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You pronounce it any way other than the way the person saying it does.

This results in a few possible outcomes.

The person may get an opportunity to go on at length about why their pronunciation is used, and be entertaining.

The person may get all het up about it, insisting that you’re wrong, and you can further mess with them by shrugging and continuing to use whatever you were using.

The person doesn’t care, and y’all have a nice conversation about distros and Linux in general.

The person switches to your pronunciation, and you now have a stalker.

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Yeah, and if that was why it was being done, that would be awesome.

It isn’t being done because it’s a better policy.

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I always thought of the tos enterprise as being an unusually large submarine. The biggest of those irl is impressive enough, and it fits the way tos handles a lot of things.

But, I still thought it was bigger than what this picture shows. I thought of it being about the same length as a cargo vessel built to pass the panama canal, which is, I think what this ship is built for size wise.

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Heliboard seems decent so far.

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Aging does reduce thickness and coloration of hair, making it less prominent. You can also lose density, as in hairs per inch. What tends to stay is overall coverage; if you’ve got a hairy back, it stays hairy, just less so.

Darker hair is more visible to begin with, and a lot of the old school actors were “tall, dark, and handsome” by preference.

Now, it’s been a long damn time since I read up on the how and why of hair changes from aging, but it amounts to the body just having less ability to repair itself and the decrease in skin thickness via collagen reduction. There’s a shit ton of detail missing from that, but I kinda stopped refreshing myself on medical info a while back because it sorta bothers me to not be able to use it the way I once could.

What you’re seeing in pop culture is partially a shift in what kind of looks can be a leading actor, and partly the cultural trend against mature looks leading to people chasing a “youthful” appearance to follow that ever shifting beauty standard by shaving or otherwise reducing their body hair.

Tom Selleck and Burt Reynolds wouldn’t be as “hot” by today’s standards. Reynolds did a centerfold shoot for cosmo where he’s laid out with nothing but a smile and a carefully placed hand, and it not only spawned a new magazine (playgirl), but it did it partially because he was utterly masculine by the standards of the time and hairy could still equal sexy to even very young people.

Today, that kind of photo would be ignored or even decried as him looking like someone’s dad, which usually gets used as a short code for older and less attractive. And that’s not excluding people who were alive and influenced by era; it isn’t exclusive to those coming to adulthood since the turn of the century.

There’s a documentary about changing mores regarding body hair and beauty. I couldn’t find the name with a quick search, but it is pretty interesting if you can find it.

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Who’s fries?

Double word error joke aside, how was it? That’s what really matters.

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Nice :)

That’s what really matters.

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You never met fries? He’s a bit salty, but he goes great with anything.

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Jaysus feckin christ, I kin hear this in my head.

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Only if you boil it

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They were casting spells

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Not enough evidence to support clinic efficacy? What the fuck are they smoking?

The drugs have been used for a long time, successfully, in delaying puberty. That’s clinical efficacy. That’s why they’re bloody used for this.

Fucking idiots

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It was the other way around for me.

No idea what he’s like in private, but he was active on reddit, and was always willing to be friendly.

Wesley was a douche lol. I kinda liked him anyway, but he was an arrogant little shit.

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Man, it takes balls to wear that outfit.

Or insanity, you can clearly see the nuts

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Is this community going to turn into shit like this now?

Every fucking election cycle, people get fucking obsessed and start this shit up.

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Telegram, while often hyped as high privacy/security got popular because it was/is fully featured and isn’t Google or Facebook. That’s it

It’s less invasive, less annoying, and can do all the stuff like gifs and stickers. So it was very easy to get people onto compared to pretty much anything that was actually private or secure.

Once enough people started using it, it snowballed into its own monolith of bloat.

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Serious answer: nothing except their own lack of access to anything except the ip address and whatever you give them.

But that’s easy to counter with a VPN and a bit of common sense.

Are there any Windows-exclusive programs you use?

I had to test/fix something at work and I set up a Windows VM because it was a bug specific to Windows users. Once I was done, I thought, “Maybe I should keep this VM for something.” but I couldn’t think of anything that wasn’t a game (which probably wouldn’t work well in a VM anyway) or some super specific enterprise...

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I’ve never been able to get musicbee working on Linux.

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Man, I’ve got family that received some of those books. The program brings more good to people’s lives than I think anyone that hasn’t seen it directly realizes.

Even if Dolly was a fairly typical celebrity otherwise, and did that, i’d still have nothing but love for her.

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    Your meme belongs in the bottom two tiers.

    You did ask for honest!

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    Like u/lukmyly013 said, I’d love an official KDE version to mint. It isn’t that hard to get going, and I like cinnamon well enough on most things, but there are a few situations where I’d like to have plasma out of the box

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    Lmao

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    There is zero point to that beyond the looks. You can get mice with better ergonomics. maybe if it had some ability to be used like a gun in fps games, it would make sense. But as just another mouse? It isn’t even a good gimmick.

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    You know, Klingons, for all the cheese they got saddled with over the decades, were sometimes given some truly amazing moments like that one. They’re this hyper macho, warrior driven and hide-bound culture, but they value friendship in a beautiful way. They really get loyalty to a friend in a way that no other in-universe culture does.

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    Yeah, nah, the most important thing is that it’s running Windows.

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    Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Assuming it’s a clock that’s capable of being right twice a day, which isn’t every clock.

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    Man, I’m just happy to see a skyclad reference in the wild, away from a metal dedicated community :)

    Edit: also, this needs a playlist so that anyone not familiar with all the albums listed can enjoy the discovery :)

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    Dude, you rock :)

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    This is exactly how things should be done. If anything, him doing it this way succeeds at making me overrated interested in the game, which isn’t one I’d usually go for. Just because he’s doing it the right way.

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    Heh, pacman and centipede.

    I had the high score at the gas station nearest my house on the pacman machine until the place closed. Nobody could even get close in the local area. I would usually be in the top three at the arcade on both games, depending on whether or not I had access to time and money. None of my scores were high enough to be some kind of record, but I was the king of those two games in two counties. I’m not saying I could never get out-scored, I could. But I never had bad games, only less good, where the other players around would have way more bad than great games.

    But I fucking loved pacman. The entire sensory assault of it was so damn satisfying. I was good at centipede (largely because of the trackball being very intuitive for me), but I liked it more because I was good at it than for the game itself.

    Pacman though? Fuck, I’d spend hours playing it. I even had one of those old coleco mini versions that I got for Christmas one year. Which, I was not as good at, what with the difference in controls, but I still loved playing it until it died maybe ten years ago (seriously, that fucking thing lasted decades).

    I was so fucking bummed when I couldn’t find any place to play the real version. Later console versions didn’t have the same joy for me. I’ve managed to luck into some time on restored machines here and there, though.

    Past that, mario cart was big in our house when it came out. My sister was better at it on average, but we’d have some killer weekends playing it with our mom and friends. I never liked consoles much. The controls just didn’t work for me.

    So it wasn’t until this century that I got back into harmony gaming at all. Mmorpgs are my thing, when I can do it (disability makes pc gaming sporadic). The first game I found that sucked me in was shaiya. It wasn’t that great of a game overall. Heavily pay to win. But the story was good, and I had a great guild.

    Then it was on to war and battle of the immortals. Mid tier games, but I liked the world setting.

    Then, I found neverwinter and that was my game. I haven’t been happy with anything else since. I don’t really play any more, but that was the perfect mmo for me. The d&d world, with an intuitive and fun control setup. The classes and races were fairly well balanced. The graphics were fucking bonkers for the era too. It just made me happy. It still kinda does, but I don’t have the time or stamina these days.

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    Did this dude say this somewhere I can go and call him an idiot directly? Because, if this wasn’t one of the corporate social media companies, I would very much like to.

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