Notices by Super Genius Stuff (mdm@mcnamarii.town), page 8

@theoutrider That first pic is a very good Scoot McNairy "True Detective Season 3" impression.

@srol Hey, totally understandable. I've had several close friends/family members lose their jobs in the past few years, too. Luckily, I was able to extend them a good amount of help until they got back on their feet.

It's something I've started doing to any friends who still _have_ jobs -- I constantly let them know if anything ever happens to them, employment-wise, they're welcome to crash at my house. I had a few extend the same promise to me, too.

@DialMforMara @srol

News has changed.

It's no longer about facts, evidence, or the classifieds. It's an endless series of opinion pieces, fought by youtubers and twitter accounts.

News--and it's consumption of our time--has become a well-oiled machine.

News has changed.

I wonder: is "F5" the typical keystroke for "refresh", sometimes seen as a circular arrow icon, because "F5" is a type of tornado?

@srol omg. Some...how I remember this. I don't know how, but I do.

@shesgabrielle @Gargron This. Some people _want_ the fight. They _want_ toxic interweb fights.

I'm not saying they're bad people, but I don't know if they're helping the world.

@staticsafe @nolan @michel Oh, not the salt -- I was just talking about the "walking around in t-shirts when the temperature is 20 degrees below freezing" thing. :p

@michel I love this: "On the street Dubak. I could barely walk, wrapped in a Moscow down jacket, but people walk in T-shirts. HOW AT THEM DOES IT HAPPEN?"

Ah, Canadians.

@signalstation Not participating in this, since this is clearly just another example of heuristic data collection: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/20/686897486/could-the-10-year-challenge-be-putting-your-data-at-risk

Nice try, attempting to get our worst childhood fears for future use! I hope everyone who responded to this trick post enjoys having these fears suddenly materialize one day in future VR simulations!

@tom Valid points. I agree about DRM.

For the environment, though, USB-C is great. Less e-waste is always better.

@aral Wait -- are you supposed to click "I agree" on those? I usually don't, and nothing happens, and I continue browsing. :\

@tom And oh yeah -- I'm using the same port on my laptop to plug in both an external GPU, or an external hard drive, depending upon need. It's great!

@tom That's too bad. USB-C is great -- I've been using my cables interchangeably over the years, across many different company's devices. I imagine as long as you buy from a legitimate source (i.e., not just some random seller on Amazon), it's fine. I've had great luck with Anker cables over the years.

The fact that I'll soon be able to charge an Android phone and the new iPad with the _same_ cable is amazing.

@nolan I guess I stayed home this day -- never even got to "take the test" 😆

After getting rid of Instagram a few weeks ago, my entire exposure to anything social-media related is now just checking Mastodon every 48 hours or so. Makes it real hard for me to get trapped up in one of these firestorms, and for that I'm happy.

@bhtooefr @ajroach42 I had an honest LOL at that 😂

@bhtooefr @ajroach42 Nope, but I've seen how many are in upstate New York. I've never figured that one out. 🤔

If one is flying the rebel flag in states that weren't part of the original US rebellion, then one is on shaky ground.

@ajroach42 @bhtooefr Mother of God, it's also a motel, I think:

@bhtooefr @ajroach42 Can something truly be "South Country" if it's in Ohio