I’m no fancy flashlight guy, but I carry the coast g19 daily.

For what I need a flashlight for, it just works. Takes a single AAA. Doesn’t throw far. But has very even light which is great for looking in engine bays or whatever crevice I need.

Plus, it’s only $10. I ended up buying a half dozen and tossed them everywhere around the house and in my various bags I carry.

Depending on what people do, the government already has their fingerprints.

Personally, I work around schools so I had to get a background check and fingerprinted for that. I also am licensed to handle explosives, both federally and at the state level. I been fingerprinted for that. I’ve gone through TSA for hazmat endorsement on a commercial driver’s license. That needed fingerprints and a background check.

Getting fingerprinted to get through airport security is the least of my privacy concerns.

But my threat model isn’t the TSA. They aren’t a concern of mine, although I do opt out of their facial recognition.

I am concerned with internet surveillance, corporate surveillance, and communication surveillance.

I hate how corporate Plex has become. Instead of making their apps better, now it’s how many “free” services they can try and get you to use.

All I wanted was my hosted media. And to easily share that with family without having to manage user accounts.

I run jellyfin along side it, but Plex still gets the most use.

Bowling For Soup - No Hablo Inglés

Same emotions?

On a good day by Above and Beyond.

I first heard it at a rave, rolling on ecstacy, going through pretty bad depression. It was during their “Group Therapy” set. I felt so connected to everyone around me. So peaceful. So understood. I cared and loved everyone around me and I felt the same in return. Sure, I was high. But it was a moment a decade ago that I can still remember vividly, and a point where I started taking my mental health seriously and started to deal with it and finally start to feel good about myself.

Tombstone, AZ has a population of 1,313.

I specifically will boycott places if their ads annoy me enough.

I want a replica of the ocarina from Lunar: A Silver Star Story.

It’s such a beautiful instrument.

Just make it long with an intermission.

Lots of old musical films did that. Like Oklahoma!, Fiddler on the Roof, and Hello Dolly.

https://youtu.be/kCpjgl2baLs

Lol. No ai. Just a really bad Photoshop of the mentos label.

Rhapsody’s Holy Thunderforce is just so damn entertaining.

And Helloween’s Eagle Fly Free is pretty high on my list.

Besides all that manual labor requires math. A ton requires geometry.

You think plumbing, framing, electrical or any trade is done without measuring and quite complicated math?

Department of Peace

Department of Government Efficiency

Department of Truth

Department of Plenty

Department of Love

I’ve heard this story before, it’s not a new incident. It’s also getting a lot of coverage from lots of media.

Similar story, 2014: https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-son-park/index.html

2022: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/texas-child-protective-services-waco-heather-wallace-b2226799.html

2014: https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/07/debra-harrell-arrested-for-letting-her-9-year-old-daughter-go-to-the-park-alone.html

2015: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents-investigated-letting-children-walk-alone/25700823/

’May you live in interesting times’ is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld, especially on the distinctly unmagical Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life and can’t even spell wizard.

That’s not a silly thing though. Pretty much all jobs are temporary.

I’m at an MSP that services quite a few school districts. We lose techs to them somewhat regularly.

Utopias are inherently dystopian in they only work when everyone wants the same things and everyone is bound by strict rules. There is no such thing as a utopia.

This is far from boring. It’s terrifying.

Finding the correct bolt size, thread pitch, material, and trusting that when I order grade 8 bolts, I’m actually getting grade 8 makes Amazon quite a pain in the ass.

If it’s something I don’t care too much about, yea Amazon is fine. But when I want to trust my life to it or it’s going to take some serious stress I’m going to want McMaster.