Who’s a good gym buddy? 🤔 Ken’s a good gym buddy! 🐶

Ken has completed a set. Will you give them a treat?

My dad played a kind of patty-cake growing up where I practiced doing times tables in rhythm. My dad would pick the addend and set the pace, and we’d alternate left and right hand high fives while saying say multiples of four. 4 8 12 … 36 40, then we’d just switch to 7’s, slightly slower pacing 7 14 20~ … if i made mistakes - 21, let’s try again: 7 14 21 2…8 35 … no reprimand for error - we had a beat to keep, just take a downbeat and try again. Of course simpler numbers were taken further 3s were occasionally done out to 300, and 2s were done as fast as I could spit out the words. 5s were often the rest set, done at a basic pace.

The madlad had me polishing my 13×13s before school ever even mentioned the existence of multiplication.

It was just dog eye matter 🎶

I dunno, looks like something is about to snap

Condolences, but I was l low key wondering how a decentralized social network even has a singer-guitarist for a hot minute.

Well, we are in shitposts… So I’m leaning towards that

Crime by statistical association

The same way a fence prevents someone from flying in on a currently not-yet-expired visa. The whole announcement is an exercise of putting lipstick on a pig.

You used up your quota of hyper-intelligent blue.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Hooloovoo

Yeah; I just chalk it up to the fact that humans for thousands of years have been obsessed with sex and poop on a level more basic than language - it’s not as surprising then to think our language is riddled with allusions to it.

You can use cash to buy gift cards, then fuel your account with 3rd party gift cards. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/gift-card-payment (Not the most economical, but a good way to bootstrap into a VPN if more traditional payments are not available)

To be fair, people have been people all throughout history - as a collective we’re ready to play whatever game society is currently offering, and we usually have enough people to fill all roles.

Independence of any level is discouraged in the surveillance society we’ve built.

Yes, I know - but my concern is eventual capture, like Microsoft has done to GitHub or how IBM is ‘partially closing’ RHEL’s source code. My point is that off were all in one basket (Bazzite) it’s easier to be taken over and reigned in. Bazzite is fine, but I hope is not the only distro all the influx of Windows users settle on. There’s a wealth of great projects - Garuda for example is a great gaming Linux distro.

I’m glad Bazzite is what it is, but I’m hoping some of y’all get interested in other distros in the next few years. There’s several great options out there (and I don’t want to say … have everyone wind up on Ubuntu flavors and be having the same conversation about corporate overreach in a decade with Canonical as the new Microsoft)

Vibing 'till it GHz.

I am convinced that about one-half the money I spend for advertising is wasted, but I have never been able to decide which half. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/04/11/advertising/

Personally, it has always struck me that half is wildly optimistic. Still, (frustratingly) it seems the case that some marketing is correlated with some success in business.

That is a decent advertising model. Feels like it’s been a while since I’ve seen one of those

Too many people these days don’t use or have access to credit cards for services like this. Many people I know only use bank debit cards, or worse, use the debit preloaded cash cards issued by their employers’ payroll service provider.

Credit cards motivate banks to help you, because if you won’t pay, and the business doesn’t pay, the bank has to take the hit.

Debit cards will work as well if your bank values it’s reputation - but not all banks do.

And I would not trust a preloaded card provider to assist. You are neither their business partner nor their customer and that puts your interests at the bottom of a very long list. You have to hope some law is on your side or that your issue is so trivial that resolving it is more cost effective then dealing with you.

And why is she serving mold?