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I dunno. I aim to be the older gay man who's light switches have indecent plates, and who has artistic nudes around the apartment. It's not so much that I enjoy those things for myself, but just that I'd rather anyone entering my apartment be auto-filtered out. I don't need people with no sense of humor or sticks up their proverbial butts.

... Sticks up their actual butts could be a great conversation starter, though.

I had to rehome my birds a couple months ago, and I miss them dearly. My absolute favorite part of the day was dumping the bowl of that day's kitchen scraps off the back porch. They had become so accustomed to it that if they heard the back door open, the damn things would come running like it was some weird chickeny religious call to prayer.

You dump the bowl and then watch them go to town. When everything's nearly gone, one chicken will get up to nerve to grab the best goody that's left and tear off. And now they all abandoned the rest of it to chase her and play Bell Peppers Seed Pod Tag.

I miss my birdies. :(

I had a turtle when I was a kid. Used to come up on his rock when I was near and stick out his neck, and rub the side of his head on my finger.

I didn't know they had nerves in their shell at the time, I was very little. But they do enjoy some scritches. So maybe?

Speak for yourself. My home is entirely sharp angles and unsecured towers of broken glass and rubbing alcohol suspended in petroleum jelly that also slicks the floor. I will brook no weakness in my home.

I don't know about op, but that was the first ever xkcd comic I ever saw. Fan ever since. Lol.

It's a book that was made into a movie with Whoopie Goldberg. Absolutely amazing book, and one of the few examples of a movie truly holding up in my opinion. Worth watching.

I was a prolific reader as a kid. Homeschooled, single mom who worked, so I would spend sometimes 6 or 7 hours a day at the library while she was at work. Once I went through the entire kids section, the librarian caught me in the adult section and I thought I'd be in trouble. Instead she showed me this collection of fairy tales that were dark and when my mom came to pick me up, she explained I'd been through everything and asked my mom to sign consent for an adult library card. Which she did, because my mom rocks. Lol. Only book she wouldn't let me read was the color purple when I was 10. Had to wait a bit for that. Lol.

Worked security at a factory that made kitchen appliances. It wasn't his first day, but it was his first shift by himself.

There's a gate at the front that you lock when you go on rounds.

Dude chooses to go on a round 5 minutes before shift change for the factory workers. He gets a call on company cell that folks are at the gate. Instead of coming back, he tells them to wait 20 minutes so he can finish his round.

20 minutes where they won't be getting paid.

Second in command big boss of the factory is out there checking IDs and directing traffic when dude gets back from his round. Now this dude is nice. Genuinely one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Old union rep, shirt off his back type. Tells guard not to worry about it, all's good. Just time his rounds better next time.

Guard starts screaming at him about how he had no right to undo the lock, to get out of here, he'll handle them, and if he wants to make them wait that's his right. Boss man tells him to chill out, he won't get in trouble, just go do his log and then he can take over checking IDs.

Guard pulls out, in one hand, a mag light flashlight he was told not to have, and in the other chemical spray that's illegal for a guard to carry without certs (which he didn't have), and this is an unarmed site. Threatens to ""arrest"" him. When boss pulls out his cell to call the guard company, the guard sprayed him and knocked his cell onto the ground, and kicked it across the parking lot, breaking it.

Needless to say, he was fired. Boss didn't press assault charges, but we nearly lost the contract.

Tf is mald?

I mean, despite the rampant bootlicking seen in that generation, boomers didn't create that system. They're victims of it as well, just victims that generally refuse to see it. My mom absolutely has been fucked over by capitalism, and has fucked herself over helping her kids. But she acknowledges why, and agitates for something better. My dad is a victim of this shitty system, too, but was so brainwashed by cold war propaganda that he can't see it most of the time. :/ tldr fuck the boomer politicians and brainwashers, try to help regular boomers realize they're just as much a victim of this shit as we are.

Good bot. ... Do we good bot here?

You rock! Does that site work for any pay walled article?

I'll cede your point on the level of sophistication, but I'd say this is actually pretty damn impressive. Drainage projects like this would have been a large community effort. Cars and computers are probably less intensive given modern infrastructure, especially when you consider that everyone involved in the car making likely has been specialized in the field, whereas those making the drainage system in the stone age were exactly not that.

I don't know that I would say this particular thing is evidence that anarchism is the best system, but I'd say it's a thing to point to when discussing it. Assuming some kind of left wing utopia in the future, I don't think anarchism or statist Marxism is the only way forward. I think it will highly depend on the area. Densely populated urban areas likely will need some form state, rural areas could probably function pretty well off of an anarchist model. Computer networks could allow for decentralized planning, allowing for a sort of hybrid model that increases liberty, prevents the concentration of power in a few individuals, while giving us more of an anarchistic (or at least syndicalist) model hybrid with the benefits of centralized control.

Yeah, in 1850, ,1900, 1930, I'd say Anarchism was the clear preferential option. Today, I am an anarchist, but I think we'd be foolish to ignore the lessons of the USSR, Cuba, even China, and the major advancements in technology that could allow for a interconnected society that could enable decentralized control of the economy.

It's behind a paywall. Does anyone have another link?

Yeah, once I finally moved into this decade I started using flash drives, and was using that. Sadly, school doesn't let me use Linux, so now I just keep a thumb drive with Ubuntu on (that I upgrade from time to time), in case I need to rescue something. I really wanted to get into fedora silver blue, it seems right up my alley as someone who's only ever been knee deep into this stuff, but online college does system checks and mandates I use Windows or Mac. :/

The Klingon formerly known as worf looks straight fire here

At s guess, diskó strikes me as a man who enjoys guzzling water off duty. Gotta stay hydrated to make sure you're able to decieve romulans!

Danny Devito on stilts.

"step grandma noooo, I'm stuck in the Afghan you crocheted...."

Until I finally traded in my last laptop and didn't realize the new one wouldn't have a disc drive, I still used them to test Linux distros. Other than that, maybe burning actual movies to, for something to watch should the Internet go out? Get a portable DVD player (do these still exist?) to take camping?

Hard copy of your favorite pornos, to be given out as stocking stuffers for Christmas?