It’s nice that you think these States are going to produce anyone who could consider post-secondary education

So they immediately left that meeting and started talking about how to unionize, right?

Right?

Gods, Rebels was such a surprisingly excellent show. I should watch it again

Boy that guy is just a real piece of shit eh?

I’d say I’m glad we don’t have him as premier, but we have Danielle Smith so somehow you guys in Ontario are still better off.

Wait, you can’t give people food or water if they’re standing in the line? Why the hell not?

And hours in line?? What? Why!

I watched this at a local film festival and it was WILD. Dude was just a scared little narcissist his whole life.

The acting in this movie was exceptional. Definitely worth watching.

Is there a good walkthrough of how to set up Jellyfin on Linux? If I’m breaking away from a shit OS, I may as well try breaking away from an increasingly crummy Plex

LMFAO you nerd

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Some days I think “I wonder what life would be if I was a real scientist instead”, and then I see stuff like this and I go back to almost exploding or electrocuting myself in the backyard or garage.

Oh that looks great, thank you!

Finally my Radeon works better out of the box than Nvidia? Amazing.

Glad to hear Mint is the way to go! That’s the one I already have some very basic experience with.

Is Steam necessary? I also use GOG because I prefer no DRM, but maybe that’s not possible in the same way? I’ll Google this one too.

Thank you for your help! And for the confidence boost to think this might be more intuitive than I fear…

Can you suggest a good write-up / walkthrough for how to shift to gaming on Linux? I’ve installed and run it before so I understand the basics, but that was basically just to keep an old laptop alive to watch YouTube.

Fucking Windows…just purchasing one big DIY spyware package these days.

ISO8601 gang represent!

All I need are good alternatives to:

• find or coordinate local events
• post used things for sale

and Facebook is totally irrelevant to me. The way people switched from Kijiji to Marketplace absolutely screwed me over for leaving Meta.

All I need are good alternatives to:

• find or coordinate local events
• post used things for sale

and Facebook is totally irrelevant to me. The way people switched from Kijiji to Marketplace absolutely screwed me over for leaving Meta.

Oh, HPPD is definitely a thing, but extraordinarily rare.

I may have misspoke about the brown acid - this was a legit warning resulting from “home-brew chemists” attempting to make their own LSD and failing to create it properly. Most of the supplies back then were direct from Sandoz (Novartis) and basically were being given away to the scientific community for novel testing. Fun stuff.

I’m talking about the hyperbole of “acid flashbacks” which was a narrative introduced to discourage and demonize LSD usage by the political and intellectual opponents of the Nixon administration. “Rots your brain permanently” and all that other garbage.

Turns out regular LSD usage by the “hippie” community and by many people involved in high-level education (particularly college and university professors) was making people feel more connected and empathetic towards one another, and that just didn’t do for the Republicans who needed everyone to fear “the other”.

What they also did with marijuana and heroin, and subsequently with crack cocaine, was truly abhorrent.

The information in the hallucinogenic section about acid flashbacks is incorrect. This was a false rumour spread in the 70s to demonize the political opponents of Nixon.

Hating people never leads to logical outcomes. I’d rather accept that they’ve been somewhat brainwashed and battle against it, than hate my neighbour.

For a really good riff on this same idea, I like “How to Lie With Statistics” by Darrell Huff, and it’s all illustrated!

Great, easy to understand breakdown of how statistics can be manipulated.