I would just play the witchy card, true names have power. Plus im onto that fey crap, you may not have my name, you can call me John. Now would you mind holding this iron horseshoe?

And no your not wrong, refusing to feed the infromation economy is the first steps to freeing yourself from it. It is effort, the modern world has too many traps, but you can do it.

The classic weekend/party safety brief

• Do NOT add to the population.
• Do NOT subtract from the population.
• Do NOT end up in the newspaper, hospital or jail.
• • If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.

We have a few addendums in my circles.

• A man should be in the newspaper three times, when he is born, when he is wed, and when he dies. (Ron Swanson)

• Never do anything you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

(Addressed to my college age relatives, I would always pick them up, the folks dont need to know, you do have to tell the guy scraping your sorry ass off the pavement what you broke)

So… France protests the same way Eagles fans lose. Noted.

/s

Honestly, not a bad call.

They are cheap (loss leaders if you got a costco card) and they will feed a family for a night. Remainder of the carcass can be made into stock and that will make you way more than the asking price of the same liquid from your local grocer. Fresh home-made stock will bump up any rice or noodle soup you want. Plus, what you dont use quickly can be frozen into soup cubes.

Its easy to cook (if not a bit time consuming) to get $30 worth of stuff from a small $10 bird.

I would personally argue that turkey is a better poultry, but the american thanksgiving roast is the worst way to cook most parts of the bird.

Exactly this. If you hear people talking about investments around the Thanksgiving table, its time to bail. All the smart people got in months ago and have left, they are just looking for bag holders now.

I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

No

MAN!!!

As the old saying goes. A plane crash returning from a furry convention would put the software and cybersecurity industries back decades.

Correct, but a few additions.

They already have your credit card on record for repeat purchases (if you pay digitally, they know who you are), thats not the data those apps are after. They are just as bad as tiktoc and reddit when it comes to tracking phone activity and asking for every permission that isnt nailed down. Your phone activity data is worth more to data brokers than a free sandwich every tuesday.

Dito, been hosting a small service for friends and family for a few years as well. We federate with a smaller group of people cosplaying as sysadmins. Set-up was a bit of effort, we opted to not set up the relay server for voice/video, but thats just because we are lazy. As with above, feel free to reach out if yall need assistance.

o7

How do you do fello space nerd.

The getting people to use it.

Took me months after issueing my friends and family accounts for most of them to get the concept and install something to log into (I still get complaints about Element, and thats one of the nicer ones).

For mobile apps, if its not seamlessly integrated into their existing accounts or they have to remember a new password, you might as well have given them a bag of spiders.

Also (back in the day) you needed to be for the “Recrutment Drive” quest.

One of the mini-bosses pulled the “No man can defeat me” card so you had to show up to the challange as a chick and slap the shit out of the knight. Sir. Tiffy Cashin would give you a coupon to the make-up witch (It just opened the character creator pane) so you could change things back if you wanted to.

Hike the AT, I would just pack up and go. Try to make it to Maine before it hits us.

I want tricorns to come back in style

I just think they are neat.

Its part of the “Pentagon Pizza Index” Link (and yes I know they are sponsored by the “gamble on everything” companies these days)

Its an unusual OSINT tool where you monitor the nearest pizza places near important buildings. If a cartoonishly large amount of pizza is getting delivered to the pentagon, that indicates that teams are pulling all-nighters. This also applies to companies like Valve and Microsoft that have know large known central offices.

Monitoring the local bar scene has similar value, if the number of people there is different past historical data then its safe to assume something is going on.

There was an immense effort to rectify the issue, same with the ozone crisis. Cant say the same for current issues, most news has to both-sides everything and there are much more (or atleast more prominent) contrarians like the anti-vaxers. Never again will we see a unified front against a global issue because someone will always benifit personally if failure is on the table.

They were shouting it at king arthur (the taunters clearly knew who he was, he was introduced as such), I think his parents could afford the costs to get what ever shipments they wanted, be them from France… Or [shudders for comedic effect] Scottland.

You are correct in that people used what they had, and that is entierly the joke. Wine made from elderberries was much more common up north where imports were not something people had… Unless they were of nobility.

Ni!

The Monty Python French taunters classic is a scathing insult and noone gets it. Break down the line:

“Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries”

Firstly, they are calling your mother a fast-breeding rodent, ergo, your mother is a whore, that one is simple. Second, why would your father smell of elderberries? What was it used for at the time? Wine, but better wine would be made from grapes from France or southern England, implying your father was was not just a drunk, but a cheap drunk.

Its one of the most insulting lines ever uttered on film and it has so many layers, which is why that movie is hillarious.