HowToPhil (Phillip R)

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I am as I have always been, I am always changing.

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2024-09-22 00:52:36

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In my "house party days" my response to hearing rumors of this odd-level was usually "People say a lot of things about me. Guess they must think it's true."

2024-09-22 00:51:32

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I have not seen any hints of you being the person this other account is describing

2024-09-21 01:51:29

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Odd related-ish side-note: One of the #thermalTypewriters I recently got had some letters about "The Soo" (or the soos) in the used ribbon

2024-09-21 01:35:08

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You're from Kalamazoo?

2024-09-17 12:05:33

#pagerCodes
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2024-09-14 22:14:12

* Shows up *
"Why... Why do you have a pry bar?"
"You said you needed me to open up your box..."
"...Damn it, Phil!"

2024-09-12 14:32:37

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And when someone tries to feed you their opinion, you can say, "I'll have to chew on that for a bit."

2024-09-11 03:54:28

"I thought you were taller!"
"That's because you used to be attracted to me and now you're sober."

2024-09-11 01:09:41

Put the fucking FTP client BACK IN #Firefox. GOPHER too, you rears of jacks!

2024-09-04 21:20:15

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I think it's also that bdsm subs don't proselytize but "tradwives" and "tradhubs" seem to want everyone to be them. We are not all you Bob(ette). We are not all you.

2024-09-04 21:13:05

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It might be less "icky" if it was treated like a kink, like a bit of play people like to engage in before going back to real life. I'm fine with dom/sub play... as long as it stays play

2024-09-04 21:11:07

"tradwife content" makes me physically ill. I can feel the puke rise. Yet, "the algorithm" keeps trying to put that shit in front of me...

2024-09-03 21:42:28

"The corpse, as expected, did not answer her questions. Corpses do not usually answer questions, even legitimate ones."

2024-09-03 00:57:54

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Pretty much what I was going to say. Let the bots handle the mind-numbing robotic tasks (like transcription and bolting things together)

2024-08-30 02:05:35

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Either you have free will and thus every decision you make changes the entire cosmos by swaying the mechanics of reality... or you don't have free will and never could have changed anything that wasn't actually changing you anyway?

2024-08-29 19:54:22

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A midwestern-american and a canadian got into a verbal fight.
No one knew it was happening.

2024-08-29 19:50:57

Still working on my translation guide:
Midwesterner: "Now, with all due respect..."
East Coaster: "Listen here, you fucking shithead..."

2024-08-29 16:14:56

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Also, "rust" is a shit name

2024-08-26 23:38:00

For those that like #eldritch #horror in a #funny package, I give you my Fictional Newsletter
https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0DD5F45BX

2024-08-24 12:36:34

If you're not banning mopeds and motorcycles "for safety," you have no business banning kei cars

2024-08-16 17:48:27

This one had a Typestar 5 listed "As is" but also had "fully operational" in the description. I bought it, installed new batteries, and it will not even turn on. If he wanted to sell it untested or non-functional, he should have chosen something that said it was non-functional. Anyone would expect the machine to at least turn on given this part of the listing
https://www.ebay.com/usr/bens0nhurst
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2024-08-12 02:04:20

I've found that most people telling you that you have an "ego problem" are really saying "I think you're a loser and I hate that you refuse to agree with me."
Well, fuck them. Reject their dingy perspective. What the fuck do they know about you? Nothing worth considering.

2024-08-03 22:48:56

* Google's backup of your data is NOT your backup of your data.
* Apple's backup of your data is NOT your backup of your data.
* "The Cloud's" backup of your data is NOT your backup of your data.
* Your digital backup of your data on your hardware IS your backup.
* Your backup of your data in your analog system IS your backup.
* Your copy of your data that you have full control over IS your backup.

2024-08-01 00:58:28

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Blind taste-tests actually show that horse meat is higher quality and better tasting than cow. (last I checked but who knows if my data is outdated)

2024-07-06 02:30:57

"I miss being young and sexy."
"Don't worry about it. You were never sexy and you never looked young."
"Thanks...I feel better now..."

2024-06-29 16:14:39

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It is a truth that the world is sometimes made better when a person exits it.

2024-06-27 21:53:14

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Mypaint?

2024-06-27 01:23:32

"You're ignoring the loud part. No one wants to work FOR FREE, YOU DUMB FUCKER!"

2024-06-15 16:45:21

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I tend to think of that as the distracting hand in the stage show but I'll admit action is happening there

2024-06-15 16:43:02

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I think the induced "death" of struggling but continuing to exist places bought out by hedge funds and the Gamestop fiasco both prove stocks are pretty damn nonsense

2024-06-15 16:38:31

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They have decided to make it a new kind of stock (which has also always been fictional nonsense)

2024-06-11 03:22:32

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You should make a video essay about this

2024-06-08 00:17:12

Time to read #IsekaiOjisan and listen to #MegaDrive / #SegaGenesis music
#nanga #anime #retro #retrogaming #isekai

2024-06-05 04:03:11

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Also most reasonable works on "negotiation" include "decide what is your walking away point before you start" and sometimes that's "there is no start"

2024-06-02 17:54:12

You can't walk from the back of the Walmart parking lot but you're fixing to run a civil war? I don't think so.

2024-06-02 15:35:00

#Frieren is stuck
No One: "Let's see the meme. You know which #meme."
Me: "Fine..."
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/547/752/651/337/167/original/115c0c8aabe3529c.png

2024-05-27 22:57:50

Wow, #IG has even more #bots and #scammers than #xitter

2024-05-21 01:52:10

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I would borrow this info for my writing in something like this:
Wolf charged through the empty framing of a window long gone. The wind passing his ears was short-lived. The sudden stop jostled every bone in his body, twice for the joints, and his organs made a desperate attempt at escaping out the back. He managed to keep them in place, mostly.
"Well, that's Plan-A out the window," he thought.
A bullet buzzed his ear and another managed to put a hole in his trenchcoat. Another hole.

2024-05-21 01:38:39

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Nice! Did you go through the pane of glass or just out the open window?

2024-05-21 01:34:37

Things writers and people with mental health problems both experience:
"I wonder what it would feel like to jump through a second-story window."
"...It would hurt."
"Yes... but what would the specific qualities of the various pains experienced be?"
"A lot. It would hurt a lot."

2024-05-21 00:38:24

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"This is using the wrong title formatting"
"Let me see... Here are 37 other stories I've published with you all using the same title formatting... What could possibly be actually different here... Hmmm... Could it be that the protagonist is a transwoman? hmmm...."

2024-05-21 00:25:42

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I have had similar issues elsewhere. One of the places Other-Me publishes went through a set of "pre-publish reviewers" that seemed to find every little issue they could imagine... specifically with anything starring a trans character... or male bisexuals...

2024-05-21 00:17:54

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Yes, I like consistency

2024-05-21 00:15:07

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I tried to watch Redo Of Healer but it made me sick.
I tried out Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete but it felt weirdly... off...
neither should be banned from a collection of tropes though

2024-05-21 00:10:16

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And "Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out" Uzaki is a college girl.

2024-05-21 00:08:16

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I wish they hadn't reduced the ages of the main characters in the anime. It makes some of the jokes really weird

2024-05-21 00:07:07

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Likely... lol

2024-05-20 23:58:23

Still kind of waiting for my Flame Princess to charge in on fucking fire and save me
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/476/128/176/214/517/original/282ba406dfe1c66c.png

2024-05-17 02:50:19

Bring back the statusbar in browsers

2024-05-15 03:33:19

Spudger is such a funny name for a tool

2024-05-09 23:17:04

Basically, any forum that destroys itself by using Discourse instead of phpBB is dead as far as being a proper forum goes. Bulletin Boards DO NOT need to be more like other social media shit. They NEED to be their own thing.

2024-05-09 22:56:29

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I also like Mate desktop but I understand that you need the "one more option" for it to serve you. The beauty of a system you can change to suit your specific needs is what open source is all about :)

2024-05-09 22:54:22

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While I don't agree with you on what a "proper desktop environment" is because I like XFCE, I do vibe with your frustration.
This is the way I feel about forums switching to discord and discourse. Both are absolute trash compared to phpBB

2024-05-08 01:29:29

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Colleges e-waste their machines about every 3 years or more often... I don't know about other businesses...

2024-05-08 01:14:04

It is fine for some software to be paperclips. To be designed and to be done.

2024-05-04 04:42:11

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Who owns GeoWorks right now? I'd love to see that become part of FreeDOS

2024-05-01 22:33:09

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I think my opinion boils down to "You can make shitty source in any language... so I don't see your specific problem with BASIC"

2024-05-01 22:29:45

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I don't even think older BASICs were as bad as people think... but that's because I can make my own structure in it and document things...
I wonder if I can find that "in defense of GOTO" article (I think that's close to the title) I read "recently" again...

2024-05-01 21:13:21

#BASIC is awesome and most people who call the normal paradigms of programming in BASIC "bad habits" are just parroting shit said by others

2024-04-30 00:16:22

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I keep various "tailor's tapes" in pockets of my vests etc. Lightweight and useful

2024-04-28 18:31:17

Bravery is not the lack of fear.
Bravery is overcoming fear.

2024-04-28 18:13:51

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(I searched and Juniji appears to be a dude... I am shy on that assumption in my later years... because of the decade I thought Terry Pratchett was a woman...)

2024-04-28 18:12:19

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Since Junji often makes fun of their own work, possibly both are fine interpretations

2024-04-27 16:18:49

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It is but I also would not have gone to to "other service" if drafted for Vietnam or Korea. I would have told them I would not help at all or I would have done shitty work on purpose
It's one thing for someone to steal my plow and make guns. It's another for me to make fine guns for "the cause"

2024-04-27 16:17:06

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maybe but the methods used in basic training include all the hallmarks of cult indoctrination. Schools, other than boarding schools, don't come near as close

2024-04-27 16:15:58

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I consider building or caring for stuff for the military to be military

2024-04-27 16:13:47

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The fact that you have to go through "basic training" which is psychologically no different from any cult brainwashing, means you're putting "the same types of mind" in all the positions of power.

2024-04-27 16:09:21

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And yes, I believe seeing the military people as the only "truly valid people worthy of a vote and power" is clearly a fascist stance

2024-04-27 16:08:31

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It's authoritarianism and nationalism. Both of these are very big in Starship Troopers if you consider humans one nation and the bugs another. In fact, people not being able to vote unless they've been in the military is another layer of "othering" and creating people who are "less people"

2024-04-27 16:04:52

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This is possible. We can end the conversation here.

2024-04-27 15:57:54

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Seemed pretty overtly fascist to me. Just replacing "military and civilians" for "Party Members and Proles" from other fascist dystopias

2024-04-27 07:46:40

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Maybe you're right though. And maybe in our world, "racism isn't really that big a deal anymore because we consider the Irish and Italians to be white now"

2024-04-27 07:27:26

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Someone can wrap themselves in a flag and crosses and be neither patriot nor religious. A system of control can wrap itself in some few phrases of equality and still be fascist

2024-04-27 07:25:45

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Didn't see any Alien Bugs in their little society
The assumption that fascists have to be racist or sexist is just that, an assumption. It's not required. You can be a fascist and still think women are better pilots or tend to have better color vision or thicker corpus callosum...
Glorifying people as "mustangs" just for being military officers is pretty fascist. Denying people the right to vote for not being brainwashed by the military certainly is fascist

2024-04-27 01:43:32

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hmmm... It seemed pretty fascist to me when I read it but interpretation is up to each reader

2024-04-27 01:32:40

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The movie or the book?

2024-04-22 19:15:28

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I believe I spotted one in the Mendon, MI library as well

2024-04-22 01:40:33

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If you're wearing the parachute, you're not nude

2024-04-22 01:25:42

"If you had enough courage, you'd jump out of a plane nude!"
"No. Because I'd still NOT be a moron."
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2024-04-21 02:00:24

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Perhaps it has awareness at a level we cannot currently meaasure

2024-04-10 17:50:01

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I think, but don't quote me on it, that FreeBASIC fits what you're describing

2024-04-07 15:43:42

Raise you hand if you were shuffled between classes for gifted kids and classes foe special kids in school

2024-04-02 15:57:42

* xz backdoor. Only affects unstable builds *
Uninitiated: LINUX IS DOOMED FOREVER!!! FOSS IS DEAD!!!
Old Sys Admins: This is why unstable builds exist. To catch these things. This is the system in place doing its fucking job :)

2023-09-15 18:54:35

There was a meta-study (I have lost the reference) that showed people tended to go about 1.4x longer for "standard detour" on road travel vs a straight line between points
Using the tested range of your e-scooter/bike, you do this
radius=range*(1/1.4)
That radius can be used to draw a circle in Google Earth and you'll have the points you can reach on your device. apx
Halve the radius and you'll have the points you could go to and come back from. apx
#ebike #escooter #range #standardDetour