That isn’t really the point though, I just saw another post of a German multinational company cutting their diversity measures because of Trump’s anti-DEI executive orders and threats. And pollivierre, if he hadn’t lost so hard, was basically promising to suck up hard to Trump, presumably starting with the lgbt stuff and ending with the annexation. If every country could live in a bubble and completely shut out all the influence of the others, you’d be right, but that’s not how it works.

In the past, I had dual booted windows and linux (Ubuntu, I believe), and eventually, windows managed to screw with the bootloader and brick the install. Never tried dual booting again. Windows VM on Linux is a much better solution.

I saw “QUILTBAG” before.

Queer (Q and U, and sometimes people use Questioning instead), Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender, Bisexual, Asexual and Gay. I don’t think it’s my favorite, I prefer just “queer” personally, but I do like how it being more of a word than an acronym denies the message of the “-without the T” bigots. You can’t take out any letters without noticeably destroying the word. A quilbag isn’t anything.

The only issue is that ending it with “-bag” makes it sound kind of rude to me. It makes me think of the word douchebag. I definitely like the spirit, though. There must be other words out there that could seamlessly incorporate the existing acronym, shuffle it up a bit, and not sound too rude either.

On a random day in either January or February, I just decided I was fed up with windows and microsoft and installed linux Mint. While not problem-free, the experience was rather pleasant. I might make a Windows VM for the few things that I can’t get working on linux, but at the same time, I just kind of don’t want to bother. Now, when I read about windows getting worse, I don’t have to worry about myself, and that’s a huge relief.

Also, Skyblivion is a mod for Skyrim, so as long as it’s a legit copy, Bethesda still made money off you at some point anyway. That probably helps a bit, too.

Worse isn’t really the appropriate word. It’s more dated mechanically than Skyrim, but it also has some interesting game mechanics to that ended up cut from Skyrim, like spellcrafting. In terms of story, it’s got one of the most interesting DLCs the series has had to date, Shivering Isles, and a lot of other decent questlines in the base game and other DLC areas. Worst parts of the remaster are probably just poor optimization for UE5, so it can often run like crap on PC, and of course, all the existing design issues and bugs that Oblivion already had from its original iteration, because the original engine and game logic is still all there and what was principally changed was the UI, the graphics renderer, and some quality of life stuff here and there.

People? Read? Never.

I love these

Same, I cried the day I realized there’d be no chance. Just had to be born in one of the handful of states that adamantly refuse alterations to the sex field on the certificate, and I was only there for a few months as a baby before my parents moved.

I don’t think so, but if one isn’t already familiar, I don’t know how one can figure out what the phrases mean, without looking them up or being told.

I had that happen to me once, or at least I’m pretty sure it was this. It was like I was standing behind my body, basically staring at the back of my own head, and through it. I obviously couldn’t actually see the back of my head, but I felt like that’s where I was positioned. Weird and awful feeling.

Since it’s stuck in a loop, maybe its conditions are somehow being reset to fresh and hot as it’s pulled over the panel edge. Or else, that thing is ice cold, rock hard, and completely inhospitable to microbial life, since from its perspective, it’s probably been looping for a long, long time.

Keep in mind, the fascists are trying to get rid of that, too.

Oh, I get it, the alternating pattern was messed up in the middle. I don’t blame you for wanting to fix it.

I think it wouldn’t really taste that interesting, because it’s only meant to be used as a standardized point of comparison for other manufacturers when they’re testing batches of their own products. I recall NileRed did a video making cookies out of a bunch of standard reference ingredients, and I don’t remember if he said at the end they were bland or awful, but he didn’t like them. The reference stuff simply isn’t meant for eating or for use in cooking.

Wish it could’ve imploded on its own without threatening the lives of so many people.

Screw going back. If I had an easy way to leave the country and renounce my US citizenship to become the citizen of a different nation, I would. Not sure if I’d necessarily want to do so in Canada, seeing as its southern border is touching this rotten hell-on-earth icon of hubris, but it would still be a welcome start.

Yeah, Sloth was a real one. This is doing him dirty.

I switched to Mint a few weeks ago. There was no particular reason at that time, just all the general discontent with Microsoft built up since they released Windows 8, but things like this make me glad I did. Also glad that I’ve mostly not had any issues with the switch. Proton and wine are amazing.

As an American, this is good slang. I hate it here.