I would say that I think it’s weird because I think shaved pubes are weird (and experienced horrific razor burn when I tried it back in college).

Sounds like you are a fucking rockstar dad though. That’s a very vulnerable thing to think about asking your parent for a teenage boy. Lots of self-consciousness and trying to figure oneself out. That he felt comfortable asking you says a lot. That you stepped up to ensure that he knew how to do so safely says a lot too.

I often wonder if I’m alone in that policy.

You’re not.

I had to look it up a few months back. But then I remembered that there was this whole big thing that I thought was uninteresting and forgot about.

Thank you for your diligence.

Life long windows user. I switched to Arch

Fuck. That’s like going straight from English breakfast tea to hash oil.

I’ve been using Linux almost exclusively both in my personal and professional life for a decade and a half. I only installed Arch a month or two ago.

I’m more into (neo)vim but that is beautiful.

As an end goal?

Fuck no. As an appetizer. Make those that would prey upon the weak and vulnerable afraid to ever leave their beds in the morning, look out their windows, or answer their phones lest they be found for what they are and face an inevitability of being stripped of everything they have and forced to contribute to society or, if they refuse, kept safe somewhere that they can never harm anyone.

Another side of me would prefer something a bit more brutal involving pikes used as public displays to serve as warning to the rest. But, that isn’t realistically productive and probably stems from statistically unlikely survival of early childhood experience.

When you realize that most extremely to ultra wealthy people are idiots propped up by their underlings, it makes more sense.

This is not how soldiers work for the most part though.

Maybe modern professional soldiers. However, there was some research around WW2 with draftees and conscripts that suggested that in the case, a substantial number would not fire on the enemy or intentionally miss in close combat. There has been some debate over accuracy of the results but, the US military found them compelling enough to sink immense resources into attempting to address this through training.

Anecdotally, my grandfather was a volunteer and gunner on a landing craft in the Pacific and would have died, if not for the armor plate in front of him. He admitted to intentionally not shooting at enemy soldiers, when laying down suppressing fire, primarily damaging empty sheds and the like. Despite choosing to be there, he didn’t want to kill anyone.

Compare that to conscripts and draftees fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war and you’re a lot more likely to find people uncommitted to killing other human beings. Most human beings have a strong aversion to homicide, even in war.

Spain is in UTC or UTC+1. I’m on UTC-8. 11AM for Spain is 3AM for me, making it easy for me to have a not-too-crazy evening and still be in bed before 11AM UTC.

That’s really easy though. And without getting plastered. Just start at about 5 or 6 and have one drink an hour. Then, with a bit of self-control and go to bed before 1 in the morning and you’ve 2 hours to spare.

So… Judging by recent trends in AI, this will be used to devalue the labor of surgeons and be provided as the only option available to people who are not rich. People will die from what would get a human charged with neglegent homicide but, it will be covered up and, when it comes to light just how dangerous it is, nothing will happen because all of the regulatory agencies have been dismantled.

I don’t understand how being smart and not needing human input makes these weapons more effective

Probably a lot about humans not usually liking killing other humans. Humans are more likely to accept a surrender or, miss a target due lack of dedication to taking a life or intentionally miss.

Safeway’s bakery or the local Korean donut place after easy winners over both, IMO.

For those who missed it, the “procedural error” was:

When a proposed rule will cause an impact of more than $100M, a preliminary regulatory analysis is required. The FTC determined that the impact would be under $100M, so did not do the preliminary regulatory analysis. The court decided that the impact was more than $100M, causing the “procedural error” after the fact.

Either it’s a bad faith ruling, or, there’s even more reason that the rule is necessary as that would mean that companies are leeching off more than $100M from customers through shady and anti-consumer tactics.

Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

That’s also what I read from that.

Sounds like the American Baptists should get on that. Then again, they believe strongly in separation of church and state.

(They’re the sect that remains of the original Triennial Convention AKA Baptists, after the Slaver Southern Baptists left because they didn’t like the idea of chattel slavery being considered wrong. Seriously. The split occurred because they refused to ordain a guy from Georgia as a missionary in 1844, on account of him being slaver trash.

The modern Southern Baptist Church, horrifyingly the largest sect of protestant Christianity in the US, is directly descended from them, and it shows.)

barely any hills to speak of

Donegal: Forgotten once again.

ETA - Also Connemara: Cad é an fuck?

And they always whine about one thing or another.

Funny how centuries of oppression, being alienated from their native language, and multiple unacknowledged genocides will do that to a people.