Well fuck, sorry to hear that. I live in the cousin-fuckingly deep south and have always kinda hoped that shit was better in the more sane states.
Addendum:
Bring a CIS vanilla ally, and if shady shit happens, get the fuck out of there while they make the call.
Portal if you want to pass the controller, Portal 2 if you want multiplayer. Both great options for what you're describing.
Well, hence the 'if the cops in your area aren't absolute dogshit' disclaimer, with a list of a state-specific plan-b's contingent on the cops in your area infact being absolute dogshit.
I, perhaps naively, like to cling to the belief that there are at least few departments that adhere to the community-servant ideal concept of applying their power... But again, if that unicorn doesn't describe your local dept, there's the list.
Hello from All -- What's up trans friends!
So yeah, #1 priority is be safe; but also know that voter intimidation is... apparently only a misdemeanor?! I thought this shit was like 10 years... ...in any case, it's an enforceable offense, so if you see that bullshit happening, ~~don't be afraid to call it in. If the cops in your area aren't absolute dogshit, then 9-1-1 ought to do~~, (edit - uh... maybe scratch that... See the responses to this comment) but there appear to be some state-specific resources too:
Blatantly stealing the info @[email protected] posted over on YSK:
Just imagine the schadenfreude high you'll get from watching some bigot get shoved into a squad car!!
In any case, go kick some ass at at the ballot box! (by like, voting for people who aren't nazis - don't go and kick literal ass, or YOU'LL be the one getting called in). Good luck!!
I have no idea what the actual origin story for Fallout's Brotherhood of Steel is, but I'd at least place OP's post as a strong candidate.
In all seriousness, if it ever gets out of uncanny valley, then yeah that's a major transparency issue. The problem at that point becomes, even with laws in place to prevent it, who's to say those will actually be followed? It'll cause the same issues that deepfakes are causing now, but off-screen in real time. That would have crazy-bad implications for politics, security, social engineering, market manipulation...
Yeah, on one hand there's eating The Onion; on the other, there's The Onion accidentally growing an apple... the latter has been happening a lot lately.
In a work environment, best response is to ask things like "why?" "What do you mean?" Etc and let them either dig a hole that you can bring to HR; or come to the realization that their derogatory mindset actually feels really dirty when they spell it out, and drop it on their own.
SHUDDUP! He can qui -hic!- he can quit any time he wants!
uBlock Origin doesn't accept donations. That's the only product in this conversation worth supporting.
Their wealth will easily carry them through whatever hardships that happen in their lifetime. After their lifetime, they don't give a flying fuck what happens.
The environment looks fine when you look at it through the lens of a fiscal quarter!
I hit a critical milestone on the way home from school today.
Made this for a comment reply to another thread; thought y'all would enjoy it too! ^_^
Skip to the tldr if you don't want the novel explaining the reasoning.
A friend gifted me their old Razer Kraken headset a while ago. The leather Razer uses is some CHEAP shit, so the couple years in a closet leading up to it landing on my noggin left it in a state of deterioration that would sprinkle my head and ears with little bits of black leather.
The speakers are good though, and free is free, so no complaints: I hit it with some duct tape and peeled it off repeatedly until all the leather bits were freed up - the cloth layer underneath the leather is now the outermost layer, and no more black sprinkles all over, so yay.
Unfortunately the tape pulling on the ear cushions was a bit too much for whatever adhesive Razer uses to stick em on to their mounting plate, and they pretty much just pulled off. Also no biggie - replacements are pretty cheap on Amazon, so I got a set and lived happily ever after...
...but now I've got the old mounting plates (minus the cushions) and an idea.
So... I do a lot of gaming, wife watches a lot of TV. We do this in the same room, so I pretty much always have my headset on, which blocks most TV noises from getting to me, and most gaming noises from getting to her. Works great until she says something, and all I hear is muffled gibberish until I lift a speaker off my ear and hit her with "What?".
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My idea is to put... idk... something... on the mounting plate of the side facing her that's stable enough to keep the headphone in the correct position (and not pressing directly on my ear) but basically leaves the space completely open to the environment so that external sound coming from that side isn't muffled.
I'm thinking something like a plastic spiral hair tie, but with an inner diameter large enough to encircle my ear, and the spiral diameter roughly the same as the cussion, at least when its under tension against my head.
something like this:
...but ofc not just a cylindrical spring, but a donut shape. I kinda suck at photoshop, but you get the gist.
The spiral hair tie is the closest actual product I can think of to what I'm picturing, but those are far too small... ideas?
If we're talking that shitty highschool cafeteria pizza, I swear doing this made it taste better.
To hell with calories or fitness or any of that crap - it's the noms that matter.