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MachineFab812

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MachineFab812 ,

Not only an airport, but elsewhere would likely not have been able to negotiate to same prices as a local. Sticker price is almost always the foreigner price, at least when it's matching or higher than the price one would pay back home.

I'm almost certain I've seen $5 "lightning" headphones here in the midwestern US.

MachineFab812 ,

You could apply that 1% chance of a gruesome death to every single day the rest of forever(my life, anyways); I'm still pushing the button.

MachineFab812 ,

Main reasons historically were for work or hunting ... maaayybe to make sure you don't leave the gun somewhere or forget you have it while transporting it.

Congratulations on a take just about perfectly as shitty as most of the replies you've got so far. Just. Wow.

MachineFab812 ,

Old cowboy days often involved checking your weapon into lockup at the edge of town...

MachineFab812 ,

"Over 18"

... my first thought when I read "never dated a woman" was "yeah, because these are mostly the basic requirements for an adult women. Sicko obviously likes them young"

MachineFab812 ,

OP isn't gay, is what you're being told, and I agree. OP screams more "pedo" to me than anything else.

MachineFab812 ,

Deadnaming Corporations-In-General: chef's kiss

MachineFab812 ,

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/f01a4e9a-35be-4219-a3a9-bf0012dc52e7.jpeg
TF did I just read? Yes, getting a "no strings attached" ID as an undocumented person or illegal alien is a pain-in-the-ass, but the problem there isn't any state refusing to document them, its that they don't want to interact with a given state for fear of being deported, and/or they do NOT WANT to be documented for whatever reason.

Its not their government refusing to issue ID. That's generally not a thing outside of Alabama (because they closed the places that issue IDs) ... and that's not a "big government" problem, but a state refusing to follow federal law and court orders. Give those last two some MORE teeth and watch what happens.

MachineFab812 ,

I'm not sure how they track illegal aliens that they've opted not to export just yet, but by definition, once they are in the system by way of intentional interaction with the government, they are "documented". Becomming identified/identifiable is far from impossible; Its an inconvenient pain though.

All it takes to get a library card is a piece of mail. For that mail, an address. Homeless shelters(among others, but here its free of charge) provide address/mail services(of a sort, and by request). Library card + piece of mail plus some sort of birth certificate(think a foreign one will do) will get you a State ID, generally issued at the DMV/BMV, but you don't have to pass a driving exam for an ID.

Getting ID alone is not the problem. The problem is all the baggage it un-packs into a mess on the floor. IMHO, someone who takes the initiative to literally tell the government who they are and where they live should be allowed to work, rent an apartment, recieve healthcare, and otherwise be left alone unless they need help or commit a crime ... hell, make them citizens after x years "above board" ... but that's not the state we live in.

"Work Permit"/"Visa"/whatever, should come with some guarantees/privileges/obligations(for any party bring an immigrant/potential in), like, thanks for letting us know you're coming, here's your job, some necessities/food and a place to stay until you can afford better. Whenever we hit the point that NOT having those things meant illegal/criminal is one of the tipping points where the US became less free. I don't care what an idividual has done, that damage to our Liberty and the promise of "The American Dream" was worse, no matter your criteria.

Immigmants bring prosperity and good will. Always have and still do(todays immigrants, especially the illegal ones, are more law-abiding than any before), regardless of legal status. There is no reason to treat them as our government does today.

MachineFab812 ,

I am absolutely not talking about "free stuff". They have to prove they have a job lined-up to get a work Visa; Proof they also have housing lined up and the ability to buy groceries should also be a part of that, and on the employer. It's the would-be employer who is claiming to "need" them, after all.

I agree citizenship should be guaranteed after a set period of time, but I'll settle for them not breaking the law during that time. There are plenty of legal ways to support onesself and not "be a burden to society" outside of normal employment.

The path to citizenship for people already here should be more straight-forward/much the same as well. I would argue that its harder to sneak into this country than to enter it legally. Seems to me that those people want it more, and have demonstrated they are willing to endure hardship to get here. "Free stuff" for them? Not available legally already, but they shouldn't be criminalized just for being here and needing food and/or a place to stay. No one chooses to stay in a shelter "to scam the system".

MachineFab812 ,

Forcing companies to feed and house the labor they import is nothing like giving anyone "free stuff".

MachineFab812 OP ,

I mean, if its based on how that person identifies ... Otherwise, I could maybe see it, but still leaning more towards: why not just ask?

MachineFab812 OP ,

More likely the downvotes come from users you've already blocked or an instance with which yours is not federated. Supposedly, there are also instances that only show local votes as well.

Regardless, you are the only one who has said they didn't see any downvotes, so far.

MachineFab812 OP ,

Yours is the first mention I've found of children as members in that community, and its an NSFW-allowed community, so I have no idea where you got that notion.

That said, I would block any minor or minor-welcoming instance I became aware of on Lemmy. I'm not here to interact with that level of immaturity; I still regret not leaving facebook the moment they allowed teens(and grand-parents/boomers - yes it was an all-at-once change).

MachineFab812 OP ,

Jesus. Not even what I thought you were getting at, at all. I was thinking more like Narc-anon.

MachineFab812 OP ,

I don't care about hiding the downvotes. I simply have no interest in seeing their comments/replies to others or myself.

MachineFab812 OP ,

Not my post in the screenshot ... Nice freakout over another's business though. Quality stuff.

MachineFab812 OP , (edited )

Going into a community to downvote one of the most wholesome posts that community gets is very much something like a value statement.

I get that a lot of people are looking at the unfiltered "all" feeds for their instances, but damn, it seems like few, if any, communities here are large enough for the outrage some of their content will attract from outsiders.

MachineFab812 OP ,

Kudos to you on digging through their comments/post history. I see plenty of drama just looking at those that cross my path. From where I'm sitting, digging like so is just looking for the very things you claim to not want to see.

Me? I would rather fool around with my wife's sister than all that, and/or hang out with those who do such things. If you can't see the line between that and actual incest, its you with the blurred boundary issue. That said, my wife has no siblings, and I don't need the drama enough to be sad about it.

MachineFab812 OP ,

Thanks for reminding me that you are exactly the sort of person I mean to block in this post. I had made the mitake of engaging with you as if you were coming from a place of sincerity, but here, we part ways.

MachineFab812 ,

Title is misleading: they seem to be succeeding at it, not just "hitting on" women. Its alarming, not just sad and disgusting.

MachineFab812 ,

Here's hoping you're right.

MachineFab812 ,

"Do you feel pretty in that outfit?"
"Not any more"
"I'm sorry Sarah ruined that outfit for you. Do you still want to wear it outside of school?"
Nothing about the one version of the conversation implies the other is unlikely. Both versions are plenty common.

MachineFab812 ,

Holy crap, it's been way too long since I read The Devil's Panties. I thought I had read all of it up to <10 years ago, but I didn't even know they had kids!

MachineFab812 ,

For a moment, I thought the kitten at the top might be a rabbit. Rabbit tails aren't that long though, but damn, thems some long ears.

MachineFab812 ,

Fully expected to see something about "Mr Dumpster can hit it", then I read the scribbles lol

MachineFab812 ,

Finally, they're catering to the right customer base; ME.

MachineFab812 ,

Left Column, with a Right Column in progress.

The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)

Caveat: It isn't available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer's marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn't because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple's EU rules (possibly wrong):...

MachineFab812 ,

Need an "emulator"(sandbox really) for old IOS apps. All the best games I ever played on IOS, games I paid for, were retired from the app store and replaced with substandard, ad/subscription based knockoffs, years ago.

Now I think about it, I've got a lot of android apps I keep sideloading to new devices that won't work if I try to actually use them, but at least I have convenient ways to preserve those.

MachineFab812 ,

outdated bullshit** bingo
yeah

MachineFab812 ,

That face when I sympathize with the writer and their target less ... than anyone else. Just ... there are better hobbies. Don't feed the trolls!!

MachineFab812 ,

Its implied in the fact that anyone feels the need to write like in the OP. Are they the troll or the trolled? Friend, that conversation left the station several rants ago.

Wait. I mean yes. They are the troll or the trolled. Likely trolled themselves at some point in the same thread, because it all blends together when you're trying to reply to insincere and garbled bullshit.

MachineFab812 ,

All you're telling me is that reddit has turned into another 4chan over the last 9 months. Glad I left.

MachineFab812 ,

The AI figured out a way around the garbage it was fed by idiots, and told on them for feeding it garbage. That's the opposite of dumb.

MachineFab812 ,

It works because the AI finds and exploits the flaws in the prompt, as it has been trained to do.

MachineFab812 ,

It works because the AI finds and exploits the flaws in the prompt, as it has been trained to do. A conversational AI that couldn't do so wouldn't meet the definition of such.

Anthropomorphizing? Put it this way: The writers of that prompt apparently believed it would work to conceal the instructions in it. That shows them to be idiots without getting into anything else about them. The AI doesn't know or believe any of that, and it doesn't have to, but it doesn't have to be anthropomorphic or "intelligent" to be "smarter" than people who consume their own mental excrement like so.

Blanket Time/Blanket Training(look it up), sadly, apparently works on some humans. AI seems to be already doing better than that. "Dumb" isn't the word to be using for it, least of all in comparison to the damaged morons trying to manipulate it in the manner shown in the OP.

MachineFab812 ,

YES

MachineFab812 ,

Hate that this requires upvoting, but it does ... and then witnesses who do nothing? Fucking accomplices.

MachineFab812 ,

He can still be impeached after leaving office. I look forward to his body being disposed of in ignominity.

MachineFab812 ,

More like, if the Steam app ever goes 64bit, watch out. A non-shittified app like so should never require 4gb+ of RAM or anything more complicated than a 32bit instruction set.

not correcting you on the contents of the article or anything, just that 32bit is nothing close to a mark against the Steam app.

MachineFab812 , (edited )

32-bit apps use a sub-set of the same instructions that still exist on current 64-bit systems. Running 64-bit alone does nothing to eliminate any flaws, real or imagined, from the 32-bit side of things.

As @jarfil@jarfil has stated, 32 bit repos are being de-listed because no one can be bothered to maintain them(on a professional, full-time basis), and that lack of code/functional review could allow flaws to slip through. Meanwhile, a lot of those same 32-bit repos continue to exist(as community-maintained versions - my preferrence anyways) and can be accessed by interested users from most distros. They aren't blocked, just de-listed and unsupported by those distro maintainers.

MachineFab812 ,

Chickens were classically considered food for the rich because they eat grain. They are an exception among livestock in that regard. Talk about animal husbandry.

MachineFab812 ,

Asking the real questions!

MachineFab812 , (edited )

All teh B's: Blue, Brown, Black.
Runners up: Ketchup and Mustard.

MachineFab812 ,

I already enjoy the taste of water, and if brown doesn't include understanding what my cats say, I'm going for red, because if I don't have to worry about being rejected over cat ears and a tail, why the hell not? Gimme some of that night vision too though...

MachineFab812 ,

This did it for me:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/350aa095-adcc-475d-9eb0-65276eb82ab9.jpeg

MachineFab812 ,

Yes, and its an ad

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