Honestly, most people suck at giving gifts. Most people struggle to put themselves in someone else’s shoes

Your SO probably put real thought into the gift, and paid attention to you to come up with a good idea. And most people think new is better (although I’m with you). They think it’s sour grapes or something when you tell them how you enjoy the fact something has been with you for all this time, and how you’ve carefully repaired it over the years

So all in all, that’s a halfway well thought out gift. More effort than most people put into them, anyways. They were probably really excited and proud of themselves

I don’t know what to do with that information… Personally I’d probably accept the gift and leave it in the closet as a backup. I’m not sure if that’s better or not, but it would spread the experience out

He’s tried every other argument, now he’s trying reverse psychology again

It’s because he likes the spotlight. He’s said a ton of very sus things to reporters over the years just to be the Epstein whisperer

Yeah, I don’t think racoons are anywhere near going extinct…They’re really well adapted to living on the fringes of human society

Also, it’s not just preference. Cuter is less threatening, and for the noble North American trash panda? Convincing humans to help them escape dumpsters is practically part of their life cycle

The way he responded to this was really good. He got up there and said “I’m only surprised it took this long for Trump to come after me, bring it on”

People really latched onto the idea, which was shared with the media by people actively working on how to solve the problem

It’s all happening insanely slowly, really

You have the big bang, where space and energy explode into a plasma in femtoseconds, and then the whole thing cooled and expanded into a cloud of matter fairly quickly

Since then, it’s been slow. It’s atoms attracting each other through gravity for millions of years

Space is so big, humans can’t begin to understand it. A billion years are so long, humans can’t begin to understand it

I really, really hope they double down on the whole ebiphile thing

Please, let’s get into the weeds on what flavor of pedophile our leaders are. Let’s really break it down, maybe add some infographics?

He was shockingly graceful about the whole thing. I’ve never heard a concession speech that sounded so optimistic lol

I used to think that, but Prince Andrew lost his palace and MAGA members of Congress are splintering

I don’t know what’s in those files, but even if the perpetrators never see the inside of a courtroom, apparently it’s so radioactive that untouchable people will still see consequences

And the files haven’t even been released yet. All of this is in advance

Pretty much. It means give maximum output, which can easily be over 100%.

And that means burn out

What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing

If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount

If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible

The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick

That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload

The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented

It’s symbolic. Apparently saying the quiet part out loud isn’t enough anymore, now they’re performing metaphors to make it really sink in

The destruction of the east wing is the pointless and haphazard destruction done to the government. The great Gatsby party was a feast celebrating people starving. A ballroom bigger than the white house is promise the president will keep the rich having fun first and foremost

The building itself doesn’t matter… But the kind of president that would destroy a national monument just cause is the kind of president that doesn’t care about our country, let alone human rights

Have you considered using fire?

• Sun Tzu

No, see that has meaning… This doesn’t. No information is contained in 6 7, there is no concept or reference or anything to it

Well in this case, you’re going to have a hard time trolling Trump supporters on the fediverse

I think memeing at the right is one of the few acceptable uses of Twitter at this point

No, this is totally unconnected. This is just a run of the mill win, this was inevitable

It has nothing to do with how the Senate snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in exchange for nothing

It’s a meme where you say “6 7”, optionally with a hand motion like you’re weighing something

There’s no meaning. That is the full context. Any situation where you do any part of the meme is a valid use of the meme

And that’s why I personally find it uniquely annoying

Oh, they tried to talk him out of tarrifs. But he personally loves them, because they make other countries come to him and kiss his ass and make “concessions” that were already in place to get them removed