MystikIncarnate

Fuck yeah, I love Kira. What a badass.

🎶 five dollar foot longggg 🎶

I'm happy to hear it.

Honestly, I don't seek death, but given what humans have done to the planet, extinction seems appropriate for us.

I do my best not to add to the problem, but it's difficult to avoid adding to the issue. Throwing things in the trash, at all, is contributing to the problem. All those garbage trucks burning diesel and filling up the ground with our refuse, often leeching toxic chemicals into the ground... I do what I can, but it's basically impossible to avoid.

I'm in Canada, fiber is fairly rare right now. Some big cities are getting it pushed into neighborhoods, and new condos generally only have fiber, but any home or residence that's over 5 years old probably still has CATV/coax and an analog telephone hookup.

So with few exceptions, the majority of Canadians have the option of DSL, usually from Bell, which is still mostly dominating Canada for ownership of the PSTN wireline services (though some provinces are other companies, like Telus on the west coast, and SaskTel... In Saskatchewan). Even if you buy from another DSL ISP, the last mile is still Bell owned connections.

Cable is a bit more diversified from area to area from what I've seen, one of the bigger providers is Rogers. Different areas can be other providers, Cogeco is pretty prevalent in the Niagara region near me; but the story is unchanged. If you go with another ISP for cable service at your residence, the local cable provider is delivering the last mile connection.

In my area, there's a regional fiber provider, we have overhead lines, and I contacted that provider about getting service, and my home is not serviced by them. Interestingly, the addressees across the damn street (where the utility poles are located) are serviced by the local fiber provider.

The local cable ISP, who I ended up getting service from, was able to quite easily run a cable over the road from the utility post to my residence without issue. Why the fiber provider can't, is beyond me.

I'm lucky that there's even active fiber on my street that I could tap into if the company would run it over the road. Many places I've lived have either cable or DSL as the only options.

I know many others are in a similar spot.

A lot of union contracts that I've seen, which admittedly, isn't many, specifically exclude IT workers.

I'm guessing that your dad, and people like him, are no small part of why that is the case.

I'm just going to say that a lot of creative, innovative, or interesting things, regardless if they're physical items, narratives, gameplay mechanics, or even just a new process for handling a particular task, is borne from diversity.

We are different. That difference is a strength. The more different we are, the larger of a gap between how I approach an issue and how you do the same. The Delta between your approach and mine is beautiful. One may be more efficient, one may be easier, one might be less expensive to do.

If we all thought the same, and we were extremely similar in what we knew and how we thought, nothing would ever change. Progress would not be possible.

A great example of this is with the blue LED. Most companies have been able to make blue LEDs for decades. The problem is, they were expensive, and shit. They couldn't brighten up a shoe box.

One guy took a blue LED manufacturing process that everyone else abandoned, and worked with it for the better part of like, 5 years or something. He invented the modern blue LED in all its glory. Bright enough to blind you from across the room, and cheap enough to produce that they ended up in a lot of places they probably shouldn't have been. That experimentation also yielded a near ultraviolet version that with a simply phosphor filter, can be converted to visible light, and white LEDs were born

As a solo player in the early wow era, lfg was a massive pain in my backside. I literally couldn't progress without completing certain dungeons, and I couldn't complete those dungeons unless I grouped up. So I was painfully and perpetually stuck in a never ending loop of LFG.

It's the reason I left.

If you don't have a group to play with, or preferred to play solo, utilizing pick up groups when necessary, the game became an unplayable mess halfway through the level progressions.

They've "fixed" most of this now, but I have a hard time caring about the game now. I went back to it for a short while a few years ago, and while it's easier to nab a group for progression, the onslaught of go-fer quests numbed my brain to any lore that was being spouted by the quest givers, and it became a grind fest.

No sorry, just action.

This makes me think of the song "Wave" by the midnight.

"We are hooking up with strangers we will never see again We are not a sentimental age"

Not fast enough.

I understand your point.

This is also why I don't buy systems with soldered RAM. It's a horrible trend in computer systems that RAM is soldered. It's a lazy way to fix a problem and nobody should buy a system like that.

The industry needs to come up with better solutions.

... Or the specific density of the material inside the can is different.

The old formulation was more dense, so it weighed more at the same volume.

Or the volume (in mL) is the volume of the can, and not the uncompressed volume of the marital inside the can, and they just lowered the pressure of the substance inside the can as shrinkflation.

As someone who worked in an office with relatively low walked cubicles, it's very disruptive to work that requires a level of concentration.