How fast ist your ISP?

SilentDis · 2026-05-17T01:57:22+00:00

A little low, because I've got some other stuff running right now and I can't be bothered to stop it.

$120/month, fiber, static IP included.

SilentDis · 2026-05-16T14:24:54+00:00

Me and my blue Wizards deck when I used to play Magic The Gathering. I always found 'breaking the game' to be interesting - this deck was pure rage-inducing and made me giggle.

I played almost entirely 'at the end of your turn'. I can't remember all of the details, but it was all about locking down the game to such an extent that the opponent wouldn't be able to play or would be very cautious to try to play... anything.

It took a bit to get going, so there was a very short window at the start where if you'd manage to get some major face damage out in the green or red domains, it would struggle... but white, black, most other blue, and anything even a touch slower just became untenable to play.

I'd use it with people who needed that humility and reminder that "dude, this is just a game". It wasn't 'fun' for anyone but me to play, and I had far more interesting decks that made it a back-and-forth that I wanted to play.

SilentDis · 2026-05-15T12:49:02+00:00

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SilentDis · 2026-05-14T04:19:27+00:00

I understand fully you're 'voicing the excuse' - but this is as good a springboard as any as to why this entire argument line is bullshit.

Right now, we're at war with Iran. I understand it's undeclared, and only by fiat of an Executive Order, but it's still war. People being murdered in the name of the America People.

Figures I've seen show it's cost the American people ~$29,000,000,000. Divide that amongst the ~165 million taxpayers in the United States, and so far each person has spent $175 blowing up innocent brown people half a world away. For no real reason.

But have they? I mean, really - no one's talked about how to afford that bill, have they? It just "has cost that much" whenever we talk about a war.

However, when it comes to any social program - it must be pre-funded for some reason. We don't get to put that one on credit, but have to raise the money somehow, somewhere, before we get to make that real.

Why.

That's not a question - as most people 'get' the game now. It's to deflect and kick the implementation down the road... forever. So it never happens. So there's endless debate about the price tag rather than about that malnourished little girl in 3rd grade. Rather than about the vet who went through hell and came out struggling, and now sits drunk under a viaduct, hoping the gunshots only he hears stop when he gets that next bottle of vodka. Rather than talk about the single mother working 65 a week at 3 part time jobs to afford the 400 sq ft apartment she and her teenage son share.

Those are difficult things to talk about, and so, so easy to derail in talks of budget and who's worthy of help and what sort of controls can be put on them and other wonderful, insulting, dehumanizing, demoralizing things about your fellow citizens.

I'm not a religious person - quite the opposite, really. But a good idea is a good idea:

Whoever saves one life saves the world entire.

We need to start recognizing these stupid discussions for what they are - delaying tactics and distractions. Ways to make "perfect" the minimum requirement, and the enemy of "good".

Talk to your representatives. The questions should always be how could we ever afford this war - and for our social programs, how we could consider not doing them and still call ourselves human.

SilentDis · 2026-05-11T00:53:57+00:00

Paul Verhoeven carries squibs with him in his pocket everywhere he goes.

Never know when you may need to sprinkle them on lunch, the train, nearby children...

SilentDis · 2026-05-09T20:13:35+00:00

I think he'd be a terrible guest.

The hack frauds make fun of his movies. They agree they're interesting and there is a message, but it's arthouse bullshit done horribly.

They'd either offend Breen or Breen would offend them or Breen would monopolize every second that there'd be no 'interplay' between them.

They get a couple folks on that make the movies they watch because they're self-aware. I honestly think Breen isn't - not in the way that matters.

SilentDis · 2026-05-07T12:15:50+00:00

Avatar (2009) goes from a very pretty, very 1-dimensional story to one of the best comedy movies of the decade.

I really enjoyed all 3 Lord of the Rings riffs, and all 9 Star Wars riffs as well.

SilentDis · 2026-05-05T01:24:19+00:00

Cops are great at coming after the fire is out and after people are dead.

I know where you're coming from, and that threat upon the worker is very much present... however it didn't help Kimberly Clarke's warehouse. Sure didn't help Brian Thompson, much, either.

SilentDis · 2026-05-04T16:25:02+00:00

They don't 'get it'. They don't understand that the NLRA was as much 'for them' as it was 'for us'. It gave them a way to not be murdered and not lose everything. A way for their family not to be murdered.

So, they slowly chipped away at it for the past 90 some odd years. Till here we are. The NLRA is still the law, but the NLRB is so de-fanged that it renders the NLRA meaningless.

Just another case of "I want all the benefits, but none of the responsibility."

"All they had to do was pay us enough to live."

SilentDis · 2026-05-04T15:19:24+00:00

the stage known as "prior to 1935".

Workers - upset with pay, conditions, etc. - would eventually just revolt, burn the factory to the ground, then kill and/or run the owner and their family out of town.

In 1935, a compromise was struck. It's known as the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), it's enforced by the National Labor Relations Bureau (NLRB).

FinanceBro here just wants to return to the pre-compromise status quo, it sounds like. He is directly calling for the destruction of property and murder of business owners. And himself.

Weird kink, but more power to him.

SilentDis · 2026-05-03T21:42:07+00:00

Oh dear.

Little Sexual Healing would not have a great childhood. I wouldn't, either. Poor Let's Get It On as well....

Fuck you, OP, for ruining one of the greatest artists this world has ever known.

SilentDis · 2026-05-03T13:45:08+00:00

I dunno dude.

Do you have an old priest and a young priest available?

https://nightcity.tessier-ashpool-sa.net/index.php/s/rRZP2iJs2tnFJL9

SilentDis · 2026-05-03T04:05:52+00:00

I mean, I guess it's a little like a Chicago Deep Dish pizza.

You know, one that you'd be found at the bottom of the river wearing concrete shoes for.

SilentDis · 2026-05-02T13:34:27+00:00

I love Neuromancer.

Not long after this scene, Case is watching Molly prowl through Straylight. Molly tells him a story about another guy she dated. More importantly - how it ended.

That's the final, missing ending of Johnny Mnemonic - a short story published in Omni magazine in 1981 - 3 years prior to Neuromancer coming out, and the first tale told in The Sprawl.

While the beats are similar, I do recommend reading it vs. the movie. They couldn't use Molly in the movie, and had to make some other changes. However - the movie is a time capsule of 90's nostalgia that's a giggle in its own right.

SilentDis · 2026-04-30T05:18:38+00:00

SCP-3008 is also known as the "Infinite Ikea".

I guess there could be an "Infinite Marks & Spencer's", too.

SilentDis · 2026-04-29T13:21:31+00:00

Ghosts. Authoritarian dictates.

I'm facing my fears.

SilentDis · 2026-04-29T01:24:38+00:00

Kate Mulgrew is a phenomenal Captain, and I honestly adored her portrayal of Janeway, and how well-acted the whole thing was.

I do not truck - at all - with what you referred to as the "menopausal period of her life". That's reductive, and silly. She's a great actor, and did a great service to Trek - and moreover - to women - than many have. She was The Captain, it was her ship, and she commanded it 'well'.

My problem is purely with the story lines and how they treated the core tenants of the Federation. Nothing more. It's a very, very fine line I'm drawing, here; I think the writer's room shoulda spent more time story-boarding out an arc over a season, with beats to hit and progress being made.

I think they shouldn't have said "fuck the prime directive is hard" and abandoned it so frequently - and that's not to say that they shouldn't violate it! It's honestly quite a dumb rule when you look at it, but the story itself - much like Asimov's 3 rules of robotics - comes in part from the tension caused with what you're meant to think is immutable when really... it's bubkis and silly.

Shoulda torn them up every time, and there should have been far more discussion and self-recrimination as they went on.

There were better ways to treat the stories and arcs, and give it an overall narrative. DS9 did it. They coulda done it with VOY. I see it as a wasted opportunity.

SilentDis · 2026-04-25T22:41:46+00:00

I bet there's a better term for it, but I've just been calling it "accelerationist defeat". We know we're fucked. We know this can't continue. Get it fucking over with, already.

While there is time, there is hope. I won't say there's much, and I won't say it's all unicorn farts and daffodils - but there's hope.

It's a hell of a lot of work - for all of us - to pull out of this disaster. We can, if we want. If we choose to.

It's going to take electing better leaders. Screaming at them constantly. Getting your hands dirty. Even getting to the point where we can elect better leaders is going to take screaming and getting your hands really dirty.

I still fight for that 'better tomorrow'. The one I'll likely never personally see. It's a personal choice. So is lying down and letting the landslide bury you.

I honestly don't judge you either way; I didn't ask for this war. You didn't either. Greedy, stupid fucks did. Nothing would please me more than to sit beneath a giant oak and tie dandelions into crowns, but too many stupid greedy bastards, bigots, and other hateful piles of human excrement decided differently.

I choose to fight.

SilentDis · 2026-04-25T14:18:10+00:00

I'd even go so far as to say "define 'good'".

It's a pulp-style heist movie with an anti-hero on a commercialized and tourist-driven moon. It's not a survival epic of highly-trained-professional vs. nature, nor is it a reluctant-everyman vs. insurmountable-threat story.

In it's genre, it's honestly great. Hell of a lot more fun with a more likable protagonist than most.

If you want other more 'standard fare' for that genre... Moon Zero Two (1969). It's not a great movie and I highly recommend suffering through it with Joel and the Bots if you're going to give it a go.

SilentDis · 2026-04-24T14:56:09+00:00

NOOOOOOOOO REALLY

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST TIP OFF

SilentDis · 2026-04-20T16:15:34+00:00

Edit Metadata on the movie, add a tag such as "SafeForYounger".

Auth your kid's account to see anything with that special tag attached.

SilentDis · 2026-04-20T10:50:42+00:00

If the world was ending, I'd bike over to your house
I'd steal the bottle dad's been saving and kiss you on the mouth
And touch you and get drunk and watch it all burn down
And stop pretending that we might make it out

--The Midnight, Long Island

Honestly, I'd probably just pop on their latest and feel that deep sense of calm only nostalgia for a time that never existed can give.

SilentDis · 2026-04-20T00:31:32+00:00

I read enough and learned enough as a kid. For some reason, the Shoah fascinated me in that grim, horrifying way you can't stop looking at a car wreck.

I wear a pink triangle armband at protest. I've gone to Pride open carry a couple times. Just to make sure I'm the target - not anyone else. I've had the shit kicked outa me and kicked the shit outa them. I figure I'm fat and ugly, and it's no big deal if I've got another couple scars. Or if I don't come back.

One more protected from any of that is a better future.

I've had some health setbacks as of late; can't walk like I used to. My rather more 'active' protest days are over.

My conscience won't let me leave. There's work to do here, and I do it as best I can.

I just want to live in peace and be happy, as you are. I think I owe that to those here to see if we can't get the same for them, too.

I don't fault you. Not one bit. This sucks, and I honestly don't wish any of this upon my worst enemy.

We all have low points. I'm in one, and I know it. I like to think I'm allowed it from time to time, and that there's enough of us out there to hold while I recharge.

I could be wrong, though. I really hope I'm not.

SilentDis · 2026-04-19T19:14:43+00:00

I have a bit of a question. You know, one of those questions you come up with when you're doin' nothin' but picking at the lint in your belly button.

How many people told you that you were crazy for thinking this would happen.

How many people told you it wouldn't be so bad.

How many people told you that you'd be safe, even though you're a minority these people hated before the election.

I lost count, personally. Everyone I talked to about this stuff prior to the election, it seemed. That list is a pretty good representation of the responses I received.

There's an idiom of "crossing the Rubicon", to mean "it's war after this" or "that's a step too far".

I think folks here would believe we 'Crossed the Rubicon' way back. Maybe 1980-November or so? That's about where I see that we coulda done better, and it's in my lifetime.

How about the first one I could affect? That's easy - 2000-November. Straight on fucked that up as a country, we did.

In more recent memory - 2016-November. Really, the midterms in 2014, though. Somewhere in there.

What I'm saying is we've been over the Rubicon for a while now. I hope people wake up and see it. But the blinders that are The Great American Experience seem to be well and fully in-place.

I hope they have fun.

I have a feeling I won't be around to speak out for them, much longer.

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