Because they were names I’d been scrolling by for years and will never, ever intentionally call them. Nothing bad, just things like old work contacts, or even people from college and high school that were added decades ago and never left my phonebook.

I never wanted to delete them just in case one day I needed to get in touch with them, but it ended up turning into a digital junk pile that I need to clean out now and then.

I can always add them back in if we ever cross paths in the future.

“No.”

Practical Engineering

Animagraffs

Life Wit Eb

Team Coco

Scott Manley

Accept and move on. Those that want to use it will. Others won’t. Cost isn’t everything.

Elbows fucking up, Canada! Keep it going and make it count!

• Signed, your American supporter

Megadeth - Take No Prisoners

Pretty common for HMIs in a factory, in my experience. Keyboards are dirty and difficult to keep clean.

Wu-Tang Clan - Method Man

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

Metallica - Battery

God be praised!

Minnesota noice

!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world material

Highly recommend you check out Be Kind, Rewind!

Culver’s is the best, in my opinion. Five Guys is also very good but is spendy. Finally, Wendy’s makes excellent burgers as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_and_the_Giant_Peach

It’s a great book!

1. Yes! Here’s how to do that on Windows: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows/Experience/Backup-Recovery/recovery-drive. Note this only includes system files and a recovery environment and is not a backup of your data.

2. Good question. The recovery point is what is needed to recover your files, and that can be used from within the Windows Recovery environment that the USB will boot. However, you’ll likely need your Bitlocker key to get to them, since your hard drive is encrypted, so make sure you’ve got that backed up somewhere safe (and not on the same computer)! You can also leverage a cloud service like OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, etc to backup your documents, photos, and such as another safeguard, if the pricing for those services makes sense for you. Here’s more data on System Restore and checkpoints: https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows/Experience/Backup-Recovery/system-restore

3. Most systems boot to the internal drive by default, but you can temporarily boot to something else. You’ll need to look it up for your manufacturer, but it’s pressing a key when the computer is starting up to get a boot menu. Lenovos are F12. Pretty sure Dell and HP are too. Some are F3. Plug the USB in, turn the computer on and hit that key, then pick the USB and voila!

Watch more Craig Ferguson. Genuinely the best late night interviewer ever, in my opinion.

https://youtu.be/12OlAe2Sfes

He won a Peabody Award for this one.

But to answer your question: money. They’re getting paid to.

I’m going to assume positive intent with this question.

You raise them the same way, teaching them right and wrong, critical thinking, and empathy, but without the invisible boogeyman always looking over their shoulder. Kids are smart, but the conversation needs to meet them at their level. And it’s ok to admit you don’t know something and find out together. I don’t understand what you mean about “no explanations about the world or comforts to be had”. There’s plenty to learn and be comforted by.

If a rule being written in the bible/koran/torah/whatever is the only thing stopping you from doing something bad, you’re a bad person. You don’t need religion or promise of a reward to be a good person or to have a fulfilling life.

In my experience, people don’t usually convert to religion later in life except via a trauma, like an illness or sudden loss of a parent/child, or conversion for a marriage. This is why it’s important for the church to hook them young before kids have the critical thinking skills to question it. By the time they are old enough, many are indoctrinated to “have faith” which just means “ignore all evidence and don’t look into this further” and perpetuate that into the next generation. Many leave. I was one of those that was raised in the church and left in my teens.

As for what happens after death, no one knows until they get there. There is no authoritative source of information on this beyond what happens to the body. I personally believe there’s nothing after. But I would rather live as a good person for me, and pass that to my kids. If a good life isn’t good enough for whatever gods there may be afterwards, then I probably wouldn’t want to be there anyway.

Plus, eternity would suck, even in a heaven. You’ve got time to do absolutely everything you want to do, as many times as you want, and when you’re done, you still have eternity to go. You really looking forward to your hundred millionth time watching your favorite movie or eating your favorite food?

So, in the end, just be a good person for you and those around you. It’s really that easy. If you also want to be religious, go for it, but don’t ever make the mistake of thinking the two are linked traits. Celebrate the life you have, and live like there’s no tomorrow (or pot of gold at the end of the rainbow).

Good god, man! What did you eat!?!

Guess it’s finally going to be time to flip over to AppleTVs.