Prohibit ALL public burnings of books? Ok I think it’s stupid, but whatever.

I’m OK with prohibited public burnings for the purpose of fire safety, I guess. Beyond that, I don’t think I’d want to limit free speech in this manner.

More than that now, actually. There are two just in Colorado Springs and a bunch up in Denver Metro.

They never really acknowledged it was here. I live near one of the Colorado locations and it has been (in)famous for COVID outbreaks the entire pandemic. And, for whatever obvious reasons, In-N-Out hasn’t had the same closures enforced on them that every other restaurant did. During an outbreak they’re supposed to close for a few days in our state, but they’re basically the only restaurant that has refused to close and has never faced repercussions out here. It’s maddening.

More research is emerging that gas stoves kick off carcinogens and are, in the US at least, often poorly ventilated.

I just put an 85" in my basement. That thing is annoying enough that it can stay with the house if/when I move. A 98" TV seems like it would be impossible to get down the same flight of stairs. If I upgrade again in this house it will 100% be a projector.

This is so frustratingly common. I worked for a company I loved and it got bought out by a company I hated. When people (including me) started quitting, the CTO said “but why? We have video games in the break room.”

Large companies are often run by crazy people, I guess.

A whole lot of Americans who don’t work from home look like that today :/

That would be the “dystopia” part.

Haven’t really used spinning disks for anything but my home NAS since 2010 or so. Which means all my old drives come out of the NAS… And either get cycled into my backup NAS or put into a multi-disk jbod enclosure that I use as “scratch” space for random data projects I’m doing on the side.

Ones that cycle out of scratch space are wiped and, if I’m being honest, sitting in a stack in my storage room. I really should stop procrastinating a trip to the recyclers…

I did. I got hired as a Unix admin around 2008 and inheriteted the care and feeding of an old Jabber server the ~3000 employee company was using for internal instant messaging. I near-immediately migrated it over to an OpenFire server. A few months later I learned the pitfalls of using the built-in database (it blows up on you when it gets big enough cuz back then it was all in-memory, not sure about how it works out of the box now). I remember figuring out how to manually migrate that over to mysql… and I skipped the ITSM change control process and just had it execute overnight via some at commands and scripts. Went smoothly and I didn’t get fired :P

I learned a bunch from that and set up an OpenFire server at home so I could chat from my dynamic dns hostname to some people on gchat.

And that’s about the extent of it. My internal company chat eventually got replaced with skype for business and then teams. My personal stuff eventually switched over to text messages and Signal (and discord and slack and mattermost and whatever else for all the odds and ends communities I keep in touch with).

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No use in arguing with people who want to yuck your yum.

Baldurs Gate 3 looks fantastic and I’m looking forward to giving it a go at full release :)

Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife’s still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she’ll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

Real people do post hate, though, at least in some capacity. I left Facebook over a decade ago and never went back because of all the insanely hateful shit some of my family posts. My wife’s still on Facebook (marketing manager, she kinda has to be) and every once in a while she’ll show me the stuff my family is still posting.

I mean, maybe my family is just particularly shitty?

ToTK, spending a lot of time not doing the main quests.

Finishing up FFVII Remake Intermission before I start FFXVI as the other game I’m juggling in the not-much free time I have had lately.