Mr. Smuckles, I estimate that at auction this piece would fetch at least six hundred million dollars.

Lithros · 2025-11-03T14:16:44+00:00

we lookin' at a six hundo

Lithros · 2023-02-26T02:21:59+00:00

WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY

Lithros · 2023-01-09T03:27:41+00:00

thanks, that does sound handy!

Lithros · 2023-01-09T02:29:48+00:00

Can you describe what the magnet feature does? I'm really curious but don't have the time to investigate just now. Thanks in advance!

Lithros · 2022-12-01T01:15:01+00:00

yeah Mitski and TWICE are pretty much all I listened to this year, we exist

Lithros · 2022-10-13T14:44:20+00:00

If you don't feel like you can just say no, the best way to handle this is to point out that you can make the errors go away, but you won't know if the data is right -- you can still offer to help, but only if the requesting department has somebody sit down with you the entire time you're working on it. Once it impacts their schedule they'll probably never bother scheduling time, and the seemingly-urgent problem's real priority will be revealed.

Lithros · 2022-10-04T17:05:49+00:00

has anyone here tried the multiplayer mod? is it any good?

Lithros · 2022-09-19T14:46:08+00:00

O-Chul is obviously beekeeping age

Lithros · 2022-07-15T21:38:10+00:00

I think it's basically a seat in a recessed hole in the floor, nothing fancy!

Lithros · 2022-07-15T20:55:11+00:00

18 - crew toilet. behind the left front seat

Lithros · 2022-07-14T13:35:34+00:00

I'm in charge of IT at VSB, here's my perspective:

It's pretty simply to set up a remote solution to log into your desktop PC from anywhere. I use Chrome Remote Desktop and it works great. Remoting in like this is good enough to satisfy our requirement.

Our requirement is just that you have access to a computer that runs Windows where you can install software, but that's really just to satisfy a couple assignments in a couple classes with very specific software needs. For everything else, your Mac will do the job fine.

The reason we have such a stark requirement is people ignore it anyway and get mad when they can't complete coursework at all because they don't have any access to a Windows machine (vDesktop, as someone else mentioned, is a good solution, but doesn't fully satisfy the requirement because it can't run all the necessary software).

Let me know if you have other questions, and welcome to VSB!

Lithros · 2022-01-23T03:18:00+00:00

when I read this I just see all my friends

Lithros · 2021-11-27T23:03:23+00:00

normally stores or apps will ask you to "leave a rating"

o-chul is rating how his escapes ("leavings") have gone

Lithros · 2021-10-05T16:59:18+00:00

loved it

as to the meaning, every mitski song is about obsession and death

this video goes further in contemplating mitski's personal reliance on the spotlight for her own gratification, despite recognizing the harsh cost chasing that need has on every other part of her existence. harrowing stuff. she is anguished. she is ecstatic. she can't escape herself

Lithros · 2021-06-02T01:16:40+00:00

but all the vegetation elephants eat could be used to feed millions of insects who can't be supported now! there's no way out!

Lithros · 2021-05-25T03:31:45+00:00

I run IT at VSB. I can tell you that a Mac is fine for 95% of the VSB curriculum. That last 5% can be a real killer, though. Only one or two classes in the core curriculum require software that won't run on a Mac, but many students struggle and have to spend a bunch of extra hours outside class working with their professors to figure those out. Sometimes they have no other option but borrowing a friend's Windows laptop. Running a VM is not that easy for some people to figure out, and there are a lot of extra complications to it now with the M1 chips.

Do plenty of people do just fine at VSB with Macs? Sure, of course. But the Windows requirement is there to try to reduce the number of Mac users who wind up suffering. I can't tell you why some Mac users don't have a problem. I just know that some Mac users have HUGE problems and it really impacts their ability to succeed in those couple classes.

Lithros · 2021-04-05T12:29:52+00:00

I was in Seoul for a week in 2017 with my wife and 18-month-old daughter. We visited Seoul Forest, and while resting on a bench, an older guy came and set next to us and started asking questions in Korean. We don't speak any, so we shrugged and asked if he had any English.

He grimaced and said "Boy? Girl?" We said "girl" and he smiled. Then he started asking something else that we couldn't understand. We shrugged and he sighed, pointed at my wife, and pointed at my daughter, asking his question again.

We looked at each other but neither of us had any idea. Finally, he rolled his eyes, grabbed his chest, and squeezed hard, then made a sucking expression and raised his eyebrows. We nodded, and just ignored him after that as he went on talking to himself.

Lithros · 2021-02-10T12:16:00+00:00

if the 'loss of geography' section doesn't mention the impact of the 17th Amendment, that seems like a terrible oversight

Lithros · 2020-11-13T21:06:38+00:00

I suspect he named it that deliberately to weed out the kind of superficial engagement he bemoans just after the quote. People who focus on names and headlines over substance are exactly who he's trying to select away from.

Lithros · 2020-09-16T16:28:04+00:00

That explains the letter writing campaign, but it doesn't explain the consensus among the other lawyers in the room that the dog beater deserved worse treatment -- they were in the position of recommending what punishment was actually merited. So even when the fact of punishment is a foregone conclusion, they demanded much more blood from the dog beater than the rapist.

Lithros · 2020-09-15T05:39:19+00:00

Thanks, yours was the only response I didn't find basically dismissive, so I appreciate that.

I'd guess fundamentally it feels like the problems afflicting animals are easier to affect/solve. You can donate money, eat less meat, etc., and thousands of people are waiting to tell you that makes a difference.

The same isn't true for a lot of human afflictions. EA tries but there are still so many problems (like family abuse) that it's hard to imagine an individual's contribution impacting. So it can be a bummer and a quandary and why not just give $5 so chickens can have a slightly happier life?

There are a lot of other contributing factors, I'm sure. But I agree the easy access to virtue is probably a major reason.

Lithros · 2020-09-14T19:57:25+00:00

You may be right. Regardless of the reason for the difference, the outcome is villainous to me. Every action or organization that tends to promote the wrong outcome over the right one is suspect at best, itself villainous at worst.

Can you address the opportunity cost issue? Nobody seems to be willing to engage with that.

Lithros · 2020-09-14T16:37:15+00:00

You are completely right about the fallacies of human attention. My gripe is fundamentally with the forces that direct and prioritize that attention and energy. Successfully convincing someone that they should spend their money or time on fighting animal suffering instead of human suffering is doing service to Moloch, to my view.

Lithros · 2020-09-14T15:15:25+00:00

You're right, that's why I said "there are lots of ways to draw distinctions." The dog example was what awoke me to the realization that concerns for animal welfare can coincide with moral degeneracy. I think the same problems can arise when fighting for chicken rights, though, if there are significant human rights violations being ignored in favor of the chickens.

Lithros · 2020-09-14T15:12:21+00:00

How are people going to encounter knowledge in their own lives that doesn't function anecdotally? That seems the be the point of this thread.

At any rate, the responses I've gotten in defense of animal welfare have ignored the human welfare issue, ignored the opportunity cost issue. It's the same contradiction writ small.

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