JBloodthorn

Legality != Morality
“Just following orders” is also immoral, also not an excuse for murder.

Kind of a loaded question; no matter the answer someone will get pissed off. Israel keeps getting bigger, Palestine gets smaller. Those settlements in particular? Probably not.

Judging by what they shout on the street, their rules are “kill them all” and “death to all Palestinians”. Oh, and “this is my house now”.

That is not an excuse to hit the civilians, even if it were true.

More than half of the people alive in Palestine were too young to vote in their last election.

I would make video games. I’d even do some adult ones, since I’ve noticed the existing ones aren’t super great.

That Basil Poledouris soundtrack is amazing, too. I love that they still sample it for games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHfE682mm3c

D-brand could make a LTT screwdriver wrap so that people can cover the logo, instead of dremelling it off.

“Asking to get hit by a car”

Seconding Everything. Being able to search for text inside of files has been a godsend.

“I could be killed today” job?

Pizza delivery has a higher fatality rate than being a cop.

I’ve found that used to be more true than it is lately. I think they’re making an effort now.

If you want ULTRA budget, I’ve used this cheap ass keyboard daily for 4 years now: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CLYNW78/

I’ve beat the crap out of it (literally, nodejs be frustrating af sometimes), but it’s still good as new. Some of the switches I’ve swapped out for Silent Black since my newborn was sleeping next to me at the time, but the original switches all work fine. It’s got all the RGB bells and whistles, but I leave it on white.

Sometimes it’s as simple as something like “firefox doesn’t support import maps”, but now they do (in 108+) but nobody has the time or inclination to go back and validate that the site now works in firefox.

What’s extra stupid about these, is most of the time just using a user agent switcher to make the site think you’re on chrome or opera makes it work just fine.

I like holding my wife and daughter too much for this to be truly tempting.

I am on chapter 907. According to the Royal Road page estimate, that’s over 10,000 paperback book pages equivalent. It’s a helluva ride, and the price can’t be beat.

Vuxten appears around chapter 50, iirc. He’s not the first to recur, but he is a fan favourite.

I tend to read it in bursts. I catch up about once every 3 months.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/33726/first-contact

First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne (no relation)

Eight Thousand Years after the Glassing of Earth, Terran Descent Humanity has largely become a post-scarcity society based on consent and enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the "Great Gulf", events and history collide to draw the Terran Confederacy into war against a hundred million year old empire that has always won and believes it always will. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galactic Arm Spur will be wracked by warfare the likes of which have not been seen. Cracked, harried, wounded, and damaged, Terran Descent Humanity willfully throws itself against the universe itself.

"The universe hates you and will take away everything you love, laughing while it does so." - Terran belief.

Hey, my bread dinner almost always has butter on it. Sometimes I even fold it in half with a slice of cheese in the middle. Then again, some days I just say fuck it and just eat the cheese slice.

I still use the IR blaster on my s5 when I go out. I never have to get stuck with fox news playing when I have it with me. It’s from 2014 and still kicking.

It also works on a lot on window mounted air conditioners, weirdly.