I can’t wait to find out how toxic this is.

I’ve been ordering two meals at a time since I was old enough to still order off the kids menu at Denny’s. It makes eating out very expensive but never once have I or the server ever given a crap.

Excellent line work, consistency and variation. It keeps the eye moving.

Sweet pepper relish. Someone donated a lot of them to me last year. Five different varieties. I made some relish, canned it and gave them some. So tasty on Italian sausage sandwiches.

And then when they get out they can’t use those skills because their criminal record prevents fire departments from hiring them.

This is being tracked as MC-279245.

I’ve got no mobs. Some passive mobs like cows are there but no squid, fish or hostiles. Haven’t seen this reported anywhere else. I haven’t tried reinstalling yet.

UBO is also free as in beer.

We have a problem. People have learned that they shouldn’t use a free VPN. By that logic you shouldn’t use a free ad blocker either. People don’t understand the details enough so they operate on broad ideas.

“From the founder of Honey.” Which means that stealing code and affiliate links is just the surface of shady stuff they are up to.

We foster a lot of cats and and I had had orange girl on my list for a long long time. And then one day someone called me because in an area I was doing tnr my mom dropped off three babies on a porch. All three were girls. I caught the mom who was also orange. And then we picked up two more within a few months.

I went from years without a single orange girl showing up to a flood of them to a flood of them. I was only going to keep two but my wife made me keep all of them.

Clockwise 11:30 Charlie 1:00 Topaz 3:00 Papita 4:00 Tasselhoff 6:00 Lucy 9:00 Ellie

Charlie, Tasselhoff and Papita are also bobtails. So bonus rareness.

I have six orange girls. Probably the largest collection on the East coast that isn’t a shelter or rescue.

I’ve thought about posting it over at c/ASCII_art but I only have access to some of my older stuff and need to find a way to either get a good archive to old Usenet posts or access to an old hard drive or three to get the rest of it.

But here is a sample.

I know a thing or two about ASCII pr0n. I created enough of it.

Remember that bit in Pretty Woman where they are in the big business meeting and you find out that the goal is to buy the company and sell it off piece by piece because the company is worth more on parts than as a whole? The good guy in the movie is the one that decides to use the ship yard to make ships instead. Make instead of destroy.

Most people never pay attention to that part of the movie. But I did. That’s a private equity, aka hedge fund, aka corporate raiders company he owns. He makes money by buying a company and destroying it to squeeze as much money out of it as possible. Everyone loses and he gets richer.

Private equity, where the profits don’t trickle down, and you can’t buy shares so the wealth concentrates even more while also making a profit from running a company into the ground and having it collapse in bankruptcy.

People don’t realize the systemic risk this puts the world economy at when a sizable chunk of the world economy is held by people individuals who are only finding new ways to make the most money and have zero obligations society.

Italy did that. No lessons were learned. No fix is in sight. It gets worse every day.

“This isn’t about a community no matter how much you’d prefer otherwise.”

Except that it was/is about the community/movement/group collectively known as skeptics. Go back the the beginning of the conversation. I mentioned materials and the reply came back about how it was all transphobic misogynist stuff. Well there is nothing inherently transphobic or misogynist about the application of epistemology, logic and spotting logical fallacies so the complaint must have been about the people. Then the conversation explicitly mentioned people by name as representatives of the community. So no matter how much you try to say it wasn’t about the community it was.

“This was a conversation in a public forum. The word “sceptic” has a generally understood meaning.”

There are lots of “generally understood” groups that go by existing words that aren’t understood at all by the general population. To many people atheists are Satan worshipers, trans people are bathroom predators, and geologists are part of a massive cover-up about the truth of young earth creationism. But we know that these “generally understood” meanings are completely false. In a dictionary a word can have more than one meaning and context matters.

The community has explicitly rejected the people you named because they aren’t in keeping with positions the community holds. If the community says they don’t want these people in the group but you insist on saying they are part of the group then you are making a bad faith argument.

Communities get to decide who is an isn’t part of the community. You specifically mentioned trans issues. Two of the pods I named had trans hosts. Dawkins had his AHA award pulled because of trans comments. Skeptics aren’t being the people you said they were. You can either change your mind or stick to your beliefs despite the evidence.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/richard-dawkins-trans-humanist-aha-b1835017.html

Don’t you find it’s usually better to frame your opponent’s position in terms they would agree with? You’re using skepticism in a way that does not comport with today’s use by the community. Community exchange over time. Community exchange over time.