I’m not sure where you are, but typically even if you rent rather than owning you pay the normal taxes, either directy or via your landlord, so they have little to do with owning a property, and more to do with occupying one, as a proxy for the demands you put on communal services. In most places you would also not lose your home for not paying them, you’d get dragged through the courts, possibly jailed for some period, and the tax authority in question would just end up with a lien on the property, entutling them to recompense when you sold or refinanced it.

I’m not discounting the possibility you live sonewhere with different property tax laws, but you’ve been making extremely broad and general statements that don’t match reality in many places.

They say that an ordnance tech at a dead run outranks everyone else, but I’d say a cat making a bee-line for shelter probably outranks them if you want to remain in the same number of pieces. Cats have good hearing and the nous to associate a stimulus with bad things happening and to get away in time.

It looks like a Macuahuitl.

Maybe my post didn’t quite come across as I intended. I meant that that episode was so soul scaring that I’ve sort of mentally blocked it out. I still don’t know why the writers did that to us.

Why did you make an almost blank post? All I see it the word Futurama, and I know there were no soul scaring episodes in that. None at all. No way.

That’s just crazy talk. If we don’t listen to the billionaires the line might not keep going up quite so fast. For the purposes of this argument, please ignore TSLA, the climatologists obviously got to that one.

Anyone assuming anything on the fediverse is anything but public is wrong and hasn’t spent any time thinking about what the fediverse is. That may well be a problem that needs to be addressed, but the fundamental design of the protocol means, at the very least, server admins can see everything the users on their server do. This is a problem on any system that does not use end to end encryption.

Realistically there is only ‘public’ and ‘I didn’t press send’.

That’s interesting. I’ve often wondered what it must be like programing or using the CLI if you aren’t familiar with the English language, but I hadn’t considered the dyslexia/graphia type issues.

Now that’s a better reason for looking for a GUI solution than the OP had. I hadn’t really considered how dyslexia would affect CLI usage.

As @[email protected] said in another comment, there’s concentration and there’s flow (aka the zone).

Concentrating takes effort, is often tiring, and requires disipline to block out distractions. It can feel good to consentrate on a problem or task, give it all your mental energy, and achieve your goal. It can be a fragile state though. If a distraction does break through it can completely disrupt your thought processes, causing you to lose track of everything you had in mind, and effectively sending you back to square one. Practice helps avoid that, but concentration is inherently mentally taxing.

Flow is different. You will probably only reach it through concentration, and may not jnitally be aware of the transition, but you’ll know it afterwards. The complex becomes simple, stuctures untangle themselves at a thought, you feel mental clarity unlike any other time, everything you’d been struggling with becomes effortless, and time ceases to have any importance. It’s more like a trance or meditation than a normal mental state, and you can stay in that state until your body physically runs out of energy. I’ve ended up sitting at my desk for nearly 24 hours without rising, and without eating or drinking, utterly engrosed in the task at hand, not noticing the sun setting and rising again, and felt entirely calm and rested at the end of it.

Foil will do nothing against ultrasonic or any other acoustic weapon, but may, possibly, be of limited use against microwave weapons should they use them.

I think this has got to be one of my all time favourite C&H strips, it gets a chuckle every time I see it. The last two frames are perfect, and I know I’ve felt the same sentiment as Calvin enough times to know better.

The trick is not to arrest most if the really high profile individuals who are critical of the state, but encourage rumours about why they’ve been spared to discredit them.

Sure, compilers have come a long way since then and there is vanishingly little you’d write in assembler now-a-days, and you’d probably drive yourself mad trying to do so on anything more complex than a microprocessor.

Assembly language is not something you would ever really program a game in.

Back then you wrote whatever you needed to be performant and/or that involved close access to the hardware in assembler. A game would definitely count. It’s kind of nice to do, in many ways it’s simpler than high level programming, you’ve just got a lot more to keep track of.

Look out of your window, yes, just a little to the left, you see that pigeon? That’s for posting memes giving away the secrets.

Faggots can also be meatballs, you can walk in to a supermarket and buy some faggots, or make them yourself.

The use to mean “a bundle of sticks” is definitely more rare now-a-days though, you’re correct.

Ba-dum-tish!

Faggot is a real word with actual, non offensive, meanings, ‘paki’ is not.

I’m interested in what the sequel would be called, “Helldivers2 2: dive hellier”?