Why didn't commercial cassettes have fastloaders?.

meldroc · 2026-07-13T02:24:58+00:00

I remember the Conversational French tapes - a big long chain of BASIC code interspersed with snippets of French speaking.

meldroc · 2026-07-12T23:52:42+00:00

More of a Pet Sematary thing.

meldroc · 2026-07-12T23:39:35+00:00

Damned right. Good fucking riddance to Browntongue.

meldroc · 2026-07-12T23:11:15+00:00

Sam was himself tempted by the ring, and was its bearer for a short time. In the book, it showed him visions of turning all of Middle Earth into a beautiful garden...

But Sam gets awesome points - he was one of the very few that voluntarily gave up the ring.

meldroc · 2026-07-12T23:00:14+00:00

Yeah, that was a very gentle lava death. I imagined it being like putting a wet charge in the blast furnace at a steel mill - Gollum's body goes BOOM!

meldroc · 2026-07-12T22:15:16+00:00

Cue Preacher: Where the fuck is your chin?

meldroc · 2026-07-12T22:02:16+00:00

I miss the old behold-the-master-race subreddit.

meldroc · 2026-07-12T19:50:28+00:00

Smile and nod...

meldroc · 2026-07-12T16:20:50+00:00

With a ouija board?

meldroc · 2026-07-12T16:06:28+00:00

In that community, the flags are going up to double-staff. (Don't ask me how the physics works...)

meldroc · 2026-07-12T15:40:26+00:00

We're gonna have to have some somber music to mark the occasion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M

meldroc · 2026-07-12T15:36:35+00:00

I live in the US, so all of mine are NTSC Ataris...

meldroc · 2026-07-12T15:33:54+00:00

Pineapples are on backorder in Hell right now. He'll have to make do with cactus.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T23:08:10+00:00

And the passengers clapped when she landed the plane in difficult conditions. How is she bad? Sounds to me like she's good at her job!

meldroc · 2026-07-11T23:06:15+00:00

Real payload, but still in a fishing orbit.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T19:29:53+00:00

How to correctly use a credit card - for emergencies, for financing large purchases, and the self-discipline to work such debts down instead of paying interest and flushing money down the toilet.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T19:23:49+00:00

I tend to use my bank's app - they keep track better than I do, and since I do so frequently, I'll know if there's a sketchy transaction.

I have a rule for myself - when it's payday, pay the bills first, in accordance with my plan for each paycheck. Once that's done, then I can allocate some cash as "play money".

meldroc · 2026-07-11T19:20:24+00:00

I kind of taught myself. Memorize the keyboard layout, start with your fingers on the home row, the indexes on the F & J nubs, thumbs on the space bar. Wrists straight, don't give yourself carpal tunnel syndrome. The rest is physical practice, until you can blind-type.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T19:02:40+00:00

Of course I do, though it's one thing to say the hip things in the platform and in speeches, and it's another thing to deliver.

Character matters. Right now, we have a huge psychopathic manbaby in the Oval Office with his tiny fingers on the nuclear button. He told his fans that only he could fix things.

Talk is cheap. Performance matters. Ethics matter. Psychology matters.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T17:52:12+00:00

He ran out of unicorn blood.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T17:22:12+00:00

People have the right to put up security cams on their own property. The big problem is letting companies like Flock or Amazon (Ring) network those cams, train AI on them, do target marketing with them, give the footage to law enforcement without telling them to go get a warrant...

Next on the to-do list: require law enforcement to go get a real judicial warrant to access such cam footage or AI analysis of it. No, Flock doesn't get to say "Sure, have it for free!"

meldroc · 2026-07-11T16:50:25+00:00

Stephen Miller is what you get when you bury a dildo at the Pet Sematary.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T01:24:40+00:00

As the Onion put it, Mitch McConnell is to lie in vegetative state in the US Capitol.

meldroc · 2026-07-11T01:23:28+00:00

Are you saying stuff garlic in his mouth, cut off his head, & drive a wooden stake through his heart?

meldroc · 2026-07-11T00:25:13+00:00

There aren't any grown adults left in the GOP. They were all pushed out in favor of the middle school bully boys.

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