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thedrexster

various woody fibers, indeed, sir!
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:19PM (#50291517)
I'm watching this now and _dying_, thank you!
Can confirm, it's a fantastic book!
^^ this is the way
Re:My Friend Bob Cringely on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:38PM (#50171579)
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!
Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:09PM (#50015523)
>> hiring several senior SREs

staff SRE here, got a link? :)

>> tightening amphetamine prescriptions

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

Re:Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:44AM (#49974293)
(that URL 404s, brother -- looking forward to seeing it, though!)
Re:The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:33PM (#49772308)
Man, the soundtrack of the original Lemmings is indelibly etched into my brain -- cheery MIDI tracks of everything from classical music to folk tunes.
Re:San Francisco Onion Futures Company on Saturday September 19, 2026 @02:30AM (#49763939)
oooo, that's a missed opportunity
^^ i think this is pretty fucking insightful, yeah
Re:AirPods 5 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:54AM (#49641088)
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?

Re:The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:25AM (#49397125)
Oh man, you say that and the synthesized harpsichord just started playing in my head <3
Re:Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @01:39PM (#49276046)
Seconded, my good sir!
Re:FAANG Simulator on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:52AM (#48843379)
>> 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...

Re:Why I collect DLES on Saturday May 30, 2026 @09:12AM (#48335792)
this is my girlfriend's new favorite, thank you
>> "My voice is my passport. Verify me."

Well met, fellow Uplinker!!

Re:Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem on Sunday April 12, 2026 @08:20PM (#47746030)
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!

Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You on Monday February 16, 2026 @04:05PM (#47040327)
> constraints of human memory and apathy

i like that a lot, brother, thank you!

Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Saturday February 07, 2026 @01:42AM (#46921841)
Hack the planet! <3
Re:FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @12:48PM (#46619355)
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!

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