There’s always an older fish.

• Obi Wan Kenobi

I had to look up the joke. Very clever. Nerds.

Lucky bastard. When my parents were doing that we didn’t have video games to play, they weren’t invented yet. Best we could do was a box of matches.

Uh huh. Pull the other one.

Good news! Legality doesn’t mean much in the US anymore!

I applaud your use of your free time. Ignore the haters.

You said “nobody is willing”.

Uhhh what?

I quit drinking soda years ago and switched to flavored seltzer water. I was drinking 4-6 sodas a day for years before that.

For me quitting sugar was only difficult for the first few days, until whatever was in my gut crying for it died off I guess.

Just have to want to do it, like anything else that requires willpower.

Over Mar a Lago

Because many people believe any use of gen AI is unethical due to how it was created, in addition to how the people in charge are using it.

In other words, using it in any capacity is a bad look to a lot of creatives. And other rational people who can foresee the devastating impact it’s going to have on art of all types, government, and society at large.

Still out up in Evergreen, they are saying maybe back tomorrow. Just finished cleaning out fridges and freezers. So fun.

Better than the town burning down though. Which somebody apparently tried to do with a generator but the FD managed to stop the fire before it got too crazy. Kudos to them for saving us from the morons.

Personally I’d go with a large painful burn scar with an interesting story, or a battle wound that reopens from time to time or causes some other limitations. “It never fully healed” ala Frodo Baggins.

A person walking around in premodern times with a semi permanent but nonlethal infection would strain believability for me.

I’m all ears, too. Getting tired of dealing with the tangles after a ride is always the last stage in the “I’m gonna grow my hair out again” cycle.

I’m in the foothills myself and hoping we don’t have any fire today because if we do it’s gonna be really fuckin bad. Like “no chance to even start putting it out until tomorrow” bad.

Yeah, they learned they have to pay over half a billion dollars when their equipment starts fires that kill people.

BANG

“Ok, now you’re hired”

She actually has terrible trigger discipline.

Cause most of us have no way to pressure them. What am I going to do, threaten to take away the $0 I’ve paid them over the last 20 years?

But, you know, that’s exactly the reason they don’t care about our whining.

I love your optimism. I don’t share it, but I love it. I hope you’re right.

I’m really, really upset that you put the image of McSushi into my head. Well done.