Agreed.

I have met good people who are Christian. They usually don't cowl all their behavior behind god.

There you're friends dad, who barely knows you, who helps you get your car running so his kid and friends can make it to a metal show. He didn't like metal, but he kept it to himself other than saying it wasn't his genre, which is a fair statement.

Why did he devote an afternoon and a couple trips to auto zone? Because all in all we were good kids. He wanted us to have fun, but to arrive (and ultimately) come home safe.

Just the Bible, since it was at a church.

Condones rape and slavery among other glaring issues with it.

As-yet-to-be-found*

The conditions aren't the exact same, and they don't have to be.

The average US citizen is weary. Of war ( or whatever they want to call 20 years in the middle east), of politics, and getting the shit end of the deal since the boomers refuse to retire or die. Now they're barely animate corpses are still tottering around the capital, completely out if touch with what the average citizen goes through, and more to the point, very few care as long as they retain power.

As a person who sleeps through alarms and is approaching middle age…

It is a problem.

I wish I had some advice, but I am accepting advice lol.

Never thought I'd miss HW, but man the GOP has been actively trying to be as deplorable as possible.

My first thought was Grand Prismatic, just after dawn.

Cool enough that the thermal features create a fog over the water, and more importantly, all the tourists (I was a hotel employee in the park) were still in bed. Had the boardwalk area all to myself.

I think I just sat in contemplation for half an hour, which if you knew me would say is impossible. Very peaceful.

I found a script for bypassing captive portals on Linux back in the day…

The full functionality of how it works escapes me at the moment, but essentially it searches the network for a host that possibly already connected through the captive portal and spoofs their MAC address.

This isn't the one I originally found, but its the same principal and a Kali tool, so it may be considered more secure than the original bash script I copied back in the day:

https://en.kali.tools/?p=724

To reference Frank Reynolds, a bang 'em and bin 'em place would be too good for him.

If only there were a place where we could house dangerous, mentally unstable people from the populous.

Of course, for me to have any thought on imprisoning people, I must first recognize the multitude of judicial and correctional atrocities that happen seemingly daily all over the country.

Worked, briefly, in my youth for a shitty repair shop.

The owner would personally "help" any passable looking lady just to copy the drive and look for nudes. Or he was very gleeful to find video.

This is the same guy who "offices" out if a strip club.

I was too young and dumb to do anything but quit, and that was due to him not paying me more than any moral outrage. Can't eat moral outrage, however justified.

I went from hourly call center to on call 24/7 and being the only point of contact.

When my phone notifies me, just any notification, I panic. The phone rings, I panic. Its been over a year since I left.

Yes, its part and parcel to other issues of mental health, but… Man, do you know how often you get notifications? I've turned most off and still some days I'm ready to smash my phone so it will shut up and I can breathe normally.

Worked in a shady little PC repair shop.

If the owner was in one of the stores, he would "personally oversee" shall we say data retention? If the customer was a young (legal, as in not CP, but creepy age difference) woman.

Yeah, he backed up their data and looked for nudes. I was too young to know how to handle it, so when he said he couldn't pay me (even after it was due) I told him to fuck off.

I hope he fucked one of the day time strippers he spent most of his "office time" (the office being a strip club) with and wound up with an incurable STD.

I hope his wife found out. I hope she took him for everything.

Google is an ad agency built on a search engines corpse they continue to defile.

Thats wtf.

I was witness to what burnt piss does on a hot muffler.

It stinks, for miles. And months.

I'd love to have this to a form letter, and just spend a small chunk of money disrupting lives.

I try not to be chaotic, and just be neutral good, but… Some pranks require too much resistance.

Of course my friends at the table questioned if the bipolar epileptic could play a Malkavian. Hah!

I came to, apparently, agree with you. My exact thought.

This is clearly a trick to get into power, and we all know Republicans love power before anything else. Morals, the children, the budget, actual constitutionally protected rights, etc.

My mother, as she grows older, is thinking about her passing and planning for it. Nothings wrong, she's just a planner.

She is looking into donating her corpse to science.

Med students need cadavers to practice on, grisly, but better than being a human guinea pig for some Doc's first attempt at surgical intervention.

Or, there was a story that made rounds about a guys mother whose body was used in testing explosives by the military. If I get a choice I want that option, since apparently funeral pyres are illegal these days.

When in worked in Yellowstone, it was a culture shock for two reasons

One, people just drink hot water, like tea temps but no tea - thus apparently is an asian (sorry for lack of specifics) and is used along with other eastern medicine practices

Two, if you plug in more than six small appliances (electtric kettle, hair dryer, etc) it will trip the breakers for that floor of the mammoth hot springs hotel.

Less shocking was the English couple who mistranslated directions to their room. The "first floor" would be the second floor for an American, they apparently starting counting at zero, which us great for arrays, not so good for describing a floor as 0 or in English, ground floor.

On a long enough timeline, this solar system and all if its inhabitants, will go dark - unless we survive long enough to propagate the stars.

Of course there are more short term pre-catastrophic events going on currently.