>I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us.

I can come pretty close to a humbler example of this, as the more-extroverted "bad twin," of an identical set: my own genetic equal is bored to tears interacting with 90% of daily interactions... we both started with good brains/IQ, then went to the same college; but while twin spent the next decades solving EE problems (and co-founding startups), I "kicked back" and smoked myself sillyretarded, electricianing, relying upon bullshit and sheer luck to get to where I [barely maintain] am.

Watching my twin deal with any normal-intelligence persons is such an unpredictable shitshow, but I pretty much always know he's "dealing with us toddlers" who mostly never grew up. His patience is limited but willing.

Glad he can get by among us mere mortals. I have other similarly-minded brothers, but only this one identical twin.

>You can take the boy out of Texas

>...but can you take Texas out of the boy?

Don't know why anybody wouldchoose'ta read me, but... it do be like that.

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Random moviereq: Slingblade

Cruising along the funnest-sidelines of insanity™

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Have great Thursdays, sirs.

To cite Paul Graham's 15+ year old essay on the topic, email is nothing more than "a to-do list that anybody can add on to."

I respect myself to not use an ineffective communication medium (beyond as-described, above).

I recently went to renew my legal callsign, and apparently now email is a required attribute; if an email from them "bounces" then you get your callsign revoked.

My PO Box is no longer enough for them. I don't use email anymore. Radio silence.

>"Onair decorum prevents honest expression of how I really feel..."

>So I guess it's a gonna be a final:

>73//silentkeyKG5???//onmyfinalrogerALLCLEAR>>>rogerroger

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Ya'll can go to hell, too.

I don't care who started first, theirs is a catchy Corporate Identity. I've been around since GPT2&CrAIyon (an equally-catchy name).

Hopefully everybody enjoys the Wednesday they deserve =D

¿por qué no los dos?

, hermanobeuno.

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Texceptionalism eventually kills us [almost] all.

>"It's crooked through-and-through ... all hat, no cattle."

–with respects to Ms'ss Molly Ivans & Governor Ann Richards [Tex-(D)-90s] #RIP

I mean... really ?!?! Free targetable incendiaries?!

Honestly I know they're madmax-fearing-"christians" in their approach to crowd-control, but are we at the point where we need to be boasting about gasoline reserves?

My attempt is different: I live in a workingclass neighborhood and drive paidfor vehicles and stay in my goddam lane. My camry gets 48+ legit city MPG here on puregas Tennesseean 87 octane.

What. the fuck. is going on. in Texas?

For example: just last month, it made me purchase a 5070Ti...

#GPUsAnonymous #Club1080Ti

I guess that explains all the jacked-up parking lot queens.

#PickupTruckCulture #Scratchless

For security reasons I won't tell you which stupid one Brother drives, but it's literally the most ridiculous (and unreliable OEM), of course! It's a foot taller than He =P

#Dieselbruh #Morons4Life #ShoulderChips

It was incredibly eye-opening for my then-late-twenties just how much waste... Reflecting now, it's still mostly unbelievable how much money is spent on database infrastructure.

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A brother is now a politician in that same stupid state.

My good advice for remaining fellow Texians: LEAVE.

Nothing forces anybody (let alone the bottom 95% of Americans) to stay in the shithole they grew up in [–5th gen Texan, 2nd-gen Austinite; left a decade ago, following my smarter brother, exeunt].

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"They" don't give a single fuck about you, as long as you stay out of their way. None. Not a single fuck.

¢¢

That was well-over a decade ago. Cannot even imagine how much more control/eavesdropping/automation the current leadership maintains, quasi-"legally" (by statute; we started re-defining wordmeanings centuries ago). I'll "stay in your lane," and thank you Dear Leaders, for freedumb.

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All to say: you're not wrong, but it's Whoever's quest for insatiability that makes them so unpredictable. Our technochomocracy thrives within, colorless.

"Because they can."

<https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s6681.pdf>

He was a very proud Jew, who questioned whether he would have been had he not been born into such life. I disagree immensely with him on his pure-fatalism POV, but obviously everybody reading this knows his last name more than anyelse's [& definitely not mine].

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I have a degree in medicinal chemistry, back from the ancient mid-00s (pre Youtube) and just cannot imagine how incredible science education is/could_be with all the modern visual aids [†]. That models for every single element are just a click away and highly interactive, within any online web_browser (and without additional softwares).

Old is new again. Thanks Einstein. I cannot even begin to imagine just how far ahead his own brain was processing this complexity.

[†] Back then I was still doing organic chemistry rotations entirely within my own spatial cortex, because the only visuals were 2D prints in the library. Somehow earned 'A's {thanks brain}.

And then those V. destructor can fucking drown.

"See you in hell, tell'em who sent you you little inbred pancake bastards..."

[•] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor> [•]

–Former Beekeeper (Bush-method, with Illinois mediums and screened oiltraps)

I also knew he was black – so when I saw a fellar with this name and feature, I immediately knew it was going to be a memorable moment. It was. We laughed. Such big posturing. Dreams.

Texas will allow big players to do just about anything they want as long as the promises of "future jobs" and "additional tax revenue" are kept, even faintly.

My tenure at one facility ended because of an OSHA investigation (which I do not wish to discuss any further than: just as HR works for their corporate owners, OSHA works for their corporate owners).

Safety codes are written in blood. Faintly. They must often be re-written.

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My hope is that the current datacenter over-buildout results in a similar disaster to the early-2000s destruction of sound-recording studios by home computers with ProTools (e.g).

For my own futureproofing, I've purchased a 5070Ti for local LLM ponderings.

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A brother is a statewide whore critter ("elected politician", at the Texas level), and my advice to fellow Texans is to do what I did: leave (as a 5th-gen native, I left over a decade ago; as did our other brother).

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Different state, same shitty "leadership" :

<https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/09/muskcorp-tries-to-bribe-...>

We've all seen the documentary Idiocracy (2006) – also check out its predecessor They Live (1988):

<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/>

Or was it the other way around?

Keep it up! I know from experience (nowhere even near yours [†]) that these videos are grueling labors of love.

[†] Couple of million-view+ viral OC hits, decades ago (god! we get wise too late and old too soon)

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My favorite part of this specific video of yours is that you give a "spoiler alert" early on, referencing a prior video (which I really enjoyed, too) [SPOILER ALERT]: the holograms you previously made are in fact flat =|

Very cool. Thanks for using this incredible medium to continue sharing your passions!

Our local utility offers a one-time $10 credit for opting-out of paperbilling... most similar signups do/will require in-person verification – which I consider a 'perk' at this point in my life (for identity protection reasons).

>how do you operate without email?

There're a few dozen million of us non-email users; granted most are infirm in some way (whether to age or insanity).

A civil court action several years ago required me to sign attensation to "no phone / email" – which at the time was still true. As I am not an attorney, they cannot refuse my access pro se to the legal system – this case eventually required me to seek representation, so this became moot.

You can't even imagine how difficult it is to even source a corded telephone locally (outside of the really expensive fax machines, with attached handset).

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POTS was a brilliant invention; it saddens me that US Radio Operator licenses recently began requiring emails for renewals (which I legitimately don't/won't use). ...sort of thought the principle of being Hams included lowtech communications technologies (not eternal "to do" lists == email).

It seems like our interconnectedness has been going backwards for at least a few decades.