There's MAGA that think they aren't fascist, and there's MAGA that embrace the fascism. That might be the political difference between my parents.
My mom didn't want any of his DVDs, but I'm always down to add more movies to my media server, so I took them. Among the westerns and the war movies were some documentaries about WW2 German military leaders which I didn't find particularly surprising or disturbing. However, there was also a copy of Triumph of the Will.
It's very strange for me. I loved my father, and I know he loved me. I'm pretty sure I was his favorite. I'm also the most farthest left of his children, and two of my three kids are trans.
Complicated doesn't even approach the same universe as my relationship with my father.
By the way, anyone ever see any of them wearing that hat when they aren't in a big group of them? I never see any of these pussies wearing that hat by themselves.
My dad did. He's dead now and my mom opted not to put the hat on him in the casket, so not anymore.
She also decided to throw out his "Nazi shirts" (her term) rather than donate then with the rest of his clothes.
She's also MAGA, but not quite as rabid sr he was.
Many years ago I wrote a program that accepted DECWriter print jobs, parsed the escape sequences, and output them as PostScript.
We had an application that ran on an OpenVMS system. The application could only support DEC printers, so we couldn't use any modern devices. The DEC printers were no longer made so all our printers were either purchased refurbished, or Frankenstein printers one of our guys assembled from the carcasses of dead printers.
My program could be used as a print filter in a Linux LPT queue. This allowed us to replace DEC printers with any printer that could natively support PostScript and any printer that had ghostscript support.
When I first started in the job, my predecessor told me about the issue with the printers and it seemed like an interesting project.
First test was to ensure I could convert barcodes in the print jobs. The print jobs for the DEC printers sent the barcodes as SIXEL graphics. SIXEL graphics were bitmaps sent as rows of six vertical pixels.
Once I verified that could work, it was just a matter of writing the parser for all the rest of the escape sequences that controlled the formatting. That and learning how to produce the PostScript.
At the time I asked my boss if he wanted me to implement it, but he said we were going to migrate to a new system very soon, so it wasn't worth the effort.
I still thought it was an interesting project, so I kept working on it on my own.
Several years passed, and we were still using the old system. The man who maintained our printers died, which led to a problem. Without him to maintain the printers, they started failing faster than we could replace them. In a meeting to discuss how we would respond printer issue, I mentioned that I had continued working on my filter at home and I only needed a a few weeks of focused effort to get a functional print filter. This time my boss told me to proceed.
We very quickly replaced all our old DEC impact printers with modern laser printers.
We had some forms on tractor feed paper, so I converted the forms to PostScript and added that to the filter. I was also able to get it working with Zebra label printers.
I had a problem with the barcodes. My script generated perfect barcodes, but our barcode pens couldn't scan them. After looking at the barcodes that the DEC printers made and comparing them to what my filter produced, the only difference I could see was that the DEC barcodes looked like crap. Jittery dots instead of perfect, straight lines. So I modified my script to make the graphics produced look just a little bit worse, and they started working.
That print filter continued working flawlessly in production for several more years until we finally managed to migrate to the new system.
I used to believe the whole distraction theory, but now I think he's just that much of an idiot. Suggesting that there's a strategy just gives him far too much credit.
Every time in his life that he fucked up before now he's been able to cheat his way out of it. All he knows is fucking up and cheating. If he had ever faced a consequence, he might have at least the intelligence of a slug, but he was never forced to develop his mind in any way other than cheating.
Years ago I was playing Urban Terror on my server with my kids and their karate teacher. Me and the kids were at home, their karate teacher was at his home.
It was two teams, kids against the adults, and I was sitting there listening to the kids talking. While they were talking out loud about what they were doing, I was chatting online with their teacher and telling him where to find them. I'd keep them occupied while he snuck up behind them to take them out.
I firmly believe you could use it to chock the wheel of your car to prevent it from rolling while you changed a flat, and the phone would still work like new when you were done.
Nope. The only old phone I'm still impressed by was the old Motorola Razor flip phone. I had a blue one and my wife had a pink one. The number of times that phone rode through the washer and dryer without ever hesitating was amazing.
My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy S10. It's the first smart phone I've had that hasn't started glitching after the first two years. I ordered it on July 29, 2020, and it's still going strong with no signs of stopping. I've never been forced to do so much as factory reset it. Every previous phone I've spent the last year or so I had it trying to coax it into lasting just a little longer.
I've replaced the factory-installed screen protector and the otter case I bought for this phone once. When I had the phone out of the old case and stripped of the screen protector, it still looked brand new.
In previous wars, even Vietnam, the U.S. could have walked away at any time because the country we were fighting had no viable way to affect the U.S. outside of the war. However, Iran has established that they can affect the U.S. and President Pedophile's administration by closing the strait.
At this point I'm not sure if makes any sense for them to do anything to make life easier for the U.S.
I don't know why they wouldn't hold out until the Pedo-in-chief offers to supply them with their own nuclear arsenal. All this administration has done is effectively demonstrate how much weaker they've made the U.S.
skooliers heavily tend towards being right-wing, trump-loving, gun-toting, immigrant-hating wankers.
Years ago my dad bought an old school bus because he wanted to convert it into a motor home with private bathroom and a garage in the back for his motorcycle for trips to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Apart from the fact that he never got around to doing any work on the bus and eventually gave up and unloaded it on someone, your description would have been completely accurate.
I don't believe in air, but damnit, it keeps pressing down on me!