How old are your children?

I’m torn because I want to tell him to leave me alone, that I don’t care about his life, but considering the ‘offense’ this seems too much and knowing me I’d immediately regret it and feel bad about it.

So instead you’ll like youre ruder than you are, hoping he will eventually get it.

You don’t think weeks of having to do this is making you feel worse than perhaps one night of feeling a bit sorry after telling him straight on?

And I know he will appreciate it eventually if the direct reaction isn’t such. You will finally make sense to him. If you’re being rude, ignoring him, why don’t you understand that might make him want to bring you to a normal level of social contact. That he feels he’s done something wrong by just being a chatty person.

Maybe just tell him you’re sorry but you’re not as chatty as him and would like to focus.

And yes, I have also done that to a worker. Told her I’m there to work, not to make friends. Kinda cold? I don’t think so. Colleagues, not friends. Co-employees can be friends but don’t need to.

You’ve discovered capitalism’s super hidden secret; infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.

This has obviously been proven false with the Great Firewall of China, and of Russia’s latest attempts of completely disconnecting from the global internet.

Not it hasn’t. Pretty much the only country which manages it is NK, and that’s because they have 100% control of their citizens.

With TOR and mesh networking, some sort of a system will remain no matters who tries what. The level or communication that was extremely centralised and possibly censored were things before the 80’s. After that, you could just host your own site online and “hide the ip” (not really tho but hosting your things in another country was sort of an equivalent). So information starred glowing much mire freely.

And becsuse all these techs exist, communication will ever regress to such a state that it was in.

So an exaggeration, sort of. Depending on how you define “internet”.

Ah, more highroading and ad hominem.

It’s okay, it’s just a silly thing on a forum. No-one cares you were wrong.

You wanted a fix of “look what an expert I am”, while ignoring the fact that you were wrong the whole time.

Birds can not overpower humans. They can pose dangers to people who don’t want to harm the birds, but if a human does want to harm a bird, the human wins. Doesn’t really matter which bird and which human, if you stipulate an adult human.

Have there been deaths related to birds? Yes. Can they pose risks, even severe ones, like, say, through sickness? Yes.

Was that the discussion? No.

You’re the contrarian here, my friend. I’m just agreeing with the earlier guy who said what is a very clear fact; birds can’t overpower humans.

You came in linking an article which I then read, quoted, and then you started backpedaling and now you’re accusing me of being a contrarian because I called you out on your contrarian argument which isn’t even supported by the thing you linked or any supposed experience you have.

Hope you got your fix of highroading. Enjoy your day! Think positive thoughts and don’t dwell on this massive L you took! :))

Sure, one might not kill you

My point exactly, mister bird expert.

someone can definitely get very injured or die because they got knocked over and hit their head or whatever

That can happen literally anywhere, anytime, to anyone, with no influence from any sort of avian.

Geese and swan don’t have anything sharp, and I’m sure had you wanted to, you could’ve grabbed the cock by the neck and wrung it without it being able to actually kill you.

Annoying and perhaps even need medical attention for scratches? Yeah. KILL YOU?

Nah.

Realistically, if that person had no regard for the bird, they could’ve just grabbed it and strung it’s neck.

“Maybe he didn’t want to hurt the animal,” Hensley’s father-in-law, George Koutsogiannis, told the Sun-Times. “Maybe he didn’t fight back enough when the swan attacked him…I can’t understand how this was possible.”

A single swan can’t actually physically overpower a person, but people can panic and make bad choices, especially when in water and confronted with aggressive wildlife.

From well kept recycled parts which are labeled? Not much of a challenge.

From DUMPSTER parts? I’d say that’s more impressive, as you need the knowledge and tools to know what works and what doesn’t.

Yeah, sure, given a limitless timeframe, you can sit there until you get lucky enough for someone to drop a completely functioning but disassembled PC on your lap. But building one? You might need to clean parts, research what they are to get the proper drivers and OS even if you manage to find a set that actually fits together. Tracking down and fixing tiny shorts in circuits? That’s not the same skills as putting together some Legos.

I’ve been in IT support in cities and schools and even when there’s a massive pile of computers and hardware that are known to not be broken, it’s sometimes a challenge.

You know how hard it is building a bookshelf? Take a piece of wood. Put book(s) on it. Now you’ve a bookshelf.

Not really. Emotional attachment is forbidden, not marriage.

Marriage didn’t used to be about feelings, but about political convenience basically.

“Wololoo”

Resentment in others.

“There’s no educating a smart boy.”

— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time (Discworld, #26)

GNU Sir Terry

Buy a sickeningly expensive Dyson Detect vacuum.

Costs like 600-1000 depending on what sort of model you get.

But I’ve used one, my brother has a cat now and a Dyson. And it really does work well.

But probably a bit expensive. I fucking want one. I’ve never wanted a vacuum so bad.

Bruh.

Emphasis on "tried to make them think that… "

This man isn’t pretending to be insane. Nixon, while a total crook, still had the ability to speak coherently.

An iPhone would be a more coherent president.

Fuck that fud, Trump isn’t pretending to be insane. He is.

If you want an example of a politician pretending to be stupid as a genuine political tactic, look at Boris Johnson.

Trump is not a unique aberration in American politics

I don’t know man, I fail to recall anyone else being as spectaculary unpredictable and insane, who’s made objective truth a concept of the past.

Trump vs Truth

He’s just completely fucking insane, genuinely. His speech is weird gibberish and he can’t finish a single fucking thought.

You must have a good reason for having such a high criteria for what constitutes “an aberration”.

Trump didn’t pattern his campaign after Hitler. He patterned it after Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan.

Oh his campaign was more like former American presidents, instead of one of a German Chancellor from the 1930’s? Huh. This day is full of surprises.

Sure yeah.

The point here is that Hitler is cleraly the most famous crazy dictator. And now, almost 100 years later, it’s looking like this Trump fellow is going to be remember quite a lot as well. I don’t know about you, but I’m generally slightly afraid, and I’m not even American.