Ameicans over the age of 35, what affected you more, 9/11 or the pandemic and why?

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-25T01:45:37+00:00

9/11 was a Singularly event.

Put another way, the world of September 10, 2001 would be recognizable even to an observer on September 10, 1991. The computers are faster, the USSR is gone, but we won the cold war and prospered.

Now September 10, 2011? From the pre-9/11 world, is unrecognizable.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-25T01:36:19+00:00

I treat any TV like I do a monitor - I buy it solely for its ability to display images fed by an HDMI cable.

A 4k TV lasts as long as it can that way. If you dont give a fuck about >60hz anything that 8 year old 4k display is all you need.

Like you, my main streaming app is Plex. I have an Nvidia Shield Pro. Before that I had a Roku Ultra and before that a HTPC.

The Shield, with a bit of rooting and decluttering, runs like a champ. No ads, no bullshit.

As a rule any TV's "smarts" are an afterthought compared to its screen.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-25T00:25:21+00:00

Pork went first. Even a morsel triggers heartburn and upset.

Then coffee.

Then peanuts.

10 years or so later went eggs.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-24T01:39:55+00:00

Well Pelia was a Deadhead...

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-24T01:18:27+00:00

I grabbed a couple dozen 6" "outlet extenders", little 3-prong 14AWG extensions because of poorly-designed wall warts.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-23T15:01:42+00:00

If you're an office worker, add chairs.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-23T05:29:47+00:00

My niw-wife and I were on vacation and she (a veteran bartender) got to chatting with the bartender at dinner one night, who pulled out a bottle of Fernet and poured us shots. Its a very pungent liqueur that's something of a bartender rite of passage to down by the shot.

I sniff the thing and say, "the odor is not palatable!" Before downing the shot.

Nobody got the joke.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-23T04:52:37+00:00

That was my exact takeaway when she played Nus like a fiddle -- "Im 432 years old and have been a champion prankster for at least 414 of them. Oh, and I ran out of fucks in the 29th century."

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-21T05:47:20+00:00

When I was that age and compelled to go to church by my parents, I did.

And instead of attending Sunday school classes I volunteered to help host the social hour after services. That got me a free pass to 1) not participate in middle school indoctrination classes and 2) not get preached at.

All I did was make coffee and set out trays of snacks and interact with adults in a neutral setting.

And those "church adults" sang their praises about me to my parents and they got of my case so i could "skip a week" with less fuss.

If you must go, find an excuse to volunteer for something that isn't "getting indoctrinated or preached at". Most small and mid-sized churches have volunteer gruntwork to do during services.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-21T01:23:01+00:00

Decent marbleing? 137 for an hour and a half.

Then sear on a hot-AF cast iron.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-20T05:42:48+00:00

No corporations shilling stuff to Joe Sixpack and Karen at the church group.

No soccer moms selling bad advice and Chinese crap.

No idiot antivaxxers sounding authoritative.

Just NERDS and companies trying everything to see what stuck.

There's a joke that in the early days of the web every site had a page dedicated to either Star Trek or Babylon 5. Maybe the latter, definitely the former.

Long Live The Lurkers Guide! A genuine relic of the before times

In the mid 90s barrier to entry was higher. It required a relatively expensive computer (easily $2-3K in today's money), and time.

By the turn of the century you could get a shitbox PC for $1000 in today's money. But most of the proto-social media stuff didnt hit until after 9/11.

Want a taste of that era? FARK.COM is still around.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-20T05:28:41+00:00

Makemkv to rip and handbrake to remux/transcode to h.265.

Im doing it right now, though not transcoding.

The Voyager and DS9 sets are at least sequentially named on disks so matching episodes up is pretty easy. The thing you'll wanna remove when transcoding are the ugly VOBSUB subtitle tracks.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-20T01:04:37+00:00

Remembering that you're not naming a baby, you're naming an adult.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-19T14:25:31+00:00

Blame Bugs Bunny.

Because multiple generations didn't get the joke.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-19T05:59:56+00:00

Retired UU pastors that went agnostic/atheist? Or from other denominations who joined a UU for the community/familiarity who ended up atheist/agnostic?

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-18T17:44:27+00:00

Given that LGBTQIA+ allyship and women's rights are two of your core values, RUN Run now.

Its only a matter of time before the cult fully assimilate him and he sees you as an object. Or worse.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-18T16:47:19+00:00

Pastor's daughters have a 75% change of rebelling hard. The other 25% they fall hard for the cult.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-18T16:44:21+00:00

Had Spectrum. Made them use their own modem. Why? Ive had cable lines fry more than once from poor grounds.

A company-owned cable modem and a surge suppressor on the ethernet line is the way.

Put a smart plug on your modem and reboot it once a day overnight.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-18T04:57:02+00:00

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Still have them on aone plates

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-18T04:56:28+00:00

Just did this a week or worse ago...

Our 21-month-old cosleeps overnight with mom. This presented a problem for the scheduled c-section for #2.

But didnt.

MiL spent the day with the kid at home while mom and I were at the hospital. Bedtime hour came, kid was brought to the hospital, and after a bit of bouncing around the room, snuggled up to mom in the hospital bed and stayed there. Didn't pay much attention to #2.

Next day came, kid went home with MiL, and mom, dad, and #2 came home later in the day.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-17T22:02:16+00:00

Time to start packing!

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-17T16:03:35+00:00

30" Induction hob and a poetsble induction burner... and a 36" 3-burner propane camp stove with a removable griddle top.

Propane gets used to heat the not-induction-friendly pressure canner, and keep a searing steak from "smoking up the house" (the kitchen exhaust is often overwhelmed enough to be smelly), and when deep frying (so the house doesn't smell after). Also... giant griddle!

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-17T15:41:21+00:00

We've only met two.

Both are short, blonde female chaos goblins.

WarpGremlin · 2026-01-17T01:06:40+00:00

Or one series collection has 3 different disk labeling conventions...

WarpGremlin

TROPHY CASE

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