Wolfric?

Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I’d cuss someone out hard.

Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?

Sure but that is entirely different than having all of those monitors at the same single desk with multiple input devices only accessible by the one person at that desk.

Redundancy for a keyboard and mouse? Keep an extra set in the drawer or something. No need to have them all out and connected. Simplicity? How is it simpler to have multiple input devices littered about than one set? You can’t really physically use multiple at once. Speed? Speed of what? Of input? The latency on a KVM is negligible, particularly for an IO device? Speed of swapping? With multiple keyboards and mice, you have up manually move around devices and/or your body. With a KVM, you press a button. How is that slower?

Physical context switching is the only thing I’ll grant you, but I don’t see how that’s such a benefit compared to the hassle, clutter, and hectic work flow when you can just use a KVM.

They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There’s no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.

Sickled himself in his confusion

So subtle from the title

I ran the Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign with some new players a couple years ago. I had one player who was painfully suspicious of all things, so he refused to wear his wings in the Witchlight carnival that marks him a valid patron of the carnival.

He managed to dodge a “Can I get your name?” trap that would have robbed him of his nobility along with his Noble background features. Not out of being wise to the trick, but just pure avoidance of anyone that seemed to want anything from him.

But then I had a lornling running away from an apparent theft. It bumped into sowpig as it booked it to the Hall of Illusions and knocked her down into some mud. She asked the suspicious player, “could I get an arm?” and he reached out and helped her up. She said “thanks” with a malicious grin and went the same direction as the lornling. He failed his check to detect what had happened, only feeling a general sense of loss. So it was a bit before he realized that she had stolen his ability to use melee weapons. Pretty rough for a Barbarian. Ooops!

But it did make for some great alternative combat situations. The fight in Bavlorna’s house where he grappled each lornling in the room that were dodging everyone else’s attacks and just yeeted them out the window to drown in the lake below was fun.

Those few US companies paid MAGA for this.

Almost certainly not just a money thing. They very likely also made deals for government access to and control of their devices. This isn’t just corruption. It is fascism.

designating all consumer routers manufactured outside the U.S. as a security risk

So this is horseshit, right?

First of all, ALL routers from ANY country are a security risk? Every single other nation is trying to make Spyware for the average American consumer? Doubt.

Second, they are extremely concerned with all consumers’ security from foreign actors to the point it needs an outright ban on hardware to protect us. God forbid I buy an AVM router from Germany and open up my home networking to German Spies. What if they find out I sometimes visit porn websites and yourube!?

Third, that the US government, themselves, are trustworthy and wont force backdoors into systems to allow them unfettered access into private networks, something that they HAVE TRIED TO AND SUCCEEDED TO DO IN THE PAST. And also something that they are very clearly opening the door for with all of these legal pushes toward requiring age verification software and OS’s. They want to ban foreign routers so that you have to buy routers from companies that they can control. They can ask, coerce and force them to give them access behind the scenes for some bullshit excuse (“protect the kiddies”, “law enforcement”, “national security”, “terrorism”), force them to not tell the public, and then “secretly” monitor every device in the entire country. They are almost certainly already doing this with a significant number of US manufacturers and software developers.

Fuck these fascists.

Super irresponsible of them. Their butt babies are going to be deformed.

Fast clapping and loud high pitched toddler-like giggles and squeals always gets a fun reaction.

Someone’s been training ChatGPT on old StackOverflow help posts.

Jean-Cluade: “Pierre! The government is reducing our retirement benefits by a quarter of a percent point!”

Pierre: “Ces enfoirés! … *brings out a selection of sauages * … so are we thinking Boudin Blanc, Boudin Noir, Andouillette? What sounds good? Oh, and you will have the hors d’oeuvres, oui?”

Jean-Claude: holding a tray of crudités “Oui! Of course, oui!”

Bills

He is trying to bring about the second coming. If you are an evangelical Christian who genuinely believes you are at the end times, it is unreasonable to be concerned with anything else but contributing to prophecy and siding with “God’s people”. Particularly as he is getting older and has less and less stake in the future of the Earth, and he’s now looking towards his eternal future stake in Heaven.

Given his beliefs, he is acting in the most rational, predictable way. The fact that his beliefs are a fucking farce, and detached from reality, makes his rationale inherently broken. But you will never convince him that his beliefs are wrong.

Lindsey Graham is up for reelection in South Carolina this year.

So knowing those things, knowing that he literally cannot rationally be concerned with your peace, your economy, your welfare, your freedom, or your life when it is compared to the return of his messiah to bring him and all his ilk to God, the most important thing in his faith… why would you vote for him to lead your country? If you also believe the same things as him without a doubt in your mind and wish him to work towards prophecy too, sure, voting for him is entirely rational given the premise. But short of that, if you wish for this country and world to be in good shape when Jesus inevitably doesn’t come… if you are a patriotic voter, a conservative, MAGA, moderate or otherwise, that decided before that Graham might be good for this country, then why the hell would you ever give your vote to him again? Someone who admits his only concerns lie with Isreal, US be damned. Who is eagerly looking forward to the apocalypse.

You don’t have to hate the guy for practicing his beliefs, but you do need to question why you would ever put him and his beliefs in charge over your future that he very much does not care about. Vote Graham out.

Thufir wore it better.

Kneeanu Greaves

When I was in Kindergarten, we would all race to get to our seats in the morning and call out “first”, “second”, “third” and so on as we sat down. We’d of course, always have the first two jeering and arguing about being in “First place!” And “First is the worst, second is best!” No idea how a bunch of 5-6 year olds knew this ubiquitous phrase.

But there was this one weird kid who kept coming in third, and he’d always say the same thing. “Well, actually, if you start counting at 0, then I’m actually second. So I’m the best.” And that guy was the worst. I wish I could say that that kid was destined to be a programmer and got an early start on the meme, but no… he was just just dumb and still is.