Nope … that’s pubic hair … those people are standing on a different section of the body than what you were thinking.

The wig is operating the human machine it sits on

#nokings on mastodon

lol … I never noticed … just like the 12 year old who installed Limewire on the family computer

Just don’t let the 12 year old install LimeWire onto that thing

If you see ads … pour gasoline over the whole thing

It’s a way of controlling the software … it would be a lot more difficult to make changes, even change settings or adjusting the software from time to time if it’s constantly being updated every week.

I noticed this with Chrome … a few years ago, there were lots of settings, hacks and changes and adjustments you could make to the browser to avoid tracking, advertising and all sorts of other things and to generally make it run faster. All that activity is lost now because Chrome literally updates itself every week.

I run Linux and my software doesn’t update it self that much … the only thing that updates itself every week is Chrome … the entire package about 50-60MB every time, wipes itself and reinstalls a new version every time … so any changes you had made to the software or any attempt at adjusting anything in the deep software is all lost and reset over and over again.

It’s dangerous to tell people that they have no free will.

Those who do not want to think critically will just convince themselves that the world is falling apart and that they can’t do anything about it because it’s all predetermined any way.

Others take advantage of the idea of a predetermined future as a license to do whatever they please. Any terrible thing they do is not a problem to them because their actions were already predetermined, they couldn’t help it because they were destined to do these things … at least that is what they tell everyone.

I believe there is a middle ground … our biology, our environment, our genetics and the universe as a whole runs like a mechanical clock with predetermined movements … but we are provided with enough options at every movement or critical point to determine our future.

We will never be able to change how our universe works but we can choose how we can exist in that universe.

Are they building an army with troops, tanks, aircraft and naval ships? Are they going to physically and violently take over the social internet?

Humanity did fine for thousands of years without these dumb apps … I think we’d be fine without them

When you do get that connection … go the extra step and install a ‘backwater prevention valve’ … it’s a giant one way valve that is attached to the main drain line as it leaves the house.

It allows water to always easily flow out but if it ever happens that water back flows into your house for some reason … the valve will stop any flow from entering your house.

I’ve always planned to get one but my situation is too difficult to install one.

I’m sorry but … what an absolute mess

You mentioned that your main drain is a bit higher than the floor of the basement. I have the same situation, my drain is about two feet off the floor of my concrete basement. The washing machine drain was placed to drain towards the lowest point of the main drain. Everything else in the house with a drain is in upper floors.

I’d rearrange the plumbing to build a drain as close to the four foot level as possible for the washing machine … instead of trying to build a solution 6 or 7 feet up in the air … you’re asking for trouble if you are making your washing machine drain up to a high point.

I remember once renting a place that was an old house with a brand new concrete basement … the main drain was close to ground level that went to a septic tank and field. Their solution was to install the washing machine in the basement, drain down to the floor level, then to a grey water pump unit in a big box that was 3x3x3 feet … and that pushed the water up to the main drain. I don’t think washing machines are meant to push water that high up and you will probably constantly have a bit of grey water backing down to the washing machine.

You get to lead the most powerful nation in the world

Beautiful work … I wish my school had done that when I was a kid.

The great thing about it is that now you are helping to generate a new crop of kids who will learn how to use Linux. Sure, they will try to do stupid things on it like install games or figure out how to bypass things or install or uninstall … the great thing about that is that they will learn how to use the system in order to try to break it. It’s the same way I learned how to use Linux and probably the same way you learned how to use it.

You’ve advanced the computer department for those kids more than you know.

That’s one of the great things about switching to Linux … it forces you to learn something new and for kids that is a very good thing.

All those kids in the school that OP described were getting stagnant in a settled environment of living in Windows … now that they have Linux in front of them, they will go on to learn how to subvert the system under Linux. It’s not a bad thing in my opinion, it will create a whole crop of kids who now know how to fool around with Windows AND Linux.

I wish someone would have introduced me to Linux when I was kid.

All of the biggest ones … no corporation should be allowed to amass so much wealth that they could literally control entire countries or regions of the world. The fact that this level of power and control exists means we value money and capital over human life or even more terribly the value of millions of human lives.

Apocalypto

2006 film

I’m the guy dancing in this image

Loose piece of tape … then press on the weird recessed piece of tape