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I remember a news article popping up about a soldier's fitbit giving away a classified location due to his morning runs. So...that's also a thing.
Environmental damage works too!
He seemingly avoided the only campfire and barrel that were nearby (and by nearby I mean far-far away from the encounter point but we got there when I run around seeking herbs).
He might have some strength related to fire, I don't remember at the moment.
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How paranoid should people be about their social media stats being sold between companies? Like, on a range from "I don't give a rat's a**" to "tin-foil hat"?
Depends entirely on what you have on social media, and entirely on what the company is willing to sell to who...
So...how much do you trust the social media companies to not sell your name, location, pictures of your kids, your messages, etc, etc, etc to the highest bidder? And what if that bidder is a dummy corporation front for a foreign intelligence service? Or a dummy corporation front of a domestic intelligence service?
The danger is real. How much you choose to care about it in your every day life? Most people aren't going to worry about it. That's what concerns me a bit more.
Excuse me, I seem to be running out of tinfoil.
How paranoid should people be about their social media stats being sold between companies? Like, on a range from "I don't give a rat's a**" to "tin-foil hat"?Depends entirely on what you have on social media, and entirely on what the company is willing to sell to who...
So...how much do you trust the social media companies to not sell your name, location, pictures of your kids, your messages, etc, etc, etc to the highest bidder? And what if that bidder is a dummy corporation front for a foreign intelligence service? Or a dummy corporation front of a domestic intelligence service?
The danger is real. How much you choose to care about it in your every day life? Most people aren't going to worry about it. That's what concerns me a bit more.
Excuse me, I seem to be running out of tinfoil.
To be a bit more succint...
Facebook's product is not the Facebook website and everything that site entails. The product is your information.
This is why I hate/am not on Facebook or other social media.
How paranoid should people be about their social media stats being sold between companies? Like, on a range from "I don't give a rat's a**" to "tin-foil hat"?
Here's my take on it:
(1) If you do it online, someone knows about it.(2) For most major companies (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.), the amount of data they collect and share is rather staggering. You have to assume that if you are active on Facebook, all of these companies know everything about you. As (I believe) Mr. Zuckerberg himself said a couple of years ago, "Give me 5 likes and I know more about you than your neighbor does. With 10, I know more than your family. With 20, I know more than your spouse."
In its most benign form, it's used for targeted sales. For example, I might do a Google search on how to texture drywall, then watch a YouTube video. I'm relatively unsurprised when I sign on to Amazon and in the "recommended products" section I suddenly see a lot of drywall tools. (And yes, it happens all the time.)
In its most destructive form, it's used to filter everything you see on the internet. Only posts and news articles that you are likely to like are shown.
Any further analysis would definitely cross the line into politics, so out of respect for the ban I'm stopping there.
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Completing my very last equipment inspection before my layoff.
The boss and I have serious senioritis.
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Completing my very last equipment inspection before my layoff.
The boss and I have serious senioritis.
I am sorry to hear that. Hopefully you find something soon to replace it.
We're in season 3 and firmly in team Scorpia.I got MrT to watch she-ra :Dlove the show, didn't care for the ending.
love her so much. If condemned to death on that planet, I would ask for her to hug me to death.
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Well, sounds like somebody wants to test the bounds of "justifiable homicide".
For the first time in 11 days, the AQI is under 100 around here and we're able to open the windows to get some "fresh-ish" air. (I loved Impus Minor: "Yay! The air quality's as good as a bad day in downtown L.A.! Let's open the windows!")
And for the first time in 11 days, a couple of yard workers have shown up and are running their unmuffled two-stroke diesel tools, with the fumes wafting into everyone's open windows.
You can't even give us ONE DAY of decent air?!?!?!
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Drejk, any of these yours?
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Drejk, any of these yours?
None of them should be. I haven't participated in superstar.
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It's really disturbing just how many movies focus on young women coming of age while being locked away somewhere for some reason and pining for the ability to just go outside.
Rapunzel: "I want to go outside, but I can't!"
Kids: "Welcome to 2020."
Daughter in Repo Opera "I just want to go outside, but it would kill me!"
Kids: "Welcome to 2020."
Yeah. I think they're going out of the way to find these movies just so they can keep pointing out that 2020 is just as bad...
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So, it turns out that just like real life Appalachia, if you want to make any sort of money in Fallout 76 your best bet is to sell drugs.
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It's really disturbing just how many movies focus on young women coming of age while being locked away somewhere for some reason and pining for the ability to just go outside.
Rapunzel: "I want to go outside, but I can't!"
Kids: "Welcome to 2020."Daughter in Repo Opera "I just want to go outside, but it would kill me!"
Kids: "Welcome to 2020."Yeah. I think they're going out of the way to find these movies just so they can keep pointing out that 2020 is just as bad...
Repo Opera...
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Night John.
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♫ When the moon hits your knees and you mispronounce trees ♫
♫ Sycamore ♫
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♫ When the moon hits your knees and you mispronounce trees ♫
♫ Sycamore ♫
♫When the willow seems to sway like it may not be Okay.♫
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♫ Belles will sing ving-a-king-a-wing, schwing-a-Ming-a-Bing ♫
♫ And you'll bring me a cellar ♫
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I pine for the day when we had better music. But I guess I will leaf this alone.
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I pine for the day when we had better music. But I guess I will leaf this alone.
Don't be so Wood-en with your musical preferences. Don't be afraid to branch out. spruce up your music library. You'll find you might learn to Pine for new things.
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I pine for the day when we had better music. But I guess I will leaf this alone.Don't be so Wood-en with your musical preferences. Don't be afraid to branch out. spruce up your music library. You'll find you might learn to Pine for new things.
I just want to get to the root of this.
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I can honestly say I never expected to see spam advertising Colombian mail order brides on Paizo, yet there it is.
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I can honestly say I never expected to see spam advertising Colombian mail order brides on Paizo, yet there it is.
... Honestly though the entire concept of mail order brides is unexpected.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.
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... What?... that might be one of the most bizarre stories I've heard.
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Time to start re-painting the windows.
Still annoyed that in this day and age that they choose wood for the windows instead of plastic.
... (you made this too easy)...
That sounds like a BEECH but Isn't wood easier to SPRUCE up?
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Time to start re-painting the windows.
Still annoyed that in this day and age that they choose wood for the windows instead of plastic.... (you made this too easy)...
Isn't wood easier to SPRUCE up?
Stop needling her! Just leaf her alone.
I can honestly say I never expected to see spam advertising Colombian mail order brides on Paizo, yet there it is.
I miss BabaJi.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.
....what?
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Time to start re-painting the windows.
Still annoyed that in this day and age that they choose wood for the windows instead of plastic.
...how can you see through wooden windows?
Moreover, why are you painting the windows over and over again.
Any plans for after?Completing my very last equipment inspection before my layoff.
The boss and I have serious senioritis.
I've been sending a few apps out, but no bites yet.
Honestly I'm ready for a new job -- I'm overqualified for the one that's ending, and I'm ready for a change of pace. But I also hate job searching, it stresses me the frack out.
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Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.....what?
We used to get our baby poultry and rabbits from these two brothers who were also vampire hunters (or so they claimed) that kept trying to get my dad (a high school chemistry teacher) to make them silver bullets because they were convinced they were being hunted themselves by a werewolf. Eventually my dad gets the younger brother drunk and finds out that the older brother is convinced that my dad is the werewolf and that's why they wanted to take him out "hunting". My dad naturally cuts ties with them and then twenty years later the younger brother finds dad on Facebook and apologizes for the whole going to hunt you as a werewolf thing and I see you're a minister can you give marriage counseling for me and my wife my dad says that's not usually what he does but where did you meet? So he says oh I bought her off this website.
It didn't work out.
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Cap, I think I speak for all FAWTL when I say there are no words for the sheer level of oddity in your life.
There are times I wouldn't believe half these stories if I wasn't hearing them from the source.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
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Wisconsin in the 80s was a strange place.
Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.....what?We used to get our baby poultry and rabbits from these two brothers who were also vampire hunters (or so they claimed) that kept trying to get my dad (a high school chemistry teacher) to make them silver bullets because they were convinced they were being hunted themselves by a werewolf. Eventually my dad gets the younger brother drunk and finds out that the older brother is convinced that my dad is the werewolf and that's why they wanted to take him out "hunting". My dad naturally cuts ties with them and then twenty years later the younger brother finds dad on Facebook and apologizes for the whole going to hunt you as a werewolf thing and I see you're a minister can you give marriage counseling for me and my wife my dad says that's not usually what he does but where did you meet? So he says oh I bought her off this website.
It didn't work out.
...the Frog Brothers?!?
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Wisconsin in the 80s was a strange place.
Look man. I'm just here for the milkmaids. You can keep your vampires. I would not be averse to becoming a werewolf if it was a painless and at-will transformation procedure. If that is the case please allow me to subscribe to that newsletter. If not, then just direct me to your milkmaids, dairy queens first, please and thank you.
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...the Frog Brothers?!?Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.....what?We used to get our baby poultry and rabbits from these two brothers who were also vampire hunters (or so they claimed) that kept trying to get my dad (a high school chemistry teacher) to make them silver bullets because they were convinced they were being hunted themselves by a werewolf. Eventually my dad gets the younger brother drunk and finds out that the older brother is convinced that my dad is the werewolf and that's why they wanted to take him out "hunting". My dad naturally cuts ties with them and then twenty years later the younger brother finds dad on Facebook and apologizes for the whole going to hunt you as a werewolf thing and I see you're a minister can you give marriage counseling for me and my wife my dad says that's not usually what he does but where did you meet? So he says oh I bought her off this website.
It didn't work out.
The Rabbit Brothers (or so my mom called them) I remember one was named Todd.
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Install a patio with villagio pavers without having a ton of cutting? (a nearly impossible task).
Challenge accepted!
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The Rabbit Brothers (or so my mom called them) I remember one was named Todd....the Frog Brothers?!?Captain Yesterday fun fact: One of the brothers that tried to get my dad to make them silver bullets so they could hunt my dad because they were convinced he was a werewolf later found my dad on Facebook and had him give marriage counseling to him and his russian mail order bride. Of course they got divorced.....what?We used to get our baby poultry and rabbits from these two brothers who were also vampire hunters (or so they claimed) that kept trying to get my dad (a high school chemistry teacher) to make them silver bullets because they were convinced they were being hunted themselves by a werewolf. Eventually my dad gets the younger brother drunk and finds out that the older brother is convinced that my dad is the werewolf and that's why they wanted to take him out "hunting". My dad naturally cuts ties with them and then twenty years later the younger brother finds dad on Facebook and apologizes for the whole going to hunt you as a werewolf thing and I see you're a minister can you give marriage counseling for me and my wife my dad says that's not usually what he does but where did you meet? So he says oh I bought her off this website.
It didn't work out.
I have a feeling drugs were likely involved in this. NO idea why I would be thinking that at all.
Wisconsin in the 80s was a strange place.
Word.
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...I just ended up on a 40 minute tangent about the drafting of the Constitution, the Spanish Influenza pandemic, the outbreak of WWI, its direct influence on the Great Depression and WWII, and several other tangentially related issues because most of my kiddos had a free period. I do not remember the question that kickstarted this, but they at least seemed interested.
Wisconsin in the 80s was a strange place.Word.
I wish you had shared this information with me when I was in elementary school and did a report on Wisconsin, hoping that I would get unlimited milk if I did. I was a little boy at the time and not as much into milkmaids as I am now.