…it’s what he avoids: russian carrots are accompanied by russian sticks and trump’s kompromat runs decades deep, capital-punishment deep at this point…
…his only course of survival is to double-down on whatever his handlers ask of him…
…my wife is mortified when she sees what the beta magic cards we ebayed to make rent go for these days…
…rivendell is a legimate masterpiece…
…these look good!..i still regret having to sell off my playmates starships during the dot-com crash…
take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
they could appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV to make sure they’re still real
it’s the only connection they feel
…that’s the POWER model: the unit posted above is the consumer version with the SX chip, no math coprocessor and fewer function keys…
…we had spoons, they were broken; i text-message my mom a couple times per year on christmas and mother’s day…
…since 2001…
…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…
…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…
edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..
…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…
…i mean, let’s be fair: voyager set the bar so low the franchise nearly fizzled-out in its wake and arguably never recovered…
…in recent years i’ve grown comfortable noting that christians are f*cking evil, but in truth that seems to be the case with organised religion in general…
…religion?..i suppose the evil is really in human nature and religion’s just a convenient tool to muster it…
…add lady jaye cavorting through a dark scottish castle for the trifecta…
…i bought a house in my mid-fourties, so yeah, i guess that’s eventually a thing…
(won’t be able to retire before i drop, though)
…1" ≈ 2 ½ cm, 5’ ≈ 1 ½ m, close-enough to convert in your head…
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