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Before I retired, our corporate VPN was one of my primary responsibilities. At least I know my city is prepared for everyone who can to work from home. Still, I'm glad I'm retired......

My wife's work (a local community college district) doesn't even have one, they're so fucked right now.

On a basketball forum I frequent, I was flabbergasted that someone was actually trying to defend him. "But the reporters laughed..."

I'm thinking about starting a scientific review site for bidets. Trying to conceptualize testing methodology.

10 seconds of spray without discomfort, one moderately strong wipe, and take a picture of the toilet paper results? Thoughts?

^ SINAD = Shit I Need A Dryer.

" I Need A Dryer"

That's what underpants are for!

Funny how fast investors freak out and try to jump ship. Nonetheless its a good time to invest IMO.

Dow Jones is merely a beauty pageant/popularity contest. ETF brother, ETF.

Yep, I may have to go back to work full time if this keeps up.

wonder if that comes from "environmentalism" reasons?

I wouldn't have so much of a problem if we knew where the money went. The 5 freeway has been under construction for well over a decade at this point.

Pretty sure someone is missing out on marketing audiophile cotton swabs...

Don't distract me from my shopping of audiophile rocks.

I have some audiophile liquid, makes everything smoother.

"I'm Marv yes, but I will vote for James Bullough Lansing"

Reply, “Show me your box.”

If I had the time, I could see myself saying, "Would you mind holding on for a second? I have to put in my earpiece." Then I'd play https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g06BZeUb5Zs into the phone, all the while saying, "I'm working on it. Just hold on a sec. Thank you."

I think was a registered Dem for like three weeks until I realized that they sucked as much as the local GOP. I would go to a record store and talk shit about Babs than do a rigged primary. That's just me.

My Dem vote in Cali won't affect anything, but at least I'll be counted and the idea of Not being counted strikes me as shitty.

Dave Mustaine for president?

If it's concern about nCoV: eh.

If it's just weirdness about encountering an unexpected language in a certain context: not really. Stuff like that does stand out, and regardless of what people's instinctive actions are it's what's done consciously that determines character.

Depends why you're taking pause

@YMO, Hind*i* ?

Living in a brown world, I always get taken aback by seeing white people, and even more so, black people. That can even include looking in the mirror.

Weirdest thing was first trip to London after several years, first thought was "This place is full of foreigners." Second thought was.... Oh, people the same as me!

So apparently Pete Buttigieg is in the lead slightly over Bernie.

I’m sorry but you can’t tell me the pic of Pete they have over on CNN doesn’t look like Alfred E. Neuman:
https://politics-static.cnn.io/2020/static-assets/images/headshots/buttigieg-medium.png

At this point, I might feel safer with Alfred E. Neuman as the leading candidate. Too bad his main "propaganda" publication no longer exists.

Popular Mechanics did the math. Forget about the app, everything about the caucus is stupid.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a30810883/iowa-caucuses-math-errors/

No.

I did. Maybe twenty years ago. No good for me.

But, walking past coffee shops... Oh! That smell! I wish I could still drink it

https://www.ndemiccreations.com/en/news/172-statement-on-the-current-coronavirus-outbreak haha

@songmic it runs a variety of free/open-source Pi-specific OSs that focus on digital audio and include software that support a number or music services/protocols. It becomes the “renderer” of the music file (feeding your DAC). Files can come from various locations (e.g. USB stick, networked DLNA server, Roon server, Tidal/Qobuz directly, Spotify Connect, Airplay etc). Different OSs support different options.

They indeed are special and a must have for digital music playback.

I was up until 2:30a listening to mine. WTH. So, of course the toddler wakes up at 6a lol. So I'm groggy af but can't wait to listen when it again tonight.

That was awhile back. You certainly avoid Reddit...as we all probably should, lol.

Reddit is great for hobbies where I need an info hub to catch all the news and content (games), but pretty appalling for stuff that are interesting with deeper discussions (audio) or niche projects (mech keyboards).

I'm okay with Reddit for certain things. Like anything with a bunch of different people, be prepared for anything.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/5Ca1d7AdrvuRq/giphy.mp4

its apparently delicious!

@Stuff Jones LOL that open letter was terrible. The author could save us a lot of time by just wanking while looking in the mirror instead.

@m17xr2b I'm not following what you're saying in your 12:16 post.

@Boops - I don't get it.

@Stuff Jones I mean that it was masturbatory. The length of the text and the style of the writing (paternalistic, mannered, over-intallectualized) suggested to me that the author was more interested in indulging himself than in persuading anyone of anything.

High schools have stopped teaching civics the way they used to. A lot of folks don’t know the basics of how our government works. (or doesn’t sometimes). Wish I had the answer to all of this.

Teach the smarter children Greek and Latin. A few, at least, will be called out to by the philosophical virtues and by the character of a Socrates. I might yet be spared having to instruct the *entire* seminar of graduate students in long-established and fairly straightforward distinctions (fairness vs justice, acceptance vs tolerance, &c.).

Think my aunt and uncle did too. Both dislike both parties... but I guess they dislike a certain someone even more.