I just bought an external cd/dvd drive so I can convert my DVD library into a digital one for convenience and to preserve the dvds longer.

I’m having some issues with the speed of conversion, but my biggest problem is quickly becoming storage space.

Also, I dug up some of my old games like Caesar III and installed a no-CD “patch”.

Good times.

There’s an adapter or replacement for everything

Honestly, this right here is the main reason I don’t believe any real-world bending would end any way other than Earth Kingdom dominance. Peaceful dominance, hopefully.

You can’t wipe out their infrastructure as long as someone is alive who knows how it’s done.

Oh, fire nation bulldozed your house because they felt like it? Well boom. Stomp stomp punch. New identical house made of stone.

Bridge collapsed to cause chaos? Stomp stomp punch, it’s back.

Don’t feel safe living out in the open where fire nation scouts could murderhobo you harder than my last D&D group? Stomp stomp punch, now you have a vast mansion underground in which you can simply… Not go above ground until you need to.

Of course, underground living isn’t simple as “hole in ground, hide all day” but still… There is 0 reason the EK shouldn’t go full Vietnam War tactics.

Demo ranch. Started making comments about the George Floyd protests and I was out

AvE started praising the trucker convoys

Shadiversity got super homo/transphobic and also is just an arrogant douche since his book.

Solar prices are still dropping, but not fast enough for me to actually afford it.

I’d love to have a combo wind/solar since I’m in a pretty good spot for it.

Battery storage is also dropping in price. I’m excited to see what sodium batteries will be capable of in a few years.

BURN THEM TO THE GROUND

If you’re wondering if I mean metaphorically or literally, first one, then the other but in a climate-friendly way.

Normal people: “this is SO me!” last done 2years ago

Neurodivergents: every month

COMPLETELY unrelated, I have about $800 worth of RC equipment to make my own planes and cars, and haven’t touched it in over a year.

I want to break it out and make use of it to get my money’s worth, but apparently I don’t want to want to…

My 3 year old calligraphy set has only been used twice, and not even for the purpose they were purchased.

I also like to go with “Cosmically, nothing we ever do will amount to more than the life of a fly, so the end result is the same.”

It doesn’t go over well…

Next time someone says that, respond with “wow, so fuck anyone with brain issues that keep them from forming memories the same way you do, right? Guess grandpa Rick doesn’t care about my family since his accident, huh.”

you having a grandpa Rick, or family to speak of, is irrelevant. The point is, it forces them to confront the fact that there are many reasons someone might forget a thing. They’ll probably still be shift about it, but at least when they’ve unbunched their loads, they might think twice before immediately concluding the other person sucks for forgetting a thing.

Maybe I’m being optimistic with that, but I don’t appreciate when people try to assign my motives to me, instead of understanding my own, and get confrontational when that happens.

I still say that, knowing fully damn well that it probably was important and I going to feel like shit later for forgetting.

Big “as a gay black man” energy.

I’m confident half of my highschool debate team could wipe the floor with Trump, including the ones who quit because it was boring to them.

But can they wipe the floor, AND get elected?

The sad reality is that is our choice.

Eat a shit sandwich, or let the entire house get set on fire.

There’s a secret third option, but most are too comfortable with their lives. ✊✊🏻✊🏽✊🏿

Frodo straight up cursed smeagol.

He sealed his own fate when he laid hands on Frodo trying to take it. Literally cursed him to fall into the crack of Doom to be destroyed alongside the ring.

Frodo has a little bit of the Ainur in him, methinks.

Yeah but I don’t want to be pretty all the time, so… checkmate, atheists?

What kind of music does data listen to?

You might be quick to answer “Electronic”

We have been shown he listens to all kinds of music. At the same time.

In this ONE instance, I think it’s okay to ignore the rules. Although if data wanted to change the music, can anyone really stop him?

Also: “Is this humor?”

I take a weird amount of pleasure in hearing people laugh at something homo/transphobic or racist, and asking “Oh, I love jokes, especially inside ones, what’s the joke here?”

Plenty of people actually try to explain “why” it’s funny but it just wraps around to “I find racist things funny especially if it’s against my preferred group to target”

And if they try to bring their “version” of statistics into an argument, I go “OH so you find incorrect numbers funny? I get it.” and then make up some bullshit that disparages something they’re likely to enjoy to make it seem like a bad thing, and laugh.

LPT: take some improve classes that make you go out of your comfort zone, you can have a LOT of fun messing with people when you’re more practised at ad-libbing and being in uncomfortable situations.

Or other LPT: don’t, and save the energy.

“Chinese Taipei”

You (the author, not OP) mean Taiwan?

It finally clicked for a friend when I asked him if he knew how old the “young women” were in another case, and he said “I don’t know… 25?” which then got corrected to “16 or 17” when I reminded him that the “young women” in question were minors.

So finally I called out and asked his daughter to show us the cool picture she was working on in the study, and she excitedly runs in to show us. She was 9 at the time.

I asked him how he enjoyed the picture that “young woman” drew for us. I literally saw the change on his face when it clicked.

Hide a bin ladin or demon core in there and you’re good to go

Hanlon’s Razor and all that, but I just assume that’s to drive up interaction in the post.

Rant/ramble ahead, you can skip:

By misspelling something, or just doing/saying something that common sense should say is wrong (“life hack, I just discovered this thing that literally every 5 year old already knows about”) you will draw out all the people who are genuinely trying to help, people who just can’t help themselves but smugly correct someone, people who THINK they know the right way but aren’t sure, people who claim to have never seen the right way before, and all the bitch fights such comments produce.

The increased interactions make the post do better in algorithms, which means it goes out to more and more people, who continue the cycle.

My wife watches short form endless scrolling videos despite knowing how bad those are for your mental health, and some of the people she stops to watch are CONSTANTLY pulling the “common sense says otherwise” one. Like my dude you did NOT just figure out in your 20s that you can wait for the shower to warm up before you get in. Literal toddlers know better. It’s such a simple thing, I genuinely do not believe anyone in their 20s just gets in the shower while the water is still cold because they never figured out they can wait for the warm water. But hoooo boy did their video take off and have millions of views, and thousands of comments about how wild that is.

As long as you rake in the cash quick enough, you can be rich before anyone realized that you’re the problem.

And now you’ve got money to pay people to beat them into submission when they complain.