Not very. I’m pretty mild in my ideologies as far as scandinavia goes. Once traveling to the US again my presence would probably make Joseph McCarthy rise from his grave, though.

Staged rollout here as well (I think that was pretty universal). Due to traveling a lot, I asked the people at my local Village clinic (yeah, I live in the middle of nowhere), if it was possible for them to make a note that if they happened to have any leftovers doses in the group before me (such as if someone didn’t want theirs for whatever reason), if I could have it.

I made it clear that I didn’t want to jump the queue ahead of anyone before me, as I’m reasonably healthy, but I could really use being at least first in my group.

And I’m glad I did, because they obliged, and a month later I found myself back in the US, and this time I caught covid. I’m sure the vaccines was what caused it to be extremely mild, bordering asymptomatic.

Come to think of it, I’ve caught covid twice, both times in the US.

European visiting the US, so it’s going to be pretty mild.

This was early January, 2021, so I needed a negative covid test before I could start the one month of work I had planned (my reason for being there).

Me: “Noted. I see there’s a clinic across the street from my hotel, I can have it done tomorrow morning.”
Shoreside rep: "Sorry, can’t do that here. It has to be this specific clinic with which we have an agreement.
Me: “How about my travel insurance, won’t they cover it anywhere?”
Rep: “We don’t know that until billing, and then you’d have to expense the copay, which management doesn’t like”

That’s when I learned wtf “copay” is. I had loads to do the day after, but I spent most of the day in a car, back and forth, so that I could visit this one specific clinic for a test that took five minutes.

And if Houston city planners weren’t bribed by Big Concrete and Big Car Dealership, I’m sure the ride would have been significantly shorter as well. As a sidenote, I find it pervertedly fascinating that Houston is a city that somehow manages to be located surprisingly far from Houston itself.

What happened to Tibet again?

David Maxim Micic - Where is Now

It takes me through all the stages:

• Things are good
• things could be better
• hatch a plan
• build doomsday device
• extort the world governments
• things are better

These laptop fans I bought a while back had a warranty of 60 days. At that stage I wonder why even bother. They worked just fine for years, though.

“Do not eat”-stickers.

At HEB I saw “Water melon filet” for sale.

Plural.

Can’t be arsed fixing that for you.

I’m an ordained dudeist priest.

Burning a CD while using your computer for something else in the mean time.

Yes-ish. While there are some good results from small scale tests, I’d argue that the effect it’d have on a macro level isn’t fully understood. I’m all for testing it out large scale so we can get some reliable data there as well. And if it turns out that it doesn’t result in inflation or corpos eating up the extra, then I’m all for it.

“It just works”

…because that is the state of a mainstream modern distro, and it’s not true of Windows anymore.

Alternatively “No nagging, no forced online account.”

Long after I grew up, but Phineas and Ferb

My mom is absolutely terrified of heights, to the point where she can’t stand on a chair without someone holding it. On tables isn’t happening. Ever.

But she’s perfectly fine with flying, and does so at least a couple of times per year. I even offered to take her flying in a very small aircraft a while back, and she had no problem with the idea.

Unnecessary police brutality during arrest with a bow and arrow

1. Basterds
2. Pulp
3. Dogs
4. Jackie
5. Death Proof
6. Bill
7. Hollywood

Haven’t watched:
Django
Hateful

I love the top 4, the others are kinda meh, except Hollywood, which I found outright boring. I’m sure it was meant for movie buffs and other people more familiar with the real story. People already into Hollywood and feet probably love it.

Also, I was having hard time choosing between Dogs and Pulp for 2nd. Having said that, they’re both on par with Basterds, it’s just that my WW2 interest makes Basterds appeal just that micron extra.

And an unpopular opinion: Kill Bill is overrated. Interesting cinematography, but apart from that I find it completely forgettable. The only reason why I cared enough to watch both movies was to figure out the deal with Bill, which I guess was kind of the point. But if someone had told me who he was and what he did after the 1st movie, I probably wouldn’t have bothered with the 2nd.

I was a pretty big contributir to Everything2.com
It’s not as encyclopedia-like as wikipedia, but still a reasonably good source of information. The biggest annoyance was that you couldn’t include pictures in a writeup.

I moderate a few smaller but active ones. I don’t see a whole lot of bad stuff apart from the occasional garbage opinion such as [insert least favorite ideology here].

This might be because the places I mod are pretty chill in nature. I’m sure of the topic was something more volatile and spicy, such as politics, it could be a different story.

Yup, that’s pretty much spot on. I don’t really have a problem with .world myself. I do hear a lot of complaints about admin powertrips, but I’ve never used .world so I have not experienced this myself.

It’s a combination of tankies and some more level headed leftists. They do have a decent proportion of OK users and the occasional decent meme, but the frequent genocide denialism and too many tankies have resulted in a lot of blocks and bans.