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  • My pet theory is that Ozzy Osbourne is actually in regular contact with aliens and frequently travels with them on a time paradox way, decades for him, just days on earth. Thus his confusion is genuine, he really doesn't know what planet he is on and his mind is more filled with alien customs than humans. Also, that is why he acts like such an old person, his body is old but his mind is even older.

    Definitely it wasn't the drugs, no sire.

  • ‘The Movement to Convince Biden to Not Run Is Real’
  • The US has been on a governance crisis for some time now. It is slow and gradual, but they already had a coup attempt. It is the sort of things that is surreal and only possible to see when you look at it from a multi decades POV. Like Asimov's foundation, it will take centuries and lots of things can happen in the mean time, but you can already see the empire imploding, rotting from within. Rome took almost 3 centuries to fall, and it was more like an erosion rather than crumble. I can see something similar.

  • The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards
  • Suit evolution is quite an interesting topic. The first known card decks were usually made of several hundreds of cards and were not standardized, some didn't even have suits. Symbols, images and shapes varied greatly as they were usually hand painted. This European suits are offshoots of Islamic suits. Most likely, each of these suit styles was an attempt to standardize some game or production at different historical points in time and through the interpretation by entirely different artists. The common theory for French abstraction is that they are much simpler symbols which are faster and easier to reproduce in large quantities. Particularly easy to engrave on the first woodwork prints for mass production.

  • Hmmm
  • Oops, sorry. Not a native English speaker. Braids, rows, queues? I'm not sure which one is the correct word now. It was an extravagant haircut with lots of braids queued on the back.

  • Hmmm
  • A good friend liked to go to these kind of rhetorical legal battles with the school and the dress code. It was hilarious. She used neon green hair for three months due to a weird wording on some rule or another about colored hair. Then they would change it to something more restrictive but she would find the loopholes and challenge them again. She once got us to loan her our watches and wore over 20 wrist watches due to a stupid rule about bracelets. Wore all sorts of ridiculous clothes colors and patterns, and queues, horns and bunny ears. Went as a clown when they tried to regulate makeup. After two years of madness the school board called her to negotiate a truce. They removed the ancillary dress code, uniform was still mandatory but anything beyond the basic four pieces of clothing students would be free as long as it wasn't nudity or disrupted other students. Skirts were made optional, the origin of the whole conflict. In return she was just asked to stop trying to give the poor principal a heart attack (an old conservative religious hag).

    She still wore colorful stuff and accessories after that. But at least she wasn't in heated arguments during detention everyday anymore. She wanted to abolish uniform altogether but in a way she sort of won.

  • The Acolyte Episode 5 Makes The Review Bombing & Backlash Look So Much Worse
  • No amount of technical quality will ever compensate for bad writing. It's not because it is woke, or whatever the ultraconservative culture warriors might be saying to insert themselves in the conversation. The show is just boring to watch. Extremely pretty and high quality boredom is still boredom.

  • Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete
  • They would be ceased and desisted out of existence. There's a reason no one on the scene right now discloses methods and streaming piracy is a closely guarded secret. I'm sure it is perfectly possible, as that is how most piracy occurs nowadays. But it is extremely technical and most likely risks exposing any person doing it wrong.

  • Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

    This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

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    What is you backup tool of choice?

    I don't mean system files, but your personal and work files. I have been using Mint for a few years, I use Timeshift for system backups, but archived my personal files by hand. This got me curious to see what other people use. When you daily drive Linux what are your preferred tools to keep backups? I have thousands of pictures, family movies, documents, personal PDFs, etc. that I don't want to lose. Some are cloud backed but rather haphazardly. I would like to use a more systematic approach and use a tool that is user friendly and easy to setup and program.

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