BillyClark

Forum rules should be public, and it’s generally better for everyone if they’re specific, too.

When I report content, it’s better when the report form gives me a list of stuff to choose from, and I can check off the box.

When moderators remove content, they should have the same experience. It makes things easier for them.

Users who read the rules don’t end up getting upset about wasting time having their content that they worked hard on removed.

I don’t think it’s a good experience for users if moderators even appear to be power-tripping, and that’s often what it looks like if they are moderating without rules.

The exception that I think most people would agree with is that when the rules are specific, you can get trolls who specialize in barely not breaking the rules, while tricking other people into breaking the rules. So, good moderators do need a little discretion, but I think most of their moderation would be easier with specific rules.

It was only last year that I more-or-less just said “fuck it, if I can’t get a game to work in Linux, then I’m not playing that game.” So far, the only game that I wanted to play but couldn’t was a demo, and when the final game came out, it was playable. But I rarely go for any performance heavy FPS games.

That’s baffling. If he’s really 2% body fat, all of his fat must be in his second chin. I think he’s supposed to be strong like the world’s strongest man competitors who are noticeably fat, but they wouldn’t have 2% body fat. If Fisk is 2% body fat, then if you saw him naked, he’d have one of the most bizarre looking bodies. All fat around the head and hands, and absolutely ripped everywhere else.

Also, I’m not sure that cows are really all that fat in the first place. They’re more big than fat.

I have never dual booted successfully. I mean, I have set up dual boots. But I am fundamentally incapable of actually switching back and forth. I inevitably just pick one OS and only boot into that one.

I know it’s not currently the law, but I think if you’re a politician, you should legally have to maintain a higher standard for things like this.

Slapping a phone out of a reporter’s hand? Maybe if it was a private citizen being targeted, or I could even excuse a politician doing that if he was protecting his family.

But just the politician alone in a parking lot, and the reporter isn’t even getting in his face? Unacceptable. Surely there’s some law that he technically broke, like assault or something. Even if you wouldn’t charge a normal citizen, a politician should have a higher standard.

I say no excuses for politicians doing things like that. He should at least be arrested and booked into jail.

It’s too bad they don’t work in an office with a more supportive environment. I’ve worked in that kind of office before, where nobody ever asks how your anus is doing, and let me tell you, it can hurt pretty bad, especially if you’re not used to it.

Something has gone very wrong in those kids’ upbringings if they dream about riding a motorcycle without wearing any protective gear.

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Do you understand the idea of how reading something in context is different from taking it out of context? The sticker is bragging about how Linux is better than Windows, but the specific things they called out are virtually indistinguishable from Windows. That’s the irony. They were essentially saying, “Pick Linux over Windows because of these two things that it does the same as Windows.” It’s similar to how your comment is ironic, confidently explaining something incorrectly.

Make you reboot? More like “suggest a reboot”

They tell the user to reboot, and they don’t phrase it like it is optional. It’s been a while since I’ve used Ubuntu, for example, but my memory is that they say that a reboot is required, or something along those lines. There is nothing wrong with my using the phrase “make you reboot” for those cases.

not after “many updates” bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment.

When I was using Ubuntu, I’d get a reboot request like once every couple of weeks to a month. Maybe you don’t think that’s “many updates”, but the point of the sticker was obviously to compare to other operating systems, and in that regard, it was similar to Windows, probably more frequent.

Ironic. Most Linux desktop distros now don’t set up a root password, and they make you reboot after many updates.

There have been a lot of newly crowned kings who died soon after.

I absolutely 100% stand by my original comment

Great, so I guess you’ll talk specifically about why it was both “ignorant” and “misleading”.

Of course we all want even better and cheaper batteries, it’s a braindead comment to make.

Whoops. It seems you failed to say anything about why the comment was “ignorant” or “misleading”. Even if you accept it’s “braindead”, and I don’t, that only means it’s not using brain power, like the author is just on autopilot, and doesn’t mean “ignorant.”

Of course, it would have been an impossible endeavor to prove your point, because their comment was neither ignorant nor misleading.

Anyways, I’m done here. I’ll be reporting you for violating Rule 3 and blocking you.

You called their comment “ignorant and misleading.” Do you actually stand behind those words?

So asking for more research and less talking when the progress of actual research is publicized is just moronic idiotic, and everything else describing ignorance.

They didn’t ask for “more research.” They were asking for more of these cheap and effective batteries to be available for them to purchase.

Your comment is both ignorant and misleading.

“Less talking. More X,” is a cliche that doesn’t imply that there is zero “X.”

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding their comment and then attributing your mistake to them as if it’s their mistake.

IIRC, in On Writing, the bad habit he spends most of his time talking about is his drinking. And he claimed that when they took his booze away, he started drinking mouthwash. He was so blackout drunk for so long that he doesn’t remember writing one of his books. I think it was Cujo.

Fish don’t eat a lot of earthworms. They eat other aquatic animals. So, in the last panel, they’d more likely be eating the guy in the casket than a plate full of earthworms.

Stephen King’s book On Writing is a pretty good resource for advice for aspiring writers.

For the high level points, writers should write. A lot. That’s his biggest piece of advice.

Writers should also try to “expand their toolbox”, meaning they should be able to use different methods. Just keep practicing writing with the tools you have and the techniques and tools you discover. Eventually, you’ll find what works for you. You can’t just expect to use a tool proficiently without practice. But everybody is different, so in the case of outlining, for example, if you practice with it and it just doesn’t work, then you’ll eventually know that it won’t work for you.

The last big point is to develop writing habits. Like, follow a specific daily schedule. Write a certain number of words each day.

The sun isn’t really setting, it’s just the Earth turning

That’s what a sunset is. When the sun begins to become occluded by the horizon, for whatever reason.

Usually “set” in the terms of putting down is a transitive verb. Like, “he is setting the bucket down.”

“Sunset”, though is intransitive, right? The sun is setting. There is no reason to think that an intransitive verb must have the same definition as a transitive verb with the same spelling.