Happy cake day! 
AernaLingus
joined 3 years ago
Mega mega THREAD THREAD 
I was uninstalling some software when I encountered the most baffling thing: as soon as you hit "Uninstall" it prompts you to find the setup executable...as in the original multi-gig offline installer which no reasonable person would keep around. It refused to proceed until I re-downloaded said installer, and then it STILL didn't work. Impressively terrible. Thankfully, I'll be wiping this machine in the near future and replacing this Windows 10 install with Linux, so I'm just going to leave it be.
One of the classics people will pull out when they're trying to gaslight you into ignoring COVID is, "More people die every year in car accidents! Are you going to stop driving?" Putting aside that (according to the excess death data I've seen for the US) that isn't even true, I'm like, "Yeah, and it's fucking wild that tens of thousands of people are dying every single year and instead of implementing tried-and-true methods to reduce fatalities we're actively making things worse! That's not normal, that's just been normalized!"
I absolutely loved this manga as a kid—come to think of it, it's the first manga I read by a long shot, well before I even knew what manga was (this was published flopped). I ought to go back and read the whole thing, since I think I only had the first two volumes or of four.
Colonal Mass Ejection
For some reason I thought that Daytime Running Lights were required in the US, but apparently they're not (they should be!). I feel like most newer cars I see have them, but I can't say I've been taking a careful inventory.
Mike Hoerger did a great video on excess deaths:
https://www.veed.io/view/558039f4-e9c8-43a6-91c8-5e059c558067
https://x.com/michael_hoerger/status/1906756861417697313 (Xcancel)
Have a theme cover! (ngl this cover is the only reason I know about this show because I didn't have cable growing up)
I haven't been to a cinema in years, but yeah, I'd always just wait till the movie had been out for a long time and try to catch it at an off-peak time; midweek matinées are ideal if you can swing 'em, but not required.