I like using qemu with quickget personally for quickly setting up VMs. You can literally just be like quickget ubuntu 24.04 or whatever and it’ll do all the setup for you.
It can do Mac and Windows VMs too, but they take a little bit of fiddling.
I don’t know how many years I was on there but I was pretty active. The combo of killing 3rd party apps and selling everyone’s comments to AI was what made me nuke my account.
Elon Musk’s father said publicly that Elon was a bad parent, and at least one of his children seems to openly despise him.
Humanity’s relationship with producing energy continually blows my mind, and it’s one of the main things that makes me think that maybe we do live in a simulation.
We discovered fossil fuel energy, which was fine for a bit to kick off the industrial revolution, but obviously is super harmful in the long term. Then just as it was starting to become a problem, the universe went “okay, here’s this magic rock that just gives off energy, you can use that to generate massive amounts of power with no carbon.” And we just went “nah.”
So then, the universe is like, “alright then, how about this: you can just get it from the sun, the air and water. Again no carbon and it’s infinite free energy forever, you’re welcome.” And again, we were like “no we want to just burn fossils.” Even now at the ecosystem is visibly collapsing around us we’re adopting it somewhat, but still dragging ass on it like crazy.
It’s like whoever’s running the simulation keeps dropping the difficulty level to help us not die, and we just won’t accept it. I fully expect in the next century or so we’ll figure out cold fusion, build like two plants and humanity will just collectively go “BORING” and dig up more coal again.
Yeah my cat is absolutely offended if I pet her with my foot lol
I think if it was me I wouldn’t worry about it. As you say, it’s his money and you’ll presumably outlive him, so then your options are: a) just leave it and then your eventual funeral stuff is mostly sorted, saving your loved ones a bunch of money and stress one day or b) you can just disregard it and do whatever you want.
What the Lindsey Graham ladybugs thing means. Once known it can never be dis-known.
I try to live by a sort of chill flow chart:
A PROBLEM HAPPENS! CAN I DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?
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DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
No, it’s not entirely awful. There are awful things in it for sure, but there are also amazing things, which is how it’s always been.
People growing up today live under the threat of climate change, fascism, rampant inequality etc. These threats are real. But there’s a lot of good stuff happening too - crime rates are falling constantly, and we’re on the verge of some big medical breakthroughs such as being able to treat cancer with CRISPR and Oncolytic viruses to give a couple of examples. We might be about to double the lifespan of cats.
Every generation grows up under some sort of threat - nuclear annihilation in the 80s, WW2 before that, WW1 before that etc. Mad kings, dictators, plagues, wars… you’re dealt the hand you’re dealt. But everything is cyclical - fascism flares up and then gets squashed, the economy booms and busts, politics swings right, then left again. Because of that, sometimes the cycles line up so that a few things suck at once. But nothing is permanent.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
That’s not to say everything will be fine, or that we’re doomed. Most likely some people who don’t deserve it will suffer and die, some people who don’t deserve it will live charmed and privileged lives and learn nothing, and some people will just be fine. As it has always been.
Would anybody like a selection of Doctor Who facts by any chance
“Have you ever tried finding the shutoff valve for the whole universe? It’s not where you’d think. And you can’t remove all the gas either, that doesn’t work. There’s got to be some gas. Anyway, seems to be working again now. Mostly. Stay away from the Large Magellanic Cloud in the year 4047 though, that’s still airing out.”
Reminder that Boy George went to prison for handcuffing an escort to a radiator and beating him with a metal chain, so therefore might not be the best person to be judging who is doing the imprisoning and torturing.
And a consistent production schedule. Parts of Moffat’s run (especially around the 50th anniversary) were pretty chaotic because of BBC fuckery (he had to write multiple versions of the 50th IIRC including one with different Doctors and one with no Doctors at all) and although nobody’s really talked about it yet, it’s a pretty open secret that the RTD2 era was absolute madness behind the scenes, with the BBC and Disney both fucking it about at the same time.
Not that I’m saying there wasn’t bad writing as well (Space Babies, you will go down in infamy) but I think having a consistent production (even to the point of knowing if the actor who’s playing the Doctor will still be there for the next thing you produce, which has not always been the case) would certainly make it easier to plan things out properly.
Yeah that’s exactly it. Whenever it eventually comes back you can literally just cast a new Doctor, have the TARDIS appear somewhere and off you go. You genuinely wouldn’t even need to necessarily explain all the loose plot ends the last season left open. The Doctor is mysterious, they can just allude to some terrible event and be vague about it. Or even just ignore it completely and let Big Finish sort it out later lol.
They’ve fully given up explaining how the Master comes back from being killed lol. They just show up again and everyone goes “Oh no”
If he’s allowed visitors or phone calls, he might have someone running his account and he tells them what to tweet and they post if for him. That’s how Chelsea Manning used to tweet from prison IIRC. Not that I am in any way saying those two cases are comparable lol.
We don’t do the slippers thing but here in Canada we don’t wear shoes indoors either. I shake my head when I see people in American TV shows laying on a bed with their shoes on lol.
And not a small donation either. He contributed 72% of their entire funding in 2025.
Yup. As in, referring to immigrants as ‘parasites’ level racism.
Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.
I have Arch (btw) on my laptop which is the tinkering machine that only I use, and a Win10/Linux dual-boot desktop which is the one other people use that I’m not allowed to break. I had Fedora Silverblue on there originally because I figured it would be pretty stable, but it honestly gave me nothing but trouble. I switched that one over to CachyOS and it’s been smooth sailing ever since.