Captain Aggravated

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Yes.

I’d bitch to the county commissioners about that.

One thing about the town I’m in, they do a fairly good job of keeping the services running, and most of the normal stuff is fairly easy to find on the town’s website. Stuff like “Who do I talk to about installing a detached garage on my property” is an act of open heart dentistry…

Okay and on the topic of garbage I will bitch about one thing: they posted a map of the town with some teal area and some purple area, and it said “Teal is Schedule A, Purple is Schedule B.” And then didn’t say what that meant. I’m sure it was discussed verbally in the meeting that map was presented in.

It is a good reason not to post your callsign on the internet. I am an amateur radio operator, you will not learn my callsign.

If you have a pilot’s license or own an airplane your name is similarly on a registry of public record.

Effectively yes. You are required to identify your station by callsign every 10 minutes on the air, and your callsign is a matter of public record. It’s how the likes of the ARRL suddenly knows how to mail you shit when you get your license. The only encrypted transmission on the amateur bands that’s legal is control signals for satellites.

When I finished my first run of Subnautica, something definitely came over me. I ran around in my base cleaning up, I organized all my spare food and water in a cabinet “for the next person stranded here,” I released the fish in my alien containment, said farewell to my cuddlefish, parked my Seamoth in the moon pool, turned the lights out in the Cyclops, the whole bit. An amazing adventure was at an end.

I’m referring to a phenomenon of the late Bronze age in which poorly identified people came from the sea to attack the likes of ancient Egypt. Writings of the time do not identify who they were, where they came from, exactly what their mission was, but basically bronze age civilization was coming apart and these folks decided to be on the side of entropy.

At this point I build my desktops and I’ll buy Framework laptops.

The ONLY game that I’m capable of being pissed about on the Nintendo eShop is Night Trap. Because the President of Nintendo of America testified before congress that Night Trap would never be available for play on Nintendo hardware. I am physically unable to forgive the sheer amount of lying that happened that day.

I am going to trot out the perhaps tired old question of why we’re less squeamish of teenagers or children playing violence-based games than we are sex-based games, why we’re more comfortable with a 15 year old boy thinking about bullets going into heads than penises going into vaginas. But. Society has failed, answers are noise, nothing matters. Bring on the sea people.

Faulty and even dangerous use of the phrase “supposed to.” It implies a pressure to conform to some standard of etiquette or game rule. “You’re supposed to keep your elbows off the table.” “You’re supposed to wait for the umpire to say ‘play ball’ before you pitch.”

If I were teaching a shop class, and I were to hear one of my students say “you’re supposed to use a push stick when doing thin rips on a table saw,” I would say corrective action is necessary. While yes, using a push stick while performing thin rips is good practice, use of the phrase “supposed to” implies an attitude that it is the shop teacher’s pet peeve, and that the student will be free of that pointless ritual once out on the job.

You use a push stick because a table saw is a device designed to tear the bodies of living things apart, and rapidly. If you touch the blade, your body will be torn apart, and rapidly. While performing a thin rip with your bare hands, your hands will pass very close to the blade, anything goes wrong, a kickback or similar calamity will hurt you in ways a doctor can’t fix. Push sticks are PPE, we use them so we don’t get injured, not because “it’s the rules.”

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There really are good people out there

There are enough lies on the internet, no need to add more.

What are you?

It’s 100% certain not to work on me because I don’t have any accounts on Meta’s platforms.

I was a pilot one or two careers ago, so I’m going to put it this way:

Feelings are liabilities, not assets. You launch an Airbus out of Newark and a few hundred feet up you hit more geese than your engines can take leaving you out of thrust, low on altitude and low on options, the emotional decision is to curl up on the floor and snot cry because you’re now in more danger than nature designed you to handle.

On occasion you’ll find cases where pilots do lock up like that. The kindest thing anyone will ever say about those pilots is “The primary cause of the accident was pilot error.”

Now listen to how they talk about Captain Sully. “He’s so calm. There’s no emotion in his voice, he just started working the problem.” Stopping to identify exactly which crayola crayon color exactly matched his emotional state in that moment wasn’t going to lengthen any lives; starting the APU and configuring the airplane for best glide did though. You stay in your feelings, you start doing stupid irrational things, you’re gonna die for sure. You push all of that down to your ass where it can be safely clenched out of the way and you THINK.

Having feelings is how you fuck up when your decisions matter the most. Getting rid of them is the useful skill, not giving each one a Baskin Robbins 31 flavors marketing name.

Also, have you seen any of the official government websites? They’re buttgarbage. Go renew an amateur radio license online and tell me if anyone would intentionally install software designed like that on their devices.

Yes. It does.

What’s the business model here? I’ve organically arrived at the South Park meme.

1. Build ad-supported content silos.
2. Openly flood those silos with AI slop
3. ???
4. Profit

I take it you didn’t read and process the rest of my comment?