brygphilomena

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brygphilomena ,

I work IT for my day job managing a datacenter and cloud infrastructure.

I host mostly Plex, home assistant, and immich. Immich has its data backed up, I don't care about Plex data. If it all dies, so be it.

I have a server coloed that houses some websites and email, plus some random other things I've setup and tested. It's got backups, and downtime is fine.

If my self hosted stuff dies, it doesn't matter. Nothing in my life ultimately relies on it.

brygphilomena ,

Mk2 is my favorite. My dad had one when I was growing up. My brother then had a mr-s until he totaled it. Now I've got a MR-S as well. I love the car. A little under powered at times, but I almost never have the top up. In the mk2, I'd probably have the t-tops off the whole time as well.

Honestly, worth it. The cars are so much fun.

brygphilomena ,

Dont forget, if you use vacation time on the 3rd and 5th. They don't pay out the day off for the 4th as a holiday.

brygphilomena ,

Refrigerated or frozen items can't be restocked, there's no real way to tell how long they've been out of refridgeration. Hit em in the pocket books.

brygphilomena ,

The land of the thief
Home of the slave

brygphilomena ,

What? Are you saying you dad and all his friends used to use muzzle loaders before the ar-15? We've had bolt action at least since WW1 and semi-automatics have been common since WW2. There is no way you dad and his friends had muzzle loaders and only changed to AR-15 because of the popular crowd.

Or are you trying to say bolt action, but don't know firearms? Because most of the old hunting rifles were old military surplus rifles largely made popular by familiarity of those who used similar in military service and the high availability of rifle rounds in common calibers.

Things like the Civilian Marksmanship Program that got old M1 Garands into civilian hands and the ubiquitous amount of 30-06 ammo that was easily accessible to hunters all over the country lead the previous era of gun owners. The current era of vets are familiar with the m4a1, but thats not available to civilians. But the ar-15 is similar so veterans tend to pick up the ar-15.

The ar-15 is also highly module. It can be rechambered in almost any caliber, has many attachments for accessories, can have the barrel, muzzle, and stock changed making it a favorite of anyone that finds a hobby in firearms. If you picked up a complete ar-15, you can change essentially everything but the lower receiver and have it be the "same" gun.

That's why it's popular and why so many people have one. Since it's so popular and so common, it gets used in shootings. Not because of the traits you listed, but because the most dangerous gun is the one the criminal already has.

brygphilomena ,

I used to use the personal tag/comment in RES to keep track of peoples real names when they let slip in a post.

It was always fun to run across them in another sub months later and use their name as if I knew them.

brygphilomena ,

If you want to make a meaningful change, you have to play the long game. Right now, we have to vote to mitigate even worse disasters. If I had a viable third party in the presidential race, I would vote for them.

But the key word is viable. We don't have one. So while Biden isn't my favorite, my vote is less for him and more against Trump.

If you want to have a chance to see a third party that more represents your political views, you'll need to campaign for a third party in local, state, and congressional elections for probably decades until they become popular enough to become a viable contender for the presidential office.

But in this presidential election, advocating for voting third party only benefits one person and that's someone who not only would allow a worse genocide but will actively harm people in your community. Voting third party because Biden is complicit makes your actions, as noble and idealistic as you think they are, actively create a worse situation and makes you just as complicit in the pain and suffering that Trump will cause.

So campaign and vote third party in local, state, and congressional elections and build that following to disrupt the two party system. But you've already lost the presidential election.

brygphilomena ,

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

brygphilomena ,

Yup. And afaik Lego will replace the broken pieces for free.

brygphilomena , (edited )

Let's see, there was the one I just started anti-depressants and they had unexpected side effects preventing me from getting hard. It was a rather poor sexual experience.

There was the other, which is way more fun, where I befriended a women I was working with. She was lesbian and had a kid. Her last sexual experience with a man was when she was raped. Anyway, she invites me over and after a couple drinks we settle in to watch a movie and start fooling around. I go down on her for a while and then she has me move towards normal sex. Literally ten seconds after I enter her, she excuses herself and goes to the bathroom to throw up. She thought she was going to be okay with it, but had more of a reaction than she expected.

Eventually, she comes back out and apologizes. I didn't mind though, we ended up just cuddling watching the movie until we fell asleep. 10/10, would sleep with a lesbian again.

We stayed friends for a while, I introduced her to one of my other friends and she dated them for a while. We hooked up a second time a few years later.

There was another one that didn't understand her kinks or communication yet. She would say things to try and get me jealous. She would also constantly say no or stop during sex and then get mad or frustrated when I would stop. It ended up just being a little awkward, but we were young and dumb. Too young to understand discussing what she wanted before starting sex and agreeing on a safe word.

brygphilomena ,

Van Oak Props.

It's nice to see the creativity that goes into creating props. I also follow watch a few others that also go over props and haunted house builds.

brygphilomena ,

My primary job is IT.

But I am also a fully licensed pyrotechnic operator in California and put on large public displays throughout southern California. I also help with safety seminars showcasing special effects used in the film industry to local fire authorities so they are familiar if a production films somewhere under their jurisdiction.

brygphilomena ,

The problem is that most electric stove tops duty cycles this way. It's terrible for low temperature applications in something that doesn't have the mass to retain heat. And something that does have the mass takes a long time to hit those low temps unless you start with longer time on duty cycles. They also suck for precise heat control.

You can't use a resister anywhere else in the circuit because it would be wildly inefficient that way. The only option might be regulating voltage. But that's easier said than done.

I don't think electric is necessarily bad. But it's choosing the right tool for the job and both should probably be in a range instead of having it be one or the other.

brygphilomena ,

They shut down the Disney Express from the airport during the pandemic and never restarted it.

brygphilomena ,

Yup. Another short sighted decision from Disney leadership.

I'm a former Disneyland cast member, for the most part the front of house cast members are trying to make everything a good experience and preserve the magic. But leadership decisions over the last decade or two have made it harder.

Tons of cast member benefits have been removed and moral is much lower. This has led to decreases in guest service and enthusiasm. Many of the cast stay on because they have grown up inspired by what this company has created and the environment for artistry, creativity, and excellence and want to spend each day trying to spread that happiness to others.

They have raised prices while providing fewer services. Things like the Disney Express, perks for staying in the hotels, fast passes, and tangible knick knacks that give an emotional touchstone for eliciting memories of good times with family.

They've turned what used to be free or included perks into additional charges. Things like fast passes which used to create a genuinely better experience in the parks are now extra surcharges. It gives the feeling that Disney is trying to hide the real price of the parks because if they added that to the normal ticket price they would receive a ton of bad press. Instead, even though you essentially need it to have a good time, they make you pay again. Same with food and drinks, they treat guests as a captive market. They know people will need to eat and drink while they are there so they charge as much as they can get away with.

Leadership has lowered standards and investments in creating and maintaining areas of the park. It reminds me of the Euro Disney and California Adventure launch era.

This leads me to technology and their over reliance on it. They have truly innovative engineers and incredibly creative designers. So it leads to wonderful creations like their new audio animatronics. Absolutely marvelous creations. But Disney is using them as a focal point for guests to watch and marvel at instead of to support and enhance an already great show. They aren't investing as much to build the environment that these audio animatronics are placed in so they feel out of place.

They have removed much guest interaction with their cast members and replaced with an app on your phone. Cast members are, in my opinion, Disney's greatest attraction. They are the ones who create the personalized, meaningful experiences. They are the personal touch that made people feel welcomed. They could reinforce happy memories and mitigate frustrating experiences. They could find novel ways to solve problems or partner with entirely different departments to create new and engaging magical moments. Moving as much as they could to an app takes the interactivity away. Guests experiences are looking at your phone for whatever attractions wait time is and going directly there. I believe that it leads to more disappointment seeing every attraction or restaurant you want to experience have high wait times.

The app also forces people to plan their day. Instead of being able to explore and experience the parks, it creates anxiety to plan and try and fit so much in that you leave unfulfilled if you miss something you wanted.

Show standards have dropped that maintenance on things like replacing worn carpets or repairing damaged and chipped paint in stores has been forgotten. It's a relatively small thing, but it's a detail that sets a strong impression for guests. For the prices they pay, the expectation promotional materials sets, and word of mouth they hear, people don't want to feel like they are in a rundown park.

They used to hide construction to "preserve the magic" and enhance the "show." However, as of late that only consists of mostly blank temporary construction walls mostly to prevent guests from entering a construction zone. They used to use scrims and painted/themed construction walls to entirely block sightlines. For instance, the videos showing how guests can look directly into working construction sites while riding the train.

Many times their actions feel almost hostile to consumers. They removed benches in areas to prevent crowds from congregating or lingering. They wanted more people in and out to buy overpriced merch and food. It reminds me of bars that make their stools just comfy enough for you to enjoy one or two drinks and leave.

Leadership has changed it's target audience from families to "Disney adults" while still promoting it as a family destination. Things like star wars land and avengers campus aren't for children. They've ages up the parks and rides to take advantage of the millennial nostalgia.

They've also tied everything into existing IP instead of creating new and exciting stories in their parks. People love Pirates of the Caribbean, The Haunted Mansion, and The Jungle Cruise not because they were a movie and then people could come "visit that world." But because they were unique, fleshed out, well told stories and experiences. They don't trust their guests to like a new attraction unless they can capitalize on an existing brand to lure people in. Hell, even quotes from Bob Iger have said their latest "original stories" have flopped and they will focus on sequels. Which is eerily reminiscent to the direct to VHS sequel era that almost destroyed the company.

In my opinion, so many of their recent original films showcase how they are writing a story by committee of executives. They force certain themes or messages into the story that it neuters the writers from creating a compelling story. They play it safe with their films. It feels like an exec said "we need a story about x" and then had someone write it.

Finally, in targeting "Disney adults" they aren't building the nostalgia and brand loyalty of the next generation. They are burning the good-will of people who grew up in Disney households and were raised on Disney films. They are putting themselves into a position where in 15-20 years at the latest the company will have a crisis trying to retain an audience that has only a fleeting emotional connection to a handful of films or memories of the parks.

I could go on for hours on my disappointment in Disney leadership, particularly in regards to the parks and resorts. Ultimately, it comes from the very top with Bob Iger. Under Iger we saw many of these issues and changes arise, implemented by Bob Chapek when he was head of Parks and Resorts, accelerated when Chapek became CEO, and then in spite of Bob Iger's public statement on changes Chapek had made, his lack of reverting those policies.

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brygphilomena ,

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

brygphilomena ,

I disagree on the duct tape of the mouth. There needs to be a better way to handle that than making it harder for someone to breath. Where they keep the zip cuffs, they should probably have a spit mask or something.

brygphilomena ,

These boots were made for walking

It's raining men

Man! I feel like a woman!

Tons of great "girl" songs that I'll belt when they come on. Besides all the Broadway and show tunes that I love.

Music is music. A good song transcends girl or boy.

brygphilomena ,

I don't care that I'm a 30 something man. I'll sing that and Complicated at full volume.

brygphilomena ,

If your business cannot survive paying living wages then your business does not deserve to survive.

Your business is not more important than the employees, despite whatever they try to say.

brygphilomena ,

Oh, I know they won't close. That's just their threat. They keep saying "oh woe is us, if we have to pay living wages then we won't be able to keep the staff hours or we'll go out of business and look at all the employees that would lose their jobs."

But it's a thinly veiled threat and always has been. What they are saying is "if you do this, I'll hurt all these people in response."

If your business closes because you can't manage your costs, then another business will fill the void that can. Isn't that how they always describe capitalism and the "free" market? They have money to pay for all this media and "reporters" to repeat their propaganda. They'd rather pay that then spend the same on their employees.

brygphilomena ,

If they seceded I'm sure the federal government would make the argument that they are on federal land, even if it's within the Texas borders. Since it wasn't state land, their secession wouldn't apply so it would remain the USA. If Texas wanted to refuse the US Federal government access to them, they'd learn a swift lesson. Texas has a lot of guns, but the army has more.

brygphilomena ,

It's a baseball game. A random fan going after an extremely fit athlete, who has an entire team (and the other team) with fucking bats if they were really necessary is not in any danger. Literally none.

Not to mention 99% of people running into the field is doing it for the thrill of running into the field in front of an audience.

brygphilomena ,

Lots of room for someone to run away rapidly?

So, like the athlete supposedly in danger would be able to do? Kind of puts a damper on the whole someone was in danger theory you keep trying to push.

This is the same mentality that got a teen shot because he rang the wrong doorbell after getting the address wrong or the man shot for using a driveway to turn around. The world isn't as dangerous as you've made it in your mind.

brygphilomena ,

I've heard this sentiment for almost 20 years. "The app works fine, why update, it only breaks things."

Then they blame me when it starts being incompatible with the current OS or some other application. Even if the only fix is to update they still resist or refuse outright.

brygphilomena ,

I completely agree.

Back when I was taking GEs I had an ancient history class that I just couldn't get. One visit to the professors office hours and he basically guaranteed me a decent passing grade as long as I did the final essay.

His job was to teach and help students pass. He knew his subject wasn't everyone's passion and was super chill about it.

One caveat of this, is in my experience it was younger TAs running 100 level classes that were the strictest. They for whatever reason didn't have the experience or self-awareness to know that their teaching method didn't align with every student.

brygphilomena ,

As an IT director, I encourage my techs first action to be to connect to the clients machine and ask them to "show me what's happening." Then they aren't to interrupt the user until they complete their explanation except to ask for clarification.

You can see all the steps leading up to the error, the users workflow, typically the desired end result, and the error message.

You also are building rapport with the user making them feel listened to. Far too often I see techs assume something else is the issue, "fix" that, call it done and the user gets frustrated.

Even if you can't fix it, like so many user issues, at the very least the support experience is a positive one for the end users. Sometimes it's just that a specific preference isn't in an applications options or they need to change a step in their workflow. But at least the end users was listened to and their experience and frustration was validated.

If you have metrics or surveys, it's always interesting to hear a user write in that the issue was not resolved, but they were extremely satisfied.

brygphilomena , (edited )

If they've got a control booth in the middle of the venue, that's usually where I want to hang out. Best audio/visuals right where the guy engineering it is listening to it

brygphilomena ,

Which is such a poor attitude. Just because someone is bad in one subject doesn't apply to every subject. English, math, and history were all GEs. What use does having an English major be weeded out by their ability to do stats or calculus?

Or a psych major because they have no particular interest in pre-silk road civilizations?

brygphilomena ,

Ecstacy.

Some of my happiest times were rolling at a concert. Im empathetic, happy, social, and my anxiety is pretty much gone.

brygphilomena ,

Oh totally. Outside of a few festivals where I took it three nights in a row, typically I was only rolling at a show maybe once a month. I couldn't imagine doing it frequently or having an urge specifically to roll.

brygphilomena , (edited )

Their profession.

I didn't go to medical school and am in a different industry than them.

brygphilomena ,

One of the interesting things for the possible usefulness though is you never see firehouses acquiring these. They already have tools that achieve all the use cases. That's half of fires deal, being prepared for all sorts of emergencies - not just fires.

brygphilomena ,

I thought you were banned?

brygphilomena ,

Gotta love piracy

brygphilomena ,

Boo urns! Boo urns!!!

brygphilomena ,

But there is a bright side! Maybe retirement kind of stinks?

What fucking take is that? No. No, man. Shit no, man! First chance I don't have to work for someone else I'll take it. I have things I want to do instead of work.

brygphilomena ,

A year and a half ago I was able to buy a home, I had been saving up for the down payment and finally was able to make it happen. I've been house poor since then. I can't wait until I'm finally able to feel comfortable with my finances again. In the meantime, I'm getting very comfortable with eating a lot of rice.

Fortunately, the girlfriend and her daughter are moving in soon. So that'll help a bit as she'll be taking over some of the utilities. And the house has appreciated almost 15% in that time as well.

I've been able to put away some away for retirement too. If all goes well when that time finally comes, I'll have the mortgage paid off and will be able to live with relatively low expenses. My current mortgages interest rate is 6.875%, which over 30 years has me paying pretty much as much in interest as the house. But if interest goes down I can refinance and each % point lower I can get is about $200 a month. I really, really hope that it ends up back at 3% again. Maybe then I'll be able to put some in savings again.

brygphilomena ,

And it's very, very red.

brygphilomena ,

I hate the rhetoric that we can't do anything because it would make Trump a martyr.

So it's either let him do whatever he wants or he's a martyr. I don't know why they see this as a lose lose situation. Hold the fucker accountable for his actions or he'll keep doing shitty things. It's their fault that it's gone on as long as it has.

brygphilomena ,

I love suikoden and suikoden 2. I don't think they'd feel anywhere near the same if the graphics were changed.

brygphilomena ,

We also got screwed over on portions at all these fast food and restaurants. McDonald's legit made their food so cheap that you would buy two cheeseburgers, and you might as well make it a meal with an oversized drink and oversized french fry. Then we all got used to more food, subtly convinced that was the norm. Hell, a large soda was cheaper than a bottle of water!

It's not normal to have a 1500-2000 calorie meal like that.

brygphilomena ,

I can visit actual full service restaurants and get a similar burger (with a bigger patty and better quality) for about $16 that comes with fries. A drink might be $2.

Because the US is stupid, I'll have to tip. But that's only like $3.

Overall, that's only two bucks more after tipping.

Fast food is the same price, for worse food, and worse service. They've forgotten their place.

brygphilomena ,

I haven't any idea, but now I'm just chuckling to myself imagining someone larping as a wizard throwing lemons at an enemy yelling "hard lemonade"

brygphilomena ,

That's fashion. You don't have to be into the latest trend. Fashion is just how you express yourself in whatever way you like.

brygphilomena , (edited )

So can we poison chatgpt and other language models to write more socially liberal laws when these people try and use it?

brygphilomena ,

They've mistakenly taken it to mean "freedom from" instead of "freedom to".

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