It brings a tear to my eye with the thought that I’m pretty certain I started the trend of this particular phrasing. I had never seen it before I made my meme and now it’s popping up on Lemmy every now and again.

It’s a sentiment I truly stand behind as I feel the internet should be a safe haven to write what you feel in the most raw form possible. When we start giving up the one public space we have truly left to ourselves to the advertisers, there will be no open communication left.

Fuck the algospeak, fuck the system. Say FUCK on the internet.

The concerning part is when you find out all your friends are already on there and they’ve been excluding you so far for some reason.

I will put a mention out there that this is specifically a weed pen. There have been some very-much-not-weed components found in the concentrates, including lead, in really cheap brands so it is an actual problem.

I haven’t seen really any articles recently (I keep mostly to Lemmy) about flower being a problem. And I didn’t see those before I left Reddit either.

I’m sure the propaganda is out there and not saying you’re wrong, but I do still think people should be cautious with their source and make sure it’s from a reputable seller if it’s anything outside your typical flower. I’ve definitely bought concentrates in the past that tasted and smelled like a chemical factory.

Oh hey. That’s the meme I made!

This is actually why I ended up switching a couple years ago. I started when Android was balls-to-the-wall customization and there were tons of custom ROMs. You could theme all of Material UI and my phone looked nothing like when I first got it. By the time I left, you could get like one of 5 very expensive phones that had unlocked bootloaders and even those had very few ROMs.

Even with the custom ROMs, the joy was dead. You couldn’t wildly theme everything from the boot logo to the lock screen to the notification bar. It had been boiled down to pretty much the same set of customizations as the iPhone and the iPhone was more reliable. I didn’t want to switch, necessarily, but for my use cases as least, it just ended up being the easier choice.

This is sort of the case with my game. After 4 years, I just revealed to the party that the ‘big bad’ villain is actually my childhood friend and that she may not be as much of a threat as she’s letting on. I don’t actually know who the real villain is.

Still my favorite take on this:

I assume this is to the tune of “I’m a Lumberjack”

Maybe we’ll find out it was microplastics all along.

Don’t ask where the Dunkaroos come from

Similarly, my parents had me tested and results were inconclusive. They never retested.

And then my dad beat me with jumper cables

Ah, I guess I was taking for granted that 4k was one of my requirements. Hadn’t even thought to mention it.

The challenge is finding a model that lets you rip them. To my awareness, there isn’t any officially supported method to rip BluRays and you have to modify the firmware to let you backup your own media.

Back in 2015 or so, I noticed some of the movies on Netflix that I wanted to rewatch disappeared. I caught on pretty early that this was going to be the case where all the good stuff cycles out, so I took to building a Blu-Ray collection. Now all of my favorites are quick and easy to get to.

At some point I’m planning on digitizing the whole collection because I know discs degrade, but I’ve been hesitant because I don’t want to cook my drive’s laser in the process.

A short film known as Spin, made in 2004.

It’s about a physicist who is bicycling down a hill and a car is in his path. The driver turns to see him and hits his brakes in the last moment. He skids over the hood, mostly unharmed and begins to ponder this.

If the driver hadn’t had the single neuron in his brain fire and trigger him to look again, he wouldn’t have hit his brakes and he would have collided with the flat side of the car, likely killing him.

He applies this idea to quantum physics and realizes that this is happening with every decision made by any living creature at every waking moment, creating countless split possibilities for all moments in time.

The final scene is very striking, showing a car approach an intersection. The view splits to show the car turning both left and right. The camera splits multiple more times to show the concept that you can always choose any path at any moment. Some are just more likely than others.

It showed on IFC back in 2005 or so, and I’ve tracked down some limited information on it, but it was shot on 35mm and I’ve found no real leads on watching it anywhere.

This is the very limited IMDB page for it.

Getting the printer to pick up a single sheet off a stack of .003” thick sheets at a variable depth, and then dealing with variable sized-sheets, rotation, paper jam detection to avoid burning out motors, just to name a few. Things get even more complicated with things like 2-sided printing.

If it was just one of these at once, it might be pretty approachable, but the classic and convenient 8 1/2 X 11” paper tray that modern printers have is a genuine challenge to manage without lots of careful communication with all the different parts.

Well I’ll be damned. I had just recently made a comment about how open source printers have been hard to make due to all of the challenges associated with aligning the paper. This is an absolutely genius solution to the problem! Gonna have to plan on getting one of these.

The opposite of love is not hate but apathy. If you give something your attention, it’s getting something out of you, whether you want it to or not, whether they’re aware of it or not.

If you want to truly hurt someone in a way that doesn’t hurt yourself, just cut them out of your life and move on.