They don't post to my area so I'd anyone wanted it, we can work out how to send it on

@Rinel said in The Weirdest Thing I Ever Purposefully Did on the Internet:

Ffs gany this is why I didn't go into details

Commonwealth v. Gosselin.

Miles v. City of Augusta, GA. (Head to the notes.)

Work safe, but bizarre.

https://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/calcification/

I had to dig up my essay on it. But here you go.

To this day I think the instructor purposefully chose it to see who would, in our review essays (which focused on tone and mood) would be willing to point out just how bad it is and who would be too afraid to do so.

@Macha

I’ll concede that it is a possibility. It’s a possibility in every sport. A baseball in the head. A stick to the head. A perfectly legal hit that nearly killed Ryan Shazier.

And? It’s football. The guy ran up to Garrett looking to take his helmet off. The fuck, man, sensationalism? Sensationalism.

@Chet said in Y2K:

What if Y2K and the alleged glitch was a cover for the bug where shareware could be outwitted in terms of the trial period before purchase, by changing the clock backwards?

In that case, why not just change the merchandised software implement for shareware clock timing, sold by some nefarious organization as a utility packet?

They'd logically do it for free, and in public.

I have read this like ten times and I still don't understand what you're getting at.

The big scare over Y2k was really about preventing people from pirating Winzip???? Or........?????????

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@Jeshin said in Favorite Wallpaper Collections?:

When you say manage your dual screens, what do you mean by manage? Also what is the name in case I too want a best of wallpaper thingy.

By manage I mean have single images spanning the screens, having two separate images at once, etc. It's https://www.displayfusion.com/ .

Pitbulls and Parolees.

@Auspice said in "My Immortal" reading idea:

@Ghost said in "My Immortal" reading idea:

@Alamias said in "My Immortal" reading idea:

I...have never heard nor read this masterpiece, piece of literature, story

My Immortal

YOU ARE WELCOME

Bad

Youre just intimidated by its perfection

@Livia Sadly, they stole that from another player's twitter feed. I don't remember who at the moment.

@Auspice It is a misapplication of the Leadership practices taught by Maxwell which is, from what I've seen, surprisingly effective. It fails at high level offices, only really works on people that are themselves part of the rat race culture.

I've yet to watch ep 2 and won't be back till I have, but here's my episode 1 reaction:

@Rinel said in Great TV:

So. Watchmen. Am I supposed to be cheering for the fascist police state because it's taking out white supremacists?

I'm going to assume that the point is "just because a fascist police state is taking out white supremacists doesn't meant that fascist police states are okay." But now I am just sitting here watching weird satirical liberal revenge porn.

I feel very confused.

@tek No; you can pause the scrolling and connect to more than one world, which Blowtorch specifically would not do.

Quiche - that isn't really - but totally is

Pastry crust (I can give you a vegan recipe or you can buy one)
4 tablespoons olive oil (I like cold pressed)
1 pound of asparagus (get rid of the rough ends, cut 1/2 inch length)
(I use the tips of four of them for garnish)
2 shallots (peeled and coarse chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (I sometimes add more, but I have a garlic addiction)
1 cup of walnuts
1.5 cups cooked navy beans (you can sub a 15 oz can)
.5 cup loosely packed tarragon
2 tablespoons finely chopped tarragon
2 tablespoons of cornstarch
.75 (3/4 but I started the . stuff) teaspoon salt (I like pink Himalayan)
.25 (1/4) teaspoon ground nutmeg (buy it, it's annoying to ground yourself)
black pepper to your desired taste (I usually end up with a teaspoon)
.33 (1/3) cup of wheat bread crumbs (if you are avoiding this there are vegan alternatives to this too, like Ezekiel bread)
4 slices of beefsteak tomatoes (you can use Holland too - Use BIG ones)

Preheat a large skillet over medium-high heat.
Sauté asparagus in tablespoon of oil, stirring every now and then for 7 minutes (approximately)
Meanwhile grab a food processor and prepare to process!
Toss walnuts (I like to try to toss them in from across the room - not really), 1/4 c tarragon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper in that machinery. Turn it on and run it like a boss. Or until the walnuts are into crumbles (walnut meat)
Put the asparagus into a shallow bowl for a time out while you saute the shallots in a tablespoon of oil around 3 minutes.
Add in garlic for another 3 minutes (don't burn it - it makes it bitter and smells bad)
Put all these things (shallots and garlic) in with the asparagus. When they have chilled out (aka stopped steaming) add them to the food processor, pulse a few times.
Add beans and make a puree
Sift the cornstarch if it's lumpy to make it fine (soooo fine) and pulse (I find techno music helps with this)
Toss all this back into the time out bowl, cover and put in the fridge for 45 minutes.
Oh yeah, probably turn off the stove if you haven't.

Preheat oven to 350

Prepare the pastry dough. I use a 15 inch pie pan thing. I cover it with foil and bake it 15 minutes

Take the vegetable/walnut mixture from the fridge. Put it in the shell. Sprinkle the top with half the bread crumbs. and drizzle with a tablespoon of olive oil. Arrange the tomato slices on top (channel your inner Bob Ross - Happy tomatoes)
Put the rest of the bread crumbs on those happy tomatoes, a touch of salt, some fresh pepper, the chopped tarragon, drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil.
Bake 45 minutes
You should let it cool 20 minutes, but I never do. I get hungry.

I pray to the gods to ensure that the universe contains a drive with the code I require.

I found this link as one of the more recent articles about China's political pressure machine that has a lot of the stuff I mentioned and a few other examples. There's lots of material out there if you're looking for it. This just happens to have a lot of examples in one place and has more on the hotel guy that got fired.

Just in case someone wanted more examples about slighting China, emphasis on 'slight': http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/lebron-jamess-statement-on-china-was-disappointing.html

With 1.4 billion people and being more capitalist than communist in recent years, obviously there is a lot of money to be made in China so I can't imagine anything but a hands off approach to them. But that's why I think a bigger push should be made towards India, who is expected to soon surpass China in population and is less 'hostile' in relation to the US. But no country is perfect and the US has plenty of its own problems so... grain of salt and all that.

The use of sports in aiding diplomacy has a long history, though, in several different countries. So there's more to be gained than just profits with situations like these. Spreading culture and opening lines of communication that weren't there before are more valuable in the long run than they might appear.

And yeah, when you talk about any organization as big as the NBA separating politics and economics isn't realistic, especially once a focus on something draws all eyes. I don't think this situation would have been as bad if not for the current trade war or the US issues with Huawei. China is on the defensive already of all things American and if this is just another proxy battle, then the US lost handily and exposed one of its greatest weaknesses: $$$

@Griatch Friends of my husband's still have a pile of Amigas running. The part names were, iirc, amazing.

@dvoraen Garruk is a funny PW because he's insanely good for some token-centered decks. Sarkhan Dragonspeaker does the same thing with Red, that said.

A lot of PWs are afterthoughts, more or less. I'm glad they killed Gideon. Just a shame they couldn't kill the rest of the Gatewatch with him.

Mine's probably a little different:
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The widescreen is my 'primary', the little one to the right of it is simply a result of my obsessive need to know Everything. It's a touch-screen dealie whos sole purpose is to run monitoring software (Currently has the Graphics statistics in this shot because I ended up having to replace that card for overheating)

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