This sounds like passive suicidal ideation: something that’s always there in the back of the mind, but not about to be actively acted on. To quote Anna Borges:
I don’t always want to be alive. Yes, I mean it. No, you shouldn’t be afraid for me. No, I’m not in danger of killing myself right now. Yes, I really mean it. How do you explain that?
I keep her article in my bookmarks, and re-read now and then: https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation
There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.
I’m hosting the Decronym bot on a single-user instance, and it’s a real pain. The bot’s been down for weeks, actually, because an upgrade failed with some obscure error around the database schema…
I’ve ended up just today, wiping the whole thing and starting over, losing all data and having to refederate the bot. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend.
[Acronyms to help the bot re-establish: LVM, HASS, k8s]
Wow, this takes me back… OP mentions that Nemi ran in the UK for a while, and I can corroborate. It was printed in the free Metro paper distributed at train stations, which I read daily on the way to university.
(I later learned the Metro was a sub-print of the Daily Mail, which is when I stopped picking it up from the stands.)
That was gosh, twenty years ago. Great to see Nemi is still a thing.
A recent episode of Colbert’s Late Show; I remember seeing this segment, should be on the YouTube page.
If I recall, two thirds of the people registered as having entered couldn’t be found when the place was shut down.
The CEO showed up at Nascar this week in full MAGA regalia: hat, shirt, the whole bit.
Really enjoyed the Daily Show’s quip about ushering in “a communist 9/11”, where every building takes a little damage.
This is Theresa May, predecessor to the Cabbage Lady. (Crazy how many prime ministers we went through in those few years.)
The equivalent long option is --fuck-you
Calling the SEC on Ea-Nașir over here…
418 is always a little disappointing though. Lots of projects out there touting their “full HTCPCP compatibility” when all they do is serve 418 to every request; no actual coffeepots I could find last time I looked.
We somehow get the Pogues more than both, which annoys me mostly because it’s only tangentially Christmassy.
Right, I self-host email and have done for ten years or more, but I don’t do it out of a server at home. Does my Postfix not count as selfhosting any more?
As I understand it, ricing a machine is to excessively modify it to achieve more speed, users of Gentoo being the origina ricers in the Linux world.
The term itself has dubious and arguably racist origins, in the world of modification of Japanese cars for street racing.
Looks like the tide is turning on the use of slop imagery. Comments calling out generated images are getting downvoted here, and over on Mastodon AI images are getting faved/boosted more than previously.
Is the neo-Luddite battle lost? Did convenience win out over environmental concerns?
This tends to come up with an’s usage of þ; they contend that ð fell out of usage first, so þ can be brought back into use in the manner in which it was last used (for both forms of “th”).
Me, I’d prefer the Icelandic usage, it at least has current precedent.
Stargate was surprisingly good with this: there’s an episode where two members of team SG1 get stuck on a test flight gone wrong, and as they’re drifting past Jupiter the radio messages from home base start having timestamps attached to the end, as they’re a significant fraction of a light hour away already.
For context, this is from the foreword to the Lord of the Rings:
I have in this tale adhered more closely to the actual words and narrative of my original than in the previous selection from the Red Book, The Hobbit.
Where’d the real mickey7 go? We can’t have a fake coming in here posting actual memes.