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I am fortunate to have moved to a climate where the heat is less severe and when it is hot it tends to be dry-ish. My house does not have AC so we put a big exhaust fan on the top floor and crack a window downstairs. Works so far, but we have some small portable AC units for the bedrooms just in case we need them.

Same. Raw spinach salad for days, but cook or can it and it immediately becomes one of my most hated foods.

Carrots are not as bad but I don’t care for them cooked, especially when raw carrots are so tasty.

An Atari 800XL. Custom OS loaded into a BASIC interpreter at startup unless you put a bootable floppy in the external 5.25" drive. We would load up DOS on the external drive and then boot whatever games my dad had pirated from his buddies. Played bootleg Ultima IV, Castle Wolfenstein (the original original one, not the 3D one) and a bunch of others. We had two cartridges (Pengo and Galaxian), but we also had 100s of games in a big shoe box of floppies.

I also learned BASIC on it at a pretty young age, which helped push me into technology as a career path, though I had to unlearn a lot of that when I got to high school and took real programming courses.

Me: I have been using Linux professionally for 20 years, I can edit fstab.

Also Me five minutes later: I am glad I have live boot stick handy.

Middle School (Mississippi): Basically all lies: having sex with a condom will give you AIDS, abortions are evil and most women who get them die of cancer or suicide. Even 6th grade me knew that shit was fucking wrong, but I was already on thin ice in that school for fucking up the curve, thank Homosexual Jesus that I was only there half a year.

Junior High (New Jersey): Skip ahead to 9th grade. Sex-Ed was taught by a terrified gym teacher who was just adorable. This was pretty comprehensive, lots of biology and factual information. It was the early 90s so a big part of it was teaching how to avoid getting HIV, teaching both abstinence and condoms. Some mention of same-sex relationships, but when asked about the risk of HIV transmission from lesbian sex he blanched and said he didn’t know. No real fault here given the time period. They also taught various forms of birth control and other STIs. There was an undercurrent of promoting abstinence but also some pragmatic realism. In retrospect it could have been better, but compared to most of the country it was very good.

At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

Actual escalation I got:

contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

me: show me what you are doing.

contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

My network guy yesterday: "I took down one of your gateways after fat-fingering a change that assigned it’s IP to another device "

Me: “Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Nobody complained. I’ll just resolve the alarms.”

Great Wolf Sif because I can’t bring myself to kill a loyal pupper who is trying to save me.

Probably wrapping and cooking our food in volatile plastics.

Old Sharlayan from FFXIV.

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I am moving to a blue state as soon as possible. Work already lined up, working on housing and arrangements for my animals. It’s not safe here.

It’s the sound of snow squeak-crunching under my feet for me. I shudder every time it happens.

Great Wolf Sif…

And now I’m crying, I hope you’re happy.

Main-lining high grade depression. It’s my go-to threat when someone tells me they think anime is ‘too silly’ to watch.

I really, really dislike social situations that don’t have formal structure to them. Professionally I can talk to strangers no problem, because roles and expectations are set, similarly I can go to a tabletop gaming convention and play games with people and it’s fine.

I struggle in situations where the rules are more nebulous, but I still manage it. It just takes practice. I definitely lean on my husband for that type of thing when I can though.

I’ve been using Garuda and I quite like it with the KDE Plasma 6 DE.

A couple of my ferals are friendly like this and I get them flea prevention when they climb in my lap.

I live in a major city

• To the nearest convenience store: 500m
• To the nearest chain supermarket: 2.7km
• To the bus stop: 400m
• To the nearest park: 1.4km
• To the nearest big supermarket: 2.7km (same one as above)
• To the nearest library: 3km
• To the nearest train station (light rail): 5.6km

Yeah, I’ve read the whisker fatigue thing, I’ve read that it’s probably not true also, but my cat bowls are wide anyway. The cat is just nuts. Like in general. Like she may actually have mental illness. The colony I got her from has produced a lot of cats with congenital issues. I have one with a vsd and another with testicular agenesis (which is apparently extremely rare).