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We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator!

“We are unique among the world’s militaries,” Milley said. “We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion. We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator.”

“And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” “We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”

It’s a line General Milley has delivered before but he chose to use it Friday standing alongside President Biden during a national address – his last as the president’s top military adviser and the nation’s top general.

cnn.com/2023/09/29/politics/mi

With the solstice behind me, prime roadtripping season is behind me.

It may look like a lot of exploring, but really is not much for me. Between the damaged car keeping me off forest roads, the A/C no longer working, making driving uncomfortable, and the pinched nerve making driving painful, I didn't get out as much as I'd hoped to.

Still, saw a lot of Washington, learned a lot of history, explored a lot of beautiful places. Hopefully, things will get better quickly, and a repaired car/new truck will make next year a lot more of Washington seen.

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Lifehack: If you don't have enough gender in your system, one solution is editing your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files to include extended and expanded gender.

All you people who tell me to not use double spaces after a period? I just add one more period EACH AND EVERY SINGLE TIME.

Things that Computer Games No Longer Have: The Boss Key (a.k.a. The Supervisor Key)

Back in the 1970s and 1980s, people wanted to play games on their computers. But computers were really expensive and a good portion of the time, you only had access to one at work. (Or at least your work computer was better than your home computer.) So people would put games on their work computer, but then ran into the problem of what to do if your boss caught you playing games on the job.

Enter the Boss Key. One of the keys on the keyboard, typically a function key, would open either a fake DOS prompt or a fake spreadsheet or presentation or something that looked job-like. If you suspected your boss was coming, you'd slam the Boss Key and look like you were actually doing work.

This is because your job doesn't let you slack off after you've done all your work in the queue. Managers expect you to always be working on something when you're on the clock.

Forget that.

Play games in the clock

Power to the Boss key.

The only thing I regret about my transition is my boobs don't make this noise when touched. Maybe I started my transition too late for the sound effects to kick in....

If you are opposed to same sex marriage, then you can simply say no when someone of the same sex proposes to you.

Leave the rest of us alone. See how that works? That’s actual #freedom.

#ssm #gay #gaymastodon #LGBTQ

Describe your favorite videogame horribly

Racist stereotypes from across the globe beat each other up for therapy.

Here's a comparison of #DeepSpaceNine's holosuites in #StarTrekDS9's "It's Only a Paper Moon"⬇️ and #veryShortTreks' wonderful "Holograms All the Way Down"⬆️. When you search for "holosuite" on Memory Alpha, this ⬇️ is the image that goes with the article. :-)

Today I learned you can buy gold bars at Costco. For-real 1 oz 24k gold bars for $2k. Wonder if they're giving out samples. 🤔

#costco #gold

In a couple years, I am going to tell my grandkids that this was Elon Musk...

#elonmusk

Long shot, but does anyone know about #XFS #filesystem #recovery?

My Arch #Linux desktop crashed during an update and now has a corrupt XFS. Mounting fails because of the corruption. xfs_repair can't fix it because of unapplied log changes.

The XFS partition is on top of a pair of LVM-mirrored drives. A different XFS partition on the same drives mounts fine.

I'd rather not destroy the log and take the data loss but that's the next step I'm looking at.

Looking for suggestions or resources!

‘Henry Ford invented the 40 hour work week’ is a very strange way to say ‘Henry Ford claimed credit for changes he was forced to adopt after a hard fought campaign by the union members he despised’.

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