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FrChazzz

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  • Analyst says interest in Epstein files plummeted after war on Iran launched

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  • Among the first things I saw on local news this morning was the story about the released files. It sat right above the post about the US preparing for a "surge" in Iran and I can't help but think that some editor knew what they were doing.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Haven't had any real issues. The only thing that is truly bizarre to me is that the monitor will not render the purple color used on Mastodon (it turns it cobalt blue). I knew that the IdeaPad has a not-so-great monitor, but I added Vibrant Linux and managed to make things look pretty good--except for that damn Mastodon logo lol. I've tried numerous things to get it to render correctly (and what makes it even weirder is that I can compare images on the page to another machine and they look the same, it's just the logos and other text that won't go purple... looks like I'm on Bluesky).

    But I've had no driver issues or anything like that. Only time I've had anything break was due to my own incompetence in adding scripts to things.

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • Fair

  • She nails the Doc's indignant gnarled look and poor attempts at improvisation

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  • His performance in the recent Starfleet Academy episode “The Life of the Stars” is exceptional.

  • She nails the Doc's indignant gnarled look and poor attempts at improvisation

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  • Who am I?

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  • My head-canon is that the Founders met the Progenitors somewhere along the way and hard-coded a kind of “default” solid look into their collective matrix that resembles the Progenitors. The Founders emulate them in a lot of ways (affecting the evolutionary trajectory of life forms like the Jem’hadar and Vorta) and so “honor” their work by trying to look like them when they take on a humanoid form. Given this, Odo looks the way he does because that’s what a solid form Changeling is intended to look like.

    (This is my nerdy way of reconciling that the Progenitor in TNG is played by the same actress as the Female Changeling in DS9 and both have very similar make up effects)

  • Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599

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  • It's pretty. But I recently bought a Lenovo IdeaPad at Costco for less, with 16GB ram and 1TB SDD and am running Linux Mint on it, which I'm getting way more out of than any other Mac I've owned.

    Without a doubt the Mac's screen is better than mine. But I feel like, all things considered, what I have can do more (and probably for longer). I'm happy to see something like this come along and take the wind out of Microslop's sails (and sales). At the same time, I feel like one is able to get far more value out of a less-costly machine. If one were going to switch OSes anyway, why not Linux? I guess they're banking on people already owning iPhones and therefore making this a more seamless transition or whatever...

  • How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

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  • Real June Cleaver "Pardon me, I speak jive" energy coming from this post lol (I mean this as a compliment)

  • Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives

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  • Exactly. People really underestimate the conservative news bubble.

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • [Obi-Wan, staring into the middle distance] Everquest? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time..."

    (Still sad that my old Half-Elf Khrystian was probably left hanging in some area outside of Qeynos)

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • At the front door of the church we would wind up getting married in.

    I was in seminary. It was the start of my second year and in two weeks I would be spending all my Sundays at my assigned parish for "field education." There was another parish that I enjoyed worshiping and a group of my fellow students were going to be there. So I took the Metro in, wound up walking in the wrong direction, after turning around I see this very pretty girl across the way as I waited for the cross-walk signal. I cross and wind up walking behind her.

    I didn't want to come across as a creep, so I gave her some distance. I assumed she was a grad student at the nearby university heading toward her place. But I saw her go for one of the doors to the church, which didn't budge (apparently it was broken). Having been to the church before AND assuming that no cute girl my age would be a parishioner AND the general complexities of being a man prone to explaining things, I said "there's another door over here."

    Stifling her urge to snarkily say "I know" she followed me in. We were both several minutes late. The choir was well into their infamous seven minute rendition of the Gloria. The pew in which my friends were positioned was full. So I was looking around. I happened to catch the girl's eye again and she gestured that I could sit with her. So I did and we awkwardly communicated various things until the end of the service. After the service we made small talk as we moved toward the clergy at the door and the requisite coffee following. Learned that we were both from the same state originally. She learned that I was in seminary (she had also assumed that I was a university student). She was lovely and smart and I was completely smitten. There was an obvious click for both of us.

    And then I left. I said goodbye and that it was lovely to meet her. I did not ask her number. I only knew her first name. I did not want her thinking that I was only at church to troll for women. I figured that I would meet her again.

    I called my mom. I said "I met my wife today." She asked if I had asked her for a date or anything. Nope.

    Turned out that the following week a good friend of mine would be preaching at the same church. All of my friends told me I had to go back and see about this girl. Once I started field education I'd probably never see her again. So I did. And we closed out the post-church coffee time. We exchanged numbers. Went on our first date and wound up kissing in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial while "Taps" played softly on the air from Arlington.

    Just shy of two years later we were married in that same church. We took photos in the pew where we first sat. It's been fifteen years and four kids later and I still thank God for turning the wrong direction out of that Metro station.

  • Removed

    the one where ross says a slur

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  • Blazing Saddles. Took me a bit to understand this when I was younger. When I first saw it, I thought it was simply outdated humor. Then I thought it was edgy. Then I finally grasped that the whole joke is actually directed at racist white folks and that their racism just makes them look really stupid.

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    the one where ross says a slur

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  • Posting this here because this is the most recent instance: every time I see deleted by creator on Lemmy, my first thought is always "damn, God REALLY did not like that comment."

  • What's that discolouration on the silver spoon?

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  • Did this recently with our silver. Worked fine with hot water (I used our kettle), just took a little longer. And I added the salt after the water and it still worked fine. But it's definitely one of those things where basic science feels like witchcraft when you do it lol

  • What's a piece of Media that is so underrated you must mention it?

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  • In terms of current games, I have to say Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Uses the Far Cry formula as a jumping off point for a very immersive experience that's about the beauty of Pandora. It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played and really deepens the Avatar franchise. It's also the rare action game that is also cool to just hang out in and walk around, explore, forage for materials. It offers a kind of escape that games like Animal Crossing do in that regard (even though you're not building anything; it's just such a rich immersive world that you feel like you're actually in Pandora).

  • ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next

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  • The AG of Guam has invited ICE to come and ply their trade there...

  • Ricky Martin is aging like wine, Kid Rock is aging like milk left out in the sun in Arizona.

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  • This is an under-appreciated joke

  • cheeseburger

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  • Was at a cat cafe with my kids not too long ago. They had this breed of cat and it was being very affectionate with me and my son. So I say to her "you, you can haz cheeseburger" and my son (9 y/o) looks at me and asks "is that a reference to something?" So I pull out my phone and show him The Sacred Jedi Internet Texts

  • The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.

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  • I have one on my Lenovo IdeaPad I bought a few months ago and am running Mint on. I remapped it to bring up the menu almost immediately. No issues. It acts like a Super key. Maybe this is a model specific thing?