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Gronk_Destroyer of Homos said:
Today I have been thinking about how a full revolution around the sun doesn't make any of us less pathetic than we were the day before. People think New Year's resolutions are worth something, but they're worth jack shit. We'll all forget them after a few nights of drinking.
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Quite a few years ago I resolved to never make another NY's resolution. Haven't broken it yet.
 
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Gronk_Destroyer of Homos said:
Today I have been thinking about how a full revolution around the sun doesn't make any of us less pathetic than we were the day before. People think New Year's resolutions are worth something, but they're worth jack shit. We'll all forget them after a few nights of drinking.
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On New Year's Eve some deviantTartlet stated in their journal something along the lines of this:
"Time doesn't exist anymore; I no longer believe in the concept of time anymore"
My thoughts on reading it was, "k, your perogative." Staying on topic, I echoed my internet lurking to my uncle and he chuckled before he left. Before he left back to [insert a major city], he advised me to keep writing. He also observed that I retain my dreams.

The second occurring dream was Chris-Chan waddling in his old Orange jumpsuit at a conglomerate airport/indoors flea market/movie theatre/Costco. The horrifying bit was that he was waddling right within walking distance to a family friend who is in her late 60's and she was with her grandchildren and my mom's fiance, who was daydreaming about Sonic's footlong hot dog with extra chili and cheddar cheese. :cryblood:
 
Flatline said:
Is the offline setup a hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi connected to the TV?
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Exactly that, Pi running libreelec with all the artwork/.nfo files stored locally. It's not even connected to the internet. Works flawlessly (once set up properly).
 
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Cheerlead-in-Chief said:
On New Year's Eve some deviantTartlet stated in their journal something along the lines of this:
"Time doesn't exist anymore; I no longer believe in the concept of time anymore"
My thoughts on reading it was, "k, your perogative." Staying on topic, I echoed my internet lurking to my uncle and he chuckled before he left. Before he left back to [insert a major city], he advised me to keep writing. He also observed that I retain my dreams.

The second occurring dream was Chris-Chan waddling in his old Orange jumpsuit at a conglomerate airport/indoors flea market/movie theatre/Costco. The horrifying bit was that he was waddling right within walking distance to a family friend who is in her late 60's and she was with her grandchildren and my mom's fiance, who was daydreaming about Sonic's footlong hot dog with extra chili and cheddar cheese. :cryblood:
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A physicist can certainly posit that time exists as an entirely material characteristic of the universe. Time exists as how we perceive space-time, entropy created by the gravitational field of large objects in space, basically celestial bodies. So, the deviantTard is wrong. Time exists.

What kind of man daydreams over food? I'm a fat sack of shit and I barely even think about buffalo wings.
 
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Gronk_Destroyer of Homos said:
A physicist can certainly posit that time exists as an entirely material characteristic of the universe. Time exists as how we perceive space-time, entropy created by the gravitational field of large objects in space, basically celestial bodies. So, the deviantTard is wrong. Time exists.

What kind of man daydreams over food? I'm a fat sack of shit and I barely even think about buffalo wings.
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It was in my subconscious but as a power level: years before we moved to another county, my future stepfather was at the Wal-Mart's cookies and crackers aisle, mumbling to himself,
"Cookies, cookies, cookies...." tapping his chin. Immediately, I went to the bakery section to grab six sugar cookies. On the way to rush to him, some tall, overweight Mexicunt gave me mocking half-smile/smirk and my thought was: "assume whatever you want, bitch! I'm doing the right thing; F U!"

He also sadly grew up with not a lot of food and hunted squirrels/deer/quail for food growing up. He also suffered from culture shock if mom handed out soups/casseroles. My matrilineal line prioritized kids eating the best cuts of meat, the next whipped up a banquet for all kids to accommodate their tastes for example.

"Why are you giving food to X?!"

"Because I was taught that way and that's what I did in my country."
 
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Bone Santa said:
Exactly that, Pi running libreelec with all the artwork/.nfo files stored locally. It's not even connected to the internet. Works flawlessly (once set up properly).
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Awesome. How much transcoding is your Pi doing? That presented a bottleneck for me when I had a similar setup years ago.
 
Today I went snowmobiling with my old man. It was a lot of fun though my helmet kept on fogging up and the back of my jacket kept on going up exposing my rear to the cold.
It all ended when a bolt connecting the left ski to the steering linkage broke twisting the ski when I made a turn, it's fixable. But in spite of that it was a good time.
 
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Today I attempted to call about ten odd real estate agents about houses for rent, and only one of the fuckers answered their phone. Due to a combination of everything going online, and a massive glut of people applying for limited residences, realtors around here couldn't give a solitary fuck. We've got ten days to be out of our current place, clock is ticking. I rang our estate manager to ask if we can have an extra two weeks, it's just ridiculous trying to find a new house right now. And most of the houses that are coming up are in areas that either flooded last year or were cut off by flood waters. I'm trying to teach my housemate to read the floodmaps but I'm having exactly zero success there.

Ended up going to a mall just to get out of the house. Insanely crowded and noisy, but at least there was air con.
 
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What did he say?
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It's approved! We have two more weeks!

Went to an open house today and there were thirty odd people lined up and waiting for the agent to open the house up. About ten more came up, saw the amount of people already there, and just turned around and left.

The housing crisis in my city just keeps getting worse and worse. So much agricultural land has been canibalised in the last ten years for high density housing, and even more is being swallowed up as we speak, but it's just not enough. At some point I'm going to have to move out of the city.
 
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Made good money sidehustling, flipped some GPU's for a profit, tricked everyone at my day job to take some of my workload AND be happy about it + received my STI/STD test results (negative on everything).

This fucking day really worked out 8) going to cook some chicken wings to celebrate. Might even play video games if I have the energy.
 
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Today I made my brother mad.

He tried to prompt a joke by going "can I interest you in cryptocurrency?" obviously poised to have a smug comedy agreeing session, as many redditors are want to do.

I just told him yes so he'd get mad and drop the subject. I saw nothing to be gained from the exchange.
 
Yesterday I got a phone call saying that our application for a house had been approved! We just needed to inspect it first and then we could sign the documents.

We have just come back from seeing the house. I'm now trying to figure out whether it's even legal to rent out a property in that condition. In the dining room, half the ceiling had either fallen down or was bulging with water damage. The exposed tin was covered in rust. The ceiling was coming down in one of the bedrooms, and still another bedroom ceiling had water stains. A couple pieces of exposed wood showed severe white ant infestation. An old stove and a toilet had been dumped in the heavily overgrown backyard. There were dead cockroaches in the kitchen and everywhere else. Nothing had been cleaned or swept. The carpet was dirty, in one place it looked like someone had thrown up on it.

Of course we turned it down. Now I'm wondering if we need to report the place to the relevant authorities. That building was unsafe and not fit to live in. There has to be some law against putting tenants in there.
 
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Confirmed that most of my students this semester are, as has been the case in the past, very stupid. On the bright side, unless something goes full dumpster fire with my dissertation, I have less than a year left before I don't have to teach anything ever again and can force people to call me Dr. Picklechu.

I also got to pet a very floofy samoyed, which was probably the highlight of my week.
 
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Picklechu said:
Confirmed that most of my students this semester are, as has been the case in the past, very stupid. On the bright side, unless something goes full dumpster fire with my dissertation, I have less than a year left before I don't have to teach anything ever again and can force people to call me Dr. Picklechu.

I also got to pet a very floofy samoyed, which was probably the highlight of my week.
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I am getting near the end of mine. My students this past semester somehow did considerably better on their exams, relative to other graduate students, but were also completely worthless otherwise, being totally incapable of figuring out how to get the vertical intercept of a linear equation.


Today I wasted my whole day sitting on my ass, playing video games, and not reading, doing work, or other useful functions like cleaning.
 
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