slartibartfast42

joined 2 years ago
 

A lightning-quick offensive has seen Syria’s opposition take control of major cities and large swaths of territory, toppling the government of longtime leader President Bashar al-Assad and indelibly altering the war-torn country’s future.

The events represent a remarkable reversal of fortunes in Syria and enlivened a multipronged civil war that appeared largely stagnant for years. The situation, analysts told Al Jazeera, also appears to have been largely unanticipated by the administration of United States President Joe Biden, and raises galling questions over how Washington will proceed in the weeks and months ahead.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

The only reason I ever even tried "Outlook (new)" was because the old Microsoft "Mail" app was trash (the piece of shit wouldn't even let me send plain text email). I immediately lost interest as soon as I realized there was a bunch of 365 shit bundled into it that I couldn't disable.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If Microsoft wants more RAM just to do AI shit on my computer, I'd rather have even less just to make sure they cant.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've gotten back into Minecraft lately, after not playing it at all for at least a year. I finally reached a couple major milestones, like defeating the Enderdragon and obtaining netherite scraps (still don't have any netherite equipment yet--obtaining smithing templates is a real pain). Playing on a couple SMP servers has also motivated me to put actual effort into beautifying my bases, rather than just living in a tiny wooden shack I made on day one or two.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't go so far as to say it "ruins" the album, but "Shakermaker" is quite a letdown compared to the rest of "Definitely Maybe".

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I once decided to make myself an elaborate vegetable omelette for breakfast, and didn't realize until the very final step that I had forgotten the cheese.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If you don't want critters eating your veggies, you have to set up a fence around your garden.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

The Mozilla Foundation did a tech podcast called IRL. It hasn't updated in nearly a year, and I don't know if it's ever coming back, but some of their back episodes are worth listening to.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still not very big.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

"Coldplay Live 2003", mainly because it contains some of my favorite deep cuts.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Obligatory "Americans will use everything but the metric system" joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.

[–] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I can't watch YouTube without ads, I won't watch it at all.

 
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