex)

To your larger thesis - I agree. The labels we use - “straight”, “gay”, “bi” rarely match what people think of their own sexuality. Sometimes even when accurate we can chafe at such harsh categories. It’s just more complex and nuanced then that. But society just loves it’s labels.

What would you think of the term heteroflexible? It carries the idea that as a prince, you might have a harem exclusively of women, yet as a pauper ‘any port in a storm’ as the expression goes. Or it could mean that you prefer women, but a good blowjob is a good blowjob - regardless of the sex of the lips giving it.

In my opinion, the original post was “some guy” reviewing their pics and asked “which of these beverage container photos is most photogenic?” - a super casual question, and @[email protected] said “Coke-Cola is evil!” - which is absolutely true.

I tried to carefully reword the question to ask it in an unbranded way - what is @[email protected]’s thoughts if we push past the corporation=bad thought stopper. However I failed - and you, @[email protected], jumped on the new thought stopper “sodastream”. I can’t say I believe sodastream is as evil as Coke™, but they’re also certainly not angels. I’m sure you can argue that case.

But the question wasn’t about really about Coke. The question definitely wasn’t about SodaStream. The question @[email protected] was asking is “Which drink vessel of mine do you like?” And I don’t think you two answered that part of the question. I do love the anti-capitalist messages - but would it hurt either of you to throw Armond1 a bone in your reply to address the aesthetical question they’re asking?

A) Your point? Just because a government has done evil things doesn’t mean its people are evil. Unless you want to demonstrate that sodastream is under direct influence of their government, this is just guilt by association.

B) Did I say we were using a Sodastream? We’re using a home made CO2 device connected to a food grade bottle that we use to fizz the drink - we just use the same screw thread size as the sodastream product because it’s currently popular.

Okay - how about if it were a homemade cola prepared in a sodastream style and the aluminum can in the right were sourced from a recycling center to reduce waste (and the others vessels are thrift ware)

Can you express a preference in that case? (I get the point you’re making, fine; but at least answer the question they’re about the aesthetic of the containers)

That … tracks

Unironically Orwellian

It used to function as a fallback SMS/MMS messenger (like how iMessage does) but when Google started moving to convert Android from SMS/MMS to RCS Signal made the hard decision to cut the fallback functionality rather than follow Google’s new framework.

I personally hope once the dust settles Signal designs a RCS engine and restores the fallback functionality.

My mom still maintains her Angelfire site. MySpace still exists. There are historical cities that are ghost towns of what they once were - yet the cities exist. Once you reach a particular space of cultural ubiquity, it gets hard to disappear.

All holidays are weird. Half are choosing to celebrate some minute facet of human life and the other half are some facet of human history (often blown up into legend)

In a world where we have holidays for a fertility god long since swallowed up by mystery cult god with the symbol of an oviparous hare, and we invite children to openly impersonate devilry each year in the autumn, or how we celebrate Columbus for their “discovery” when the continent itself was named after Amerigo Vespucci (and both events glossing over the indigenous people living here already) … and you think Juneteenth is the unusual one?

What do you find so weird about the day? (Enough to go out of your way to advertise your discontent in social media) - I’m genuinely curious.

In case you’re being genuinely naïve, both your comments read as something a racist would say.

Calling Juneteenth a weird holiday implies it makes you uncomfortable. I personally wasn’t raised celebrating the tradition - but it only took a quick web search and reading a few articles to quickly find plenty of reasons to like the holiday. What precisely do you find weird about the holiday?

Your follow-up comment was even more damning - you were asked if you wore a hood (like a Ku Klux Klansman) and your reply was as though you were asked if you wore a hoodie (cliché stereotype).

Are you like openly racist? I’d ask if it is some misunderstanding, but you’re swinging zero for two so far.

My understanding is that ménage à trois says the three are ‘living together’ with the sex being implied via innuendo, whereas plan à trois is more directly about the sex act itself.

Have you met the French? There’s a bunch of English sex words brought in from French! Most notably is ménage à trois, for a threesome. The smoking a cigarette after sex cliché is pretty French too.

I relaxed a bit after I realized that - unless you’re paying for HIPPA grade privacy (or similar), Google/Microsoft/Amazon index your data so hard, it may as well be leaked. So a failure to protect my data is at worst the same as hosting in the cloud.

(Probably still better - if someone made a torrent of my personal data, it probably wouldn’t be popular - if 300 downloaded it, it would still be less then the ~800+ advertisers Google will just freely give my information to, barring some kind of Streisand effect)

If you (or anyone reading this) are ever looking to decloud, you can set up Syncthing in a OneDrive-like setup

1. Create a Syncthing share between your computers at %userprofile%\Syncthing
   C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing
   and verify the share works between windows systems.

2. Create the shared system folders in it: %userprofile%\Syncthing[library folder]
   C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Desktop C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Documents C:\Users\Joe\Syncthing\Pictures

3. Open explorer, go to [My Computer/This PC], right-click on the appropriate system folder (Windows has system folders for: 3D Objects, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos), go to Properties (under ‘more’ for Win11), select Location, and either manually enter or use the move button to select the new location. On pressing apply, you can also use the prompt to move the folder contents between locations (yes on the first PC, but manual for others if you might clobber files)

Hello @DoubleSpace!

Is this where the line to top @voodooattack begins? I’ve brought a ✨fabulous✨ selection of headwear with me and I do daresay we’ll find the perfect fit. How uh, oh dear !, how do you plan to top @voodooattack?

You’re not wrong. And the line between evil and laziness here is too messy for me to sort out. We got into this mess because the internet was originally designed as a communication tool between business, university, and government. Specifically, Bell Labs connecting universities as part of the military project DARPA. Since they were connecting dozens of sites, the 4 billion addresses (2^32) seemed like plenty.

Skipping over dialup and forward to early broadband, the issue of the number of addresses problem was ‘solved’ by a clever firewall technique network address translation (NAT). It was adversited as a security feature, but it allowed ISPs to give one public IP per customer. This standardized things for them - they give you one IP and you multiplex it as you wish. However, since the average customer wanted a turnkey solution, the ISPs would then toss in the modem as a rental. (Also, as enshitification hit this rental modem started getting more user hostile.)

But at this point ISPs are engorged and lazy and redoing everything is a chore, so they got one IPv6 space for everyone, and set up their IPv6 servers to assign chucks of that space based on your assigned IPv4 address. Easy-peasy! Now none of their other management or billing systems have to change! Of course, now your v6 space moves anytime your v4 space does but -they always have those business accounts to sell you …

A diamond in the rough: When I was younger, working at a data center and IPv6 was new, I found this gem coupled with IPv6 world day (via Reddit): https://tunnelbroker.net/

Hurricane Electric was/is happy to give you a free static IPv6 /48 prefix, and you could tunnel your home connection directly to this (like a site to site VPN). Their catch is if you start pushing significant traffic you’ll have to pay market rates. But if your goal is to add a free static IPv6 frontend to your home network, this has been here the whole time.

Similarly, I’ve read Cloudflare’s Terms of Service [privacy policy, et al.] and they’re fairly tame compared to many. I’m also partial to their WARP technology. The idea is the end user’s traffic is encrypted and sent to any of Cloudflare’s servers and from there they can then bounce to anywhere in the world (a handy trick if you need to get around a great firewall or other tools of censorship). If your home lab uses Cloudflare’s tunnel, and your phones use WARP, the only thing a third party can see it that you’re using the largest CDN in the world - which is sorta a ‘well, duh’ statement. Cloudflare’s schtick is they don’t need limits - they can flood you home connection and it wouldn’t be a blip on their radar. However, they need to run variations of these technologies to operate their primary business. So making a copy for you to use is almost trivial. (And if you go viral and suddenly need a CDN, I’m sure they can sell you some)

Tl;dr: you’re not wrong, but the desert has water in it, if you know where to look.

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