@riley Also, fact-checking. It's been good at that from the very beginning (ask me how I know).
@JuliusGoat (Actual clickable link, provided as a public service at no extra charge: https://www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/)
@servelan I've been using it since the Dubya era.
One critic said it sounded like it was referencing the supernatural, but I defined it as something like "exhibiting a pattern of intentionally doing things that you know or believe will result in net harm to others".
@somecat Well... avarice is better than none, amiright... yeah, ok, I'll see myself out >.>
MATE on the ceiling, Mint on the dual-display desktop (which is actually a 15-y.o. laptop), and KDE on the laptop (on the couch). ^.^
Another factor someone suggested: the lack of third-places for kids to hang out safely, and the "stranger danger" paranoia that can get parents arrested for letting their kids go outside "unsupervised".
[...] the loss of an hour of sunshine on winter mornings could endanger resort workers prepping ski areas and delay opening times.
...then you can open later, you hidebound twits, omfg... >.<
@spaf That kind of chemistry does tend to suck all the oxygen out of the room pretty quickly once it gets started.
You mean the thing above it with the cables sticking out? That's actually a patch-bay I made from part of a relay-rack module (the front -- not visible from this angle -- is part of a plexiglas ice-cream store sign in Baton Rouge that blew down during a storm while I was visiting Tigger there in 1990-ish; the phono jacks are from Radio Shack).
@wyatt Yamaha, actually -- but yeah, the style is very similar to a 1980s Technics I have with that same color-scheme (last I remember, there was something wrong with it; I have more inventorying to do...).
This was August 31; I've moved some stuff since then (which probably increased the vineage)...
@bok I suggested Pluma entirely out of a sense of sheer investigative curiosity; it is definitely not a replacement for Kate. :-)
@bok Weird if it's just Kate, too. I didn't know Kate did anything special with mouse-pointer shapes. (Try Pluma, maybe, and see if the shapes are normal?)
@bok It sounds to me like the cursor bitmap got corrupted or something. Does it persist after a reboot?
@JMMaok One of the frequent lines runs on Chapel Hill* Road, which is at the top end of our block -- so, within walking distance for most people who live on this street...
...but also, yeah, what you said: the whole system feels very halfhearted. I could go into multiple rants (the largest one would probably be about Duke stabbing light rail in the back a few years ago)...
...but on a more practical note, the fact that it's based on a spoke-and-hub architecture -- with a lot of space between the spokes -- means that although it's easy enough to get to and from downtown, it can be almost impossible to go much shorter distances around the edges of town. ...like, 1-2 hours vs. a 5-minute drive.
They're improving things, but ye gods the bar was so low already. Public transit is still clearly an afterthought, tolerated reluctantly because of how inconvenient it is for all the real people with cars.
(...and that's part of what I'd want to bring out in any kind of documentarizing. I'm not very good at chatting people up, though I would certainly do my best for whatever level of spoons I happened to have at the time... if I ever have enough spoons to do this at all, in the first place.)
(* belated insert)
