realbadat

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[–] realbadat 6 points 6 months ago

Pretty quick.

My kids are currently 5 and 2 had my vasectomy about 6 months after the second (wanted sooner but no appointments available, and it's first consult then another appointment).

Toughest thing for me was the second day. Day of I was given Valium, procedure was easy peasy. I'd call it a few days of discomfort, just plan to take it easy.

[–] realbadat 11 points 6 months ago

That really depends on the candidate.

And it depends on the main candidates as well. What we have now is "strong" words against genocide while continuing, or fascist genocide. The third party candidate (RFKJr) is an anti-vax, conspiracy theorist, covid-19 denying, whacko with name recognition for a while host of democrats, and was one until. He's a spoiler candidate. Voting 3rd party in this election is, imo, dangerous.

[–] realbadat 19 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Then you should know that to move things left, you need to vote more local progressives.

People don't start out going for the presidency (and they shouldn't, as the obvious recent mistake of a president shows).

Slowing down fascism provides opportunity for progressive politicians to make moves in the right direction, and take positions that are higher up the ladder.

Allowing a nose dive to fascism prevents the progressive folks from having an opportunity.

In short - yes, slowing it down is good enough at the presidential level.

[–] realbadat 4 points 6 months ago

As I see it...

DC Comics is better at large scale world building, Marvel better at the single character story.

Marvel movies have been better for large scale world building, and DC just hasnt been great with their movies. And marvel has been going downhill.

Still enjoy them all though!

[–] realbadat 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm curious what you're running into with Debian that would make you say it's not reliable...

I have Debian installs that have been continuously running for years (sans long power outages and such).

[–] realbadat 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep... It's permanently where it's at at purchase.

Which is fine, I don't store anything on there (Jenkins automations to build, local git repo on another machine, output goes to NAS), but it's ridiculous how much the upgrades cost.

If I didn't need a build target for iOS I wouldn't have bothered with it, that's for sure.

[–] realbadat 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Or a mini.

I have an M2 mini I use for iOS builds, cheap enough for me to buy and stick in the rack to use for remote builds. I got that a year ago for $600ish iirc.

[–] realbadat 8 points 6 months ago

Start lower down.

Just "not voting" is seen as apathy, disinterest. You're a voter who isn't going to bother to go vote, so why chase you? Instead, they can try and win over more of the active voters, which just means shifting right.

So you start lower on the totem pole. Presidents are (recent obvious mistakes from 2016 aside) going to be people who have been local, county, and state representatives. They matter a lot too, and it's easier to get candidates who are more oriented to your ideals.

Expecting change by effectively doing nothing... Well that's not an idea I can get behind. I'm not looking forward to a civil war, I'm not looking forward to project 2025, so I'm going to vote to prevent that.

I'm also voting for the most left leaning people on the ballot all the way from the bottom up. There are a few progressives who made it through the primary locally for me, and they are getting my vote - they have a good chance of success too, which is great.

What I'm not going to do is stick my head in the sand and say "But that's not good enough, I'll just be over here" - because it won't get good enough until it's clear they will get the votes to succeed, and with certain people in office, the opportunity for those folks to even make it into local offices will disappear.

[–] realbadat 7 points 6 months ago

You may be surprised to know, not only does he know where but he makes some too! In fact, he made some with Muñequita Enfadada and it can be found on xnxx!

(I couldn't resist)

[–] realbadat 3 points 6 months ago

I'm on a plan that predates the plans being effected by the price increase.

My price has been the same for years. That said, the plan I'm on was also because of an issue way, way, way back (like a decade ago), and actually being responded to by someone in the c suite after making a comment on the ordeal, who then handed me off to exec customer service to get my issue addressed.

I doubt anyone is getting that sort of response and result today, but I personally have no reason to change providers - Verizon and AT&T would be just as bad, if not worse. Verizon even tried to charge me for devices I had paid in full (and I was out of contract timing) when I switched to T-Mobile.

[–] realbadat 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nice edit.

As I said, we are done.

[–] realbadat -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

For one thing, that isn't what I said, is it?

Second, I'm not explaining why a brutal rape is awful. We are done.

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