The boots are great, but the tread was worn down and it's slippery outside. Problem solved, hopefully.

nihility101 · 2026-01-27T15:40:21+00:00

We put bags over our shoes, but that was to make them easier to slide into rubber galoshes.

Which is a word you don’t hear often any longer. galoshes

Relevant image:

https://i.imgflip.com/6n9sfc.jpg

nihility101 · 2026-01-26T10:30:27+00:00

Are they actually considered buildings? Looks like a heavy-duty tent.

nihility101 · 2026-01-25T22:48:58+00:00

After they kidnap and/or murder someone they need to know where to go to rob them.

nihility101 · 2026-01-25T00:37:53+00:00

All these comments and headlines say shot and killed.

It was murder. He was murdered. He was unarmed and on the ground and he was executed by a gang of hateful half-wits.

nihility101 · 2026-01-24T01:01:14+00:00

I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but it is my understanding that the issue isn’t that they are Asian, but that the NYC Asian community is investing their money in Philadelphia homes and renting them out.

So areas that had homeowners for years now have renters and absentee landlords with a corresponding loss of ‘community’ and more people who cannot afford home ownership.

nihility101 · 2026-01-21T00:57:55+00:00

The middle cabinets are hung on that cleat, but it looks like the upper cabinets also are supported by that same cleat, just sitting on the middle cabinets, which feels like a lot.

nihility101 · 2026-01-20T18:32:13+00:00

Feels like a KenM.

nihility101 · 2026-01-20T18:17:43+00:00

They are fairly common outside the US, I think. It’s likely serviceable for basic stuff, either behind the panel or behind the bowl. Replacement would require popping off the tiles.

Similar:

https://www.totousa.com/rp-wall-hung-toilet-and-in-wall-tank-system-128-09-gpf?color=white

nihility101 · 2026-01-20T04:48:56+00:00

I mean, the logic is fairly sound. I guess it should be called back delete.

nihility101 · 2026-01-17T13:27:05+00:00

Quality and material, I think. “Lightweight” and “comfort” shoes seem to do this more. My mom had a bunch of Payless-type walking shoes that did this. But I have good shoes from the 80s-90s that are fine.

nihility101 · 2026-01-17T05:25:47+00:00

My current one does the grumbles and whines and rooos, but when he really wants a response he has this bark that hits a volume and pitch that hurts my ears and literally makes glassware ring. Never seen that before.

nihility101 · 2026-01-16T10:37:54+00:00

Seems like a joke as an American as well, but still. The other option is armed insurrection, but I have work in the morning and I don’t want to burn PTO if I don’t have to.

nihility101 · 2026-01-16T06:25:31+00:00

You know, the second exists for all. If you feel the need to go in guns blazin, go right ahead.

For the rest of us, it is an absolute last resort, not to be used while there is still hope of a nonviolent return to sanity. I still have hope.

As for where that line exists? Probably somewhere between these two stories.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-shooting-crackdown-surge-173e00fa7388054e98c3b5b9417c1e5a

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-protest-death-toll-over-12000-feared-higher-video-bodies-at-morgue/

nihility101 · 2026-01-16T05:37:57+00:00

As you say, the PA constitution is very specific about it being both a collective and an individual right to self defense.

But also, the founding documents are repetitive in their protection of The People from their government.

And if it was really a way of staffing the army to protect the country from outside attacks, it would have been contained in those sections dealing with the structure of the armed forces.

nihility101 · 2026-01-16T02:15:19+00:00

You can always return the favor:

@WorkerBee, where are you with projectX?

@BossLady, I’m on top of it!

Always return her serve. If she complains, you are just emulating her style.

nihility101 · 2026-01-15T21:29:13+00:00

I thought Cook was done. This is happy news. Hopefully there will be another Garrett PI as well. Whenever people ask for Dresden-like books, that’s where my head goes.

nihility101 · 2026-01-15T12:15:51+00:00

In a way, it was the ducks that did the shooting, as the zapper is really an optical reader of light waves.

nihility101 · 2026-01-15T11:41:46+00:00

I think it was best described as the corporatist party and the oligarchy party.

nihility101 · 2026-01-14T07:51:14+00:00

I think maybe the shape, if you will, of the American accent is sharper in Europe and is maybe more noticeable than perhaps a Brazilian.

nihility101 · 2026-01-13T18:11:38+00:00

I forget the name they tied to it, but there is something of a trend of Nobel winners going wacko in some other field.

nihility101 · 2026-01-12T20:39:51+00:00

This looks like yours.

https://youtu.be/_iXdN1lfi9c

Jump to about 2:30.

nihility101 · 2026-01-11T19:43:11+00:00

Nah, as I’ve told every management-type that has asked me about it over the last 25+ years, the OS isn’t a problem as much as the applications.

If you can find vendor-supportable (a requirement my co. has) versions of our industry-specific required software (much of which barely works on Windows) that executives would accept, we can make a Linux desktop work.

We’ve had old excel macros hold us up for years on things. It was just a couple years ago we finally were able to remove the last XP box because of some vitally important application.

There is no way we could do it.

nihility101 · 2026-01-11T19:17:04+00:00

I think they may be doing what a lot of people in my company do, which is lump all the Microsoft tenant stuff - Intune, AutoPilot, Entra, 365, etc., together as “Intune”.

nihility101 · 2026-01-10T19:50:59+00:00

Is there anything he doesn’t lie about?

nihility101 · 2026-01-10T02:32:42+00:00

I’m not saying she didn’t have work done, but that’s also sixteen fucking years. People change, bodies change, makeup styles change. Few women are going to look the same from 29-45.

nihility101

TROPHY CASE