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  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneR Rule
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    2 months ago

    Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

    We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

    I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an “L” in there in the worst places. (Between the ‘b’ and the ‘a’ - don’t google it)

    It triggered my school’s search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

    The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

    It sucked.




  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 months ago

    In those situations, that is the best class sizes for electricity tomfoolery, sprinkled heavily with bravely, and a side of youth assumed immortality.

    It is also a good class size to swiftly move bodies, of things get too bad.

    I had a similar sized class when I apprenticed as an electrical worker via “future farmers if America” funding.

    I learned so many good ways to fix things correctly, and three times that number in “bad” ways to fix things.

    Guerrilla learning method with pratical daily needed subjects is SORELY missed now-a-days.


  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 months ago

    I made one of these when I was young, poor, homeless, and imminently dying due to being swiftly being frozen to death (with bone tumors coming in second place in the death race). I was able to get an abandoned metal shead with a small heater working quickly in a sudden ice storm using on hand parts and a pirated “outside” power line.

    Outside of a significant situation like that… it’s not a good idea











  • It’s rare, but every time it’s incredibly unpleasant. It’s expecting to bite into a nice soft food, but instead chomping on a piece of metal, praying that you didn’t just break a tooth.

    It happened to me a few times one year when I started getting neurological disorder. It stopped once I started paying attention to what I eat, cherishing every bite.






  • I’d rather remain comfortable not buying games from Ubisoft and EA.

    I refuse to waste a single dollar on every game from both companies, since we were all bent over and continue to get bent over because they just don’t care about anything but making more money.

    A good example from Ubisoft is the handling of the Driver series. They kept on releasing the games in the series in a near unplayable state before when most people had dial up.

    A good example with EA was the failed DRM with Spore. They only let you install the game 3 times, which glitched out to the point where people had to turn to piracy (warez and crackz) to play a game they paid for.

    We vote with every dollar spent, which gives me hope when people rally around good companies that do the right thing.