Treczoks

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McDonald's prices are out of control. (cdn.masto.host)

Gee, it’s almost like corporations are gouging consumers so badly that their market advantages are being lost due to greed. Inflation this quickly isnt real. It’s what happens when you come off a global pandemic with millions dead and corporations see they can freely abuse you by exploiting the public zeitgeist that prices...

Treczoks,

I stopped going there after eating my first BigMac. How can people eat that vile stuff?

Treczoks,

Put this principal behind bars for child abuse. And take the police and everyone involved on that side along, too. They would make a nice chain gang.

Treczoks,

In one of thousands of positions.

Treczoks,

Does she actually have kids in that age? And if so, doesn’t she have a nanny to take care of them?

Treczoks,

What shall I say? The first browser I ever used was called “Arena” and it ran on a UNIX system because Windows back then didn’t even have (native) networking - you had to purchase TCP/IP for it from third parties back then.

And one of the first websites I visited was “the original one” on Tim Barners-Lee’s NEXT cube in CERN.

And guess what - there was a network way before the Web. We had chat, “social media” before it was called that, and played online multiplayer games. All without any spam or advertising.

Treczoks,

Well, the TCP/IP stack we had was not at all like WinRar. You bought a box with a bunch of disks (5.25in) and some thick paperback manuals. The price was about 150$, and installation was tricky. It only worked with a certain set of network cards. But it did work together with the other network stack back then: Novell Netware, which did the majority of work in corporate networks back then.

The chat had a bit different structure back then. Messages went from client to client, and the “TALK” server only did coordination. There was a system, IIRC it was called NICKSERV or something where you globally registered your nickname.

I was not only watching things back then. I wrote a number of tools that made the rounds back then, a client for such a multiplayer online game that worked both in a text terminal and with a GUI, and a non-interactive NNTP (USENET) client that allowed access to our equivalent of the fediverse remotely. And I even wrote our companies first SMTP (email) gateway to the internet back then. Not “installed” or “configured” - wrote.

Treczoks,

Yep. Could be about as long for me. It was crazy back then.

Treczoks,

Conviction might be helpful, but is not actually necessary for this to work.

Treczoks,

How many states’ ballot papers can he afford to lose before he is no longer a viable candidate for the GOP?

Treczoks,

Well, that’s what the primaries are for: The members of the party select one candidate that they all promise to support. Well, theoretically, at least. Trump has not signed that pledge that he would support any other candidate if he loses the primaries.

Trump attempting to delay trials 'at any cost,' special counsel tells judge (abcnews.go.com)

The special counsel leading both the classified documents probe and the Jan. 6 election interference investigation says that former President Donald Trump is trying to delay both trials “at any cost,” after Trump’s attorneys filed a motion for a stay in the Jan. 6 case....

Treczoks,

“Respectfully” - as if he knew the meaning of the word. Trump probably thinks this word is just lawyer gobblegeek language…

Treczoks,

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Treczoks,

Completely depends on where you live. Each time zone has a “center line” where the sun is at it’s highest point at exactly 12:00. The farther east of this line you live, the more “natural” will DST be.

Treczoks,

That and the point that childbirth in a hospital with all the medical protection and support for mother and child is simply something a number of people cannot afford. And even with insurance, co-pay can make a baby a ruinous venture. So they give birth at home (“like the founding fathers”, err, mothers did), with maybe a midwife. Any serious complication, and child and/or mother are done for.

Another reason is the low vaccination level in the USA. At least low for a rich country.

Treczoks,

No, it doesn’t. I have neither seen a block, nor have I seen ads. Is that a Windows-only problem then?

Treczoks,

Sounds like an American problem to me. Right?

Treczoks,

Well, it is public bathrooms you have to pay for here, as they are run commercially. But each place that offers food or drink and where you can sit down (so e.g. a food vendor cart is excempt) has to have free toilets for their customers. Some might be better, some might be worse (I’ve been in a McD in a … not so well off part of a town and it was horrible - you had to ask for a key, and they had this horrible, dim bluish light that is supposed to reduce drug use). But customers toilets are free.

A friend of ours had a restaurant at a hiking trail in a forest, and he had put up a donation box for those who just wanted to use a toilet without eating or drinking there, which I consider fair.

Treczoks,

He’s looking for a future home, me thinks.

Treczoks,

In a desert state like Arizona, a golf course is an abomination from the word go. Let nature have their way with it: They provided a wet paradise in the desert, and the animals come to make use of it.

Treczoks, (edited )

My theory: In the last 30 years, the topic “gun ownership” has been politicized. Which in turn brought in people who mix up “enjoying freedom” with “being able to own a gun, the bigger, the better”. Those people are part of an extreme end of a political spectrum. And guess what you also find at extreme ends of the political spectrum? People who want to cover up their insecurities, people with mental problems, people with extremist worldviews.

The political usurpation of the 2nd amendment by the right just to get a strong=fanatical voter base basically led to this rise in gun violence in the USA. Gun ownership as an “expression of freedom” is an artificial construct to harvest votes, just like “fear of immigration” (or worse: “replacement theory” bullshit) or abortion are artificial topics for the same reason. Although the abortion topic has the additional “benefit” of being a part of “suppressing women”, which also appeals to certain voter bases.

Gettin real goddamn tired of dogs

I like dogs like I like toddlers. It’s fun to hang out with other people’s for a while, but ultimately they’re annoying, loud, and make a mess. I feel like in the past 10 years or so, dog owners have become increasingly convinced that everyone thinks their slobbering, untrained mutt is god’s gift to everyone, and expects...

Treczoks,

Add “people who don’t f-ing care to clean up after their dogs” to that list.

Treczoks,

Define “normal” for that case.

For me, if it is in my native tongue I will see whether it is worth being followed, and any other language will be banned to avoid clutter.

Treczoks,

It should have ended years ago. It costs money, but worse, it also kills people.

The EU has decided to drop the switch, and asked the members to decide whether they want to stay at CET (Central Europen Time) or CEST (Central European Summer Time). That was many years ago. Nothing happened.

Treczoks,

Wait for them to repo the baby…

Treczoks,

Coincidentally it is the same space that is used by bikes. Or does the artist picture them as combat-biking on the pavement?

Treczoks,

Bikes take much less space and they will go around people,

Well, I seriously doubt that bikes generally go “around” people. For pedestrians in a pedestrian environment, a bike is about as dangerous as a car is for bikes on a road.

you risk getting hit by a car if you walk into the streets

Just like you risk getting run over by a combat-biker in the pavement, the pedestrian zone in the city, or a pedestrian crossing. And don’t tell me those things dont happen - I see them every day.

Treczoks,

I guess US?

Nope. Europe.

Worst case scenario I just ring my bicycle bell and they move aside

That’s what I’m talking about: Bikers complain about cars, but totally ignore their relationship to pedestrians. “I ring my bell and let them hop away”…

Treczoks,

I’m not angry. I just describe facts that you obviously don’t like.

Treczoks,

Asking for room is OK. But the usual tone is “jump out of the way, or else!”. Just today there was a letter to the editor in the newspaper about reckless bikers in a busy underpass here. Admittedly, this underpass is to narrow for it’s use, but this women regularly observes bikers who speed up down the ramp to the underpass and basically plow through the pedestrian passage at full speed from both directions - and the passage is just 3m/10ft wide.

Treczoks,

Actually, it does not encourage cyclists to speed down there. It is a pedestrian underpass, and the signs say that cyclists must dismount. But cyclists being cyclists, they don’t.

Treczoks,

Just wait until the bike crowd learns that this holds true in a bikers and pedestrian only situation.

Treczoks,

Tell that to the relatives of that grandma who was run over and killed by a speeding biker in a pedestrian zone two weeks ago. He drove off when he saw her down and is still at large.

Treczoks,

I agree with you that for deaths, this is nowhere close. But the relationship is there. You complain about the cars, but most bikers I see behave as badly to pedestrians as bikers claim about cars. They just don’t recognize that their behavior is as bad.

Treczoks,

Ah, the country of the free, where a whole town is in lockdown just because one guy who shouldn’t exercised his freedom of owning guns!

Treczoks,

Difference? Victim of gun violence is dead vs. Victim of gun violence is dead?

Treczoks,

They assume they have obliterated Hamas when all Palestinians are dead.

Treczoks,

Don’t worry, they will find someone to blame.

Treczoks,

Just use a proper OS/Browser/Blocker combination. I have yet to see a YT ad on any of my PCs, and so far I did not get any kind of warning from them. It just works.

And I know how annoying those YT ads are from my phone…

Treczoks,

Just wait until the UK turns into a big white blob on the internet due to getting geoblocked by about anyone.

Treczoks,

I assume that once they try to go after one of the “big ones”, geoblocking the UK will happen at a larger scale. Just imagine a country being geoblocked by Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

“Dear UK citizen, due to stupid and malign laws enactet by the Tory party of your country, (Google|Twitter|Facebook|Wikipedia|other) will not be available in the UK for the forseeable future.”

Treczoks,

How much evidence is needed in the US to put someone in the loony bin?

Treczoks,

Excerpt from the US version of the Prayer of the Lord: “… and give us today our daily bread active shooter…”

Treczoks,

The solution is simple: Don’t participate in the Church of Steve Jobs, don’t turn yourself into an Apple disciple (and apologist).

Treczoks,

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. – Thomas Jefferson

But it is long past the time when the GOP cared for what the founding fathers said.

Donald Trump fined $10,000 for second gag order violation in civil fraud case (www.reuters.com)

Justice Arthur Engoron on Oct. 3 barred Trump from disparaging court staff after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top clerk posing with U.S. Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s “girlfriend.”...

Treczoks,

Law of three strikes, or something like that? He now has had two warnings.

Treczoks,

Thank goodness that their horrid rotten flavor is a perfect deterrent for anyone who ever had real chocolate.

Treczoks,

I know where the gold is!

Treczoks,

Ahh, the good old Blockwart method. Worked well in Nazi Germany. Just in case you had doubts where the Republicans are getting their ideas from.

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