If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Fuck you, Shoresy!

More countries need hash bars.

See What I Fucked-up Today is another good one

yeah this is nothing new, I heard this for eight straight years. It’s the same shit, different pile.

Yes, actually I’ve ceased actively looking for a partner for the better part of a year now. Little has changed, except I now have fewer apps on my phone. (I do still maintain one dating profile on an open source app but I check it on the order of twice a year because the app is dead, feel free to guess which)

More room for memes is cool, I guess

also I’ve tried solicited advice and it rarely helps either, so I don’t really care. It’s on me whether I follow it, and terrible advice is usually not subtle to everyone reading in a public forum. Do your worst, none of us are getting any younger.

yeah no I haven’t even managed to lose my v-card or really even have a meaningful romantic relationship, about the closest I came was someone leading me on and playing mind games with me for a few months. 🙃

Given my success so far, it’s easy to extrapolate “when will I find the one?” to “probably never”.

every year I get a little older, a little more damaged, and a little less desirable; and the age bracket of people I’d be interested in get more baggage of their own and have more expectations of a potential partner. I’m in my late 20s living with family, and nobody really wants to date me already; I can’t fathom that will improve any in the future being a 30-something living with family (as I will likely still be too poor to leave).

Probably gonna die alone. Can’t wait, this place sucks anyhow.

Please don’t give them ideas. Fido’s one thing, but at least that’s a sentient being that can feel pain. Officer Clanker, I hope to god, Satan, the FSM, Jibbers Crabst and whatever other deity may listen, is many many decades away.

If they start declaring inanimate fucking objects or robots to be police officers, all it will mean is that the penalty for vandalism and cop killing is the same… so you might as well earn it.

REISUB basically does the same thing but slightly more gracefully. It will still reboot through basically any lockup (I have yet to encounter one it didn’t work on), but it gives your machine the chance to settle some things before cutting the power.

If a Linux machine locks up or freezes completely, use REISUB to restart it more gently than pushing the Power Button.

Hold down Alt and the SysReq (Print Screen) keys, and then type R E I S U B, with 2-3 second delays between the key presses to give the commands a better chance to complete.

R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
S: Sync all mounted filesystems
U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing

source

I suppose if you wanted to be extra quick and liked living dangerously you could just do alt + sysrq + R + B (I’m assuming switching the keyboard mode is necessary for getting the other commands to work during a complete lockup, but I could be wrong, you might only need B). But I wouldn’t recommend it, REISUB is plenty fast for me.

There are other commands too, like alt + sysrq + F to summon the OOM killer.

Lastly, and perhaps most critically, it also feels way cooler than just holding a single button. Comme ça:

Claude has on two occasions ended our conversation because I kept referring to it as a useless piece of shit.

the fact this is even a thing, that a glorified autocorrect has the gall, the temerity to pretend it has hurt feelings, is one of the reasons I feel more and more like fucking off into the wilderness and living like Ted Kaczynski.

stonks

oh, but we won’t charge you until your 30 days is up, you can just cancel before then!*

*please forget please forget please let us charge you when you least expect it oh god please forget about us you fucking stupid forgetful dope

– how I interpret “free trials” that work like this. You can terminate my service when my trial is up, you do not need my credit card information until I’ve actually agreed to purchase the service. There is literally no practical reason they can’t just do that instead – except, of course, that it makes them more money off of forgotten trial subscriptions.

a box in the ground would also be acceptable, I think.

so the answer is “he was a dumbass who had not seen or known about the multiple historical examples of green copper roofs enough to know that that would eventually happen to the statue and thought the tarnishing would just magically stop on its own before then”.

Great, that’s all you had to say, would’ve been nice to have some sources too (generally, it falls on the person making the claim to provide sources ;3) but I can at least find some reference (after some google excavation, digging through bullshit) to back up your claim about him later wanting it covered in gold for reflectivity. And since I have no interest in reading another comment from you, I’ll call that good enough. Bye now.

I’ll bet the seller is kicking themselves right about now for that.

Wow, what’d you get all that for? Opening 5+ Chrome tabs?

You don’t need to lacquer it, it petinas and protects the copper.

yes I know you don’t need to, we just went over that, but we seem to be talking past each other.

The material is was made of was chosen for practicality.

Okay, so, we’ve been over the material choice already, we’ve established this. I know copper doesn’t need lacquering, which we have again, already established. My question, which you seem to consistently be missing, is why did the designer, Bartholdi, decide it would look better with the green patina, than without it, which could have been achieved by first polishing the copper and then applying a clear lacquer?

And if it was for purely practical reasons and no artistic ones, do you have a source for that? Or was there an aesthetic reason that he preferred the look of a pale green over shiny metal (and, if there was, I’d also like a source for it, too)? I got why they chose the material. I understand the material does not strictly need lacquering. Please do not answer these non-questions a third time. The question I have, reading through the Wikipedia articles on Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty, is not answered. It does say why the material was chosen, but not explicitly why they chose not to lacquer it. There is also reference that, after verdigris had covered the statue, that the Army Corps of Engineers investigated whether it was corrosion that was harming the statue, and they came to the conclusion it wasn’t and that they liked the look, but that’s the government talking, not the designer; and that they bothered to study it seems to point to them being caught off-guard by its appearance, as though they intended it to or believed it should remain shiny (prior to liking its new appearance).

That same sculptor has done many other sculptures in a variety of other materials, and material choice is just as much a question of aesthetics as it is practicality when it comes to works of art (even if practicality is a much bigger consideration when they’re monument-sized). So, if the material was settled on for practical reasons, then there must have also been some discussion as to whether to let that material tarnish or to try to maintain the shiny appearance, and whether or not that discussion and the conclusion it came to was purely out of a desire for less maintenance (which, mind you, the Statue of Liberty has needed maintenance many times regardless), or because the look of verdigris was preferred to the look of shiny copper. That is what I’m curious about. It’s alright not to know, hell, it may be that nobody knows (it is, after all, a discussion that would’ve been had about ~150+ years ago, if anything it’s probably buried in some obscure book), but you don’t need to keep providing answers to questions I’m not asking.