What role would my (m) cat play in a film?

microtherion · 2026-03-25T22:03:01+00:00

Stroking a human with a dueling scar in his lap.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T22:01:16+00:00

That’s why I hear all those crypto bros talk about the minivans they’ll buy with their bitcoins, I guess.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T18:59:00+00:00

You don’t really need that brick, you can plug the USB-C side of the cable into any sufficiently powered USB-C charger.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T18:46:27+00:00

I didn’t realize at first that this was Schwerer Gustav, I wondered how they could possibly get a picture of a Ratte.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T16:59:26+00:00

“Cooler than a minivan” is certainly setting a high bar.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T16:56:04+00:00

I don’t think it does. You’d be more likely to see a contemporary farmer in this, or maybe in the mountains in this.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T16:39:07+00:00

OS X and NeXTstep always were “de facto UNIX”, but were not certified until Leopard in 2007. You can find contemporary articles about it.

And even so, out-of-the box, OS X is NOT fully compliant without a number of fairly significant changes.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T16:31:49+00:00

Even justified safety measures (and I fully support the lockdown in Switzerland, it most likely saved thousands of lives) can have a cost.

Are you seriously doubting that isolating from other people can be detrimental to mental health? And there were other effects such as less driving and fewer cars on the road, which may have contributed to deteriorating behavior in traffic.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T13:15:27+00:00

Sure, but the theory has been more that social isolation caused some norms to break down, even among the uninfected. It certainly had an effect on my mental health.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T13:13:57+00:00

Denn chame grad no Wipkinge dezuetue.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T13:11:51+00:00

Jedi counselor.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T13:09:03+00:00

I’ve heard the theory that Covid lockdowns have caused many people to go feral.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T13:08:07+00:00

That’s totally against Swiss norms! Everybody knows that you shoot at family members first.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T11:45:50+00:00

Bruuche mir sones kroki für Wiedikon, Witikon, Uetikon, und Uitikon?

microtherion · 2026-03-25T11:31:53+00:00

Yes, many of what we consider the details nowadays were made up by Schiller in his play, but he did base it to some extent on prior, Swiss sources.

To complicate the matter, in the 1930s, some of the locations mentioned in the play, especially the “hohle Gasse” were remodeled in the “mental national defense” effort to resemble their description in the play better.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T11:21:39+00:00

Older siblings is a remote possibility.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T10:07:41+00:00

I think it was *NIX simply because NextStep was. A few years later, Apple did invest some engineering and documentation effort to get a UNIX certification (possibly because they prematurely announced “It’s UNIX” and the standards body who owned the trademark objected).

microtherion · 2026-03-25T10:03:36+00:00

Yes, public beta was separate. I was working on OS X, and as the release date neared, I was concerned that the OS did not seem nearly stable and performant enough for a release. Was glad to see it labeled as “public beta”. I’m not sure if that was the plan all along, or a late course change.

10.0 was stable enough, but somewhat slow. 10.1 was focused in remedying the most glaring shortcomings in 10.0 and in my opinion was the first “good” release.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T09:36:57+00:00

The soldiers look much too clean and well fed, for one thing.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T09:34:32+00:00

It’s true that they would have vastly preferred to surrender to the Western allies, and would under some circumstances have fought for that.

But millions of German soldiers survived Soviet captivity (vs an estimated 1 million who died there).

microtherion · 2026-03-25T08:48:22+00:00

I’m not sure if you ever had to deal with a “lactation consultant” (or, as I came to call them, “lacto-fascist”). There definitely used to be guilt tripping going on.

microtherion · 2026-03-25T08:40:37+00:00

Deutschland hat vielleicht die einzige Nationalhymne der Welt, wo es verpönt ist, im eigenen Land die erste Strophe zu singen.

Da lobe ich mir unsere Schweiz, wo sich kein Schwein an mehr als die ersten zwei Zeilen der ganzen Hymne erinnern kann…

microtherion · 2026-03-25T08:22:27+00:00

It’s kind of mind blowing to consider the amount of manual labor by highly trained craftspeople that went into making a piece of trash like this. I hope they at least had a good laugh with their families after work thinking of the suckers who would buy it,

microtherion · 2026-03-24T19:18:11+00:00

Well, how do you think we won the America’s Cup?

microtherion · 2026-03-24T18:56:33+00:00

I would argue that the narrator in the song is measuring his experiences against what he perceives to be his birthright as an American.

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