Orbituary

I’d love them to take a knee at the anthem. I hope someone or many do.

Cowards.

We got angry when Japan did this in the 60s and 70s. I’m going to paste part of the opening from Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash.”

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it – talking trade balances here – once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they 're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here – once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel – once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity – y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else

• music
• movies
• microcode (software)
• high-speed pizza delivery

The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator ’ s report card would say: “Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.”

Time for me to fleeeee

It really isn’t about optimism. I know prices would go up no matter what. But it does allow a bit more passive control without being a twat about leaving carts out.

I wasn’t aware of the shopping cart theory. Thanks, now I have a name for my belief. :)

I learned this as a kid working at a grocery store asking the same question. When you leave your cart by your car instead of returning it, it takes labor to collect the carts around the parking lot. That labor costs money to the company. That money gets passed on to you as a customer buying products.

The 30-45 seconds it takes to return your cart may seem inconvenient. Rinse, wash, repeat a thousand times in your life. Multiply that by millions of people nationwide across all grocery stores. That adds up.

Stop being lazy. It’s not hard to return the cart. If we all did it, it would passively reduce labor costs. That could potentially reduce price hikes on food.

Your second example is not honesty; it’s cowardice.

Nginx Proxy Manager + LetsEncrypt.

Getting your ideas from Elon I see.

Why do people ask questions like this? Isn’t, “Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?” a better way to say it?

It’s just so kludgy.

That’s my point.

Who do you think runs Hong Kong? Even when the Brits did, they only had it on a 99 year and 1 day lease from China.

Examples? Links?

I met a refugee from Cuba who named her daughter Claimidia because it sounded pretty. My people aren’t educated.

I used to have one in my field. It would fly back and forth each evening scanning for prey. White and silent… until they started hooting and mating.

This studio shot cracks me up. Look at his shadow on the backdrop behind him.

Beautiful owl. I wish I could be friends with one.

Reading is hard.

The number of people who don’t get it is about right.

Yeah. No ads on my regular stuff. My PS4, which I stream with, still gets ads.

Do I need to type it again? Crying on the inside is, by definition, not “showing it.”