Here’s to many more like it! 🍻

Spelling bee? Easy:

Bee

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That is one overambitious mouse!

It’s his remedy to your constant “headaches,” Karen.

(Stereotypes galore, I know, but they don’t seem like the most functional couple.)

Not pictured here are the scratches they got putting that thing on their cat. 😅

That’s why I’ve stopped watching satire programs. It’s become too depressing to see how little difference there is between satire and reality nowadays. And as you point out, it doesn’t change anything.

Surely that was precisely what Viktor Shklovsky had in mind when he coined the term ostranenie. 🤡📯🥪🤡

Oh boy, wait until they find out about the World Series of anything.

In fact, that is the expert consensus on language skills among animals (according to John McWhorter’s “The Story of Human Language”). Animals understand and can “talk” about things in the here and now but not in the past, in the future, or in abstract terms.

(My source was published in 2004 but I haven’t heard anything to the contrary since then.)

Even a dedicated lab might not be able to read your data once you’ve hammered nails through the platters.
Usually what they do is they take out the platters in a clean-room environment and place them in an otherwise identical drive, then read from that. But a deformed platter with a hole in it will cause extreme oscillations once you start rotating it at thousands of RPM. Which will crash the head(s) pretty much instantly.
So realistically, outside of an MI6-style lab with Q and his team using custom-built equipment dedicated to reading data from purposely destroyed drives, I don’t see how anyone could do it. Would love to hear from someone who works in data recovery or is in contact with people who do, though.
One thing we haven’t talked about, by the way, is how to prevent SSDs from having their data recovered. That should be straightforward though, just schwack the NAND chips with a hammer until they’re all broken. As with the HDD, be sure to wear appropriate PPE to protect against eye injury and dust inhalation.

Regarding #5, don’t bother with the wiring. No data stored there. It’s all in the magnetic coating of the platters.

I think it’s a reference to the Project Zomboid game.

Hey, at least the music was good.

Mine, too, and when he doesn’t I ask him to do it. Literally shaves ten years off my face.

That’s why I stopped watching him in 2017.

Waxing quite poetic at times.

Isn’t the tension between Gatsby’s great image and his complex, problematic actuality kind of the point of the story?

(My bonus interpretation: it’s also about how America looks like Gatsby’s lavish party spot from afar with its green pier light beckoning, yet once you get close it’s more like the valley of ashes, its people downtrodden and consumed by jealousy to the point of violence)

Our post office was closed for the entire day on Tuesday. No reasons given. Normally, about three to four people work there.

One customer scribbled something about Deutsche Post’s disdain for its customers on the notice. But I’m afraid we are going to have to get used to this kind of thing.

Found the Peruvian. 😅

Remember how conservatives tried to get everyone in a panic about “Satanism”?

Here they are, revealing their projection for what it has always been:

P.S.: ironically, actual Satanists are humanists. MAGAts and their obscenely rich enablers are anti-human death cultists.