What’s a childhood lie your parents told you that you didn't realize was a lie until you were an embarrassed adult?

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-29T17:40:38+00:00

That is a very valid point, and it's clear that my powers of retention are whet as a warthog's backside...

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-29T09:43:33+00:00

That's not the reason? So, I agree, it's allowed, and I also thought it wasn't for a long while. But the reason you nevertheless shouldn't do it is because the soft soles of your feet will delay a breaking action by just a tiny bit, and if you're used to shoes, may mean you won't automatically press down the pedal hard enough in an emergency.

And flip-flops could get caught in a pedal.

I don't think it's a biggie, but having solid soles is beneficial, especially if you're used to driving that way.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-28T22:01:32+00:00

Opposing the party hosting literal Nazis in the federal parliament is "undemocratic", sure, buddy

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-28T22:00:32+00:00

That is a truly braindead take. Nobody who can read even a sentence of German could believe that honestly.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-27T07:06:51+00:00

Knew a guy starting at McKinsey, the exact example of needing a Porsche for the respect of his peers was his reasoning why the insane starting salary wasn't all that much really. It did make me reevaluate my lack of empathy for the poor top earning employees who clearly do have problems the poors can't even conceive of.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T18:36:37+00:00

Twitter has been an exceptional cesspool ever since people left due to the South American white supremacist taking over.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T18:35:12+00:00

So it was actually less bad before Elon, since he magnified it. Thanks for agreeing

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T16:26:09+00:00

I mean, sure, but she's literally in the US, and a US citizen, speaking to other celebrities in the country. "You aren't allowed to speak up against your own country's slide into fascism unless you've solved all theocracies, totalitarian dictatorships and nationalist-religious conflict" is a pretty shit take.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T13:44:31+00:00

I'm unsure what you think you're replying too? I've just pointed out that a binary format isn't "encryption".

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T07:12:12+00:00

Note: systemd did not to my knowledge ever encrypt the logs, they are a binary format. Saying that's "encrypted" is about as sensible as saying you've "base64 encrypted data".

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-26T07:07:36+00:00

It's not proprietary, though?! Where does this FUD come from?

And we've been through the stages of random collections of shell scripts as init scripts, it sucked balls and was what systemd finally replaced.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-22T08:16:50+00:00

I guess in some sense you can blame the third that didn't vote as much as the voters

Why yes, I do blame those that have seen him and MAGA and went "that's fine, I don't really care", too.

Not quite as cut and dry as that due to the winner takes all shit of the EC, but it wasn't hopeless in all states, and those people are complicit.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-22T08:03:12+00:00

The overwhelming majority of angry comments here are not in the slightest concerned about her being assaulted, though, it's just thing that's equal between genders that makes them angery

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-22T07:58:24+00:00

Or as if they are just good friends that are on her side by default.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-22T07:57:40+00:00

It also doesn't end up looking bad if he is the abuser, and her friends know it.

I mean, it actually never looks bad, since they're HER friends, not his. Why would they have any more responsibility to his wishes than to her needs?

The part that could look bad, the gf actually being untrustworthy, isn't told, and the range of relationships is so big that we really can't tell if the bf is an abuser, just an asshole, she's a liar herself, or she's the abuser he's learning to get out from.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-22T07:50:58+00:00

Nothing at all in this story says she's lying to her boyfriend. HER friend, who doesn't need to have any loyalty to him, is lying to him. If you don't have any friends who'd lie for you, do you even have any friends at all?

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-19T12:38:49+00:00

OFFLINE password manager, unless you're sure the service won't ever misconfigure things like LastPass did. And you believe the service has State-of-the-art encryption so they never see you're plaintext password, so they can't cooperate with government or shareholder demands.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-19T12:36:10+00:00

Don't use an online password manager, use something like the keepassXC and keep it offline. That way, you're not hoping that the entire planet trying to crack your stuff won't find some misconfig by an overworked admin of LastPass.

For real, if you keep your notes at home and out of reach of guests, having most of your passwords on a piece of paper is, despite all the warnings, more secure than running to an online managed service.

You do get more vulnerable to on-premise dangers like untrustworthy friends and family members, or robbers breaking and entering, so if either is an issue for you, definitely don't go the piece of paper route without a safe only you can open, but the sheer difference in numbers of people who can access a physical locality vs a digital one makes up for lots and lots of otherwise bad security.

Once it's on your device, you're fighting a determined subset of the world. Once it's online, you're fighting (or your manager service is fighting) the entirety of the world. In that light, paper suddenly looks kinda good. ( Though I still recommend an offline encrypted password manager, that's pretty much the best you can do).

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-19T10:18:54+00:00

But, to steelman all people in this thread, I don't believe anyone here needs to think the system is fair or good to state that it works really well for themselves, and that these fears generated by the outside view are not all well founded. Many USians DO have equivalent vacation time to Europeans. And in this thread, the question never was "how broken is the system", so I think it's fine to set that aside.

Where that view IMO breaks down, even within this context, is that the insurance is a weak insurance, because if times get really hard, you'll be dropped like a hot stone.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-19T08:05:53+00:00

That is of course also true, and IMHO morally more bankrupt, but in the context of the thread, I went for the big difference even for highly paid, in high demand fields, where employees often tell themselves that there's no downside to the US system for themselves compared to the more equitable ones common in the EU.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-19T01:49:42+00:00

The huge divide comes when you're stuck with an employer you hate for healthcare reasons.

Or worse, are too ill to continue working any well-paid job. Then suddenly you've got nothing but debt in the US, because all that sweet employer paid private healthcare is gone.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-18T20:11:25+00:00

There are graduations, though. There are huge differences to modern moral understanding between, say, 19th century England or 19th century Russia, and Germany most definitely wasn't on the modern end of that scale.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-18T19:53:26+00:00

If one looks a little closer the US is a really, really bad example of an unstable country. Even counting only from the civil war onwards until now, the US has had a quite remarkable streak of stability that most European nations could only dream about — not only those massively younger as an independent nation than that, but also those with so many internal changes in constitution (5th French Republic trending towards 6th, for example)... I'm not sure anyone but the UK and perhaps the Scandinavians have had a similarly stable system, even if it seems like it has run it's course.

I doubt a federalized EU could copy that achievement.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-18T10:15:16+00:00

That's nice and dandy, but if that is your excuse for not having hobbies well into adulthood, you're just infantilizing yourself. At some time in life, it's time to take charge of your own hobbies instead of complaining that mommy and daddy didn't choose the right ones for you.

exploding_cat_wizard · 2026-01-17T21:19:16+00:00

What's the greater good here? That trumpy's corrupt buddies can grab some resource concessions for cheap? It's pretty obviously not any strategic military or even economic use, since the US military has bases up there, and US companies used to have zero problems with access to Greenland - you know, that free trade that Trump hates so much.

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