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Being cringe A.F., as the kids say, is a power that grows with age. (:

I cast counterspell. I’m now thinking of puppies.

That shit works IRL too. Why do you think therapy practices often have themselves positioned in front of a wall of books? Not that it’s a bad thing; it’s good for outcomes to believe your therapist is competent and well educated.

There’s nothing wrong with shearing sheep if there’s no exploitation occurring. The problem is when you add a profit motive to keep breeding animals designed with their exploitation in mind.

However, I’m going to go out on limb here, and say there probably aren’t many sheep in the care of vegans except on animal sanctuaries. The important thing is to stop buying wool and funding animal exploitation.

Lol, yeah, same. r/VCJ helped me go vegan too. My first time there was so confusing and anger inducing.

“Rectuma Dentata”, what a wonderful phrase

Rectuma Dentata ain’t no passing craze

Why are you looking through 7 month old posts for stuff to get mad about? Get a life bruh.

It’s fine. I haven’t died yet, so I fail to see sufficient evidence that I eventually will.

What if Ralph exists independently of anyone acknowledging his concept? What if Ralph has always existed, and has just been waiting for a certain memer to discover him?

Pretty sure that was the original meaning; see also SMDH. The head shaking is the kid friendly version.

Edit: I was mistaken. :o

I thought it was “that feel when…” like in the memes.

Both kinda work, though.

Thanks for the advice! I’ve been out of the game a long time, so the quick refresher was super helpful.

I think my main reason when I looked into things a while back was that Intel had the better single core speeds, but I’m not married to the idea. I’ll mostly be gaming and dabbling with local LLMs.

But yeah, I also haven’t been a huge fan of Intel’s anti-consumer business practices. Maybe it’s time for an AMD system! Thanks!

Shit, that’s not great. As a consumer, is their any way to protect yourself if you’re in the market for a modern i9? Does the entire 12th gen lineup have issues?

I’m still using a 1st gen i7, and the lack of AVX is starting to become problematic, so I think it’s time…

GReader was so good, now it’s just another ghost in Google’s graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.

Bastardized version of the name of a Sumerian god, referenced heavily in Snowcrash by Neil Stephenson.

I wish 3rd parties were a viable federal election option. But they aren’t yet to a point where they can realistically win in the US.

Here’s the thing: as long as nobody votes 3rd party, that’s going to continue to be the case indefinitely. Wishing won’t change that.

Where I’m from we actually have a viable alternative to the centre / centre-right duopoly, and we still hear this sort of rhetoric, even when the outcome is nowhere near predetermined to be one of two options like it is for you guys.

The crux is, that voting for harm reduction cements you in a local maximum when there are better potential solutions out there.

Now I’m not saying that justifies voting 3rd party. There are a lot of unknowns. If more and more people started voting 3rd party, how long would it feasibly take to enact change? 2 election cycles? 4? 10? Does it ever even happen? And if so, is the harm caused in that period justified by the outcome? I’m dubious of that proposition.

Regardless, I think the rhetoric about this issue from both the pro and anti-3rd-partyists tends to be a overly reductive and/or myopic. I think both sides have valid concerns, and the answer isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

That said, pragmatically, it sucks, but I feel like I do have to discourage voting for a 3rd party.

Yeah, my list would end up being longer than some novels. Also, software churn makes it an ever evolving process, so having a list where half of it is wrong by the next time I need it seems less than ideal.

It’s hard to tell if they have some vendetta against the platform or are just maladjusted and want to annoy people having a good time.

Cynical tinfoil hat theory: there’s now a financial incentive to harm alternatives to a certain website that recently had their IPO. The timing does kind of fit, at least.

But she caught me on the Bean Counter…