Larry of the Lawn

Your gods have abandoned you. We must almost pick up the wrecking bars and commence the Butt Larryian Jihad

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He's hacked LR's account. Call the cops!

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Thanks, you absolute kill joy. I'll shoot the messenger. I'll buy them a fancy fucking dinner of their choice first! Friends.nad family welcome!!! Try me!

Unacceptable. You need one numeral and one lower case letter. If you enter incorrectly on the next try your account will be locked for a decade. Ps fuck you

It's fucking me you goddamn yahoos. Why the fuck, everytime I'm asked to enter a password, is it hidden with asterisks? If I can barely hit the 5 mm keys on my phone, who the fuck is going to be looking over my shoulder trying to hack my Goodreads account? Maybe you should just put me into an endless loop of entering passwords and then giving me a "prove you're a human" test to train your shit AI... Oh good, you were planning on that anyway. Also why the fuck Ami required.tonhave special characters and shit? Does including those actually make a password more secure? Or is it just a matter of the number of charachters equals more secure? So ehh the fuck do they care if I have a capital letter or an exclamation point ? Honestly, just fuck you all. If you're involved in maintaining and perpetuating this system in any capacity I fucking hate you.

Fair warning, a man with 3 corners showing is up for anything

I don't know if it's too recent for "history" but I've been re-reading Pynchon's The Bleeding Edge and it's a pretty remarkable timepiece for the cultural moments immediately preceding 9/11. The characterization of the internet at the time and American urban life of that era is portrayed accurately, hilariously, and tragically all at once. It was published in 2013 or 14, so clearly has the benefit of hindsight, but even ten/20 years later it doesn't feel aged or off-base. I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen more examination of 9/11 and the fallout from it in fiction and art in general.

This is too easily just imitated. I'd lean more toward trying to have it create original metaphor or simile that make both sense and are original, or to compose original jokes or explain to me why a particular joke funny.

Just want to chime in and say that my views on trans people changed specifically because of this board 10-12 years ago. I hadn't known any trans individuals, and I'd say my views before then were at best transphobic and at worst casually hateful. I'm grateful for the opportunity to have reconsidered my thoughts. I've since had a close friend transition and I am periodically horrified to think how that would have gone a decade earlier. Instead I was able to be supportive. I've also had a family member come out as non-binary a few years ago and again, I'm very thankful that they didn't have to experience any more discomfort from people they love than they did. So thank you, board, people can and do change their views, and I'd guess it happens more than is apparent, especially if you're using online discussions as the sample, where naturally the most entrenched and intransigent positions are going to be the loudest.

There are also other tick borne illnesses like anaplasmosis and erlichiosis (sp), of the bite can become infected with incidental bacteria. I fucking hate ticks. Unusually get a dozen or so bitten into me per year. This spring I've only had one so far. Hoping for a mild year, but this winter was mild so probably going to be a wee bit bitey around here.

I sincerely wish that his medical issues disappear, one way or another.

For sure. It was this part you quoted (and the distinction you've made above) that led me to say "maybe a Luddite" and to recommend this. I am less concerned with technology itself than about using it responsibly to improve the world rather than to create more or new or exciting types of suffering because of profit.