Orbituary

We got angry when Japan did this in the 60s and 70s. I’m going to paste part of the opening from Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash.”

Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a roll model. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it – talking trade balances here – once we’ve brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they 're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here – once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel – once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity – y’know what? There’s only four things we do better than anyone else

• music
• movies
• microcode (software)
• high-speed pizza delivery

The Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life were a mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, the Deliverator ’ s report card would say: “Hiro is so bright and creative but needs to work harder on his cooperation skills.”

Nginx Proxy Manager + LetsEncrypt.

Why do people ask questions like this? Isn’t, “Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?” a better way to say it?

It’s just so kludgy.

Behold my humor: smug, sophisticated, and incomprehensible online.

You took your shot at subtle, fartographer. It didn’t pass muster as much as gas.

That was a joke?

It’s not a virus, and I think that @TachyonTele@lemm.ee was saying that they’d like the study reproduced, not the Obelisks.

The number of people who don’t get it is about right.

It’s not like it worked for shit.

Zero much further. We’re at peak butt cleaning until someone invents an anal wormhole.

I pirate my books or use the public library program to check ebooks out.

Preference aside, because I agree with you, they’re a waste of money and space and natural resources if you only read them once or twice.

I don’t feel that way about reference manuals or books you use to look things up in, though.

Again, to be clear, I prefer handling books. I have many shelves of them. But… It’s illogical these days.

I got the Cadillac at the start of pandemic. Biobidet BB-600. It’s like the nice Japanese ones. My parents have a manually operated one that lets you set your pressure and nozzle positions. Mine has buttons for all of that.

Mine has an air dryer. It blows your hole.

Bidet. Get a toilet seat bidet. You have poop particles on your butt. No toilet paper is 100% efficient. The bidet will pay for itself in 6 months.

I look down my nose at all of the people with poopy butts. Buncha animals.

Paperback or ebooks? I’ve grown to think most paperback books aren’t worth the money.

I saw something similar as a kid in the 80s. I was in bed and turned around so my feet were against the window so I could look out at the stars. An object, brighter than the stars, was moving downward. It then stopped, shot across the sky, went up, back left, then abruptly rocketed to the right - east (thinking about it now).

I woke up my parents, but they told me to go back to bed.

This obviously preceded the advent of drones and was too fast and high to be a helicopter. I lived in St Pete, FL, which is across the water from MacDill Airforce Base. It’s possible that it was military, but how could anything from that era do this?

I’m 48. I still think about this.

He won quite a number of primaries in 2016. We were robbed of a better past future.

I went to a Sanders rally in 2016 here in Seattle. I went on to be a county Delegate for the caucus - our last caucus, thankfully. The energy was huge, the people were absolutely stoked, and the arena was 100% packed with lines wrapping around outside.

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