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ProllyInfamous
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3712 Ringgold Road
East Ridge, Tennessee
Your neighborhood equal opportunity offender™
- ProllyInfamousThese are not commonly called "slip roads" nor "feeder roads" — they're actually called frontage roads.
- In Tennessee (other states, too), it is not illegal to have a trailer hitch ball in front of your license plate. They're recently begun erecting ALPRs everywhere...
...so I have a trailer hitch ball hung entirely across my plate — not considered "obstructing view" de jure, but YMMV (depending on officer).
Tennessee does not issue license plates for most trailers, either, so you can easily & even more legally conceal your license plate when towing.
Anything else that obstructs the view is illegal (including bicycle racks, leaves, dirt, lenses). But not trailers & hitch balls.
- >Hocus Pocus
I read this during the same time I was copyediting a good friend's Vietnam memoir. As a staff sargeant [E6], my buddy saw/did some things — including lobbing a girl's head off as she stepped in front of his rocket trajectory — but we both crossed eyes when I explained what the calculation on the last page of HP resulted in: survivor's remorse of rape & pillaging.
How many little half-Sargeants must being running around 'Nam...
- Huxley was a logician.
Vonnegut was an artist.
They both make you think.
They both make you question human-ness.
- Just coincidentally, I read Player Piano during my introductions to GPT-2 (summer 2022).
One of my brothers asked (out of legitimate concern) if I needed to visit a mental institution... because there just is no way you are talking with machines about books — about such fantasies.
Granted, my life has been a series of abuses; but Vonnegut helped me realize the impossible isn't so.
And now it's so.
>...so it goes.
- >Just two rules they live by:
>1) I am here
>2) So glad you are
The existance of the harminoniums. That most beautiful of passages, simplicity and grace...
- Increasing the runtime of a battery-powered leaf blower by an order of magnitude.
- >"Tesla's design choices created a highly forseeable risk..."
Same thing with their PowerWall 2 [0] — it's almost as if risk assessment doesn't matter to Tesla, at least not as much as aesthetics.
[0] <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TvZG7o3F7Y> & <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWXM1AEeEw>
- >All [the guidelines] have done ... is provide ample fodder for people to shut down discussions they were never going to ... contribute to anyway, and force people to have less interesting discussions about "Does this belong here"
Absolutely. See /u/grey's comment above, which /u/DanG responded with saying ~"no personal attacks"~ (I don't think grey got personal, and I don't think DanG's response was appropriate/warranted).
But as DanG and you have pointed out (in response to my other comments in this thread), porn does have a place on /hn/ — I truly believe the porn industry is the major driver of consumer tech.
Respectfully submitted, and thanks for all the great discussions among ALL users, oranges/admins/®ulars.
- Pro-tip: have your DHCP server auto-issue your PiHole's IP as the DNS address — this makes all IoT and phones use your PiHole (unless secure-DNS or hardcoded). There are methods to make your firewall accomplish something similar (pfsense?) but I don't know how and DHCP is easier, at least for my network users.
My [now disabled] Honeywell thermostat had the most packet-sends (not data, just #packets). Wouldn't have caught it without my network defaulting to PiHole.
- ¿Porque no los dos?
My attendances at DEF-CON have been mostly grey-hat [0]. I don't really care about downvotes just here to spread knowledge on topics I find interesting.
Thanks for the sanity/perspective.
[0] I'm in the XX documentary, and have been on stage (as have many friends), but never as an official speaker. In a former digital life, I ran a lockpicking youtubey with millions of views.
- Check and see what your state's "judgment-proof statutes" are, i.e. how much you can protect from garnishment/seizure, in the event that you lose a lawsuit (the entire reason to create an LLC would be to limit your personal liability — this often fails, particularly in situation where you could have been just a sole proprietorship).
As an example, here in Tennessee, you may exempt $10,000 from seizure, plus $1900 in work tools (including computers). Therefore, if you have less than $11,900 in Tennessee, you are judgment proof. If you are judgment proof, there is no reason to create an LLC.
In Texas, your entire homestead is exempt!
Also, LLCs cannot represent themselves in court (i.e. require an attorney for litigation). You must also file quarterly taxes, tangible property taxes, &c. Dissolving the LLC costs way more money than creation.
Really just an all-around pain in the buttocks.
Src: Have worked individually as sole proprietor, LLC, and s-corp — the latter at least simplifies taxes.
See also: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil>
- To be clear: I have not flagged this post
- You are correct that it is not technically shadowbanned.
Rather, it has been de-listed from the front page.
Potato Potatoes
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>Why reposting comment
To spread visibility. He, in turn, has pulled the torrent from archive.org — this isn't about valor, it's about spreading information. I'm seeding, are you?
- HN seems to have shadowbanned that post (despite it's 200+ upvotes in <2 hrs). I'm seeding via this magnet link :
Or here <https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot...>magnet:?xt=urn:btih:734abc77f48d11c78543c52004b6f57db71d6d92&dn=60minutes-cecotsegment&xl=1483256352&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt2.archive.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&ws=http://ia601703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=http://ia801703.us.archive.org/32/items/&ws=https://archive.org/download/ - Thank you for those guidelines.
>anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
So, porn, then? Surely there must be limits.
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From those same guidelines:
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime
- Hey there seed buddy... I'm about to become the fourth web seed.
We're not going anywhere.
—Hydra
- I'm actually attempting to get into officework, somewhere. I can't do another twenty years of physical construction, whether in houses or factories.
>Are you self-employed now?
Yes, but I choose not to work regularly.
Fortunately, I have enough savings to not be too worried — presuming the economy picks up within the next few years (I can outlast this presidency, doing nothing).