solitaire

Out of necessity, I have been on various social media groups and the like for my city lately. It has not been good for my blood pressure.

First you've got the motorists who are screaming about ever having to slow down for anyone. This mindset drives me insane, at worst they're going to be a few minutes late. What's the big deal? Chill out, slow down and enjoy the cruise for a moment. They all rage against cyclists and pedestrians - the common talking point being "we pay for the roads through taxes on car use". Except they don't, taxes related to driving do not even come close to covering the costs where I'm from. You are being subsidized by non-drivers you entitled leaches.

Then we've got the landlords. I don't really get upset on the principle of rent-seeking like you guys do. Society isn't just and I've got a high tolerance for the morally dubious things we do for money in it. But listening to these people makes me scream. These parasites love bragging about pointless cruelty. I close my browser every time thinking Mao was too kind to landlords and shouldn't have stopped at China.

I'm politically apathetic, but if I stare too long into this abyss even I could be radicalized into the unabomber.

Going with the just de-age interpretation and not time travel, it has to be late enough I could still pass for an adult but I'd want it before any of my chronic health conditions emerge so I can mitigate them. I don't want to look younger, I just want the health benefits.

I can't go back to being a kid because where the hell would new identity documents come from? I still have to be able to live my current life more or less. I suppose 35 is the absolute minimum for me to take it, at 15 I wasn't getting carded buying alcohol. I reckon at that age with the right presentation I could pass for 20 at least, and a 35 year old seeming that young isn't completely unheard of.

I can't go too much older because issues start compounding in my 20s. I'd love to have picked a post development age - aside from my health, I didn't really get comfortable in my own skin until then - but it'd be too late. Maybe 40 so the worst of puberty is over, but that's probably my limit.

I truly cannot think of a less appealing pitch than "Pokemon with guns". You've just made the original premise worse.

Nah, mouse isn't used for switching windows.

Yeah, great for lobbies like that. Can't think of a more effective, quick to type thing you could dump in chat.

I've deployed it in real life too and watched a bunch of awkward 20-somethings go from nothing but occasional stressed sniping at each other to making "ooo ooo aaa aaa" noises while throwing themselves back into the job at hand. Truly a sight to behold.

Most of my use has been in games though, where I've accidentally become team parent to far too many groups and had to get a bunch of maladjusted shut ins back in the right mind set before a tournament or whatever.

I'm by no means suggesting you shouldn't take steps to protect your privacy. However, part of the reason privacy advocates struggle to connect with a wider audience are terrible false equivalences like these.

Like you wouldn’t strip naked just because you have nothing to hide.

This example fails because people do have something they want to hide, their naked bodies, and the violation is far more severe than the typical data we're trying to protect online.

If you throw this around then start talking about metadata or whatever, even people who might have been open to the idea will ignore you.

Sort of off topic, but "apes together strong" has been hilariously useful to me over the years. The number of gamer brained "lone wolves" I've had to get onboard and working together is bizarrely high. Apes together strong always hits. Instant enthusiasm and team cohesion as they make fucking monkey noises together and start to roll with any set backs they have instead of squabbling amongst each other.

I use one of the extra arms to hit the enter key at work. This brings me much joy.

Seriously, one of my biggest frustrations is the tiny inefficiency caused by needing to use a mouse and keyboard at the same time. I can navigate most of it with just the left hand side of the keyboard except for hitting enter at the end of forms. Moving my hand off my mouse or from the left hand side of the keyboard to the right in this rapid, heavily repeated process is uncomfortable.

Now I've written all that I've realised I should just bind it to something on the left hand side of the keyboard or the mouse though. Oh well, I'll put it on the to do for Monday lmao

Also being able to type with both hands, hold the old school corded phones we still have, and use the mouse or write with a pen at the same time would rule.

The question has already been answered so here is a semi-related anecdote.

I watched The Grand Tour episode where they took boats from Cambodia to Vietnam not too long ago. It's an extremely deranged bit of television. Along the way, Clarkson stops to talk sincerely about "history". He bounces between teary-eyed valorisation of Americans during the war and passionate condemnations of Pol Pot. The juxtaposition implies the Americans were against Pol Pot and that the Vietnamese supported him, completely the opposite of reality.

Not much these days at all. I'm not sure if less stuff is just coming out, or I'm interested in less of the stuff that's coming out, but the last six months or so has been pretty dire. Looking at my tracker the last episode of a new show I watched was the finale of Archer in mid-December. I don't even particularly like Archer. It used to be I'd basically track what day of the week it was by what show just dropped an episode.

I've been using a Logitech G Pro Wireless for years now and I love it. Zero issues, lightweight, wireless, battery lasts forever and worst case it just becomes a wired mouse for again for a little bit.

Ahsoka was a meh for me. I didn't hate it, but all the live action stuff of her has been really disappointing. Becoming a Jedi again just feels like wasted potential and cheapens the most interesting thing she ever did.