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[00:00:18] <AzumaHazuki> the idea of NC being anything but a solid GOP stronghold boggles the mind. ditto texas
[00:01:02] <FatPhil> Nothing is certain, apart from death and texas.
[00:01:42] <AzumaHazuki> we should give mexico back texas, except i'm sure they wouldn't want it
[00:01:59] <AzumaHazuki> "Ay, Dios mio, no queremos. Que diablo hace en Texas?"
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[00:17:10] <Bytram> AzumaHazuki: Very Nice! (Just happened to catch you post that link.) Though I did find it kinda strange that I didn't notice the players paying much attention to the conductor!
[00:18:55] <Bytram> Had a classmate in HS who was rather quiet. Had a talent show senior year. Blew me away at how gifted he was when he let loose on the saxaphone. Played along with him in band for years and never even knew.
[00:19:49] <TheMightyBuzzard> AzumaHazuki, a lot of that is limited by the number of breaker slots in the panel. big panels are expensive. so if you have one light or one outlet off by itself, you tie it on to a nearby circuit.
[00:20:36] * Bytram tries to catch up on this PMs scrollback
[00:21:34] <TheMightyBuzzard> requerdanos, https://www.youtube.com
[00:21:37] <systemd> ^ 03Amazon vs UPS vs fedex tiktok compilation
[00:24:47] <TheMightyBuzzard> AzumaHazuki, we didn't get texas from mexico. texans got texas from mexico. they joined the US later as kind of a reluctant afterthought.
[00:25:03] <AzumaHazuki> ye ken well wha' i mean, lad
[00:25:27] <TheMightyBuzzard> hey, you could sell cutting em loose pretty easy. to texans anyway.
[00:25:36] <FatPhil> first give texas back to texas, that's the important step
[00:25:52] <TheMightyBuzzard> there's plenty of em would be happy with the notion
[00:26:21] <TheMightyBuzzard> they'd still suck at football though
[00:27:13] <AzumaHazuki> i'd kind of like to see that actually
[00:27:29] <AzumaHazuki> odds on for how long mexico and/or the US invade and conquer it? :D
[00:29:16] <Runaway1956_> Nod of respect to CBS Seawright
[00:29:46] <Runaway1956_> he says "worst pandemic since 1918" as opposed to almost everyone who says "worst pandemic evah!!"
[00:31:20] <TheMightyBuzzard> pretty high odds
[00:32:38] <TheMightyBuzzard> cause, frankly, i don't see them turning back over the stuff that currently belongs to the us military but resides in texas. including the nukes.
[00:33:24] <AzumaHazuki> fine with me. fewer texans
[00:33:53] <TheMightyBuzzard> man, i would have hocked any two of my brothers for these back in the day: https://tmb.dedyn.io
[00:33:58] <AzumaHazuki> you know, the instant i manage to make it over that border for good i have a feeling i'm just going to stop giving two shits what happens in the US any longer.
[00:34:11] * Runaway1956_ yawns
[00:34:11] * MrPlow flips a Skittle into Runaway1956_'s gaping mouth
[00:34:25] <Runaway1956_> Texas is Texas
[00:34:30] <TheMightyBuzzard> hope so, if not it's a waste of a lot of effort
[00:34:47] <FatPhil> AzumaHazuki: I do have a kinda "fuck the UK" attitude now, it's not unnatural.
[00:35:08] <FatPhil> Let them make their bed and then they can lie in it.
[00:35:10] <Runaway1956_> Everyone in the world wants to fuck a Brit, don't they?
[00:35:11] <AzumaHazuki> i wish the country were better. i wish it hadn't come to this
[00:35:32] <Runaway1956_> So, we have come to this . . .
[00:35:37] <AzumaHazuki> but this...this is unsurvivable. all i can do is hope it holds together another year and i can get the hell out. the country's been ruined
[00:35:56] <FatPhil> Runaway1956_: I'm not available, you old flirt!
[00:35:58] <Runaway1956_> COVID is going to get us all before another year goes by
[00:36:21] <TheMightyBuzzard> Runaway1956_, and the russians. don't forget the russians.
[00:36:23] <Runaway1956_> Fatphil, that's not what you said last week
[00:36:56] <AzumaHazuki> the threat is internal. the country's gone batshit insane
[00:37:17] <Runaway1956_> Doctor Fauci says it's batfuck insane, not batshit
[00:37:43] <FatPhil> yeah, but that was a threesome with your mother
[00:38:08] <Runaway1956_> Yeah, and all she did was lie there beneath that tombstone - lol
[00:38:21] <AzumaHazuki> nice thing about necrophilia: no need to bring flowers!
[00:38:24] <requerdanos> Someone I worked with today was idly but seriously speculating on whether to call the widespread post-election violence "civil war" or "the second American revolution"
[00:38:36] <FatPhil> I dunno, I thought the earth moved
[00:39:05] <AzumaHazuki> neither. try "cannibal clown apocalypse"
[00:39:25] <Runaway1956_> posse apocolypse?
[00:39:25] <requerdanos> I gently suggested that perhaps it had not yet gone as far as war.
[00:39:41] <FatPhil> I'll wait for the DVD boxed set, so no spoilers
[00:40:23] <Runaway1956_> Meanwhile, nothing worthy of note happens in backwoods arkansas - unless you count the stupid 'possum making the dogs bark
[00:40:57] <TheMightyBuzzard> Runaway1956_, you're neglecting to mention all the quality moonshine produced. as you should.
[00:41:49] <Runaway1956_> moonshine? Huh - I have none . . .
[00:41:52] <FatPhil> I love living in a country where most days wildlife is a top news story.
[00:42:09] <FatPhil> n.d. Riga Balsam, you can keep your moonshine
[00:42:11] <TheMightyBuzzard> FatPhil, we cover a lot of monkeys and asses here too
[00:42:43] <FatPhil> Or the senate and the house as the newspapers call them
[00:43:25] <Runaway1956_> SC is red at the moment with impossible numbers that I can't believe
[00:43:58] <Runaway1956_> no way is it going to stay 70% red
[00:44:03] <TheMightyBuzzard> oh, right, yall are paying attention to that silliness
[00:44:18] <Runaway1956_> actually, free attention
[00:44:28] <TheMightyBuzzard> like anything is going to be decided tonight
[00:44:39] <requerdanos> North Carolina is traditionally a state that votes republican, but many people from democrat-leaning states have moved here, possibly altering the equation.
[00:44:46] <Runaway1956_> Well, no, but using SC for a for instance
[00:45:01] <Runaway1956_> if it stays 70% or higher, I call shenanigans
[00:45:20] <TheMightyBuzzard> what is really going to make me laugh is when we count more ballots than we have population
[00:45:21] <requerdanos> I have lived in South Carolina. They are pretty Trumpian in character, by and large.
[00:45:33] <TheMightyBuzzard> requerdanos, ditto
[00:45:55] <Runaway1956_> They're takiing care of that in Penna - someone was recorded carrying extra ballot boxes away to be disposed of
[00:46:16] <TheMightyBuzzard> awe, they're spoiling my fun
[00:46:57] <Runaway1956_> I still hate my ISP - video feed just dies whenever it feels like it
[00:47:16] <TheMightyBuzzard> aight, that's it for me tonight. have several seasons of Still Game that need watching.
[00:49:20] <requerdanos> last time we did this I ignored the results and went to bed only to awaken to "President Trump"
[00:49:47] <FatPhil> I stayed up all night until it was clear
[00:50:17] <requerdanos> Hmm, looking at it from that perspective, I am now glad I got that one extra night of peaceful sleep.
[00:50:18] <FatPhil> I promised myself I wouldn't do that this year, but it's nearly 3am, and i've got a bottle to keep me anaesthetised.
[00:50:47] <Runaway1956_> 7:00 PM here (or 19:00)
[00:55:27] <Runaway1956_> Huh - "healthy voting" - most of the views I see have people like 3 to 4 feet apart, not 6 ft
[00:55:49] <AzumaHazuki> wish i could fuckin' sleep. need to be up at a quarter to 4 again
[00:56:24] <Runaway1956_> Sleep is over rated
[00:57:14] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - McKesson Says Potential Opioid Settlement Proposal Raised to Up to $21 Billion - https://sylnt.us - big-money
[01:04:42] <AzumaHazuki> ...i had an idea for a crossover survival horror movie: "Where In The Hell is Carmen Sandiego?"
[01:09:02] <Runaway1956_> Carmen? I think the komodo dragons got Carmen.
[01:12:18] <TheMightyBuzzard> #yt rockapella
[01:12:18] <MrPlow> https://www.youtube.com -- So Much Better | ROCKAPELLA
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[01:14:04] <SoyCow7026> #US_Elections
[01:14:19] <TheMightyBuzzard> break for heating up dinner. had an idea so good i had to share it: election day chili, so you can properly express your opinion of politics.
[01:14:19] * FatPhil gives SoyCow7026 a '/'
[01:14:33] <FatPhil> and takes away an 's'
[01:17:42] <AzumaHazuki> that it's full of beans?
[01:21:59] <TheMightyBuzzard> well the beans are definitely integral to commenting on politicians
[01:22:55] <FatPhil> https://www.youtube.com
[01:22:57] <systemd> ^ 03Zakk Wylde ~ Farm Fiddlin'
[01:23:28] <tedious> I was just going to scroll up and see what everyone here was saying about the elections. :)
[01:24:35] <TheMightyBuzzard> that they should be held in a steel cage. N men enter, one man leaves.
[01:25:58] <tedious> Sounds not very democratic. :)
[01:27:01] <requerdanos> sounds orderly and governmental
[01:32:50] <TheMightyBuzzard> sorry, had my math wrong there
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[01:33:00] <TheMightyBuzzard> N men enter, N-N men leave
[01:55:47] <Runaway1956_> sedctl help
[01:56:26] <Runaway1956_> =sedctl help
[01:56:26] <systemd> disabled in this channel)
[02:00:02] <Bytram> =help
[02:00:02] <systemd> acontribute, asub, asubmit, cite, contribute, doi, rehashctl, sedctl, sub, submit
[02:05:15] <pinchy> =doi muh_baws
[02:05:16] <systemd> Error: DOI not found
[02:05:27] <pinchy> department of information
[02:45:35] <AzumaHazuki> bed for me. whoever wins, i need to work tomorrow still
[02:45:44] <chromas> =g'noigth AzumaHazuki
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[03:08:04] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Russian Botnet Operator Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison - https://sylnt.us - did-we-get-the-money-back?
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[03:17:20] <Bytram> =yt left turn albequerqee
[03:17:21] <systemd> https://youtube.com - Bugs Bunny Albuquerque (01:05; 2,374,983 views; 👍4,679 👎227)
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[04:03:03] <SoyCow1188> =asub https://www.techradar.com
[04:03:05] <systemd> Submitting "This could be the most expensive data breach ever"...
[04:03:27] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03This Could be the Most Expensive Data Breach Ever" (10 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
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[04:05:55] <SoyCow1188> =asub https://phys.org
[04:05:58] <systemd> Submitting "New species of ancient cynodont, 220 million years old, discovered"...
[04:06:20] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03New Species of Ancient Cynodont, 220 Million Years Old, Discovered" (16 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
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[09:48:35] <AzumaHazuki> maybe i get to actually train instead of covering callouts today -_-
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[11:22:24] <FatPhil> Do strippers in the northern hemisphere spin on their poles in the opposite direction to strippers in the southern hemisphere?
[11:29:59] <FatPhil> https://www.youtube.com
[11:30:01] <systemd> ^ 03Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language - CONAN on TBS
[11:47:16] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NASA Calls Voyager 2, and the Spacecraft Answers from Interstellar Space - https://sylnt.us - Post-Heliopause
[13:46:54] <TheMightyBuzzard> https://babylonbee.com
[13:46:55] <systemd> ^ 03Nation Doesn't Care Who Wins, Just Excited Not To See Facebook Voting Notifications For A While
[13:47:26] <TheMightyBuzzard> and with that, i fuck off to the church for the electrical rough-in inspection
[13:47:33] <janrinok> have a good one!
[13:49:20] <Fnord666> Good luck!
[13:56:16] <RandomFactor> =submit https://www.sciencealert.com
[13:56:18] <systemd> Submitting "An Asteroid Trailing After Mars Could Actually Be The Stolen Twin of Our Moon"...
[13:56:40] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03An Asteroid Trailing After Mars Could Actually be the Stolen Twin of Our Moon" (18 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[13:56:50] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Snoopy Celebrates 20 Years of Humans on Space Station on New NASA Posters - https://sylnt.us - not-snoop-dogg
[13:57:30] <RandomFactor> =submit https://phys.org
[13:57:35] <systemd> Submitting "3-D print experts discover how to make tomorrow's technology using ink-jet printed graphene"...
[13:57:57] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "033-D Print Experts Discover How to Make Tomorrow's Technology Using Ink-jet Printed Graphene" (19 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[15:12:53] <lld> 3D printed graphene guns
[15:14:49] <Bytram> TheMightyBuzzard: good luck with the electrical inspection!
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[16:05:49] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - This Could be the Most Expensive Data Breach Ever - https://sylnt.us - until-the-next-breach
[16:06:55] <FatPhil> from an email: "Two people with whom I bowled died from [CoViD]. Someone who was able to attend one of the funerals told me that he and one other person there was wearing a mask - nobody else. At a funeral for someone who died from COVID! Ugh."
[16:12:25] <requerdanos> Mask use seems to be declining here in the southeastern US. At least from what I see.
[16:29:15] <FatPhil> We're at the highest infection peak presently, twice what it was during the first wave, and there's precisely zero masks visible nowadays.
[16:30:23] <FatPhil> Our case rate is still 1/10th the US's, and we're clearly curving upwards, so we could find ourselves a bit overwhelmed in a week or two.
[16:47:28] <requerdanos> is the problem dumb people? Poor mass communication? what?
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[17:15:45] <cosurgi> Bytram: this one: 02:54 <@Bytram> cosurgi: THIS is what I was looking for: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com
[17:15:54] <cosurgi> Bytram: but without dot at the end.
[17:26:51] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Discuss! - https://sylnt.us - life-is-too-important-to-take-ourselves-seriously
[18:15:11] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Arm Cortex-A78C Core Announced for Laptops - https://sylnt.us
[18:17:52] <TheMightyBuzzard> requerdanos, the problem is people, yes even the french, have a finite amount of scared stored up. once it's used up, they enter fuck-it mode.
[18:18:21] <TheMightyBuzzard> since everyone's hyping this as the next black plague, everyone's give-a-shit is running out.
[18:18:37] <requerdanos> I guess I don't understand why "scared" is the only motivation for properly wearing a mask, as that sentiment seems to assume.
[18:18:48] <TheMightyBuzzard> cause it's annoying
[18:18:57] <requerdanos> I mean, not everything we do is motivated by "zomg fear" nor non-annoying.
[18:19:24] <TheMightyBuzzard> eh, most of it is.
[18:19:41] <requerdanos> I mean, the world went to infection hell, now we wear masks where we didn't before, okay, got it, move on with life
[18:19:52] <requerdanos> I don't understand whose craw that would stick in.
[18:19:58] <TheMightyBuzzard> everyone's
[18:20:07] <requerdanos> yours?
[18:20:24] <TheMightyBuzzard> you just ain't gonna convince anyone they have to wear a mask in public for the rest of their lives.
[18:20:57] <requerdanos> well, no, but that's not at issue at all
[18:21:18] <TheMightyBuzzard> it in fact is. coronaids ain't going away. ever
[18:21:50] <TheMightyBuzzard> it's not seasonal and it's a gerzillion times more contagious than smallpox.
[18:21:59] <requerdanos> false dichotomy. it doesn't need to go away. vaccines + mutating to milder strains would be enough of a change for health authorities to recommend no-mask, and it's likely.
[18:22:00] <chromas> Is that curve flattened yet?
[18:22:47] <requerdanos> plus "I am not going to wear a mask because there is danger that the mask reduces" is moron-level logic
[18:22:51] <TheMightyBuzzard> been flat for ages. problem is a bunch of folks thought that was the same thing as curing it.
[18:23:04] * TheMightyBuzzard shurgs
[18:23:11] <requerdanos> yeah, the curve was much flatter than it would have been had we done nothing.
[18:23:30] <TheMightyBuzzard> i am not going to wear a mask because i am not frightened of the boogeyman
[18:23:57] <chromas> Is it flatter than if we hadn't stuck covaids patients into nursing homes with all the most vulnerable people?
[18:24:03] <requerdanos> Interesting. Thank you.
[18:24:09] <TheMightyBuzzard> requerdanos, flattening the curve didn't mean less cases total. ever. it meant spreading them out so facilities didn't get overwhelmed.
[18:24:36] <requerdanos> I didn't say nor think that flattening the curve meant anything other than flattening the curve.
[18:25:19] <chromas> The real problem is they ran out of propaganda slogans
[18:25:32] <Runaway1956_> Best advice to avoid the covid is to avoid the flu shot
[18:25:39] <requerdanos> so not just dumb people, but also mass communication failures.
[18:25:46] <chromas> Flatten the curve; social distance; stay home, save lives. How about some new ones?
[18:26:09] <TheMightyBuzzard> tis my considered opinion that a disease that kills less than 1% of the people who catch it is not worth drastically altering the world over
[18:26:18] <requerdanos> The newer ones seem to suck. "Remember the three W's! Wear a mask, Wash your hands, Whatever the other one is!"
[18:26:36] <Runaway1956_> TheMightyBuzzard++
[18:26:36] <Bender> karma - themightybuzzard: 389
[18:28:58] <TheMightyBuzzard> and with coronaids, we're not just talking less than 1%. we're talking way less than 1% among people who know they have it in the first place, when last i checked 40% of people who caught it never would.
[18:30:29] <chromas> Yeah but if we weren't wearing masks it would be over 200% you sick dastard!
[18:31:01] <requerdanos> over 200% of cases would go undiagnosed? or over 200% of 1% death rate? I'm confused
[18:31:07] <Runaway1956_> I won't be happy until it's 1000%
[18:32:02] <TheMightyBuzzard> 200% fatality rate? sweet! so you catch it, go club someone who didn't out of spite, then die?
[18:32:38] <Runaway1956_> Too much work TMB - when you catch it, you build a suicide bomb vest and take ten people with you
[18:32:44] <requerdanos> I suppose everyone who disintegrates could release two disintegrating neutrons or something
[18:39:11] <FatPhil> Do that at a church service, and you'd reach critical mass pretty quickly.
[18:39:28] <requerdanos> Or on a cruise ship. Or in a care facility.
[18:40:34] <requerdanos> I am personally avoiding all three out of practical precautionary measures.
[18:40:50] <FatPhil> Don't make me explain the joke...
[18:41:18] <requerdanos> the problem is that the joke as phrased plays straight just as well.
[18:42:33] <chromas> it_goes_both_ways.mp4
[18:46:08] <requerdanos> state_change_from_catholic_mass_to_critical_mass.gif
[18:47:46] <Teckla> Argh, COVID-19 has *exploded* here in Minnesota :(
[18:51:33] <chromas> Are there really dorks who put the motherboard branding stickers on their PCs or use the branded postcard?
[18:51:51] <Teckla> Full disclosure: my wife is a Registered Nurse
[18:51:59] <Teckla> So I may have a biased opinion of COVID-19.
[18:57:27] <requerdanos> Why would your marital connection to nursing bias your view? Does she slant the facts one way or another when presenting them to you?
[18:58:28] <Teckla> requerdanos: She goes to work and can see the aftermath of COVID-19 in person, then comes home and tells me about her work, etc.
[18:58:45] <Teckla> If you are behind a screen of glowing pixels it's a lot easier to say "COVID-19 is no big deal."
[18:59:10] <Teckla> If some of your colleagues have literally turned blue and died, though -- it kind of has more of a psychological impact.
[18:59:12] <Teckla> You know?
[18:59:24] <requerdanos> I would think that someone who just lives in that glowing pixel land would have the view better described as biased (biased towards not seeing the effects)
[18:59:44] <Teckla> I'm almost more concerned about the long-term impacts. A lot of people are "recovered" but not really recovered, if you get my meaning.
[19:00:04] <requerdanos> I do. Chronic fatigue and lung problems seem to frequently persist.
[19:00:10] <Teckla> Yep.
[19:00:45] <requerdanos> The all-or-nothing folks say "but did you die" along with other black-and-white scenarios.
[19:01:21] <Teckla> Many of these "recovered" patients are, for example, young athletes, who have been struggling for *months* now to walk up a few flights of stairs, and seemingly not getting any better.
[19:01:54] <Teckla> So it's super frustrating to my wife (and I) when people talk about "less than 1% death rate" and such. That's far too coarse of a way to judge the impact of COVID-19.
[19:02:02] <Teckla> requerdanos: Yep. Exactly.
[19:09:47] <Teckla> I mean, I am far, FAR past trying to argue with or convince anyone. Everyone has already decided they know best, and people never change their minds anyway, unless and until they're personally affected by it.
[19:10:06] <Teckla> Which is why you see an endless stream of, "I didn't believe COVID-19 was a big deal until..." kinds of messages.
[19:10:37] <Teckla> But nobody changes their mind based on reading those messages. Not until it happens to them.
[19:10:49] <Teckla> Oh well, whatever. Humans are fucking dumb, and deserve what they get.
[19:51:41] <FatPhil> NOT ENUFF STARS!!!! NOT ENUFF STRIPES!!!! https://ichef.bbci.co.uk
[19:52:09] <FatPhil> What is that - one star for each military base in a foreign country?
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[19:56:25] <chromas> Now make an animated gif where the flags desaturate and become Klan hats
[20:00:37] <pinchy> not enuf star of davids
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[20:01:25] <chromas> They're hiding their sixth point
[20:03:19] <FatPhil> oooh, one of them is quite well lined up for his head
[20:09:49] <halibut> Where does this 1% death rate come from? Worldwide, 1227723 deaths out of 48252479 cases is about 2.5% (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). US only: 239191 deaths out of 9740872 cases is also about 2.5% (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/). The ratio is significantly worse if you compare deaths to recovered cases instead of including people who may still be at risk of
[20:09:50] <systemd> ^ 03404 Not Found
[20:09:50] <systemd> ^ 03404 Not Found
[20:09:55] <halibut> dying. Is the assumption that well under 2 in 5 cases actually get detected?
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[20:26:53] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Gentoo Forked Four Ways - https://sylnt.us - penguins-are-practically-chickens!
[20:30:09] <AzumaHazuki> oh fuck, what?
[20:30:34] <AzumaHazuki> ...oh, you mean actual P. papua, not Gentoo the distro
[20:34:56] <chromas> Original Gentoo, represent!
[20:36:15] <halibut> Hasn't that always been the case? Gentoo, Funtoo, Pentoo, and Sabayon (actually, more, seen at https://wiki.gentoo.org )
[20:36:16] <systemd> ^ 03Distributions based on Gentoo - Gentoo Wiki
[20:43:13] <Runaway1956_> Wow Martyb ! Your more-or-less untitled sub about nothing is on track to become a "most commented on"
[20:43:24] <Runaway1956_> It's HISTORICAL!!
[20:44:33] <chromas> I only see 106 comments
[20:44:38] <chromas> although the front page says 110
[20:44:57] <Runaway1956_> Well, it's on it's way, right?
[20:45:14] <Runaway1956_> Maybe only the 25th most commented, but it's on the way!
[20:47:25] <Runaway1956_> Ohhhhh noes! VLC won't stop! Strange . . .
[20:49:20] <chromas> It's definitely got better comments than a lot of the stories
[20:50:27] <Runaway1956_> True!
[20:55:09] <FatPhil> ^Q
[20:56:28] * TheMightyBuzzard yawns
[20:56:28] * MrPlow flips a Skittle into TheMightyBuzzard's gaping mouth
[20:57:03] <TheMightyBuzzard> well, did they say "fuck it, give it to kanye" yet?
[20:57:06] <FatPhil> has anyone miss america yet?
[20:57:13] <FatPhil> +won
[20:57:27] <TheMightyBuzzard> dunno, just got unnapped
[20:58:07] <FatPhil> did any 3rd party candidates get any more than anaemic scraps?
[21:00:47] <FatPhil> "...he was released early from a jail sentence last December for trying to join jihadists in Syria"
[21:01:18] <FatPhil> Perfect reason to release a criminal, if you ask me.
[21:16:14] <AzumaHazuki> airlift him back to Syria, IMO
[21:16:19] <AzumaHazuki> let him try it again
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[21:48:43] <FatPhil> https://zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com
[21:49:12] <AzumaHazuki> hah!
[21:49:50] <AzumaHazuki> see this is one reason I deliberately cultivate a straight-edge lifestyle: when times get bad, i don't have an ingrained impulse to indulge in unhealthy and/or expensive habits
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[21:53:16] <FatPhil> Ah, I own (part of) a brewery
[21:54:22] <AzumaHazuki> so if you get drunk on your own supply, is that...a sin-tax error?
[21:54:39] <FatPhil> (tehnically not true, I have 0.1% share in a second one, because I liek the guys there and wanted to join the crowdfundung fun)
[21:55:16] <FatPhil> If they were to relocate to Finland, Sweden, or Norway, that would definitely invoke a sin-tax error.
[21:55:57] <FatPhil> (the #3 craft brewery in the country is actually Finnish, but they relocated here because of the taxes up north.)
[21:56:33] <FatPhil> (you can tell they went to business school, and just hire professional brewers to do the actuall work)
[22:03:03] <AzumaHazuki> omgomgomg, lxqt 0.16 is out *and they included two themes I made!*
[22:03:13] <chromas> noice
[22:03:17] <chromas> AzumaHazuki++
[22:03:17] <Bender> karma - azumahazuki: 37
[22:03:18] <AzumaHazuki> i've Made A Contribution To The World Of F/OSS (TM)!
[22:03:53] <AzumaHazuki> i was only expecting them to use the Clearlooks theme, but they also put in the Leech theme, an LXQt variant of my favorite GTK2 theme from the first weeks of ever using Linux back in 2004
[22:04:02] <AzumaHazuki> to know that theme that served me so well will live on is wonderful
[22:04:30] <chromas> Wow, gtk 2's that old?
[22:05:25] <AzumaHazuki> older even. and i still hate gtk3. i'm moving onto LXQt because, to be frank, GTK has gone ratshit insane
[22:05:51] <AzumaHazuki> Xfce has decided to follow Gnome into CSD madness. I am done with them. 4.12 was the last good version
[22:06:17] <chromas> Time to fork xfce and port it to qt
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[22:08:26] <chromas> qtfce
[22:08:28] <AzumaHazuki> TBH, that's kind of what I want LXQt to become
[22:08:32] <chromas> and the mascot can be a cute little rat
[22:08:48] <AzumaHazuki> that's the reason I made the Clearlooks theme, really; LXQt's branding is all over the place and ugly as sin
[22:09:27] <AzumaHazuki> am wondering if I should attempt other "standard GTK2-era themes" ports too, like Industrial. Leech basically *is* Industrial with a black pallette so...
[22:35:40] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - See-Through Soil Substitutes Help Scientists Study Soil Ecology - https://sylnt.us - clear-progress
[22:45:14] <FatPhil> AzumaHazuki++ for supporting lightweight F/OSS components. Down with bloat!
[22:45:14] <Bender> karma - azumahazuki: 38
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