@xan

retrievers like carrying things delicately in their mouths.

@lizzard

"we will accept skritches or treats, as is our divine due"

@charlotteclymer

i'd go with "despise".

in the service, we all had some officer who demanded respect, yet did nothing to earn it. "respect the rank" only works if the officer in question themself respects the rank, the service, and their fellow military.

the opposite of respecting is despising.

dui pet, no tab pete, has the same complete lack of respect as the scum who appointed him. one considers our military "suckers", the other has some cartoon level picture of himself as a "soldier".

it's tragic that all the folks serving our country, who do respect rank and service, are being so horrifically treated and disrespected, put into harm's way for no good reason.

@da_667

i've been starting to look at freebsd/netbsd again. also not without issues but many of them are things i dealt with in the past.

@da_667

everything does seem to come with compromises, tradeoffs, collateral damage.

it's been a rough year or three. much harder to keep optimistic compared to 25+ years ago.

@futurebird

oh i hope it happens. funk is still one of my favorite choices for how i get myself *out* of a funk. it's just hard to be a gloomy gus when you're blasting out a good funk tune.

@renardboy @catsalad

because making salads with cats don't risk explosive diarrhea like using lettuce does these days?

@CStamp @mayintoronto @xgranade

indeed!

i'd even say that apolitical is a gross misuse of incredible privilege.

@globalmuseum

nice! what a cool instrument.

pre-amplification, doubled strings, octave strings, drone strings all helped punch out more sound.

@mikebabcock

yeah... "security through obscurity" never stays secure or obscure for very long.

@alicemcalicepants @ana

full disclosure. i do like bagpipe. but only if it's a virtuoso bagpipe player. by my definition, that's a bagpipe player who knows a 3rd song.

scotland the brave, amazing grace, and a 3rd song.

@alicemcalicepants @ana

one of my favorite bagpipe jokes:

man to bagpiper: "can you play over the hill and very far away"

bagpiper: "not sure i know that tune.

man: "no. can you play over the hill and very far away..."

@catsalad

the humane use of catgut.

@evacide

LOL.

not to mention it being a great way to go from making $475/hr to discovering what the minimum wage in your state pays...

@jwz

i would rather talk to latter day saints than AI zealots. and i *hate* folks ringing my doorbell at 8am on Sunday.

@QasimRashid

"we caught someone wanting an abortion, someone buying pot, and we stalked that ex we really hate to bypass the restraint order"

yay?

@CiaraNi

i can write simple scripts, fix simple bugs in code. i cannot write large complicated pieces of code. i know my limits but i appreciate those that can.

i have a similar respect for those folks that grow and harvest our food.

@GrahamFluster

"package was left with receptionist. the one with the glowing eyes..."

@carstenfranke

look up landmine cleanup in asia. wwi and wwii left a huge amount of dangerous stuff all over EU too.

wars never have winners. sometimes they have survivors.

@miss_rodent @inthehands

they like to call it "stickiness" to make it sound like it's just business. but "addiction" is the correct characterization.