thedrexster

various woody fibers, indeed, sir!

I'm watching this now and _dying_, thank you!

Can confirm, it's a fantastic book!

^^ this is the way

Jefferson and Adams :)

> pushed back on some things their government decided to do, like firebombing large civilian centers

unless we're talking about, say, japan, where the firebombing campaigns killed more civilians than the two atomic bombs :P

no gods or kings, only man!

>> hiring several senior SREs

staff SRE here, got a link? :)

>> tightening amphetamine prescriptions

oh man, just reading these three words spikes my blood pressure

(that URL 404s, brother -- looking forward to seeing it, though!)

Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.

oooo, that's a missed opportunity

^^ i think this is pretty fucking insightful, yeah

Oh my god, TIL -- thank you, brother, I've apparently been doing this incorrectly for years.

>> woke region of cascadia

i lol'd, but is there an unwoke region of cascadia?

Oh man, you say that and the synthesized harpsichord just started playing in my head <3

Seconded, my good sir!

>> house, boat, golf carts, kids in private school, decent cars, take multiple vacations

PNW dweller here, ^^^ this feels _insane_. average private school tuition for a single child is above $25k, nevermind kids pural! :O

lol, brother, was that worth the throwaway? You're already flagged to hell.

This game is more Golden Age of Piracy piracy than Barbary Corsair piracy -- in fact, many pirate crews engaged in proto-democracy (well before it was fashionable!) and flatly condemned slavery.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_in_18th-century_pir...

this is my girlfriend's new favorite, thank you

>> "My voice is my passport. Verify me."

Well met, fellow Uplinker!!

i see you, brother! <3

> That was over half a century ago. Completely irrelevant.

This is Trump's America, brother, we don't learn from the past here!

> constraints of human memory and apathy

i like that a lot, brother, thank you!

Hack the planet! <3

Ooooph, brother :(

I'm sorry, are you me?? This tracks my story (minus the WGU stint) almost exactly.

We're even the same age, it's spooky!

<<side with Canada and Mexico>>

can confirm!

also, TIL the word "litotes" -- thank you, brother!