https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRJILK3NxSM&t=106

The dream of truly Griswoldian Christmas lights slips ever further from our grasp. Sure, we can blind the neighbors more easily than ever, but what’s the fun of that if you can’t take down the whole power grid along with it? 😞

Once I started going to Dragon Con (Labor Day weekend), September also started feeling like Halloween season to me.

(It probably doesn’t help that more folks in my neighborhood put up decorations for Halloween than they do for Christmas, and start pretty early with them.)

For that reason, my Halloween decorations came down promptly on Nov 1. Maybe I should start decorating for Thanksgiving…

Jeez, you can’t just go straight for the hard stuff like that! You gotta ease into it with some Bazzite or somethin’ first.

I can only assume it would be something like !moi_evv if it existed.

Right, that’s what I said: if Z in the top image were pointing the opposite direction (i.e. if it followed the right hand rule), it would be the same as the bottom image. Rotation is irrelevant; only handedness matters.

Right handed means that when you curl the fingers on your right hand from +X towards +Y, your thumb points towards +Z.

Z pointing in the other direction is the same as the bottom image, just rotated.

NUCs (specifically Intel 8th?-gen or later) are pretty much ideal for serving Jellyfin because the Intel integrated graphics can do video transcoding and the software is actually not very demanding otherwise, so the low-power CPUs are fine.

If you were buying hardware specifically for Jellyfin (i.e. didn’t want to cobble together something used), I’d suggest an N100 or N150-based NAS mini-PC like this: https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-me-mini-n150

Also, just because something is sentient doesn’t necessarily mean it’s gendered.

Pick any of the more popular ones at random; it really doesn’t matter that much.

The Basque Country still belongs to Spain and Northern Ireland still belongs to the UK, so… no, I guess?

I don’t know enough about that cluster in the Balkans to even speculate on it.

god that’s stupid, sorry

Asking if terrorism works isn’t a stupid question. It’s a very impolite question (from the perspective of people in power), and maybe even heartless, but not stupid.

It’s not autistic to enjoy or prefer peace and quiet. It’s autistic to be unable to function without it. If you were capable of grocery shopping before, I wouldn’t worry too much.

I’m convinced he’s nothing but a puppet at this point because of mental decline. He wasn’t always though

That’s right, he was in bed with the Russians all the way back in the '80s, when he was merely an idiot (as opposed to senile).

There’s gotta be a token non-rapist in there somewhere, right?

Considering how incompetent they are, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a staffer or two missed their Epstein Island onboarding without their supervisor noticing.

(This does not work for recipes that require exact measurements, like breads)

There’s a reason we have different words for “cooking” and “baking.”

Election fraud, not voter fraud. There’s a difference.

Namely, voter fraud is thing Republicans falsely accuse the Democrats of in order to deflect from the election fraud they’re actually committing.

“Small-town loser lands sugar mama and moves to swanky midtown apartment” is a plot that would presumably appeal to a different audience than the one Hallmark Channel is targeting, though.

That’s what he said: “tax.”

Remember when you guys had Carter and he was in hot shit until he sold his fucking peanut farm or whatever?

Let’s be clear about this: Carter was never “in hot shit” about his farm. Carter put his farm in a blind trust proactively because he respected the emoluments clause and interpreted it broadly.