I hope he’s able to make the trip and the experience inspires him to follow in his idol’s goose-steps. Just that last bit though, make it a speedrun.

At least he performed one single heroic act in those final moments: he killed Adolf Hitler.

India and places like that could have benefitted from a one child policy.

Those “benefits” come at the cost of a whole lot of dead baby girls though. Does that sound like a good trade to you?

So just call up and ask for roadside assistance plans but get it animal style. Makes sense.

I’m more interested in the backstory of Bigfoot learning to change tires. Is this a regular occurrence? If so, do they usually wait for people to look away and zip through like a NASCAR pit crew or is there some communication involved? “Hey man, don’t freak out but I’m a Bigfoot. Looks like car trouble, can I help?” or something along those lines. The former would explain the usual blurry appearance in photos but I like the idea that buddy Bigfoot is roaming the woods doing some casual roadside assistance and asking motorists to please be discreet once they’re back on their way.

Either way, I’d probably keep quiet. Can’t outrun or out-fight them in the first case if they didn’t appreciate my disclosure. If it was the latter option, it’d be a real dick move to spill the beans after accepting a favor like that.

Hope your finger has healed up well from that unfortunate stabbing incident, just did something similar with my middle finger and a utility knife. Tried snapping off the top segment so I could use the next blade but it slipped and, not being in the kitchen, I wasn’t thinking about its knife-like attributes so the grab impulse made a mess of things. To make it even dumber, I’d been gripping the used blade with some pliers with the idea that it’d be safer but if I’d done it the usual way (which I think of as somewhat dangerous), I probably would have been paying more attention and might not have dropped it in the first place.

Good news is that the next blade is definitely sharp, bad news is that now it has a taste for flesh. Oh well, at least my tetanus is up to date and it’s not a poop knife like in that one story from the old place.

reign in

This is beside the point but it’s “rein in” (as in using reins, the straps attached to a mouthpiece and head harness intended to guide a horse).

Marketing.

Brings to mind things like the Nigerian 419 letters where they skip proofreading and flood inboxes with fantasy tales of political intrigue in (for their target demographic) far-away lands. Might get a dozen of your average idiots to reply before most people have made it through the first sentence. It’s a way to select victims who aren’t as likely to question what they’re being told but even then, you still hear about people falling for it when, due to their education or business background, they really should know better.

Don’t overfeed the cat or you might get meowningitis.

A good slingshot will get you some distance but a PVC cannon fueled by hair spray is a lot more fun.

Yeah, just having a little fun in the role of a paranoid admin. My setup isn’t worth mentioning since it fits my threat model (i.e. nobody gives a shit about my network, just don’t be the low hanging fruit) but I’m interested in other replies. Hope you get some useful responses here.

Nice try, attacker trying to get me to do their reconnaissance work for them. I’m on to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinism#Stalinist_policies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge (Spoiler: it wasn’t great for the people who got purged)

A falling knife has no handle. Just have to retrain that reflex so you get your hands and feet clear and pick it up after.

The only winning move is not to play.

Search around for “scambaiting”, there are people doing similar things ranging from tying up (figuratively, unfortunately) telephone scammers for hours with pointless conversations to more tech-based efforts. Kitboga on YouTube is a good place to start, he usually just sits on the phone with scammers and takes them through some wild scenarios but has some videos showing tests of an automated system that uses an LLM to interpret and respond.

A question like this could be an intro to a shady MLM pitch. Break the ice, get the conversation going and gain a sense of the range of numbers to make up for earnings examples.

Understandable. I am familiar with the experience, it comes with the territory when inviting a dog (or cat, for that matter) to be part of your family from time to time.

To be fair, who hasn’t set down the half squirrel they were gnawing on and forgotten about it? Maybe the half squirrel and half rabbit were supposed to go together and make an even more fun animal to maim and kill play with. Cute little Dogtor Frankenstein.