I mean, they just saved NATO…

Well that seems just wild! I’ll be looking into it this weekend, thanks, much appreciated!

“I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

• James Carville

Neat, I’ve vaguely heard/seen the term Usenet but haven’t looked into it, will do so! Thanks!

Oh interesting, I have qbittorrent but have always just used it to on torrents I downloaded from a website. I’ll look into this, thanks!

Any hints for an elder pirate trying to find a good torrent site? My buddy was kind enough to give me an invite to a decent provider but that was maybe a decade and a half ago…

My elderly ass just barely figured out linux, so you can see how behind I am.

Interesting! Really reinforcing my idea that a sampler pack would be best. I’ll take a look at gents (thank you for the link!) and then see if I can get anything comparable local.

Much obliged!

“Yes, we’ve contemplated military force but to hit us where it hurts? That’s just rude!”

Sorry y’all. Thought of the joke while pooping and had to get back to work.

Next time I’ll do better at getting rid of the watermark. Maybe not the imgflip one as I do use that app for convenience.

Whereabouts do you buy your blades? I’m in Canada but fuck me sideways they’ve been hard to find. I found one retailer who was doing sample packs buy they didn’t have any packs without at least one Russian set of blades which isn’t much better than buying american…

Like a few here, microsoft to linux and reddit to fediverse.

Tidal to Qobuz, old spice to dove deodorant were all good but gillette razors to various safety razors has been the best I think.

Neat, our tenancy laws pretty much borrow that word for word!

In this case, loud neighbouts, failure to act would mean not calling law enforcement.

Or letting the place deteriorate would generally count. But, most buildings are up to code etc and the landlord isn’t expected to install extra sound proofing above and beyond code.

That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.

Please feel free to share an example, because this seems like absolute nonsense.

Wow, that’s uhhhh, an interesting take. If one tenant is too noisy, you want the building manager to install noise dampening somethings? And who determines if it’s too noisy, the landlord who’d have to pay for the renovations?

Edit: Is this actually a standard procedure where you live? Can I ask where that is? That’d just be such a wild way of doing things, I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.

To be slightly more polite, as this seems like one of your first places… You absolutely want to keep a neutral third party involved.

In my building, some of us are paying half or a third what new tenants do, the manager has a clear financial incentive to remove as many old timers as possible (and has tried her best.) If the norm was that building managers patrol for noise etc, you could much more easily get into a “he said/she said” with someone who has the means and motivation to remove you. Having the norm be police means that the complaint has to be somewhat valid, not just “enough that the building manager can increase their income stream.”

Building manager isn’t your parents. If you have a problem with the building, that’s their issue, if you have a problem with your neighbour, you’re expected to deal with it like any other adult; talk to the person, if that doesn’t work, police.

What do you expect a building manager to do and why do you think boise complaints are their responsibility?

Never heard of that, I’ll check it out. Thanks!

Never heard of these, I’ll take a look! Thanks!

From Canada, in fact from my city, The Dreadnoughts! Their first three albums are punk gold. (Later stuff, they started having fun and doing polka etc. But whenever I see them in concert, they mostly rock from the first 3.)

If you’re only going to listen to one, Polka’s Not Dead would be my recommendation.

(Full credit to the Real McKenzies for paving the way, Chip would be their most famous song.)