im Hubert Manne. Thats H-U-B-E-R-T and I live at 1397 Prince Ave, Athens, GA 30606. My ssn is 123-45-6789
you sound like my wife and she is still like that. Its hard to explain because she will do whats expected. So like around the house whe will not wear dresses or anything but at work or parties or such she will. We are both kinda by the book like that but im more likely to do what I want if there is no specific rule where she will more likely take into account norms.
oh im just such a typical and ordinary eathling that I don't see the point of a profile pic.
many people just remember turn the other cheek but the whole thing but christ literally says do not resist evil and gives as an opposite example the eye for an eye. It could not be more plain.
mine has self checkouts now. Never though I would see the day. They still pay better because if you work there you do everything.
I feel like I went to aldi in the 80's but I honestly can't remember for sure but yeah its been a huge light for non wealthy americans.
I had similar arguments over pacifism and it amazed me how the christians would prove to me that jesus was not and did not preach pacifism.
I was going to answer something like this.
ooh. costa rica is tempting but osen!
See that is the thing. "If the company has no productive use of the capital". Borrowing is essentially money creation. Utilizing it just to artificially increase stock value is just an economics game at that point precisely because its not doing something productive. Companies are supposed to be productive in the real world but now all companies spend more of their money playing economic games over making prducts or providing services. This is the classic complaint and the reason for the late stage capitalism thing. When money is the goal everything increasingly is setup to make money but not actually do the thing the money is supposed to incentivize.
Reside, vacation, party.
So was thinking about doing a location based version of marry, fuck, kill. Three locations. One you would like to live in, one you would like to visit on vacation and one you would like to party down in. For the purposes of this don't worry about language or politics or affordability. More about weather, infrastructure, beuty, etc. For me toronto to live in because im a city boy and like the thought of being able to take my dog with me on transit (if that is still a thing), vacation is tokyo and partially (if money is no object) to go to that ultra ritzy onsen. Party wise im tempted by new orleans which I have been too but im watching global fireworks and Bangkok looked amazing with the 20 story high buddha. I think though I have to go with amsterdam which also spreads out my choices nicely globally.
I mean I don't have one but while we do have power outages my area does get priority for getting back online because we don't get gas. I actually would love to get a whole unit battery system but there are many things that need renovation and I certainly am not in economic shape to tackle anything atm.
Its sorta funny because often times the top of the line processors with bad cores were recycled into lower end processors. Seems perfect for this situation with a ramp up in production for industry and then sell the lower level things to consumers.
I get where you are coming from but gold as a commodity is special since it is most often used by a large margin as a value store. Even in jewelery people insure it do to the value it holds. Its true that it has its own volatility but I would argue the volatility seen is more about currency volatility than gold volatility. I can't think of a more stable indicator of value.
scary as fuck. Why not rooftop solar and wind. Especially when he owns a fucking battery company. There is this whole thing with panels and turbines below that generate extra power and cool the panels so they generate more power and I don't see why you would not have the batteries below that to keep the connectors short in length. From the article:
Eighteen months ago, Elon Musk shocked the datacenter industry by building a 100,000-GPU cluster in four months. Multiple innovations enabled this incredible achievement, but the energy strategy was the most impressive. xAI entirely bypassed the grid and generated power onsite, using truck-mounted gas turbines and engines. As shown below, xAI has already deployed over 500MW of turbines near its datacenters. In a world where AI Labs are racing to be first with a Gigawatt datacenter, speed is the moat.
war powers act needs to go.
To me it comes down to how often. Sure maybe you went to a party before anyone knew about this guy once or even went to his island or something when he invited you but I find it hard to believe someone went to his island and decided to go back or keep hanging with him or going to his parties. Had to have some wierd vibes there.
I mean I think my transit is good but yeah you could get those 3 bus pile ups. They do tell busses to go express which helps a lot. Basically if a bus is packed already it announces its going express after the next stop and folks get off and some folks going the distance its expressing or further get on and it gets out of the way of its follower busses. often its like the first goes express a few miles forward and the second is directed to express about a mile up and the third one then is picking up as normal so it debunches them.
What JRPGs have you played 2025?
I started one I can't remember the name but final fantasy 12 took over my gaming for the end of 2025. just past draklor and doing side quests atm.
I have been able to do this with busses for a 3 mile jaunt. Basically if I did not see the bus I would start hoofing to the next stop. look back. and repeat. If the bus finally was in visual field at less than a mile out I finished up just walking. Granted this was not just about the bus moving slow but also when the routes were just backed up for some reason. Still it happened fairly often. Actually I think this is what got me to just walk and not take the bus unless the weather was bad enough I wanted to stay at the shelter stop. I was walking more often than not for that commute and biking if not and by the end rarely took the bus.
Colbert question for broadcast of 12/15/2025
Ok. So I catch colbert on youtube and every episode has this little comedy thing that pretends to be a news bit or such but there is not one for the 12/15 broadcast which makes me think there was something controversial done such that they did not put it in the youtube channels version. Anyone actually see the episode when it was broadcast and know if the starting comedy bit was at all something they might not put on youtube?
THE TRUMP DIAMOND CARD - from colbert
So colbert had a bit and it flashed this url on the screen which actually exists.
Long standing visual bug with layers.
So I have seen this for awhile and had not mentioned something before partially because its not a game stopper and so many things are going on with piefed dev I hated to bother. I kinda expected other people would be seeing it and it would likely get attention and maybe it has but I just have not seen it. Anyway I attached a screenshot showing how the dropdown menus get obscured by the site and its not just obscured because the site under the dropdown seems to have interaction priority. The funny thing is when I click on images and get the larger version like sometimes something like this happens and at other times the pop up image will correctly be in front of everything. Im not sure if its the type of image or what but the effect does not always happen with pop up image. It basically always happens with the drop downs though. I changed to default theme and some other themes and this issue consistantly happens.
just got what appears to be a spam chat, anyone else? - answered.
Got a chat message of nothing but hola. I would add its someone I don't know but being the fediverse that is given. Its an anonymous network and we at best maybe recognize a few usernames. Anywhoo im wondering if its a new spam campaign like the fediverse chick thing or something.
hiking or gadget geeks of the fediverse. Are there umbrella staffs like umbrella canes?
So. I like walking with a staff but I also like having multiple things in one. That got me thinking I would kinda like a light weight umbrella on my staff. Combined with the little end caps that allow it to stand on its own it seems like it could be pretty useful. Even better if it had a metal capped spike at the bottom.
distros with isolated programs?
I had a program sorta freeze up my system without apparently using much resources and its something I have seen a lot in windows and it not happening as much in linux but it does happen. That made me wonder if a system that isolated it more would prevent that. So I guess two questions. Im curious about any distros that isolate the non os programs more and also if anyone knows if this actually would stop what I see happening (my theory is maybe it makes some sort of micro ask for resources that bogs down the system but im not really sure why it happens or for sure which program did it.)
Gun nuts of the fediverse. Do any guns use two magazines at once?
I hope folks read more than just the title. So im watching a show with a gun exchange and the person has to reload and you can see they are nervous to get the new magazine in so they can fire again and it made me think. Do any guns have two magazine where you can either manually switch to the other magazine or maybe automatically do it when the first one is empty. With the idea that if you need to fire while in the middle of changing out the empty magazine you could. I feel like this seem obvious enough that someone must have tried it. I mean considering the crazy gun things I have seen. Since im not aware of anything I figure if it has been done it had an issue or was just not useful enough to make worth it. So for the folks that are really into guns, especially wierd protoype ones. Has there every been anything like this?
listing out illegal acts of donald
So I like most content this channel has but this paritcular one is big for me as im constantly looking for compilations of all the illegal activities that have become the norm for the us executive branch. This covers just since trump took office this second time and its kinda funny to as in the beginning he has a statement that due to questionable rulings by the supreme court this list includes items that were illegal at the time they were carried out.
Two shooting incidents in Chicago after xmass tree lighting ceremony.
Im going to put two links at the end as I like wgn and abcs coverage the most. The gist is that yesterday night after what is sorta the kickoff to the holiday season in chicago there were two shooting. So the kickoff is the tree lighting ceremony and start of the chris kringle market in daley plaza and started at 6pm. The first one took place near the chicago theater so basically over one block and up two blocks just before 10pm. The second took place about an hour later and was about the same level on dearborn so just a block over and really less than two blocks up from the daily center. Ugh the news was so annoying as it mixed in an unsubstantiated social media post from an alderman and very little about the shooters who seemed to have gotten away despite a fair amount of arrests. Unfortunately this is the kind of violence that chicago has and theoretically is what trump tries to fix with ice even though it has little to do with immigration and much to do with people having a m
Had not looked in the settings in awhile.
A lot of awesome things I configured. One thing though is the don't show things you read. I would love it if it was a check box or something always present in the header. Basically it would be great to have it enabled but you kinda want to be able to simply and quickly disable it if you want to go back and look at something you had looked at earlier without going into settings. EDITED - hey so was thinking about it more and a mark as read in the feed would up how useful the don't show read option is. EDIT2 - so you know I generally don't up or down vote but this feature is useful enough that I realize I can control by upvoting everything that I ironically don't want to see in my feed when I refresh. Its a bit disingenuous but im not sure it matters as the problem with voting are peoples standars are so very different overall.
Moving to linux at home has me using the command line more.
So just to be clear I went with a very lazy move to linux from windows. I was not looking to use my day to day in a unixy type way and wanted something that I can install and go without much muss or fuss. So I went with zorin and yeah I have dropped to the command line for some apt installs or such but bascially it was only as needed. Very minimal. Anyway today Im messing with folders and files and suddenly it hit me. Im on linux I can do a lot of this easier with the command line. I know its stupid but my day to day sorta has a mouse brain guie mode and I sorta forget how much easier it is to do some stuff using syntax. So going forward im going to be bringing up the command line to do the things that are quicker.
EDITED - guys I have used command line for years. before there even was a gui. Im trying to say I grew out of the habit but using linux at home is getting me back into it.
YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask
One is bonkers but all are slippery slope in how the answers will be used to eliminate canidates (meant to post this last month but sorta forgot):
- How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
- In this role, how would you use your skills and experience to improve government efficiency and effectiveness? Provide specific examples where you improved processes, reduced costs, or improved outcomes.
- How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
- How has a strong work ethic contributed to your professional, academic or personal achievements? Provide one or two specific example
Just found out about sumduko.
So I hope this is ok but its not a daily game site but this community got me doing suduko some more. From a search I randomly came across https://sudoku.com/killer/hard/ and its fine. Thing is it had this option for killer you could see in the url and I was curious but honestly soduko is challenging enough that I was like. Welllll maybe once im back in the groove with some practice. Anyway I finally clicked on it and I found out it just has an element for using addition and sometimes called sumduko (a name I like a lot better). So far honestly I think easier since you have two ways to find solutions but I like it because I think its nice to practice basic math skills. Like at the store I like to figure price per unit in my head (and because the store likes to mix and match the base units between products). So I feel it eliminates more the the busy work of marking up the puzzle and adds in a bit of basic practice in using simple addition in a fun way. Maybe I will get bored of i
TIL warehouse13 and eureka are in the same universe.
So I watched, I think, all of warehouse 13 a little while ago. Like more than a year but I can't remember how long ago. Pretty sure I got to the end. Been watching eureka lately and woa. Episode with someone from warehouse13. Thing is there may have been a crossover episode in warehouse13 but since I did not know eureka I may not have recognized it.
Its the you get to pick a superpower one. With a twist.
Ok so like a genie comes to you and offers to give you a superpower of your choice. He informs you that everyone on the earth is getting this same deal (EDITED - choice of superpower for them). Also you can't be OP. So no monipulating molecules or total control of history. Its one power but it can be versatile but the more versatile it is the less powerful it will be. So like a good earmark is a straight up offensive power won't make you more lethal than a commonly well equiped soldier. So like cyclops beam could be equivalent to antitank, antiaircraft shoulder things or whatnot. But if you were like the human torch where you can fly, produce and manipulate flame. Well your going to be on the level of a military flame thrower. Power has to be around something though so you can't be like superman with unconnected powers of flight, heat vision, strength, invulnerability. But superstrength and resistance to damage would totally makes sense as part of one thing. As you will see
Feature request - active dropdown like top.
I kinda feel like active should be like top with a drop down. So most active in the last hour, 6 hours, 12hours, day, week, month, year. Seems to me top and active are basically the same but top is more like highest rated and active is like most commented. Both are essentially a metric that changes based on the amount of time taken into account.
Issue with NSFW setting to not blur?
This is just a report as I just saw it once just now but I have a nsfw post that is bluring and I have the settings to not blur NSFW. I went in and changed NSFL to show just in case but the blurring still is happening. I somewhat regularly see nsfw content so its been working for awhile and it is just this one time this morning where it is blurred. This is the post that im talking about https://piefed.social/post/1199178 which keep in mind is nsfw by someones standards (although is a pretty good example of why I like nsfw set to show as my threshold for nsfw is waaaaaayyyy higher than this).
Do batterie exist that work like the balcony solar?
So the big thing with the balcony solar to me is it can be plugged into a standard outlet and it would work without sending electricity downstream to the system somehow. So it seemed to be smart like that. Let me know if I have a misunderstanding here. So I always felt like having batteries would be useful enough without solar as you could (at least in my area) take the hourly electric rate and charge it during non peak times and have it be used during peak hours. This in addition to getting through power outages. So im kinda wondering if there are balcony battery options that would allow for this. Plug it into an outlet and setup when not to charge and when to provide power. Anyone know if this is a thing?
feature request.
I normally do not directly ask for something but boy oh boy I would like topics to appear above communities in the community drop down. Barring that just a drop down that made looking over topics easier.