[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 70 points 2 weeks ago

If you follow avherald.com for any length of time, you'll learn that 1) the vast majority of aviation incidents are completely benign, and 2) the vast majority of injuries aboard airliners are caused by passengers not wearing their seatbelts. The seatbelts aren't there for the once-a-decade crash; they're there for the once-a-month strong turbulence event, which the airplane itself will barely even notice.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Gotcha. Yeah, Astra worked okay for me, but Feather is sharper by a mile. Might try that before getting a whole new razor.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

I don't think it was a hoax, but campaign 101 is to be absolutely confident in your candidacy until the nanosecond you drop out. If you telegraph weakness to the voting public, and then end up staying in the race, that will be a millstone around your neck. Even if he was wavering in the weeks leading up to his dropout, there would be zero upside to communicating that publicly.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 months ago

I always used to wonder how the Weimar Republic fumbled the ball so hard. Now I know.

Also, in Christian eschatology, isn't it a big deal that the Antichrist suffers a near fatal head injury before his ultimate victory?

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 27 points 8 months ago

My favorite character I ever played was a super shady rogue who, as it was revealed halfway through the campaign, was the estranged son of a very wealthy and powerful politician. He was very embarrassed to have to reveal this to the party, as he had carefully curated an image of himself as a self-made scallywag.

Turns out cleptomania isn't just for the working class, although PR is definitely for the ruling class.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Don't fucking do this in zsh, it does NOT do the same thing that it does in bash.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago

If my 1080 gives up in the near future, I'll probably just give up AAA gaming. BG3 is literally the only game in the last 5 years I have loved which would require more than a potato to run.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 39 points 11 months ago

Biblically accurate hotdog

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

He may have been an unknown quantity to you in 2016, but for his supporters he was exactly what it said on the tin: a racist, angry old white man who yelled at the dinner table about all the things Fox News told him were wrong with this country. And after 4 years of his administration, he actually picked up votes the second time. Biden had the largest turnout in American history in 2020, but only ahead of Trump's 2020 numbers.

If anything, he has confirmed to the conservative base that he is who he said he was. If Biden fails to motivate his base, he will lose, because Trump is not going to lose votes.

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

At first I thought "no, but I'll read the comments. Maybe it'll help me understand my fellow man." Then the top comment was ADHD and I was like, " oh yeah I do have that lol."

[-] textik@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I have a motto I operate by at work: "if it's really important, they'll ask twice."

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