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  • Well, sadly that just makes you a bad parent. Congrats.

  • A friend I met as an adult. He had a pretty rough life growing up, his family was homeless and roamed around a lot, he was supposed to be 'homeschooled' but was really taking care of his parents during that time, so he never really had an education, obviously never went to college, etc.

    He fell into learning programming as a teenager and started working when he was 16 as a web programmer. Now in his 30's, he makes more money than anyone I've personally known and I'm so freaking happy for him. A lot of bullshit people like to brag that they're 'self made' when they own companies, or are CEO's, etc. And this guy is like the most humble, kind and well adjusted person I've ever known, and he did it all himself. Super greatful to be his friend and have him in my life.

  • As far as story telling, and war goes, "The General" by Dispatch:

    [Verse 1]

    There was a decorated general with a heart of gold

    That likened him to all the stories he told

    Of past battles won and lost, and legends of old

    A seasoned veteran in his own time

    On the battlefield, he gained respectful fame

    With many medals of bravery and stripes to his name

    He grew a beard as soon as he could to cover the scars on his face

    And always urged his men on

    [Verse 2]

    But on the eve of a great battle with the infantry in dream

    The old general tossed in his sleep and wrestled with its meaning

    He awoke from that night to tell what he had seen

    And walked slowly out of his tent

    All the men held tall with their chests in the air

    With courage in their blood and a fire in their stare

    And it was a grey morning and they all wondered how they would fare

    Till the old general told them to go home

    [Chorus]

    He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

    That this fight is not worth fighting

    And I've seen their mothers

    And I will no other

    To follow me where I'm going

    So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

    You are young and you must be living

    So take your shower, shine your shoes, you got no time to lose

    You are young and you must be living

    Go now, you are forgiven"

    [Verse 3]

    But the men stood fast with their guns on their shoulders

    Not knowing what to do with their contradicting orders

    The general said he would do his own duty but he would extend it no further

    The men could go as they pleased

    But not a man moved, their eyes gazed straight ahead

    Till one by one they stepped back, and not a word was said

    And the old general was left with his own words echoing in his head

    He then prepared to fight

    [Chorus]

    He said, "I have seen the others, and I have discovered

    That this fight is not worth fighting

    And I've seen their mothers

    And I will no other

    To follow me where I'm going

    [Outro]

    Go now, you are forgiven

    Go now, you are forgiven

    Go now, you are forgiven

    Go

  • I mean.. I'm not sure what you thought we've been doing, all this time together, but the kids are going to be devastated.

  • Glad we understand each other.

  • Its only a victory if we can ensure they don't attack another city in 2 weeks.

    I'm actually not happy they're cooling their aggression because it feels like they're just letting the boiling pot cool for a sec, we need the heat to keep coming to keep people angry and engaged enough to not fall back into apathy and putting their heads in the sand again. Just like school shootings, if you wait long enough, Minnesota will just be another school shooting that people shake their heads over and go back to doing whatever they were doing.

  • Lol now I get the joke.

  • ...are you still on Windows 10 by any chance? Because Windows 11's UI and UX is atrocious, by design.

  • 🤷‍♂️ I figured it couldn't hurt.Better than doing nothing 🤷‍♂️

  • Huh, haven't heard of Bezelbub mod, I'll have to check if its compatible with DevilutionX the open source reimplementation of Diablo 1. I played DevilutionX on my steamdeck, but got stuck in beginning of nightmare as my character wasn't powerful enough to continue.

  • Apparently they will try to connect to open networks and try to tunnel through to get internet, so I set bogus manual DNS, gateway, and ip info so it can't connect to anything correctly.

  • ...given all the things he's done so far, do we really think its fair giving him the benefit of the doubt on such a statement? I think we all know damn well what he meant. As far as I know he specifically referred to himself both as a king and a dictator, multiple times in 2025.

  • 🤷‍♂️ here's to hoping it wakes some people up when the fear is about the very person they voted for and gave money to, not from liberals, trans people, homeless, etc etc. The nefarious "others". Their guy is the one making them feel fear now. Not from others but from him directly.

  • I hope that if his supporters feel fear from this, they'll have some Introspection that he'll turn on even the people supporting him. Just like Hitler, no one is immune from turning against by the great dictator, the inner circle continues to get smaller and smaller until its just the dictator...

  • It probably will happen, I'm pretty sure Hitler labeled people against him as having a mental disorder and used that as a further excuse to arrest. Can't find much about it now because anything entered into google even hinting at mental disorder and Hitler or Third Reich comes up with articles questioning Hitler's sanity.

    Anyway, Its how they control and dehumanize, just say you're not mentality fit because you're against dear leader.

  • I have a bunch of belkin wemo, tp-link kasa and some other off brand smart switches that I use with home assistant locally. The problem I see here, is that as far as I know you still need the manufacturers app to link the smart switch to your network for the initial set up. The second they abandon the apps and stop updating them, people are gonna have problems. If you ever need to reset the switch, or change your WiFi SSID/password, or you move and have to set up the devices anew, you still need the manufacturers apps to do that initial set up.

    I'm really hoping someone builds an app or service that can handle the initial handshake to get the device on your network from the initial WiFi hotspot they set up for their phone app to do its thing.

  • I agree, but FYI I wasn't trying to contort talking points by saying 'seems'. I just hadn't had time to watch the video with 100% attention to say that was happening for sure. Obviously the person is, after taking another look.

  • It also gives lies to the followers to parrot when they're refuting reality, in arguments with everyone else thats still sane.

  • As they ignore that it seems like that agent was pistol whipping him in the face.