There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

“That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed.

Of course there’s such a thing as a fish! A fish is any swimming vertebrate (or its descendant), such as a tuna, or a duck, or a human.

I’ve been noticing several new or new-ish accounts acting similarly. I need to go find an admin/mod discussion about what I (as a mod of another community) should be doing about it.

Well, cool it anyway 'cause it makes people think you’re a bot.

Yep!

I hesitate to mention this because I don’t want the ebay seller to sell out before I decide if I want one, but…

Craft Computing has a recent video about a used Supermicro “Microcloud” server that holds 8 Intel socket R nodes in 3U and costs $400 (apparently including CPUs but not RAM). Seems like an excellent way to get cheap redundancy, albeit at the cost of probably not great power consumption because it’s so obsolete.

Everything in owner because I don’t understand the implications well enough to do otherwise (so thanks for the thread).

I think everybody else understood that to be a joke, not a serious misunderstanding of the song’s origin.

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OP, did you misspell !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world?

How critical success ability checks should work:

DM: “Nat-20? The dragon is amused by your insane audacity and merely punts you out of his chamber instead of turning you into a smoking cinder on the spot. Roll for fall damage.”

On the other hand, a lot of screenies do poorly at formal English, like grammar, spelling and word choice, because much of their learning is casual.

Gotta read actual books, not just listen to movie/game dialogue. (Short-form news articles and textual social media probably don’t cut it either, just because news is written to be understood even by people with poor reading skills and social media discussions are too casual.)

Instead of having your online accounts registered directly to your @tuta.io address (or your gmail address, or any webmail address), buy a domain name and have the accounts registered to that and then set the DNS to forward all mail from that domain to your webmail account of choice. That way, if the webmail service fucks up, the worst-case scenario is that you change the forwarding again and you’ve only lost the contents of the previous emails sent, not access to receive future ones.

(Caveat: when you send an email it’ll by default be coming from your webmail provider address, not your custom domain address, and I’m not sure how to fix that – I’ve only recently started switching to the scheme myself – but if your main issue is receiving 2FA emails and such that’s not a big deal.)

I’m sure Miss Rachel would cite him as one who inspired her.

Or at least, if she claimed otherwise it would break reality’s suspension of disbelief.

More like a $600 Damascus steel knife made by another Youtuber that they were given for free, but otherwise this is spot-on.

Oh no, they’re copying our bad habits.

They should make the sequel set in the modern day, with the plot being about the hyperloop scam distracting from California high-speed rail and Elon Musk as the villain.

(For those who didn’t notice, the plot of the original movie was basically the GM streetcar conspiracy, with Judge Doom wanting to demolish LA’s streetcar system, and Toon Town along with it, to build a freeway.)

“Would you like them in a store?
Would you let us build some more?”

“I would not like them in a store.
I will not let you build some more.
I don’t want you to track my van.
I do not like them, Sam-Alt-man!”

I’ve heard that one time – in a show in Albuquerque, no less – when he got to the “anyway, where was I? Kinda lost my train of thought” part, he actually started over again from the beginning!

I bet it did, but you just didn’t know it. It was always a thing you had to ask for, and they’d give it to you from behind the counter.