Nope. I worked for CVS (corporate) once upon a time, but not on the hill…and literally almost everybody in this state has worked for CVS, APC, or Electric Boat at some point in their lives.

It’s because it’s incomplete advice.

It shouldn’t just be “Be Yourself”

It’s missing two important words, in the middle.

Be confident in yourself.

Some people dislike musicals because they are unrealistic…nobody they know just bursts into song and dance all the time.

I think those people need to find new friends.

Come to Rhode Island.

We have a surplus of JWU culinary arts graduates who can only afford to cook in a van down by the river.

Native Rhode Islander here.

Food trucks are a staple of life. They are a quintessential part of RI culture. We have events at Roger Williams Park like every week in the summer and there’s lines of food trucks that each have like a 30 minute queue.

When I was in highschool (over 20 years ago now…), there were two big hangout spots: the coffee shop, and the hot weiner truck.

You all haven’t lived till you’ve choked down 4 all-the-way, lovingly crafted on some old Mediterranean guys hairy forearm, and washed it down with 24oz of iced cold coffee milk (milk with coffee-flavored syrup) at 2am.

I do aliases through simplelogin and have my domain hosted on mxroute.

My domain is my real last name…so I have subdomains like @myfirst.lastname.com gets pointed to simplelogin for aliases, which then forwards to mxroute. @mywifesfirst.lastname.com goes to the same simplelogin and points to her Gmail for now.

Mxroute is cheap and they’ve got decent web apps but really more made for traditional IMAP clients. And they don’t really do groupware…just email. But that’s really the hardest part, from an admin perspective.

Adminning email is getting to be a sacred art. It’s a lot of work and a constant arms race both against incoming spam, and the spam filters for whoever you are sending to. A whole ton of work for what is really an essential Internet service (when I can’t get into my credit card account because enom is slacking on forwarding mail, it’s a problem…and also why I switched to simplelogin).

For how cheap mxroute is, IMO, absolutely not worth the effort of self-hosting unless it’s actually your day job and you get some sick sadistic pleasure out of doing it on your own time.

The mxroute admin/owner himself also seems like a pretty chill guy. He’s been pretty forward and transparent on Reddit and lowendbox.

Edit to add: important stuff…make sure that you have an email address that you don’t host, to access stuff you need to for the stuff that you do (i.e. DNS, mail hoster, MFA provider, directory service, etc). I use a free proton for that.

Gonna don my tinfoil hat here for a second…

Was the monetization of the API a deliberate move to kick out the progressive and tech-literate long-time reddit users (myself included, with 16 year badge and centuryclub), to in turn make the site more of a Nazi, pro-Trump circle jerk?

Because I really think it succeeded. The whole atmosphere shifted that day, and I’ve barely been back except when I end up there out of muscle memory or a Google result…and those often have the best answers removed by someone who went through and scrubbed their account.

We all remember how Spez treated r/thedonald, right?

Same…though it seems to do some weird stuff like not marking DMs read, or not having an easy way to embed a photo that’s already hosted somewhere (and my instance seems a bit conservative with size limits).

Still, it’s a solid app, and the only way I interacted with reddit.

Rare cards are only worth real money because there is a secondary market for them.

As I understand it, the same is true for lootbox drops. The only difference is in how rare an item actually is, but that is also reflected in price, since the resale is entirely market driven.

You could say that Valve rigs the drop rate, but you could say the same thing for Magic. It’s all manufactured shortage.

You could say that Magic items are tangible…but honestly I don’t see how that’s an argument in the modern digital-first era.

I’m not trying to defend lootboxes…not directly, at least. Just trying to understand the hypocrisy in the gaming community comparing these two.

What’s really funny is that the only thing I even know about Barbara Streisand is that picture.

The Streisand Effect has immortalized her to a whole new generation.

I get the hate for lootboxes, but as a casual who hasn’t played PC games in forever…what makes the lootbox mechanic any worse than CCGs?

Couldn’t it be said that MtG and other CCGs have been guilty of the exact same thing since their inception?

Sure more Mel Blanc episodes would be great…but I think you have to realize a couple of things…

1, part of what made Looney Toons great in his era was the writing and animation style. The animation style can come back, sure…but the writing is (probably) long gone.

The casual racism and stereotyping might be “acceptable” soon, but the level of cartoon violence has little room in modern family screen time.

2, part of what makes the greats “great” is the finite amount of work they’ve contributed to. This is as true for voice actors as it is for any other art.

Let’s look at a modern example…Jim Cummings is probably the biggest and most well known voice actor today. He’s had tons of memorable roles over the years and many of his characters are uniquely his, such as Monterey Jack and Pete (Goofy’s villain)…to the point that my kids are giving eye rolls when I say “Is that Jim Cummings”, look it up, and of course, it is.

Jim is in his 70s now and likely doesn’t have many professional years left.

The idea of having an infinite amount of Jim Cummings voice work actually sounds tedious. I love the guy and all his work, but if they use his likeness in AI for anything, I’d hope it be to gracefully retire his recurring characters…not immortalize him with infinite new content. That’s the type of sendoff a legend like him deserves. Not for his kin to hear him do things he never did.

Better than the early days of COVID when they were up in arms about having to smell their own breath.

cough.

You don’t live west of where you work, I take it?

These scientists got a chill with the AI and surveillance tech and work on making a refillable toothpaste tube ffs.

They don’t know or care what DEI is. They just know that white men like themselves now have to compete with non-white non-men for jobs.

So now they have to make themselves marketable, or shut that whole thing down so they can go back to living in the boys club. And since self-improvement is “woke”, they choose the latter.

They get it fed to them during their 2 Minutes Hate and that’s all that matters.

It used to be Antifa. They were staunchly against antifa. You know what you call someone who is anti-antifa? Fa. You call them fa.

I agree with you…the cost of a gallon of gas is, and has always been, less than the cost to remove a gallon of gas worth of CO2 from the atmosphere, and I don’t think the price should ever have been less than that amount. I don’t think that’s an unfair position, cleaning up your mess should be a part of the cost of the good.

But man what a way to fuck the majority of the 99%.