It’s one of those things you have to try homemade, unfortunately. The only restaurant I somewhat trust is my aunt’s restaurant and even then it’s still not as good as homemade! But it comes close.

I’ll send you an invite next time we have one lol

Gumbo. My mom made it a few times and I always hated it. Turns out she wasn’t making it correctly until I had my extended family make it the way our family did from Louisiana and now I can’t get enough of the stuff.

My family goes all out on gumbo, making a pot that will cost around $400 (pre-pandemic pricing, not sure how much it went up since) but have every little thing everyone wants from shrimp and sausage to chicken and all the little fixings in it.

if it’s going to be that bad, why don’t you leave?

Maybe you should leave the country if it upsets you that much

YouTube has a very strict copyright system in place that favors the person making the copyright over the uploader. I say this to say that you could flag it for copyright because of your resemblance being shown and get the video removed.

The next part that would follow is for the uploaded to appeal to the copyright claim. Depending on YouTube’s decision, either they reject or approve his appeal. If his appeal is approved, then the video comes back up and the next copyright claim is for the courts. If YouTube doesn’t approve his appeal, then they refer it to the courts. That’s what I remember from the last few times I’ve seen YouTubers dealing with claims on their videos, regardless whether there was merit or not.

Most YouTubers back off when YouTube refers them to court because it’s too much of a hassle.

You may want to consider this for yourself to get the video removed if that’s what you’d like.

Only drawback is the Streisand Effect where others or the uploader make the video more popular and reupload it out of spite. Doubtful but it could happen under the right circumstances.

I’m still not convinced in this age of AI image generation.

Lost my wallet yesterday. Already canceled and got new replacement cards coming in.

I didn’t realize how easy it was going to be getting a replacement drivers license. I was fretting having to schedule an appointment.

Changing literal adult diapers. It was for adults with developmental disabilities.

Also as part of the job, I was punched, spit in the face, slapped, cursed at, and was also sexually assaulted by an older guy on a few occasions (I’m also a male).

Though one of the last times I remember being punched, it was because I was trying to break up a fight between two guys and the one bigger guy threw his punch and it hit me in the chest. The whole time the fist was coming at me, I was expecting it to hurt since he was large. I barely felt it and tried not to laugh as I kept trying to break them up. Not saying that like I’m tough, because I am not and was much smaller than he is, but his punch really was that weak lol

Fun times…

They did use the same voice actress as the video game on the Windows version, I can confirm. Or at least it was a very good imitation.

I was really hyped for Cortana on Windows and then that faded pretty quick. But I remember hearing her voice and thinking how cool that was.

When I was younger, my imaginary friend’s name was Tony. Couldn’t tell you what he looked like though.

But I couldn’t stop laughing the first time I saw this on Malcolm in the Middle https://youtu.be/LQCzejDV7cY?si=R-smlPQ-HpPN0zD3 because I did have a weird fascination with that name as a kid.

Cats are family too

It’s largely dependent on the hardware and software.

For example, old ass iPod Touches/iPhones can be brute forced with special hardware. I watched a video on this recently of some guy who found his old iPhone and wanted pictures off of it and the tech had a machine that would take a few days to guess every possible passcode combination. Though he was able to set a certain possible combination which helped decrease the amount of time to a few days.

That type of brute force is not as possible on modern hardware and software because manufacturers and programmers have gotten wise to it and developed better measures to protect against it, such as timeouts for incorrect passcodes. A few decades ago when we didn’t have this, it would still take a machine a few days to crack the code using brute force, but now you’ve added even more time on top of that to further slow the process, in hopes of the machine malfunctioning or just someone not wanting to waste time doing that.

The irony of this post lol

Scammers are crafty assholes.

Your health insurance information may have been leaked. There’s been a ton of data leaks as of recent and it’s not unlikely that a list of health insurance providers and their customers are on the dark web somewhere and this is where they got that information about you.

Worse about these data leaks is that a lot of the ones being announced happened months ago, so it’s likely we still have some leaks that haven’t yet made it to the news to let people know their information is out there.

Getting your health data from the pharmacy may have just been the next step in their plan of getting to you to trick you into giving up money, or somehow using your information to do something illegal.

I had one and severely miss it. Well, I don’t miss the one I had but I miss the EV part of it.

I had a 2015 BMW i5 which apparently that and the 2014 models had a whole host of problems, especially if you were like me and had the range extender which was basically a small motorcycle gas engine seated in the back and could be used to charge the battery. Being BMW’s first generations, it’s not too much of a surprise that they’d have issues but there was more beyond those like the small form tires that didn’t last long, were rare, and expensive and the 12v battery which was also expensive, rare, and difficult to replace…

Beyond all that, I just miss the simplicity and the feel of the EV drive. Stepping on the accelerator and you feel it accelerate. It has much lower maintenance, with the only trade off being that tires usually don’t last as long as an ICE because the battery adds so much more weight and the battery replacement can be pricey. But other than that, no oil changes, no transmission worries, no smog checks, no needing to let the car warm up…just hop in and go. I also miss the charging aspect of it. Sure, it sucked not having the same range as a gas/hybrid where I now get about 500 miles on a full tank, but I actually liked going to charging stations and just sitting there while my car charged. I also liked the price difference, so much cheaper. I also liked that I could be lazy. I didn’t have to “fill up” when I was tired on my way home or early the next morning because I would charge at home and have a full “tank” to use the next day.

I only got rid of the i5 because of the host of problems and got a hybrid instead which has been fine and a better car in many ways, but I still long to go back. I’ve been thinking very strongly about going and trading in for an EV each weekend that passes by. I’ve been researching possible EVs to go to and have a few in mind I’d like to check out now that the prices are way down.

Antarctica, anywhere there on the continent.

Just one of those places I’d love to see in person and experience.

This was on a company computer? It was humans + horses? I initially thought this was horses + horses until your last paragraph. Just a weird dude who really enjoyed watching horses get it on with each other lol

Huh, that’s strange.

But now that you say that, I started thinking of differences between the two laptops I had worked on, and one of the differences between these two laptops was that one was the standard Windows 11 and the other was Windows 11 in S Mode. The laptop in S Mode was the one that wouldn’t let me bypass the OOBE.

I wish I would have checked the exact version each were running but I did not, so it may not come down to the version but laptops with S Mode may just have zero way to bypass.

Add political ads to the last one too.

99% of the time it’s either an outright lie or stretched exaggeration of the truth. No one is getting any correct information from a political ad except either side’s specific spin on it and it causes a lot of average people to incorrectly believe they are informed on who and what they are voting on that they don’t need to do more due diligence before heading to the polls.

Also favors rich politicians and more well funded campaigns over less well off politicians and less well funded organizations and causes.

Never connected to the Internet. This was straight out of the box and didn’t connect to a network at all.

Seems some computers have been updated to later versions of Windows 11 before being boxed up and these newer versions have this even if you never connect to a network.