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I'm the opposite of a murderer: I unstab people to life with my anti-knife.

I work in #theater, used to work in #computers as a #programmer, sometimes I #AmWriting and I dabble in #TTRPGs.

When my ADHD allows it, I love to read. #Fantasy is my jam but I enjoy a good #Mystery.

#BLM, #ACAB, #ADHD, #LGBTQIAdjacent, #NoTerfs, #NaziPunksFuckOff, #LandBack, #Leftist, #DisabledRights, #EatTheRich, #TransRightsAreHumanRights, #SexWorkIsWork #ReproductiveRightsAreHumanRights

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A hundred chicken-sized Godzillas would make mincemeat out of pretty much anything. A Godzilla-sized chicken would feed a small town. I know which one I'd prefer to have to fight.

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@intransitivelie
I feel like you’re underestimating the pent up rage of chickens.

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@sollat
Don't get me wrong, I don't really want to face either of them in a fight, but I'm putting my money on the horde of marauding minizillas. Chickens might have rage, but they're not existentially angry about nuclear bombs. Plus a horde of small dinosaurs is just the sort of threat you dismiss until they come for you.

In a match-up between a mob of tinyzillas and one giant chicken, if nothing else, the chicken will eat enough of the Tokyo Tramplers that they'll kill it when they claw their way out of its digestive tract, because if nuclear bombs can't kill the 'Zilla and he eats lightning for breakfast, getting swallowed whole by a chicken is a minor inconvenience. Meanwhile, the rest of the pack are gnawing on the chicken's Achilles tendons. Victory Gojira Squad, then they skeletonize Perdue's Hubris in less time than it takes to snap your fingers. And that's not even taking into account Godzilla's ability to breath fire. I'm not even sure it'd take 100. I think a dozen could do it.

For that matter, a giant chicken versus humanity is no contest either. We'd lose a few, sure, but a couple hundred humans could take down a giant chicken with stone tools (we've done it before), and given modern weaponry, that bird is Extra-Crispy. You'll notice that chickens aren't resistant to bombs and high-velocity projectiles like Godzilla is. You can put a regular chicken down with a pellet gun. A tank or a high-speed gatling gun makes short work of the big one.

Meanwhile, facing down an army of small, angry, intelligent, fire-breathing lizards who can't be harmed by conventional weaponry? Forget it. I'm out. The planet was nice while it lasted but apparently it's the new age of the dinosaurs now and humans just live in it.

I may have thought about this too much.

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I bet fedi has opinions on this: I want to replace Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF viewing. What's the best alternative for Windows? Must be free, FOSS nice, AI-free a must.

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@picard
Thanks! I'll check it out.

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@intransitivelie you're welcome

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I carry a knife pretty much everywhere I go, which has caused me a few difficult moments in government buildings. I do it because I actually use my knife for a lot of things and it's handy to have. It is not a fetishistic attachment to the trappings of masculinity.

I don't collect knives, nor do I want knives I wouldn't use. I try to do the same thing about tools, power- and non-. Carrying a tool for its usefulness is one thing. Carrying it as a signifier is another. It's like owning a giant pickup truck to prove how masculine you are.

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@intransitivelie I'm still mad about the time a cop "confiscated" my knife on the Greyhound. It had slightly out of spec pliers that worked better for plucking out batches of hair and the replacement one I eventually got aren't as good.

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@NanoBookReview
I lost my original Leatherman Wave and while I like the new version just fine, it's not quite the same. I feel your pain.

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I saw my first Cybertruck in the wild yesterday on the road and it cannot be overstated how stupid they look. They're too big to be a car but not big enough to be one of those massive pickup trucks that make men feel more man about themselves. They occupy some strange space where they're clearly trying to compensate for something but doing a terrible job of it. They also look like they weigh a billion tons and drive like the QE2, which may not be true but they don't look fast and sleek. I have no idea why anyone would buy one if not for their notoriety.

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I'm terrible at video games. Awful. Appallingly bad. I once died during the opening credits of Half-Life because I managed to fall off the tram. There are basically no types of video game that I'm any good at. I wish I could experience the joy that they seem to give to some people.

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@intransitivelie
I could never make it out of training on any Spider-Man or Tomb Raider game. Just useless.

I stick to No Mans Sky on Explore mode (nothing can kill you and you don’t have to fight anything) or Animal Crossing.

intransitivelie , to random
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"Cyber" comes from "cybernetics" which is in turn from the Greek "κυβερνήτης" which means "one who steers" as in a boat, from "κῠβερνάω" meaning, "to steer" so technically The Club is cybersecurity.

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@intransitivelie This may be the hottest take going right now. Kudos.

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@other_ghosts
Somewhere in my attic there's a painting of a take which keeps getting less niche.

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Ok, this is an extremely niche question, but I'm trying to work with a list of files in a Windows batch script, and one of the files contains two single quotes in the name, so the batch script is interpreting that as a command. Does anyone know of any way I can escape those single quotes programmatically? I can't simply add slashes to them because I don't have access to the filename. Should I pipe them to a text file and then munge the text file? I'm happy to give more information if necessary; this isn't a secret or anything.

P.S. If your suggestion is not to use a batch script to do this, believe me, I've considered it, but at the moment batch is what I've got. I'm not going to install an entirely new shell to do this fairly simple task and I don't like PowerShell enough to go to the trouble of scripting in that. If I were to write a non-shell program, I would probably write it in Python as that seems like the most reasonable option, but I remain convinced that there's a way to do this in a batch script.

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@intransitivelie does this help at all:

https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-dequote.html

been a long time since i had to work with this, but vague memories of using that in-line variable replace

(but, it may not be quite what you're looking for - if so, apologies)

intransitivelie OP ,
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@picard
I'm not sure whether that will work, but it's definitely something to look into. Thanks!

intransitivelie , to random
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What I wanted from AI: hundreds of robot servants to automate away all my stupid, repetitive tasks, leaving me free to pursue the life of the mind.

What I expected from AI: self-driving cars maybe, at some point.

What I got from AI: a wrong-answer machine which steals money from me and is powered by burning the rainforest.

hisham_hm ,
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@intransitivelie when we think about it, it is obvious that the billionaires have no motivation to fund the development of robot servants because they don't need them, they have human servants for that.

Whereas machines for producing customized convincing lies at industrial scale are useful for manipulating elections and perpetuating power.

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@intransitivelie Thinking Elon Musk is somehow different is part of his propaganda campaign. Many other billionaires pour money on their childhood science fiction fetishes (Zuckerberg with VR, Branson and Bezos with space too, Gates was doing the Jetsons smart home in the 90s), some are just more visible than others. (1/2)

intransitivelie , to random
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I don't do anything for a living. I stave off the icy hand of death through my exploited labor, but I'm not living, I'm just not dead yet.

intransitivelie , to random
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What the fuck do you British people mean when you say, "lash yogurt with honey" or "lash fries with salt?" Speak English! You invented the language for fuck's sake.

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@duckwhistle @Edelruth
You're the first person to give a definition which justifies the use of the word to me. Thanks!

The concept of "more than necessary but less than excessive" doesn't have a strict equivalent in American English that I can think of. A "mess," perhaps, but that implies a bit of excess. A "bunch?" "Lashing" is as good as any other word, and if it's a verb too, so much the better.

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@sollat @duckwhistle @Edelruth
Yes, or maybe "a healthy amount of" or similar. "Lashing" just seems a bit more profligate than that, maybe?

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I have never once rotated my tires. I don't intend to start now.

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@intransitivelie
I technically could, like it wouldn't be illegal, but they wear out really fast in hot weather so I would end up buying a lot more tires.

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@dillyd
I have been known to make stupid decisions because my executive function is entirely sourced from outside chemicals, but I'd probably get someone to change them twice a year because I'm also a skinflint.

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The climax of The Empire Strikes Back in the center of Cloud City. In the first panel, Darth Vader says, "No. I am jockin' Mike D to my dismay." In the second, Luke Skywalker says, "No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!" In the third, Vader says, "Search your feelings. You know it to be true." In the last panel, Luke screams, "No! No!"
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    intransitivelie , to random
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    If property damage is violence, oil spills are mass violence and should be prosecuted as such. Flint, Michigan is violence. Wrongfully evicting homeowners is violence. Failing to maintain our infrastructure until it collapses is violence. Destroying homeless encampments is violence. Strip mining is violence.

    But they're not. After all, if they were, we'd have to do something about it. Since we're not a violent people.

    intransitivelie , to random
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    Authors of whose books I've read five, huh. Well this should be embarrassing.

    Brian Jacques
    Timothy Zahn
    Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
    C.S. Lewis
    Harry Harrison
    Daniel Pinkwater
    Dave Barry
    Robert Benchley
    Robert Asprin
    Robert Jordan
    China Miéville
    Neal Stephenson
    Martha Wells
    Tom (shudder) Clancy

    If plays count, I've read Shakespeare and Beckett as literature.

    I'm probably forgetting one or two because I have a terrible memory.

    nicholas_saunders ,

    @sollat @intransitivelie five???

    Red storm
    Submarine one

    What's left?

    nicholas_saunders ,

    @sollat @intransitivelie oh, yeh. The guy from the other novels

    Jack Ryan

    It's constantly advertised on Amazon prime. Otherwise I wouldn't know his name ;)

    intransitivelie , to random
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    Damn it, it's cicada summer and I keep forgetting and being reminded anew. Fucking cicadas.

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    @intransitivelie Wait, the little red eyed variant is coming out that far east? I didn't realize they'd be there too?

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    @intransitivelie (They don't live in MN, btw. So, I just read about them and wonder.)

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