I am unbothered my friend.

I appreciate you taking the time to recognise the fault in the statement. That’s more maturity and self awareness than a lot of people have.

Keep that up.

Cheers.

This reminds me a lot of love. People can’t, or don’t, by default, differentiate different forms of love, though, there are many.

If you express love for anyone that isn’t blood related, the implication is that you want to copulate with them, and often, that’s far from the truth.

I love a lot of people, but not in that way. Right now, the only person I love who I want to copulate with is my partner. At the same time, I have a large group of friends that I also love, as a kind of trust and friendship love, though they’re not related to me through blood, in any way, shape, or form (Besides us both being human, I guess).

Commoners in society are extremely reductive, so the nuances of such things often escape them.

You can like, love or even find something attractive, and that doesn’t define you. You define yourself. That’s the privilege of sapience. We can decide such things about ourselves.

I like your opinion. You can consider me to be bi if you want.

I don’t identify that way and I’m not so insecure that someone having a different opinion about me, bothers me in the slightest. You do you, my friend.

Straight facts:

I am a straight man. Hello everyone. I hope you’re all having a wonderful day.

Also a fact, I support all peoples choices in terms of what they like and how they identify. Not sure why I would care if someone else wants to be gay, bi, trans, hereto/cis, queer, lesbian, etc. I’m not those things, I’m not sure why it would bother anyone that someone else likes things? Whatever.

Also a fact from a straight guy, aka, straight fact.

While I can recognise that some masculine figures are handsome/good looking, I do not… And I can’t stress this enough… I do not feel any attraction to men.

They can be rather good looking, but that doesn’t make me want to get them naked and fool around.

If you have excitement in your pants for someone of the same gender, well… I have news for you… And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Be who you are. Anybody who gives a shit is probably not worth knowing.

Y’know, I can only imagine what the original version of this looked like… Bluntly, whatever advice it gave, was wrong.

I’ve seen more masculine women and effeminate men in my time that you can’t tell Jack shit about this stuff from someone’s body shape…

The ears tho, that’s always a dead give away.

Damnit.

Thanks. Do I get a t-shirt?

Yes. I failed my entrance exam.

Skate bread

Bread flip

Kick bread

Kick flip loaf

I have no idea what this image means.

If I were to do something so ridiculous for a full year for the full amount, I wouldn’t be doing it for me. There’s no way I would be able to spend 10Bn in my lifetime on things for me and my immediate family. I don’t think that’s even possible unless we were literally flushing money down the toilet, burning it, or throwing pallets of $100s from a plane while flying over a populated area.

I would use the 10Bn to create things like scholarship funds for colleges, where the only requirement is that you can prove you don’t come from money (and can afford whatever education you want without help).

I would also be donating large amounts to charities and good causes, especially FOSS and things like the Internet archive.

Above and beyond that, I’d likely use my newfound wealth to create a company that builds open source or modular hardware for things currently dominated by big tech. Like mobile phones, specifically Android phones, and supporting companies doing similar work like framework.

I would only take enough to pay off my house, all debts, and for a savings/income fund so that I can live comfortably for the rest of my life without needing to work, both for myself, my spouse, and some members of my immediate family.

While in the box, I would let me ADHD brain wander endlessly and entertain itself, until it gets bored or tired, then sleep and repeat that 365 times.

I’m with you. A day or two at most is all I would need to be set for life for anything I would ever want.

I like fancy tech, so I might stick around for a second or third day because fancy tech isn’t cheap.

People in my field refer to it as “backing up the money dump truck to (vendor) HQ” … Just to give some context.

Group think. Definitely.

Because thinking for your self takes to much work. Let us think for you!

- the Republicans, probably.

My system is a Dell precision rack 7910, with dual Xeon E5 processors (I forget the exact model off the top of my head) and yes, 64G of ECC memory. DDR 4 IIRC.

I’m telling you, the system is rock solid. I got it refurbished, so it was put through its paces before I got it. Any defective parts will have already failed and been replaced.

As others have pointed out, it depends. The most I would need to do is identify the faulty stick and pull it. That’s pretty trivial to do and I would be back up and running within the hour.

The only thing that can’t fail (or the system stops working), is the motherboard and the power handling equipment. The power supply is redundant but the power from the power supplies needs to be handled before it gets to the system components, so there’s a small PCB that connects to both power supplies and provides power to everything in the system.

Of course the motherboard connects everything together.

My GPU is also unique in the system, but I have less powerful spares laying around that I have stopped using, so I can literally just grab a different GPU and be back up and running at nearly the same capacity, minus the gaming graphics performance that’s lost…

On top of all of that, I upgraded to my current Dell precision from a different Dell precision. It’s an older model and definitely showing it’s age, but it still works. So that’s available to me in a pinch.

Basically, I have backups for my backups when it comes to hardware. I have a handful of spares for my SSD array disks too…

Worst case, I hook up my framework laptop as a stand in for my desktop until a replacement part ships to me.

Backups of backups.

I am very computer.

I decided I didn’t want to deal with it anymore and picked up a used Dell precision system with a pair of Xeon processors and put 64 G of RAM in it, with an 8x SSD raid array.

If anything fails I can completely fucking ignore it and my system continues to fucking work.

Okay, look. Atoms, in all their wonder make up pretty much everything known to exist in the universe. Chemistry, the science of chemicals, is just taking that understanding we have of atoms and applying it to how the atoms interact based on what atoms are there, their charges, bonds, etc.

Thus unless it’s on the periodic table, where it would be an element, then it’s a chemical.

Even assuming that instead of “chemicals”, people mean synthetic chemicals… To that I say… Who cares?

Synthetic chemicals come in two forms: a synthesized version of a chemical that is naturally occurring, where synthesis is a more commercially viable way to obtain that chemical, or a chemical that isn’t found naturally, which undergoes significant scrutiny before anyone is allowed to put it in your food and sell it to you.

We generally give “natural” chemicals less scrutiny than synthetic chemicals. And I’ll remind everyone that cyanide is a naturally occurring chemical. Though it’s natural, we don’t general add that to our food. Some food contains cyanide naturally, like cherry pits, but that’s usually a part we don’t eat.

The WHO has a whole article about toxins in food… https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/natural-toxins-in-food

So yeah, it might be made of synthetic chemicals, which have been researched, scrutinized, and peer reviewed before being approved for consumption and being put in my food. I can’t say the same for literally anything “natural”. We just ate that shit and if you died from eating a thing, nobody else ate that thing. And that was the way of things before modern science and chemicals…

So fuck you, and the horse you rode in on.

You have a point.

From my understanding the only way to get sunlight into your body as nourishment is via the butthole.

That’s what I’ve heard anyways.

Thank you both for the spoiler free reviews.

You won’t get a down vote from me.

Anyone who has tried other methods and had to resort to this because it’s the only thing that worked… That’s respectable effort. Using an adjustable collar and slowly ramping up until it provides the desired effect is also key in my mind.

After that, as long as you’re not intentionally sitting on the remote until the collar runs out of power, I’m pretty okay with getting things done using the methods that are required to do it (as long as the outcomes are not illegal, that is).

Lovely dog. I’m glad you were able to provide a good home to them. Take care.

What about crating your children?

Asking for a friend.