LovableSidekick

No, the word "dispassionate" perfectly describes when I'm forced to work on necessities instead of things I love.

My original reason to get Prime was that I was building a PC and the no-fuss returns policy seemed like good insurance against faulty parts. Some sellers blame problems on the customer or otherwise drag their feet on returns. TBH I hardly watch Prime anymore, but the ads really are annoying. It's like "Oh sorry, the pitted olives will have pits from now on."

Netflix Lite - gives you more time to enjoy the ads you love!

OTOH reason has kept a roof over my head when my passion would have had me do Arduino projects or write D&D campaigns instead of working. Maybe Hume's gf had a job.

I'm currently deciding on a distro so I had a look. Not impressed by their front page - a big pile of sales presentation buzzwords. Their examples of "office software" are music player, screen capture, and video player - wat?

He may have read both - apparently he's very well read. My guess is he would disagree with Hume on that point, but I don't know the guy.

Based on his Twitter history he's a "rationalist" aka "gray tribe" - generally tech-savvy guys who believe pure reason sits above ideologies.

Interesting article on The Independent

Same! Still kicks the llama's ass.

Grabs their attention is right, until next Thursday when something else does and we're back to business as usual. I wouldn't call it "having a direct effect" I would call it a very temporary delusion of one.

"also I fucked your wife, which I feel almost as bad about, sorry bro."

"If you can see this it means I have to come back from vacation and go to the fucking office."

"Somebody get the transition team away from the keyboard please."