Ooooo… okay, somehow I was getting like a “did you really have to gender the example?“ vibe… so hopefully that explains my confusion/response.

For sure. And ultimately they gave credit where it was due, which is nice but it was a bit jarring. I think that means the filmmakers did their job well and crafted a character I could identify with.

Um… I don’t think it matters to me what the characters gender was, but it seemed like the least I could do since I wasn’t going to go back and look up the characters name.

I think you’re reading something into my comment I don’t intend? Strictly referring to a character Ulana Khomyuk from the HBO miniseries here.

Sounds exactly like the names I would come up with breathing 20% nitrous oxide for a few hours…

Couldn’t hide my disappointment at the end when they were like [strong female character] was created from the stories of over fifty different scientists…

I’m just going to go ahead and stir this pot since I love cats.

~2003 Vegan roommate rented a room at my warehouse in one of the shittier parts of Oakland. Neat guy, lot’s of esoteric hobbies, bare him no ill will.

Watch vegan roommate mix up grey goo with water and microwave. Ask what is goo?

Goo is vegan cat food for Soni-chan that roommate gets from wise internet-vegans. Goo contains all essential nutrients and vitamins for vegan cat.

I mumbled something about cats being obligate carnivores without really knowing what it means. Vegan roommate clearly loves Soni-chan and Soni-chan loves vegan roommate.

Fast forward 1 month.

I don’t see the cat much, it stays in his room. I tell him he’s free to let it roam around the warehouse. Vegan roommate says he’s worried that the cat will slip outside… this seems sensible, it’s a small warehouse with roll up doors and no real way to keep a cat from escaping.

Fast forward 2 more months.

I come home one day. Hear vegan roommate sobbing loudly in his room.

Wait a few minutes, because privacy. Knock on door.

Soni-chan has become sick and died.

I offer what comfort I can and leave vegan roommate to grieve. Vegan roommate and friend drive to Los Angeles to bury cat in mother’s back yard. I am very sad.

Vegan roommate returns and accuses other roommate of poisoning cat. Says cat was happy and healthy for years living at victorian house in San Francisco. Cat only started to get sick after moving to warehouse.

I asked vegan roommate if vegan cat was inside/outside cat in San Francisco? Vegan roommate says yes!

My conclusion. Vegan’s are fucking morons. Except for that one guy up there in the comments who loves his cat… oh, and all the other vegans who aren’t complete ass douches… now please go away. 

https://youtu.be/G5hViHTGC8w

Not quite the clip I was hoping for, but it’ll do :-)

Didn’t know that was possible 😎

Wouldn’t work unless it was more expensive or fragile than the router ;-)

So just a personal theory then?

There was definitely a time when I would have called this seriously tinfoil-hat… but given the stuff that keeps coming out, the industries support for community recycling programs that they knew would never work, etc. I’m giving it a 7/10 for probably and a 10/10 for creativity ;-)

Personally I tend to believe that generally well meaning people thought that paper straw technology would continue to improve, didn’t involve PFAS or microplastics… or that we’d all carry around a personal straw. But I do love the smoke filled room of mad men architecting a masterful conspiracy propped on the plastic shoulders of the humblest of columns.

Got any more info on the plastic straw plot? Because I’d love for that to be true, but I’m just getting craploads of articles saying the opposite.

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It’s okay homie… there are dozens of us ;-)

Yeah, use one of those to clean it up. At least that’s where I’d start.

Doesn’t virus total display a list of the AV software it triggered?

I generally use Malware Bytes on windows but I don’t know if it’s effective against that particular virus.

Clearly it’s a transmitter. That cat is responsible for exactly 1/5th of all the weird shit you think about.

That must be why it stopped working ;-)

Does 48 hours not getting a reverse proxy working count?

It’s FreeNAS and I don’t really hoast anything but the plex server… so 48 hours.

If deleting files counts 10 days a year, if not 1 day a year.

If you consider the way you choose to allocate your time and and a portion of your entertainment budget private… then yes.

I turned to coffee maker on from my bed this morning :-)