I think it’s pretty obvious at this point that Russia is pouring the entire future of its nation-state into keeping Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, so, I think it’s probably inevitable at this point given how little international support Ukraine has by now.

Why wouldn’t you need troops to stand at that border and make sure that Russia can’t just regroup and invade again in 6 years? Wouldn’t you call that ‘Peacekeeping’?

“Aur”? Says here in my notes something about “Pacman” but that can’t be right…

Fair enough. 👌

Fiber optic cable is just glass or nylon, sealed with a thermoplastic. It really is one of the cheapest kinds of cables to make, maybe ever. It’s really not worth anything when anyone who needs to run fiber can just buy a brand new spool for the same price as a spool from four guys in a shitty pickup truck who can’t describe why they even had it to begin with.

I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won’t take the time to forge an original invoice.

I respect that, but I built my own Tiny11 iso. You can do so as well here: https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder

Folks gotta give me a little benefit of the doubt. I’m not raw-doggin’ the modern Windows experience here.

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Good looking out, I’ll check it out.

I’m really not far off. Once my Tiny11 install breaks, it’s on to Bazzite.

hey all. i just wanted to drop in and say hello. i moved my account from Beehaw to my own self-hosted, single-user PieFed instance, but, i wanted to say how much i appreciate beehaw, it’s a real oasis on the fedi, still.

in that case, mewtwo is basically just a ripoff of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” what other public domain classics did Pokémon manage to repackage and resell to us?!

Hank: “Bobby, when I was little, we had 151 Pokémon, and that was plenty! We didn’t even have confirmation that Mew existed until maybe a decade later, and we were all so happy that we threw a party! Remember, Boomhauer?”

Boomhauer: “Well I tell ya what man igottagetyaonthepokemonromhacksbecausebackthentheydidntknowgaddumnallaboutjapaneseso (chuckling) theyjustchangedthejapanesecharacterstoenglishones man andnobodycaredtheydjustsitthereonno$gbandmakeuppokemonnameslike ‘turt’ or ‘hors’ andwe’dalljustlikestumblethroughthebarelytranslatedgames tryingtofigureoutwhattodoman it was a joy to be included”

Hank: “Yeah.”

POV: you are the first Zubat that a player using gameshark sees

the thing i keep seeing as a wrinkle is, he’s using the national guard, who are by-and-by-large the weekend contract kind who maintain jobs and have families in far-flings of the state.

by deploying them and keeping them deployed, the longer they stay like that, the more guardsmen will lose the jobs they had waiting for them. i know there are protections and such, but, we’re in a capitalist-fascist hellscape now, money is gonna do the talking from now on, and a deployed soldier don’t make money. i also do not see this occupation ending any time soon, nor do i see any protestors being dumb enough to try and test the might of the world’s only global military hedgemon… so, i think they’re just gonna be sitting around playing fucking candy crush.

like, is there a ceiling with guardsmen on how much bullshit they’ll tolerate before they start deserting? i am genuinely asking, if anyone is in the service and knows better.

Hank Hill recognizes 152 Pokémon total. The first 151, and then Stunfisk.

Hank, suddenly intrigued: “Wait, there’s a ‘grass type’ Pokemon?”

Bobby: “Dad, everybody knows they can’t catch Rayquazza… it entices .”

The one I personally have experience with is telemarketing. I worked at an agency whose business it was to call businesses and gather information about what IT tech they use, and at what point they were likely at the highest propensity to buy new stuff. We’d sell those leads to tech companies like Dell or HP for their sales teams to reference.

There was another “agency” out there that did the same thing we did with American young adults, but with prison labor paid something like $1-$3/day. It basically put our agency out of business, which good riddance, but also, it was at least a living for hundreds of people. Now those jobs don’t exist, pretty much.

Just a friendly reminder, slavery has been an active part of the Neoliberal agenda since the 60s. For-profit prisons use their prisoner population to do factory work (cus nobody cares about them or their wellbeing), and the products of which can then be sold on the open market, which undercuts and drives small businesses out of operation.

Prison labor has touched and destroyed countless American industries, and has genuinely done more damage to the idea of a “free market” than every Communist on the planet combined. How exactly does one compete against a business whose cost-basis is quite literally the cost of Nutriloaf?

If you say so. I’m just trying to be helpful instead of offering scare quotes.