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Unfortunately, there's going to be a lot of travel in my future...
Eyup.
On the bright side, no more working Saturdays, at least on a regular basis.
i did watch fireworks last night but that was it
i've lately been busy both keeping up with my sudden explosion of social media involvement and trying out new platforms and other software
like i recently picked up two new web browsers and set them both up
and it took me a while to figure out how to make Windows 10 recognize something as a browser and let me choose it as my default browser
(turns out it's actually quite simple: open up cmd.exe and type the full path to the executable and append -setDefaultBrowser (and then press enter of course))
(it seems to also produce a shortcut on the desktop for some reason)
i also tried out some other browsers in the course of choosing these two
also did some gaming and anime watching, though not as much gaming lately, more anime watching
OTOH Bowser was very funny.
A major insurance company is pulling out of Florida.
Stuff like this ain't good.
For what it's worth, even besides the very controversial policies of the current state government, housing affordability is itself a serious problem, at least where I live.
what the fuck
also, it's somehow worse than i imagined it'd be
i will keep this in mind if i find myself stranded in poland
this is a thing
This is the sort of thing where the hype around the law is way bigger than it should be (I'd detail the case but it's dumb) because there's no way it's happening anyways but it still made people mad enough to show up.
It also made me mad enough to remember why I'm not the biggest fan of Christians (and/or Christianity) in the first place. I earnestly thought "If I have to unleash transgenderism on your children* I will do so because I might as well be selfish".
*I wanted to link to an article that details this slippery slope but Google is heavily, heavily stacked in favor of same-sex marriage so I'll find one later.
Funny thing is that I used to use the slippery slope argument against same-sex marriage. Well, I did that in debate events partly because everyone else was arguing in favor of it and arguing against it gave me a guaranteed speaking slot lol.
Later though, after actually growing up, I started considering the counterarguments and realized I couldn't make an argument in favor of restricting marriage to heterosexual couples without being circular. Every procreation-based argument I tried needed to address various exception cases. And as for the slippery slope, I thought of polygamy, but I couldn't make a satisfactory argument against it if all the participants were consenting adults, and it's not like custody issues and such are avoided in heterosexual partnerships (quite the opposite, to the chagrin of humanity). And I think I even used bestiality as part of the slippery-slope argument, but that's easily counterargued by the issue of consent.
And on top of that, even in the absence of all these counterarguments, there's the fact that any changes to the law are considered one by one, with a new discussion happening every time.
Oh I remember.
Well I did find this when looking for proper slippery slope arguments.
This article is super modern Christian "well, we aren't saying x, y or z".
Anyways, most of the time I find that the "The slippery slope was right!" arguments just kind of look at lots of not actually logically linked events, they just claim they were right because they said x in 2005 and actually something not x has happened but it's vaguely similar right?
I wonder if Marvel is starting to be seen as more a preteen-to-adult thing rather than appropriate for kids. I don't even know if a kid-focused Marvel cartoon or whatever has even come out in a while.
Ah wait, I forgot about Spidey and His Amazing Friends, that new CG snow.
*With Rainbow High slowly catching up and L.O.L. sort of happening and then not. I think in the long-term, if they can figure out how to mass-produce Rainbow High art without depending on Michael Brendan [whatever] all the time or just use the dolls in licensing stuff rather than relying on CG stills from the webtoon* then Rainbow High could become a thing.
**Misusing this word because it's convenient.
Hopefully I can now do a bunch of stuff I previously couldn't, but just by not hanging randomly it's huge progress over my previous ~12 year old machine.
TIL: The more you know.
In other news, I had a little talk about travel to the USA today, and now I have a reply to Glenn's old post:
impression of the US as a child:
* freeduhm
* cowboys and Indians
* they have lockers in schools
* [outdated term] are so cool and talk jive
* hamburger as diet staple, awesome
* Ronald Reagan is a pretty cool guy, eh fights commies and doesnt afraid of anything
impression of the US as an adult:
* cowboys actually don't spend all their time gunfighting, also Brokeback Mountain
* Indians actually don't live in teepees all the time
* they have shootings in schools
* you don't call jive talking people that way, also, shootings by cops
* basically, every other kind of shootings
* hamburger as diet staple actually not awesome
* I don't know if Reagan messed up the place or if it always has been (insert astronaut meme)
I don't think I had impressions of Poland as a child. The earliest memories I have of it is it being what polonium is named after and being where Marie Curie is from, later it became the anti-commie place, then the anti-Nazi place, then the cryptography place, then (IJBM comes in) the meme place, then the Catholic place, then right-wing populism place.
As for the US... uhh... I don't think it's changed much, or at least less of a childhood vs. adulhood thing and more of a gradual change in awareness. Though there's definitely the thing with guns everywhere and its associated gun culture.
Also, I don't think burgers have the "archetypical US food" status over here and are instead just plain normal food. I think pies fit more into that category.
(Although I must admit you guys have to share that stereotype with the Colombians and accept the fact Brazil got the dibs on the colloquial name.)
As for the language/way of speaking, I've heard it referred to as "Ebonics" or "AAVE". While I had a hunch this is what kid!you meant, I had to actually look up "jive" to confirm it. Wiktionary does also confirm that the term is often considered derogatory, which is probably why I don't hear it anymore.
Anyhows, I got a case!:
I bought it for $30, I'd say it's cheap but it does have drawbacks, it's super old so it has no front-facing USB ports (though it seems it does have slots for top-facing USB slots), the included fans are tiny and it has bad airflow (I'm not sure how the front intake works). That thing at the top is some kind of controller for fan speed and display for temperature, though I don't know yet how to set it up.
Other than that, it has an Intel i5 13500, Gigabyte B760 DS3H AC, G.Skill 2x16 GB Ripjaws* V 3200 GH DDR4 and the NVidia GTX 1070 that I already had. It's powered by a 600W BitPhoenix PSU, which won't be enough if I ever get around to using multiple graphics cards, but ehh, that won't be soon, plus it was cheap/new.
It runs Mountain of Faith on 60 FPS, but more importantly it looks like it'll be useful for 3D and AI work.
* Can't say I'm fond of the trend of PC parts with angry names.
So, that's what passes for memetically everyone's childhood game out there? The biggest names here are Gothic (1 and 2), Heroes of Might and Magic 3, and I think I can add Age of Empires (1 and 2) and Baldur's Gate (also 1 and 2). For a rather arbitrary value of "childhood", but whatevs.
...yeah, it's a bit Airplane!, and a bit TVTropes speak.
As for them talking the talk and stuff, I kind of grew up watching a lot of movies involving a fast-talking streetwise Black guy from the ghetto who acted as if it was a comedy even when it wasn't. You know, the kind Eddie Murphy was the king of in his prime. I don't know if it was some weird fad of American cinema, some kind of type casting that Black fellas only recently got out of, or anything else.
I'm not brave enough for watercooling, I wouldn't be comfortable knowing that stuff that cost me dozens of dollars is close to liquids that could damage it. Liquids may not be as mystical as electricity but fluid mechanics classes taught me I shouldn't underestimate them.
Edit: Also I've unironically looked into underclocking my stuff.
I had to drill four holes into the wall. I had this drill set, it said "universal", I'm drilling and drilling and hardly a thing comes out of it and it's still not the worst time I had drilling, I'm like, are all the walls in this house load-bearing or whatever, but finally I do it. Then I try to screw in the thing I needed the holes for and it turns out I took my measures wrong. Second take. New places for holes now carefully measured, I take a look at the drill set and there it is on the back of the box, "metal".
I have a separate set of masonry drills, but these f@#kers said "universal", so I figured they would do. My guess is they meant "universal" as "it will fit your machine". I took the masonry drill to the wall and it went in like into butter.
Well f@#k me sideways. My grilling license is hereby revoked.