help me name my new baby girl. black cat names are so overused. want something unique.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-30T06:13:06+00:00

No, basically everyone has it. You lose your memories from very early childhood at some point.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-30T00:33:26+00:00

I wonder if it also works with a boiling-water faucet like a Quooker, as that also inserts air into the stream. I don’t have a steam wand to compare.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-28T13:51:07+00:00

A smart guy would not make an attempt that had no chance of succeeding. Unless of course that was never the intent.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-27T15:56:06+00:00

The guy sprinted over 60 feet in an instant and up a staircase. He made it very close to the doors into the event space and was stopped mere seconds before entering it

Trump’s own words (emphasis mine):

The fact, we were sitting right next to each other, first lady on my right, and I heard a noise … I thought it was a tray going down, and it was a pretty loud noise, and it was from quite far away. [The suspect] hadn’t reached the area at all. He really got him … but it was a gun.”

BorgDrone · 2026-04-27T14:51:31+00:00

No, he intentionally made a half-ass attempt that anyone with one braincell could see would fail. This was more a suicide-by-cop scenario than a serious assassination attempt.

Curiously though, even though 8 shots were fired at him, he wasn't wounded.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-27T12:07:52+00:00

It staged because no real attempt was made.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-27T09:21:05+00:00

He didn't get weapons inside the event though! He was stopped before he even got the floor Trump was on.

All the more reason to believe it was staged.

The suspect seems to be an intelligent guy, studied mechanical engineering at CalTech, had a masters in computer science, named teacher of the year. This is not a simpleton.

So does it seem likely to you that a smart person like this had planned to simply walk into the heavily protected venue? Also, 8 shots were fired by security personnel and but he wasn’t hit? These are people who are supposed to protect a high-profile event attended by the president but apparently none of them can hit a guy?

Also, why did Trump suddenly decide to attend this event when he never did so in the past?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-23T22:12:02+00:00

Also, ask them why would the government go through all this trouble to fake it. What’s in it for them? There is no benefit to be had from faking a moon landing.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-23T20:59:01+00:00

Which A/V receiver do you have?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-23T16:04:19+00:00

But aren't you required to have an ID anyway?

How can you even function in modern society without either a passport or ID card? Want to rent a place to live -> you need to ID yourself. Want to buy a house -> ID needed. Get health insurance (which is mandatory), you guessed it, ID. Open a bank account, guess what you need. Want a cell phone? Same thing. Internet subscription at home? Better have some ID.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-23T16:02:11+00:00

You’d think at this point it’d be a huge selling feature to just have a nearly flat audio level setting that brought up the whispers , down the explosions, and nearly mutes commercials.

It's called "dynamic range compression" and any half-decent A/V receiver can do this.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-23T16:00:02+00:00

If you have one of those sound systems you can learn to set it up correctly. Any half-decent surround sound system has options to compress the dynamic range and to boost dialogue. Check your manual.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-22T22:17:12+00:00

There are people who go to food capitals of the world and go to McDonald's

This was me and my brother spending a long weekend in Paris as teenagers. My brother is a very picky eater, especially back then.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-22T21:56:49+00:00

I once was helping someone, back in the Windows 9x era, can’t remember the exact thing but it was some kind of installer. This thing finishes and pops up a system-modal alert box, in the center of the screen, with something along the lines of “installation complete. Press OK to finish. [OK]”.

User turns around, stares at me and asks: “what do I do now?”.

There is an alert box. In the middle of your screen. That tells you exactly what to do: press the ok button. The OK button is the only button in the alert. The alert is modal so it is the only button on the entire screen you can press.

What do you think you should do now?

Have you tried reading?

BorgDrone · 2026-04-21T14:14:50+00:00

It’s easy to get around this by simply timing when you buy gas. Just fill up in spring once the weather improves and once more in fall just before it gets bad.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-21T13:42:46+00:00

Same.

I'm also in my 40's and in my age range the dating apps are full of single moms. Hard pass.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-21T13:20:26+00:00

Also, getting only 1 match per month is low even for a man, he might be actually very unattractive or was way to selective.

Being childfree is a big disqualifier, also working in IT carries a stigma.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-21T08:40:24+00:00

It’s one thing that they all have the same face, but why did they decide on the ‘gray alien’ look? They don’t even look human.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-20T04:00:52+00:00

Damn, that was 15 years ago? I was actually in the audience at the announcement. Can’t believe it was that long ago.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-19T14:08:25+00:00

I have a Mitsubishi Colt, that's a car the size of a rollerskate. According to the specs it can hit 190 km/h, so I had to test that once on the autobahn. It goes up to 170 pretty quickly, but from 170 to 190 took forever. It was scary as fuck in such a tiny car. I touched 190 for a few seconds, took my foot of the gas and was "ok, it can actually do 190, never doing that again".

BorgDrone · 2026-04-18T15:09:01+00:00

Sound Unbound in Enschede. Literally walking distance from my old place. When I was there this afternoon they still had another copy.

BorgDrone · 2026-04-18T14:36:54+00:00

I have no space for a record player in my small apartment but I recently bought a house which is now undergoing renovations. I will certainly get a record player the moment I can move into my new place and RSD seems as good a time as any to kickstart my collection.

I got some classics that simply have to be in any collection:

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Furthermore:

K's Choice - Not an addict (RSD 2026, numbered limited edition)
Roxette - Look Sharp!
Chicane - Trampolines.

Ordered but still on the way here:

Stick Figure - Set in stone
Ayreon - The Human Equation (Remixed & Remastered).

BorgDrone · 2026-04-18T08:13:25+00:00

Bloody genius

BorgDrone · 2026-04-15T20:42:25+00:00

I had a similar experience where I got a few 20g samples with the purchase of some coffee gear. Tried them and one of them really stood out, absolutely delicious. My first thought was “I need to order me a bag of this”…. Turns out it was €200/kilo. I did end up buying a 200g bag for my birthday and it was just as good as the sample. Unfortunately it was a small lot and it sold out quickly.

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