I remember thinking radio stations had bands constantly coming in and playing songs and leaving

Growing up, we had a neighbor in the Air national guard who was a boom operator on KC-135 refuelers, meaning he controlled the boom that comes out the back of the airplane and transfers fuel to other aircraft. The boom operator lays face down on a bench and looks out a window in the back of the plane to control the boom.

When I learned that they “operate on their belly”, I somehow interpreted that to mean he performed medical operations on people’s bellies.

It didn’t even make sense to me at the time but I figured there must be some special reason that the operation had to be done while airborne and I was impressed that our neighbor was not only a doctor but an airborne surgeon who specialized in this one belly surgery that couldn’t be done on the ground.

We abandon it because I’m tired of that Scaramucci guy being in the media as an expert on Trump. I don’t even watch TV but I’ve seen so many articles about Trump and when I click them it turns out to be something Scaramucci said on cable news the night before. Why the fuck would I want to hear from that guy?

They have project 2025 now with hundreds of people ready to jump into government and make it happen

As far as sex goes, occasionally I’ll invite a second person

Four? You must really enjoy food that spins

You’re definitely on something

You’re gonna bring them back and send them to paradise?

I can assure you that I have better things to do in life than sit at a computer making up origins of common phrases

https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/

Fun trivia… Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps is impossible and the phrase came from an 1800s physics textbook that asked why a person can’t pull themselves up that way.

It somehow got twisted to mean that it should be possible with hard work.

If you didn’t have a Dremel, try channel lock pliers or vise grips. It’s not going to be in there right and rusted or anything, you just need something to grip it.

I’ve seen that video a hundred times and it never fails to disappoint

I think you’d definitely want a federal minimum security camp. Think more along the lines of mail fraud or some other white collar crime.

I used nothing but Slack for about 15 years. Other distros gave me.problems, hell, I compiled Gentoo from source but was never even successful at installing some of the newbie distros like Ubuntu, but Slack was always simple and rock solid. I wasn’t the best at resolving dependencies, I’d just build and install anything it said I needed. I think I’ve had more than one version of Python or Perl installed at a time, but it never mattered. Every few years I’d wipe everything and reinstall.

CB radio has really short range and there’s little likelihood that authorities would be monitoring it.

2182 kHz is long range marine radio and only good if you’re on a boat. I don’t know that anyone you talk to would care about a person on land while they’re handling their own maritime emergencies.

If someone really wants emergency radio I’d suggest ham radio or GMRS.

I botched that post, especially the first sentence. I meant to say that it relies on human life being real at some point, either in the present or in the past, and doesn’t really rule out alien life at that point

Bostrom’s theory relies on life being real too. If I could rephrase it, his theory is:

1 if humans can simulate a human mind in the future, they will 2 they will probably simulate their ancestors (us) 3 they will probably do it trillions and trillions of times 4 this means that out of trillions of consciousnesses, some are real humans and some are simulations 5 we are either one of the few billion actual living minds or one of the trillions of simulated minds and math says it’s the latter because trillions is more. (He never says trillions, just unspecific words like “countless”)

I think Bostrom is genius but I’ve never found this argument very interesting.

Is this you?

https://youtu.be/3Lyex2tSUyA?si=g1RFxQfBvCS5R2Y0

It’s not on the list but I always wanted to be a knocker-upper

There’s extra steps that have to be taken in order to serve food so they’re probably officially classified as a restaurant