"Hmm, new compound, eh? Let's taste it."

I'd give you Lemmy Gold if it existed!

If this runs on Oracle we're all gonna be just fine. It's one of the slowest, clunkiest products ever made.

Sempervivum tectorum, we call it Chicks and Hens.

I agree, the headline is unclear. It should be "gets her bag stolen" or as you suggested, "had her bag stolen".

Better yet, the main object of this sentence, her bag, should be at the front of the headline. "Bag stolen from Britain's Crime Minister" is funnier (in my opinion), more concise, and eliminates the "where", which can be put in a byline/sub-headline, or just left in the article as a gem for the reader to find.

Agreed. The best part of Dave Matthews went into the Chicago River.

Assistant TO the Regional Manager.

And in case you think 'hero' is too good a label for JBJ, check out his foundation, what he's done and continues to do, for folks in impoverished communities.

I've not met the guy but I can only imagine he's a class act.

Fine life. Unforgettable voice. Rest in peace sir.

This guy did the research

Those ghost accounts aren't going to open themselves. That cube is already staffed.

MAWP

Yeah, agreed. Span = bridge. It's gotta be contiguous across all timezones. Otherwise it's a fact that France exists in many timezones, but not all.

Still an impressive graphic.

Worked at a place where our CIO was completely unqualified to be a leader, much less a leader in IT. She was a micromanager who took the position of "telling stakeholders" instead of "working with stakeholders" so any project she was on was really her pushing through whatever agenda she had at the time. Meanwhile her deputy CIO was stealing computer equipment from the server room but I digress....

April fools one year and I decide to prank it up. I moved the hinges (not the door handles) of the freezer/fridge in the breakroom so that the handle and hinges were on the same side. It's a fifteen minute job to move everything so I did it the night before the 1st.

The next morning our hungover CIO stumbles into the breakroom and cannot get the fridge to open. After a few seconds of futile tugging on the handle, she gave up and took her lunch to her office.

Others in the office figured it out pretty quickly and had a good chuckle.

Later on that day CIO sends out a nastygram about pranks being unprofessional, property damage, someone was going to be in huge trouble, yadda yadda....

But she's not the director. The director tells her to basically fuck off, it was a funny prank, and perhaps she needed to lighten up.

She never found out it was me.

Your opinion is duly noted! And you're banned for violation of the Be Nice rule. Bye!

Weird news: our sole purpose is to share the weird headlines.

It'll be unavailable on Sundays.

I couldn't come up with anything wittier....

You're talking about Brock Turner, the coward rapist?

https://imaginationlibrary.com/ is her free books for kids project.

When the shrooms the homeless guy on the strip sold to you hit....

I'm in the same situation - started with the same printer, put money and parts into it to get it to be reliable, and now I can just login to Octoprint and send something with 99% of prints just working. I wipe the build plate down, blast it with a few squeezes of canned air, and it just works.

But now these kids and their Bambus and multi-color print abilities...get off my lawn. Seriously, kids, you're in my light and I'm trying to get this hotend adjusted....

When it's someone else's dumb thing it's better for sure

I hope he or she is better at straightening teeth than straightening vehicles.

Here's a method that's always worked for me and others.

Get a glass of water, cool is preferred but any reasonable temperature is ok.

Take small, tiny, repeated sips from the rim of the glass, like an infant on a nipple, drinking and swallowing the water.

Do this for ten-twenty seconds and you'll be rid of them.

The people demand closure!

Stardate 4

You're forgetting wear and tear. When the Yaris is moving, the gas is not the only being used, but so are the tires. And the brake pads and rotors. You're putting mileage on the odometer, spinning those wheel bearings, blasting the A/C, and maybe loosening up that CV joint more and more every time you turn left. Was that an exhaust leak I'm starting to hear?

With the moving truck, you don't care about that stuff, as it's baked into the rental cost. Even when the cost of the trailer is factored in you've saved money from wear. You still win.

maybe The Youths would sit up and pay attention.

Wow. A tornado needs to find its way there.

Nowadays? Depends on a whole set of indeterminate variables.

But odds point to tazing. arrest, something on that end of the spectrum.

A Catholic Christmas Eve Vigil (not Midnight - different kind of Mass).

The scene was thus: A strange-to-me Catholic church off of something and Capital in Milwaukee, near where my mom, not a religious person but a nice person, took me and my sis when Christmas happened to fall on our regular visitation weekend one particular year.

The priest spoke on and on, as fathers and Father tend to do. The readings familiar, unre(M)arkable, (L)ukewarm, Psalm verse, same as the first.

The Homily was delivered in the patented priestly monotonic nasally drone, the incense and insensitivity flowing too freely. The easily-employed white, gray-haired, "middle class rich", Kohl's-suited, stoic husbands stood, sat, knelt, genuflected, stood, knelt, stood, sat, stood, knelt, genuflected, prayed, sang-chanted, with their wives, who were fully guilt-jeweled for common marital slights, whether real or imagined, or who benefited from rich parents who left their ill-gotten legacies to their ill-raised, now boomer kids who have become reluctantly over-sexed wives. The department store credit cards tucked safely in their expensive clutch purses, these women were fully-prepared to wage full-out Karen-esque, post-Christmas sale consumerist war in the following post-holiday sales season.

Retail workers never stood a chance.

In short: The church was overheated, like hell hot, probably good prep for some of these people, and my not-Catholic mother was next to me trying to morally fix or better herself, or maybe she was trying to impress my sister and I, or, more than likely on reflection, trying to placate my very-Catholic dad and stepmom, but mostly I had been standing for what seemed like FOREVER, and my knees alternately locked and unlocked, and my youth-fitting suit that was too small but too expensive to replace at Kohls just yet sweltered me under imagined and real guilt, and the incense, and the droning, and the HEAT...

I was about 4 seconds from passing out when some stranger approached me and said "Hey, you don't look OK. Let's go outside now before you faint." and I swear it's the best religious experience I've ever had: A human being a human and taking pity on a young kid dealing with physical and emotional distress. I went outside and cooled off in the Midwestern December air. Soon after, my mom and sis came outside and we left in the beater car that smelt like gas if the heater was fully turned on, so we had to leave the freash air selector on and the slider control at no more than 3/4 quarters, but that's OK because the A/C, which hadn't functioned in many presidential election cycles, was fully-replaced by the December air, the religious experiment over.

I'm not at all religious but I hope that guy knows just what he did for us that night. We were faking faith, just trying to be good people, and the droning, heat, guilt, and THAT FUCKING CHRISTMAS INCENSE just did us in.

Lesson learned.

Pew or pew not - there is no die.

Same issues here. I love GOS but I need basic things like SMS/MMS/RCS to work, and right now they just don't.

I’m going to give it to a friend of mine, but I’ve been upfront that it will not be perfect.

Craftsmanship is never completely flawless - looking good!

Locking this post. Comments are getting off-topic.

Still true though. I'm distro-agnostic, running the best whatever for the job at hand.

When I give a presentation at a conference about something technical, the question always comes up: "Why are you running that on so-and-so? $Distro is so much better..." and their whole train of thought deviates from the subject at hand.

Point is, the tool is the tool. If Fedora is the best option given our licenses and use scenario, I don't need to hear about how much better xyz is and how we're wasting money.

I just want xyz to work. I don't need the distro wars to be a thing when I've got 6 other more important things to attend to.

Clip: https://youtu.be/wnPSDp_2aok?si=R5m3cvNt47_Bd6SH

Cue pissed-off flaming snek coming at you fast...