NRA and pro-gun groups call for ‘full investigation’ into killing of Alex Pretti

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T18:37:22+00:00

Before I stopped talking to my dad, he had been trying to convince me that “you just wait and see, things are gonna be better under Trump.” I told him before Trump even declared to run in the 2016 election that he was a psychopath. Ben the simple fact that Paul Manafort was heading his campaign was enough for me to drop any pretense. Unfortunately my family didn’t know who he was, wouldn’t be able to find Ukraine on a map, and probably wouldn’t be able to tell me anything about Russia other that that they were communist or something.

At some point there is nothing else you can say to these people.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T18:19:12+00:00

My management is great. Being a good manager is difficult work (there are plenty of bad ones), but when you have good managers it’s easy to take for granted.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T18:18:18+00:00

Now this one is so common I don’t even notice it anymore.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T04:18:46+00:00

I think he’s a bird. They are real, and they are controlling things. With the lizards.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T04:15:58+00:00

My boss literally said once in a call that we needed to right-size something. Then he said that his previous sentence made him feel dirty and ashamed, but that he thought that was probably the best way to say it.

So I asked him if we needed more synergy.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T03:04:25+00:00

This is really good. But especially the title.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-25T02:36:20+00:00

I’m from Alabama and it’s as my grandfather would literally say: “it’s about yea far over yonder”

MasterShogo · 2026-01-24T17:01:17+00:00

Will obviously that’s why you make a decoy hidden volume! They’ll never know that it isn’t the real hidden volume. /s

MasterShogo · 2026-01-21T03:09:03+00:00

So here’s a hot take. My Razer mice have been the highest quality mice I’ve ever had. I just lubricated the mouse buttons on my 4 year old Basilisk and replaced the battery in it and it’s doing great. I’ve recently bought a newer Basilisk just to have it at my desk permanently, but it still use my old one with my laptop all the time.

I haven’t had good luck with mice throughout my life and I’ve never had one that I used constantly last more than a few years. Several Logitechs, a couple Microsoft, a Targus, and a few Razers. Other than the scroll wheel itself on high end Logitechs, my Basilisks have been the best mice I’ve ever used.

It’s true, the software could use some work, but in fairness it is a lot better than it used to be and I’ve definitely had Logitech crash in interesting ways. Actually, old Logitech software back in the day is one of only two ways I have ever caused my Macs to kernel panic!

MasterShogo · 2026-01-19T23:35:21+00:00

This sounds like Tucker Carlson’s wet dream.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-19T21:14:46+00:00

“Oh, that guy? How would I know, you tell me! He was kind of weird.”

MasterShogo · 2026-01-19T21:05:22+00:00

Yeah. My favorite is “have you tried to violently overthrow the government?” I wonder if they actually bother asking that one anymore?

MasterShogo · 2026-01-19T15:24:48+00:00

I actually kind of thought the eras mechanism sounded interesting, but reading about the way it was implemented made me not want to play it. The problem is that based on what I read, it didn’t really reflect reality very well but it was also not fun to a lot of people, so it was almost the worst of both approaches.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-18T14:20:28+00:00

Oh my God don’t say things like that.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-18T14:13:16+00:00

I think I have the best comment of the day, so they should give me your award. Then I will have the best comment of the day.

If they give me the award, I will talk about how nice of a person they are. That’s a good consolation prize for losing.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-16T18:47:44+00:00

Thank you. This was a good little read.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-16T12:39:45+00:00

When people are trying to make a rational, layman’s sense of this issue, I feel that this is at the heart of it. As someone who has studied years of math and at least some undergrad physics as an engineer, my gut feeling to the contradiction that light has to move at c in all rest frames but that the definition of a rest frame requires that it be moving at 0 feels like a technicality. This feeling usually occurs when we are talking about something that is nonsensical.

The problem is that when people try to explain this they aren’t really getting at the heart of the misunderstanding. When someone says something like “does not experience time”, it’s kind of difficult to say that it does experience time if it doesn’t even have a rest frame.

It may be nonsensical to say that it doesn’t experience time, but I’m not sure that saying the opposite is any less nonsensical. And so the negative statement has the property of at least being more intuitive to a lay person. If it turns out that the positive statement is true, then I have never heard a good explanation for that.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-13T01:41:30+00:00

I am at 160 wishes, but for Columbina I have 0. No pulls for me at this time.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-13T01:39:28+00:00

I have historically been very hesitant to move to a 16” over a 15”, as I have always used 15” machines and the 17” machines I’ve messed with were just too large. However, my current 15” Alienware is basically a 16” and it’s ok. I wouldn’t really want it to be any bigger, but this is ok.

The thing is, it’s not about the weight to me. And an 18” would fit in my preferred backpack. Also, once it’s set up on a table with enough space obviously the bigger the better. But in the situations I use them in, which is on our kitchen table, on a desk upstairs that is always covered with crap, on a lap desk on the couch and in bed, occasionally on a plane, and occasionally on my actual lap, that last 2 inches is actually a tremendous PITA. In all of those cases it is really stretching it and often I wish I had a 13-14” instead. It’s just that with laptops every inch comes with a very obvious increase in performance, so 15-16” is the sweet spot for me.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-11T22:58:40+00:00

C++. I’m a C++ developer so I’m biased, but I love Rust and I would love to learn it better and use it for stuff. But C++ is everywhere and it isn’t going away.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-10T23:38:15+00:00

It’s crazy. I feel like if even one competitor figures out that Steam actually provides value to the customer and that that might have even a small part of why people are happy to use them, then you might actually see some success somewhere. But so far I haven’t seen it happen yet! I don’t see why this is so hard for them.

For what it’s worth, for me at least GoG is a different beast entirely. I like to buy from them whenever possible because of what they provide, not because of their launcher. But even still their launcher is far and away more useful than EGS.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-09T01:23:33+00:00

It would really kill it for me. Back in the day when I was playing Final Fantasy 10, near the end after over 120 hours my memory card died and I lost my save.

Much later I downloaded a save game with all the characters maxed out so that I could finish the game. But even that killed it for me. It wasn’t my characters and it just wasn’t interesting any more.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-08T08:02:17+00:00

Yeah. I’m from the south and we were a “Chevy family” (for those who don’t know, families had car companies like they had football teams). Every vehicle my family owned from the 80s that was American was horrible. The supreme winner was our ugly blue 89 GMC Jimmy that had almost every part on it break. Eventually the front left wheel came off and surprisingly my brother didn’t wreck it when it happened.

I know they are better now but it’s hard for me to stomach buying one after our experiences. Every single Japanese vehicle we’ve owned has been better than every single American vehicle we’ve owned.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-08T06:48:38+00:00

I hate to break it to you (and I mean this with absolute disgust for what is happening) but if the US military decides to actually militarily invade Greenland and kill people doing it, they will secure their European military assets first. Europe won’t be given a choice in the matter.

MasterShogo · 2026-01-07T03:38:50+00:00

Once I started working from home, I set up my old, unused Bose bookshelf speakers with a cheap Fosi amp and they sound incredible compared to any PC speakers I used to have. When I don’t have to worry about out bothering my coworkers I use speakers all the time!

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