Notices by captain typ0 (inkslinger@coales.co), page 31

"Mainstream prepper culture began during the anti-communist fear-mongering of the Cold War."

Of course it did. And that finally explains why so much of the online "prepper community" is full of rightwingers and wannabe militiamen.

@sir I should. Literally the only reason I still have it is because the tax software I used to use doesn't have a Linux version. But I used a web-based one this year, so I have literally no reason to keep Windows at this point.

@sir I know. It was a joke because I have Windows on my computer, even though I never even go into my Windows partition.

@sir Why are you subtooting me?

@sir The devil's greatest trick was convincing people he didn't exist. His second greatest trick was using PR and marketing to reintroduce himself, but with a positive reputation this time.

@uncletrunks Yeah, I was using it in speech (and possibly writing) even as a child, before I even knew anything about gender theory or trans people. It was an easy way to be generic if I didn't know the gender of someone I was speaking about (or if I was speaking about an entirely hypothetical person and didn't want to keep saying "he or she").

A LITERAL CHILD CAN FIGURE IT OUT, so it's ridiculous that grown adults get upset about it.

Also, now that they've made us an offer the clock starts ticking on the rental they're paying for. Basically, we need to buy a car in the next 5 days or be stuck paying for the rental ourselves (because trying to shop for a car without already having access to a car is, ironically, not particularly easy to do).

@sikkdays And, actually, we do have a local broker. But as soon as you actually need to make a claim, it gets forwarded to an adjuster who is...I dunno...a voice on a phone. She's *probably* in the city, but I have no idea, tbh.

@sikkdays I've never had issues putting in health-related claims. We have a good plan at work and, yeah, thankfully it's mostly only for dealing with 'extras' (though I think vision and dental shouldn't be considered extra and should be covered as part of normal healthcare). Auto insurance, though, is a pain in the ass every single time, even when I'm not at fault. I pray I never need to try and make a claim on my home insurance.

@ben_hr I think that is part of why he wrote it. It still seems like the wrong venue, but it does seem to have gone somewhat viral, because I've seen it shared in a few places now, so I guess it worked. It still feels grim as hell.

Our car was stolen about a week ago. Insurance has offered us 80% of what we paid to buy a new car and I refuse to believe that this car, which was already 10 years old, depreciated by 20% in the few months we owned it. Ugh.

@schnittchen Unfortunately, a lot of vegetarian/vegan products (at least the faux meat and cheese) seem to have palm oil. Is there even such a thing as ethically sourced palm oil?

Now, I don't know who this person was, but got the impression that he was a low-level public figure of some kind. I don't want to disparage him or his tragic situation, but it struck me as incredibly sad that a person might have put so much energy into their corporate job and LinkedIn network that the most logical place for them to write about the fact that their child had died was fucking LinkedIn.

I feel like that speaks to something deeply wrong about our culture.

I read a blog post recently, where a person talked about the death of his child to a sudden, epilepsy-related condition that is apparently known in the medical community but mostly not shared with families of children with epilepsy (I think there's no known way to predict or prevent it, so medical professionals just don't talk about it to avoid creating unnecessary fear). What was weird about it was that he had chosen to publish this post via LinkedIn.

@mxsiege I thought it was for unsuccessful people to pretend they're "industry thought leaders" and publish shitty, self-promotional, corporate-style blog posts (and then push them out to your network, so I guess you're mom is right after all).

@InspectorCaracal I had similar thoughts. Issues with both and, yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right that the second one has actually deliberately 'shopped it to make him look smaller/less muscular than he actually it.

@InspectorCaracal More seriously, the difference between those two images, both of which are probably highly photoshopped, is striking and honestly kind of hilarious.

@InspectorCaracal Uh, I'm pretty sure the thing that keeps his marriage rock-solid is the fact that his arms somehow double in size when he removes his sweater. That's how testosterone works, right?

@policeinchains Haha, no worries. I do it too, sometimes.

@policeinchains Ahem...I'm trying to read that toot you keep deleting and re-drafting. 😆