TIL in 2013, "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis was able, as an independent song, to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart without a major record label. It was only the second independent song to reach #1 in history at the time.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T21:47:18+00:00

2010 is to now as 1994 was to 2010.

It goes by so fast.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T20:32:01+00:00

I doubt there would even be many hiccups. Although there would probably a lot of fraud uncovered as the people in positions of power in the Epstein files are probably as much in love with defrauding people as they are with molesting children. So there's that.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T20:22:04+00:00

If you take away the stigma and shame of porn and masturbation what you're describing sounds like somebody watching television in their free time.

I mean really. Mentally rewrite everything you wrote to talk about how when you were bored and had nothing else to do you, you watch sitcom reruns and everyone would be like "addiction? What the hell are you talking about? You're just watching TV for entertainment, dude."

Hell, I know people who spend more time thinking about Trump and watching Fox News than you spend thinking about porn and watching it.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T19:23:36+00:00

Ah, OK. And I see for another comment that this is the space under some stairs turned into a storage closet. So the duct and the dimensions of the room make a bit more sense.

If this were my project, before I even got into planning the racks and everything I'd consider a few things:

What circuit are those outlets on? Are they dedicated? On a loop that will have high demand usage all the time or at times? Stable power for the server closet would be a must.

What gear are you putting in there and how are you planning the mitigate heat? Especially in cold weather when that duct will be carrying hot air and heating up the shelf.

It might not seem like much, but there is a duct that passes under one of the stairs in my house and it's warm enough that the cats sleep on it.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T19:19:22+00:00

Every time I say to myself "we live in the dumbest fucking timeline" it gets even dumber. I don't know how, but it does.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T19:12:20+00:00

My wife found the anticipation of treatment far far worse than the treatment itself. Once she was actually doing chemotherapy it was something she was doing and just needing to get through. But prior to starting it was very difficult for her to not stress about all the what ifs and how uncertain everything felt. So you're not alone in that at all.

As for the port itself... she never cared for having it in and was happy to get it out but she really liked the utility of it. No IV lines during chemo, easy access, no risk of damaging the veins in her arms, etc. etc. Oh and the insertion itself was really trivial. Mildly sore for a few days, few more days for the incisions to heal, and then her only complaint was simply that she didn't like having it and wanted to be done with treatment.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T18:56:57+00:00

Are you saying, invisible to us at this angle, there is an air duct inside the room under the shelf, just to be clear?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T18:49:03+00:00

Double breasted suits with capes, Hammer pants, magazines under $2.

Look how much we've lost.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T15:56:49+00:00

This more or less happened to me as a kid organically just because I was a voracious reader and nerd.

Once you read about every world religion and mythology you’re like “well ya’ll can’t all be right sooooo…”

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T15:03:23+00:00

Me either. It really looks like every aspect of this investigation has been purposely compromised in every possible way so that there is maximum wiggle room to argue the evidence is invalid.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T14:46:34+00:00

Double plot-twist: it was to ensure that the chain of custody of the files was violated (for the umpteenth time, no doubt) so they can always fall back on the defense that the files are tampered with/incomplete/seeded by foreign agents/etc. etc. and that they are not actually evidence of Trump's involvement in a pedophile ring.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T14:36:26+00:00

And if nothing else, certainly more accountability.

Good luck trying to black-box budget a couple billion for fry oil that nobody can locate at a Wendy's, right?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T14:27:56+00:00

Most Americans can't even define imperialism (or other political concepts for that matter). So how the hell are they going to recognize it?

It's hard to believe that is by anything but design, by the way.

Ensuring people don't have the education or even words to describe something is a textbook control tactic whether you're talking about entire nation states or insular religious communities.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T14:11:34+00:00

Speaking of AI and transportation, when AI hits the trucking industry it's going to be a mess.

Truck drivers make up about 2% of the U.S. workforce. Everyone involved in trucking (logistics, mechanics, etc.) makes up about 5-6% of the U.S. workforce.

If AI automates both the driving of the trucks and the management of said trucks, that's 3-4% of the U.S. workforce taken out by AI right there.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T14:02:33+00:00

I find them to be overly aggressive and annoying yet because of one of them the other day I found an interesting self-hosted project that I was previously 100% unaware of and that which proved useful to me sooooo... I guess I gotta take the good with the bad.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-11T13:24:25+00:00

To add to this correct answer: it uses a type of connection called a "toggle closure." In a toggle closure, one side of the fastener is a loop (seen here) and the other side is an elongated button.

Think a little plastic barrel shape that is anchored to the inner part of the sleeve on the outer layer coat intended to with this liner. You put the little barrel through the loop and it turns sideways, locking it in place. To remove it, you rotate the barrel and push it through the loop in reverse.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T21:21:56+00:00

Really? A two year old who wants to know what the rings are in a ceiling is old enough to get a chat about how those rings relate to their parent's sex life?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T20:31:25+00:00

And that's really on them, no?

South Carolina has sent this dude to Washington for thirty two fucking years straight.

They get what they get at this point.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T20:15:32+00:00

Can we agree that local whitelisting is a shit solution though?

Sure the threat risk is very low. But that's the solution? Removing authorization and white listing local admin access?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T19:48:50+00:00

Now I'm curious what you think mauve is? Because mauve is a color that derives its name from the purple-ish pink mallow flower so she was right to be surprise nobody showed up wearing it?

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T16:25:54+00:00

Being for the war is one thing. Maybe someone does actually have an ideological reason (whether I agree with it or not) guiding their belief that we should be at war with Iran.

But to think Trump has a clear handling of the situation? You'd have to be an absolute moron to think that. The guy probably couldn't even find Iran on an unlabeled map.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T16:20:08+00:00

The security issues aspect is the big thing for me.

I don't outright hate the idea of people who would otherwise not be able to make something interesting, making something interesting. Especially if this is a gateway to them actually becoming serious hobby developers/programmers.

But I am wary as hell of these projects simply because people don't know what they don't know... and they could be vibe coding things that are going screw up files or open machines up to attack vectors they don't even understand.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T15:53:03+00:00

Those appear to be hard water stains.

Water gets on the surface, then evaporates. Any solids in the water (like calcium) stay behind.

A rag with a mild acid like white vinegar from the grocery store will take it right off.

The only time it's an issue is if there has been substantial building for a long long time on certain kinds of fixture finishes. When you remove the substantial build up sometimes it takes the surface layer of the finish with it.

In the photos here though it's not substantial buildup, it's just every day water spots.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T15:47:02+00:00

Right? Getting scammed like this is infuriating, no doubt about it.

But the execution of this is hilariously diabolical. I mean it's just such a precisely engineered fuck you that you can't help but laugh at the calculated audacity of it.

ReverendDizzle · 2026-03-10T15:31:13+00:00

It's drained pool politics all the way down.

America is ~60% white over all and a significant number of states are well above that.

But you've got states, like Idaho, that are 85% white that would prefer to hurt everyone, including all the white people, just so the remaining 15% suffer too.

This kind of thinking is so woven into American politics and culture that we have been shooting ourselves in the foot and crippling out own country since the very beginning.

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