Dharma Curious (he/him) @ dharmacurious @slrpnk.net

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In addition to this excellent point, during the outage I saw several people asking which server to switch to from .ee, and the replies made me realize how much I love it here. My fellow Slrpnkians didn't get all bent out of shape and pissed about things the admin just simply couldn't control at the time. From what I saw (maybe it's different in private messages/behind the scenes, iunno) any people talking about the skrpnk outage from their alts were all being very reasonable, understanding, and just being generally decent netizens. I love it around here.

I am in no way techy, but from what I gather because the posts are federated they are also stored on the other instances as well, so posts are still visible. In the post announcing the shuttering of .ee they specifically mentioned adding a note on your profile to link to your new profile, so people can find your new profile after that shut down. That implies to me that everything not intentionally scrubbed remains open/visible long after the shut down of the original source.

Again, though, not techy, so I may be vocalizing from my posterior

The joke was that I wanted my brother in law to peg me.

That was the joke, yep

Dogma, keep Alan Rickman

The other night at the bar my brother in law heard me order a long island and says "I'd have pegged you for a mojito or something" and I go, without a skipping a beat, to the bartender "get this man a mojito STAT!"

brother in law turned red as a beet

I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other. But I do have a fun story!

When my mom was pregnant with my older brother, they had a phone repair guy at the house. She was going through a book of baby names and trying to pick one, while her husband was yelling from the other room that his name would be the same as his (we'll go with John for the example and privacy).

Husband: (yelling) his name will be John, same as me!

Mama: no! I will not do that! He'd be a junior, I'm not naming my son Junior like some redneck!

Husband: it's not a redneck name! You don't have to call him junior, call him john!

Mama: no, it's trashy! It's a white trash name and I'm not doing it! I want him to be able to read, not learn how to make moonshine out of an old radiator!*

*That one's an actual direct quote

Phone repair guy: turns around I need something from the truck.

Mama looks up and notices his name tag. Junior.

Dude left, got in his truck, and drove away. Sent someone else out the next day to fix the phone

Which one?

This is literally how my mom met her first husband

Full disclosure: haven't read the linked article yet.

My biggest gripe with the anti-metric folk is when they say it's too expensive, because we'd have to change all of our signage. That's bullshit. We replace our signs constantly already. Just set a date for the change, start teaching folks the system, and then on that date going forward any sign that needs to be swapped out anyway gets a new metric equivalent. We work with both systems, clearly marked, in the interim. This would be an excellent time to also switch to the vienna conventions on road signage and bring us more in like with much of the world. Set the date far enough out that anyone with a driver's license will have to renew before final metrication, and just have us all do a quick refresher on the new signage and speed limits and such before our renewal. Fairly low cost, as things only get swapped when they would get swapped normally.

FBI? Yep. This one right here!

Papercut enema is so fucking horrible. I genuinely regret reading that. My ass puckered so hard I could hear it snap shut

We're in the south. Near Beaufort/Hilton Head, SC

Chonk looks so much like your puppy, I wonder if they're related someone down the line

Don't forget BFE. The sticks are almost always right about halfway between BFE and YouGottaPurdyMouth

She looks SO much like the dog my brother found/adopted last year, named Chonk!

That's nothin', can't beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!

Absolutely

The content of this is weird AF (I get what it's referencing), but I'd like to see more bardcore comics

Blaine the train rides again