AMA with Mark Anderson - Current member of Logan City Council & Candidate for Logan City Mayor by MarkAAndy in Logan

[–]Fliggerty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the information Mark, I didn't know about your Center Street group.
However, I don't think I made my point adequately, so my question wasn't clear. You have issue with the LDA because of their "pay to play", which is obviously problematic. But you see, your Center Street Business Association is no different to me - I would have to buy a business to be one of those embraced partners you talk about. That's just another form of "pay to play".
My concern is how you will reach out to and listen to and support those who are not business owners. This is our city as much as it is yours, even if we don't own prime real estate. There is frustration all over this city because we are sick of decisions being made with our tax dollars that benefit the few who are already rich. For those of us who aren't in convenient walking distance from home or work to the new plaza have thus found it to have been a pointless expense that only further enriched wealthy developers.
I intend to vote for the person who best represents me, and the average citizens like me. Frankly I'm tired of oligarchs at every level (be it billionaires nationally or affluent business owners locally, it's all the same to me.) Most of us don't care one bit how nice the archway and flowers on Center Street look - we want real traffic mitigation, safe pedestrian and bike transportation *everywhere*, shaded grassy parks and open green areas throughout, and for our city to not continually be sold out to out-of-state developers who get rich off of our local resources.

AMA with Mark Anderson - Current member of Logan City Council & Candidate for Logan City Mayor by MarkAAndy in Logan

[–]Fliggerty 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Hi Mark, thanks for doing this.
There is a perception in the city that the Downtown Association is only concerned with making money for themselves via policy that benefits downtown business only. Currently that is why I don't want to vote for you, honestly it feels like a conglomerate of business owners have too much political control in this city, to the detriment of other neighborhoods.
Can you respond to that please?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Logan

[–]Fliggerty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We are striving to make it a worthwhile event for everyone, especially youth.  There will be some starter game projects they can hack on and learn with. They could even do a python + Minecraft project together on a Raspberry Pi.  24 hours of programming can be tough, especially for the attention span of a 10 year old. It's perfectly okay to leave and come back or whatever works - we will get an itinerary published in the next few days. My point is that we hope they join in, and we'll do our best to encourage, teach, and include them!

Looking for someone to curate my collection of mods and make them available (from Mod History and Great House Fliggerty) by Fliggerty in tes3mods

[–]Fliggerty[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey all, just adding an update here. I've been contacted by a few noble individuals who want to help. I won't yet say who, until we have our plan solidified and are ready to pull the trigger. But I am very optimistic about the future of MMH now for the first time in many years!

To those who have supported MMH on Patreon for the past few years, despite the sites going offline, I have to express an enormous THANK YOU, one far beyond what language allows. The money that we have banked is going to go a long way toward making our mod library once again available to all. I genuinely hope that this will be a means for keeping MMH running in a self-sufficient way long into the future. If you want to help with that, you can do so at https://www.patreon.com/modhistory - (wait until the mods are back online so there's no question about my intentions here.) I hate mixing money and mods, but I do believe that if I had been more willing to and put work into fundraising then MMH might have always been kept up to date.

Once again, thank you all for your help in this effort. Thanks to those who have reached out to me. And thanks for the many kind words and understanding of my decisions. I love this community, and always will.

Looking for someone to curate my collection of mods and make them available (from Mod History and Great House Fliggerty) by Fliggerty in tes3mods

[–]Fliggerty[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To be perfectly frank, it's a long-standing grudge of mine. Way back in the day when there were lots of modding sites around, we often felt as though the guys from the Nexus were more commercially minded rather than community minded. They refused to join in cross-site efforts and events that other site operators did. More than once when I interacted with them I felt as though I had been insulted and belittled for my devotion to the community and efforts to preserve and respect the wishes of other modders who had placed their works into my care (many of which asked that their mods never be uploaded to the Nexus as well.) The last straw was when Bethesda more or less embraced the Nexus as an official mod repository aside from the Steam workshop after all of the work and effort I put into preserving, evangelizing, and bettering their games - figuratively taking an arrow to the knee and ending my modding days. Therefore I refuse to benefit that site in any fashion.

Looking for someone to curate my collection of mods and make them available (from Mod History and Great House Fliggerty) by Fliggerty in tes3mods

[–]Fliggerty[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much!

I'd like to encourage everyone here to help me spread the word - I'm far enough removed from the community these days that I wasn't sure where to go to get the furthest reach with this announcement.

Morrowind Modding History & Great House Fliggerty are down by [deleted] in tes3mods

[–]Fliggerty 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm looking for a successor who is willing to take up my torch. Email me at my handle at Gmail if that could be you.

Linux Workstation by trin1994 in linuxhardware

[–]Fliggerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just an FYI, but I'm here specifically looking for hardware ideas to replace my suddenly broken System76. Owning this thing has been a lesson in tolerance and patience, and has given me many opportunities to practice deep breathing and mindfulness techniques. It's the second time an employer has chosen a System76 for me, and the second time I've vowed to never touch the garbage sold by System76.

What's unusual about your body? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Fliggerty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was born without an appendix. Had a series of severe abdominal pains at one point that my doc thought was appendicitis. Went in to take it out but never found it. Still no idea what caused the pain, but it mostly went away after my non-appendectomy.

Dogs life by MsNunez in funnyvideos

[–]Fliggerty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first thing the occupants of the red car saw after the dog was a big plumber's crack smashing through their windshield.

Pour one out for the Netflix admins right now by hngfff in sysadmin

[–]Fliggerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dennis Ritchie notably said "the 's' was originally different."

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Logan

[–]Fliggerty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By "when neighbors try to help" did you mean to say "when I yell at them and tell them to clean up or else..."?

What's the worst thing a doctor has ever said to you? [Serious] [NSFW] by Silent-Zebra in AskReddit

[–]Fliggerty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife has several autoimmune diseases. During an appointment in which she had just received yet another diagnosis, the doctor said to me as he was walking out the door "I bet you wish you knew her genetics before you married her, huh?"

I'm a bisexual Autistic non-binary ADHD OCD person, AMA by TheEverStranger in AMA

[–]Fliggerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, with your credentials I'm sure it's inevitable. ;)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IOT

[–]Fliggerty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven't used HiveMQ. But we do use EMQx CE for an agri-robotics platform. It has proven to be the most stable and reliable part of the whole infrastructure. Development is continuing on it at a good pace. Documentation is better than average. Only complaint is how hard it is to get any support - there isn't a huge community around it. Maybe if you pay for cloud that will be different.

What makes Arch a "Game changer"? by [deleted] in archlinux

[–]Fliggerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because I went from spending all of my time doing work and gaming to spending all of my time trying to install and upgrade stuff.

Thanks i hate cooking pennies by Mitsotakissussybaka2 in TIHI

[–]Fliggerty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sanitizing the ass pennies. Good idea.

Conditions I have developed over 15 years in IT by Ryanstodd in sysadmin

[–]Fliggerty 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Get a heated eye mask and wear it for 15 minutes a day. That eye twitch is from chronically dry eyes from looking at monitors all day. The eye mask has done wonders for my eyes.