I was at my neighbor’s house and we were just poking around to see what there was to do online. We found a file (what we would now call a supercut but we didn’t have that word then) with a hundred instances of Homer Simpson saying “D’oh”.

We downloaded it, which took twenty minutes or something like that, and my recollection is when we went to play it there was no software on the computer that could. That doesn’t seem like it could be true, maybe I’m mixing memories up. It wouldn’t have been an mp3 file because it was too early for that, and I’d expect windows to at least be able to play .wav. maybe it was some weird format. So we had to do another search and found a freeware program called Goldwave which we downloaded and were able to listen then. I still used Goldwave for years and even paid for it.

I don’t think it’s supposed to literally be Goku and friends

Garfield did talk about dieting a lot. Sort of like the trope about quicksand, dieting seemed to occupy a much larger mental space in the Garfiverse than in my own lived experience.

I’m talking specifically about armed conflict. You’re right we absolutely can’t go on the way things are. I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that we have to have a shooting war.

It’s sort of like throwing up. You feel sick, you try to do everything you can not to, but at a certain moment you know it’s going to happen and there’s no avoiding it.

The problem is you don’t know ahead of time which times you’re going to actually throw up. Sometimes if you lay down or drink some water or whatever you feel better.

Not sure what you’re trying to say specifically, but if it comes to violence then we’ll get to it and we’ll win.

But there are good strategic reasons to pursue every possible avenue before resorting to violence.

• War excludes direct participation by a large portion of the population - many women, elderly, disabled.

• It puts decision making in the hands of a smaller portion of the population, so it’s less democratic.

• It’s much easier to destroy than it is to build, both in terms of infrastructure but also social structures and organizations.

• You are more likely to gather support from other parties if you’re seen to have tried every option to deescalate. (In other words, “they started it”)

When we look at what’s happening in Minneapolis, I think there’s casus belli. It’s more whether it is in our strategic interest to start a shooting war, and I’d say it’s not yet.

I just tried reading about xenogender and can’t say it made any sense.

Yes, the list isn’t very useful if 70 million people are on it.

Not saying they didn’t know it was American. But what would be the advantage of Israel attacking a U.S. ship in that context?

I’ve been reading “Fighters in the Shadows” by Robert Gildea, it’s about the resistance in France during World War 2. It’s funny how big the tent can be when you’re fighting fascism. They had people from all across the political spectrum, urban and rural, French plus countless other nationalities, and they were pursuing a really wide spectrum of activities.

If you read Stancil’s feed these days he’s really doing the work, plus publicizing the issue. I don’t think it makes sense to prioritize social media grudges at the moment.

I get it’s referencing loss. But is the text referencing something specific? The URL says “Dave Tim actually said this” but I don’t know who that is, or in what context

What are you trying to accomplish here? Is your message to any Americans of conscience “no, you can’t beat fascists”? Don’t be a dick and don’t be defeatist

I didn’t do shit because I wasn’t alive then. And clearly they’re not gone, because here they are. But you may note that slavery is illegal now. Not enough but not nothing. If you want to doom keep it to yourself.

Better if it shows a Confederate soldier?

We will beat them again. It’s just a question of how much suffering until then, and how much we actually root out the ideology.

It’s a good one

Ah the classic headbutt fight

Yeah, fuck Facebook. But also lets not share misleading images alongside what is a true and horrible injustice.

If it’s really easy then why isn’t it the case?

To be clear these photos are from a dramatization of the execution. Here’s a Facebook post saying so, I’m sure a more in depth search would turn up a better source

I can relate to being intimidated by any instructions that mention the terminal. When I first started with Linux I would prefer doing stuff using a GUI over command line.

I started getting into hobbyist coding stuff, and fifteen years later I’m much more comfortable with the terminal.

Even so, I think trying to make Linux more palatable for the average person is going to be tough. It’s very difficult to make something that’s powerful and extensible while also being easy to use.