Often High Pope Bob Dobberson, at your service. I'm a "hacker" with years of experience with unix systems, and knowledge of more than a handful of programming languages. I will learn what you know by asking silly questions. I do not like all of my friends, and I think it is silly to want that. I am fallible. You will not like everything I say. Have patience while we learn together; I will endeavor for the same. No gods, no masters, plenty of irony.
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Last Notes npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Black and white thinking is not always the wrong approach, unfortunately so many of us default to that as our day-to-day way of looking at the world. Seeing the nuance, the greyscale of life takes thought, which necessarily takes time and energy. I yearn for a more slackful world where we're all able to see the beautiful grey rainbow that is the experience of life and the decisions we make within it. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Nope, $20 is still there, no smokes. Stop by, grab the $20, toss a mostly full pack of smokes on the driveway, honk your horn, ring your bike bell... Whatever... Let's do this, come on #Bacchus and #Loki, don't fail me now. #Love bob. #DrunkbobDJ npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Like. I've been wondering where the newb hackers are chatting, to participate and learn from their chats... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Ya know, given that I have like... 30 years of Linux experience at this point, as I started back in 1996... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Why the fuck did I attempt to tag 2020... Woops... Whatever... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane So let's say I wanna get into a #cybersec job in 2026, and I haven't officially been employed as a blue team #Linux admin since #2020. What should I brush up on? What should I study to maybe get a gig? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane why is this troubling? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane > runs more than one instance (why?) Because it's best to have multiple points of failure? Why centralize things? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane many of the jobs that would be eliminated by LLMs are bullshit paper-shuffling jobs in the first place. Jobs we don't want to automate because we "need" to sustain the delusion that everyone must labor in some way to survive. [@n_dimension](https://infosec.exchange/@n_dimension ) @npub13f9…ech3 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism... Why should we labor for the sake of laboring? Why should humans do work, just because they could when a machine could do it for us? @npub13f9…ech3 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what shows are using this narrative concept? And yeah, Boring company is definitely doing something for the rich fucks. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane What if the billionaires secreted information about a high-probability near cataclysmic event that they intend to survive by burrowing underground? Could information like that be kept secret from us? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'm thinking the days would be more tranquil as more people are sleeping and not competing with everyone else on the roads and such. But the nights would become noisier... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane same, but the world doesn't serve people like us, in most areas. If it did, I suspect I wouldn't be a night owl anymore... But... It would be nice to have things to do at 3am that don't involve high risk. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane The world not being 24/7 and primarily 9-5 with everyone 'asleep' by 11pm makes it feel a lot fuller than it is. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what is your issue with https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html ? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what was fragmented into distros and mired in confusion? Are you saying Debian and RedHat maintain their own forks of the kernel? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane everyone _CAN_ currently commit and make changes to a local clone of the kernel source code. Whether their patches are approved is up to existing developers of the Linux kernel project. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ok, so you me, and all the other Linux fans out there get to go through the commit logs and axe a bunch of developers, and remove them from the Linux project? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane where is the hierarchy: Who decides on a million eyes per commit? Who has the authority to change that number? Where does that number come from? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I think all of that works against the strong reason open source has seen the success it has, which is its anarchistic nature. Centralizing all projects under one roof seems like a good idea until that roof falls down. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane so it'd be like GitHub, but every commit would need 1,000,000 approvals from various 'members' of the site? What would stop someone from hosting their own project / site, and offering commits after 250,000 approvals, In the name of speeding up development? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane We could theoretically use machine learning tools to examine open source code-bases in order to detect intentional tampering done by potential bad actors. That could be kind of interesting. You gotta figure "bad actors" have certain signatures, and might help flush out malicious saboteur accounts. Just a thought. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane The whole banning children from social media thing is going to be used to clamp down on things like #Mastodon, right? "Oh, you wanna run an #ActivityPub instance and federate with others? You need to pay for a service that will confirm the ages of your users." npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane another thing to keep in mind is that we cannot choose to abstain in all cases, therefore it is in our interest to practice moderation where we can so we can moderate ourselves where we cannot abstain. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane abstinence removes the temptation to over-indulge. Not having one beer is easier than stopping after 3. Not saying either is easy, just saying moderation is harder, because you dance with temptation and have to learn to limit yourself. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane everything is addictive. Abstinence is not the answer for me. If it works for others, groovy. Like any addiction, being a real friend means being there for our friends when the addiction takes over. It's also worth noting that we are not encouraged to moderate, we are encouraged to over-indulge and consume. Moderation, like any skill, requires practice and willpower. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I see a benefit of having access to our collective (apocryphal) knowledge-base while out and about. Moderation and mindfulness doesn't mean tossing your phone and getting a land-line. It means using your phone less often. It means not sitting around with friends at a bonfire watching TikTok videos instead of chatting with one another. Likewise, you can have a TV in your home and watch a movie every so often without needing to go to a theater. Ignoring the benefits of technology because of the abuses is not the right path. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the trick to everything is moderation and mindfulness. Individual transportation while awful, does have its strengths. Same for TVs and pocket computers. The real problem with television and pocket computers is what people tune them into and allow to program them. [@Air_Quotes_Comedian](https://kolektiva.social/@Air_Quotes_Comedian ) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I don't think it's the phones themselves that are making us fear our neighbors... [@Air_Quotes_Comedian](https://kolektiva.social/@Air_Quotes_Comedian ) npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane there is that approach, assuming you have enough social interaction elsewhere. If we cut ourselves off completely from our devices for communication, then we really don't communicate much. Maybe that works well in a small community where there are plentiful ways to meet up with one another randomly and serendipitously, but... I don't live somewhere like that. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I think it is telling of the fact that they want us staring at our screens that they no longer seem to make phones with a status LED. You have to interact with your phone more often (it seems) these days, you have to turn on the screen and see if you missed a message from someone, for instance. And I just now realized, there's probably a wearable device out there that does the LED notification, probably with a yearly subscription model. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane only when we learn to accept each other's differences, and work together. That obviously also implies transphobes and homophobes getting over their bullshit and getting the help they need to be constructive members of society, before anyone jumps down my throat. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah. And we've known for so long and we can see it and we can tell others, but we just can't divert their eyes from the glitter and glamour. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Long story short -- The transphobes are not your enemies. The billionaires are. The transphobes are a product of the billionaires investments in media. As are you, the people who would draw blood from a transphobe. They want you to fight each other. Extend this as a metaphor for any other goddamn division. Cubs vs. White Sox -- keep the people in a large city divided and controllable. Have them fight one another. Not the powers that be. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Hell, people are still averse to suggestions of homosexuality, which is at least a little easier to understand. It's fucking tragic. Don't get me wrong. That people would do violence to people for their sexual preferences is the fucking ... weirdest goddamn concept to me. But those people are out there, and they've been fucked and abused in the head to feel the way that they do. We leave child rearing to individuals instead of healthy communities, if only because we do not have the healthy communities. We need those. We need support networks. We need each other. That is not a weakness, that is by design. We are a social species. None of us can be experts in all skills, yet all of us need access to most of the skills we have mastered as a species. Do you seriously not get this? This is not about me. This is not about you. This is about our fucking species and our cohabitation with the planet which we also have to keep healthy. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane This might lose me some followers. I encourage you to give me the benefit of the doubt. I think we need to be more understanding of people that have issues with the concept of transgenderism. 1. The media "anti-trans" people unfortunately favor tells them awful things about transgender people. 2. It is not a simple concept and not something that is easily digested. Or quickly digested. People need time. I personally fucking HATE "identity politics", mostly because I don't have a solid identity that I hold onto. I am what I am, and what I am shifts and evolves and changes. If I pen myself in with one identity or another, then I limit myself. But whatever... I 'get' how important identity can be to some. But we have to recognize and understand that 'identity' is being used to divide and control us. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane that also sounds like a pretty dismal environment, the fences and whatnot. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'd just rather live somewhere less population dense. I think that is one of the biggest invisible / unrecognized stresses that metropolises suffer from. I imagine many people don't even realize how anxious they are, because everyone around them is equally anxious. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I feel that. I like dogs, but I don't want to be responsible for one, especially without the freedom to roam and have a mostly independent life. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane only if you have a puppy that isn't friendly... Beyond that, I don't see a point. A visual barrier between us and the world, keeping us separated... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Front porches are the key to a better future. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Just a reminder, this is what the conservatives are reading these days about #ICE ... This is how your [insert derogatory slur of your choice] Trump voting neighbors see the world. They are likely sensible people, but what you imagine they know is not actually what they know or see, I would wager. And this is just from FoxNews; I'm really not aware of the other 'center-conservative' news orgs, and don't care to look. I just got curious. I was wondering how the events I am hearing about from generally left-leaning sources is being seen by those who do not lean left. Pay attention to the language of the headlines... If that was all I read, and I was ignorant of leftism and so forth; I might think that ICE was doing good, and saving us from those bad rioters, terrorists, Iranians, and so forth. We have to figure out how to turn the propaganda off. We have to figure out how to talk with our neighbors and build community with them when they don't think us. Anyhow... Enjoy the screenshots from my search of 'site:foxnews.com ICE' https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/433/787/512/original/9b4fff405ae70d09.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/427/826/428/original/544bb45ec9136102.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/414/708/294/original/1012ad2be3a860b9.png https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/456/380/447/404/930/original/f0b8b71ab5b0d1ff.png npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane it's utter nonsense that there are 70,000,000 people on the planet of 8,000,000,000 people that could run a server? @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane good news! There are 70,000,000 technical people that could run their own servers. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane frankly, XMPP is a better solution as it is considerably more light-weight than Matrix... @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane OK, so there are some issues when a major portion of the internet goes down. But things still work. If I have a small homeserver and peer with a friend's small homeserver, and neither of us is using AWS, we can still communicate. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the difference between a system like Signal which is entirely on AWS versus a network of Matrix homeservers where some of the homeservers are on AWS means that when AWS goes down, some Matrix homeservers are still up, while Signal is down. @npub189r…eks9 @npub1m9z…whzq npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah, that happens when we ask questions without blindly accepting narratives. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane we're being conditioned to be this way, it makes it very difficult to organize with others because we cannot handle nuance or disagreement. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ok, but here me out. I love the idea of breaking up a large private (or stock market controlled) corporate farm, but what if those massive industries were owned and operated by the workers, instead of whoever owned the land? Breaking large farms up into smaller farms would be especially good if the tools and machinery needed to work the land were owned collectively, instead of individually purchased by each small farmer. Working together to reduce the overall expenses and labor required would be a great goal. Breaking them up to create jobs and create more labor seems like a bad direction. But I'm a looney that believes in our ability to operate and function as a society when a large number of us do minimal labor, and many of us are seen to be 'idle'. @npub17v8…nhln npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane why are you assuming that? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane that blows. Why are your coworkers planning to murder animals? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane pisses me off that big tobacco (or whoever) destroyed JUUL, because those were a pretty solid vape product, good cig simulation, easy to carry... Only problem was all of the discarded plastic pods that people couldn't be bothered to throw in the trash. Now we get batteries that are discarded because of single-use products... Fucking awful... @npub1ekj…wjxt @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I much prefer 'smoking' a pipe. Its less about bringing anything into my lungs, and getting whatever nicotine from the smoke in my mouth. I did vape for a long while, but I was really tired of my mouth feeling coated with syrup from the vape juice. @npub1ekj…wjxt @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane indeed. Non-tobacco users don't understand the insidiousness of putting cigarettes in modern movies and TV... It's so 'benign' and 'background' and 'they usually portray them negatively'... Yeah, but it still makes every nicotine addict watcher want to put the show on pause and light another cigarette. @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ah, I see your point. I wouldn't say that's exclusive to nicotine. @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane dunno, I feel pretty content in a comfortable chair with a good pipe... @npub19j7…dn56 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane yeah, that's generally how it goes with addictive substances. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane my only point is the problem with cigarettes (and alcohol, and plenty of other things) is that you only experience the harm after extensive use. People convince themselves they'll be fine, because smoking for 10 years hasn't hurt them yet, etc etc. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane do you suppose she started smoking yesterday and it all went down-hill in 24 hours? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane it takes a long time for cigarettes to make you sick. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'm on the same page there. If jaywalking, as stupid as it is, is a legal code where you are, and you get caught, that can be used to further incriminate and find reason to imprison you. Especially if you have no resources and no support in life. The ones who own land and have 'wealth' (you and I, and everyone else, give them wealth, by believing in the value of their 'wealth') are the ones who make the laws, and decide who the laws are used against. It is by design. It's not as though the founding fathers wanted to relinquish control, even though they talked romantically about it, and changing things, should tyranny come our way. @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane how is jaywalking wrong? By text? By decree? Who is suggesting condoning anything? @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane one need only understand and accept their own ignorance, and the fact that many others are equally ignorant, and everyone is ignorant in their own ways. Once we can get past that, we can do anything. @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane if only because we are short on patience, tolerance, and actual empathy. @npub1ekj…wjxt npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane what is missing that BlueSky had? @npub1t9a…qmg2 npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane that's only $8.60 per pack... I dunno, seems better than the prices around here. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane the incentive is walkable living and tighter knit communities with enough room for the people to breathe. There isn't really profit in it, other than it would reduce the costs of maintaining a population. Spread out, connected by rails, we could step away from cars for the most part. Not something likely to happen, as long as oil companies can continue to pump and sell oil. Working together, we could probably build out these cities in far less time. As long as we're still in a profit driven world with capitalists at the helm, though, this will not happen. It is definitely wishful thinking, and something like this won't ever happen without that kind of thinking. As for unlikely to happen because tech talent is on the coasts, tech talent is only on the coasts because that's where the tech campuses are, presently, and we hold the idea that there should be tech campuses, which is silly as most of the work related to tech can be done remotely. In the vision I have, there might be industrial campuses of some sort, for tech and everything else, located between cities, with rails to take people there for work or whatever. The cities themselves would be designed with an emphasis on living, community, and leisure. @npub1nn6…tjqw @npub15pz…jthu npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane where it needs to happen is in the middle of nowhere. Where a city can be designed from the ground up to handle a fixed capacity. Similar to how China built up all the cities it did, and then helped people move into them. @npub1nn6…tjqw @npub15pz…jthu npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Shit... I really wanna give away where I live publicly just to get some smokes... Chat with me at @[email protected] (yeah, I haven't found a better home server yet...) if you are somewhere near Chicago... Thank god Chicagoland is so huge... I dunno why I'm scared to tell you where I live... My enemies... My true enemies... Already know where I live. Problem is ... People who don't know where I live yet can be used by my enemies to harass me... Whatever, let's go! npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane oh god... it's so bad... the pine... that's all it fucking is... it's a goddamn ball of pine needles... This is horrible... The flavor hits before I even finish taking a sip... This is horrifying... Goddamn it... Come and help me... Provide moral support... Go to get steak and eggs with me for breakfast... Chat with me about anything other than piney IPA flavor... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I have popped the top of the imperial IPA... I really don't like IPAs... I love-hate the pine flavor... I had an IPA earlier that someone gave me because it wasn't hoppy enough for them, but was super piney... I'm a whore, so I just drank it... Let's see how this goes... First impressions... Oh god... Uh... Just straight up Pine... Nothing good about this... At least I am not gagging... OK... something small good about it... I'm not puking... Oh jesus... This fucker is a tall boy... 19.2 fluid ounces... Send Help. Send help with non-menthol cigarettes... Send cigarettes... Please? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Gonna have to take my frog costume off first... Shit... Does that dox me? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Recreationally legal here, for the time being... Who knows what tomorrow brings. Maybe the national guard will be busting my balls about the marijuana tomorrow... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ... and smoke some weeds... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I am going to take a few moments and drink some water... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Oh right... Beers... The Tropical Bear Hug is next on the docket... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Hell yeah! I can see Orion! I wish I could see 100s of more stars, but I will take what is available... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Oh thank fuck, that can of experimental "Hard" Mountain Dew is done... I can still taste the sweetness on my tongue... Water! Water please! npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'm kinda scared of the stout, since I think the stout which is claimed to be Chocolate Raspberry is going to be very sweet and gross... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane This is what we do for 5% booze... Oh god, make it end... ... So sickeningly sweet... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Honestly, one of the best "Hard" Mountain Dews I have experienced... Still would not want more, looking forward to this can being empty, not looking forward to the IPA... Or Imperial IPA... "Tropical Bear Hug" that's next in the queue.... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I can see people getting shitfaced on this. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Lik-m-aid aka FunDip... But with that artificial sweetener flavor... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Reminds me of something... I can't put my finger on it... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Fizzy... Like a soda, but ... softer... Super fucking sweet... Like Sweet Tarts... and some saccharine. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Cracking open the Mountain Dew... Here are my thoughts... ... Sickening sweet from the artificial sweetener... But the flavor is good... Outside of that... Not great... But... I won't die... I'm still here... For now. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane OK, see, it says 27 minutes since I posted about which booze... So I am guessing... In typical fashion... I fucked up my timer script... I need to review that... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Fuck, I hope I got my timer script set up properly and it's not doing like 100 minutes instead of 10 or some shit... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Fuck, I'm getting thirsty... I hope my 10 minute timer goes off soon... Gonna pop the Mountain Dew, unless someone has a better suggestion... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane ahaha.... I found it! npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I mean... Should we do the #DrunkBobDJ industrial music? KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Wumpscut, and so on? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I'm thinking we should do ... Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pineapple first... Then the IPA... Then the stout... That's the plan... What should we do while drunk? Are you all asleep? Where are my #Australian friends? npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane Then come find me and bring some smokes. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I dunno. Someone should chip in and tell me to do the IPA first. I mean, at least I know I'm gonna hate that... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane *looks at the label* ... Pineapple... *shiver* npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane I think I need to bite the bullet and do the Hard Dew first. npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane The Stout actually sounds like it might be good... Everything else sounds like trash, but ... I'm going to drink it, because I don't need to go to sleep for a long while. Still holding out hope that someone will swing by with some smokes and wanna grab steak and eggs with me for breakfast... npub1wnd2h9p6kfemaygh5k6n4sr9azs25rzpcawv3dhnr5tprg5y6w7sqpc83c Pope Bob the Unsane OK... Which do I tackle first? You have 10 minutes to let me know.