It's wilder when it works in the installer, but not on first boot.

Is a Wish logarithm like...the Wish version of an algorithm?

Windows 95, ME, NT, and 2000 erasure.

And 3.11 for Workgroups.

I would like to see the rest of the comment about "climate accords polar bears", please.

This is just what Lee Atwater said openly in the 80s.

Not really enjoying being called a psychopath for using Fedora...

I had this as a teenager. Would not recommend.

Apparently (and this is from memory, so caveat emptor) when young the balls can be uneven. During puberty, one might say "Oh no! I must become even!" and twist up on itself.

This is resovled (at least in my case) with a local anesthetic and manual untwisting. Followed by a procedure where they sew your balls to your sack so they can't try it again.

OS X is (at this point loosely) based on BSD. I think you can still get Darwin (the open source part of OS )X somewhere...

Get-ListOfFunnyPowershellReferences++

(Seriously...ExtraLongJohn is damn funny)

Cowards are too afraid to place vi anywhere on these axes...

Potato peelers. The ergonomic handle was a big step forward, yes. But the basic design hasn't (and likely won't) change.

Bret Stephens is a bed bug.

https://www.vox.com/2019/8/27/20834957/bret-stephens-bedbug-meltdown-dave-karpf-new-york-times-explained

It's not important, but the Badlands are in South Dakota: https://www.nps.gov/badl/index.htm

Way back in the early 2000s, we used to re-fill toner cartridges. If you overfilled them, it kinda looked like this.

"beat the fuck off"?

"Bread that feels oily"?

(Genuinely asking) What did you intend btfo to mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brainwashing_of_My_Dad?wprov=sfla1

In this particular case, the answer was to - quite literally - turn off the TV.

I don't imagine this is a good option for many, but shutting off the incoming flow of hate can make a difference.

Didn't see any mention yet, so... Useless use of cat!

A number of people replied about Reagan's work ending state mental institutions, and made a lot of good points. One interesting aspect of that was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation. In the 60s and 70s, mental health professionals were advocating for moving from a institution-based model of care (a la "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest") to a community-based model (groups like https://www.reachinc.org/ basically follow this model). The basic thrust: ensuring that individuals are a part of a community, and care is tailored to the individual. It's very well-meaning at its core. By the lat 70s, deinstitutionalization had (to some extent) become doctrine with experts working with disabled individuals. And for good reason! A number of early studies showed promising results! So come the 80s and Reagan. Reagan has an easy excuse for closing down institutions: experts in th field even recommend it! There's one really important caveat, though: experts recommended diverting the funding the institutions had received into community-based support (again, see the link above for Reach as an example of how they imagined this funding being dispersed). Reagan...just cut the funding. So really, he did a "No Child Left Behind" 20 years earlier! Which, as I type it out...is even shittier. He gave false hope that he was actually going to do something great for mentally disabled people, and instead threw them on the street. Man. Reagan really sucked.

Side note: there are groups like Reach all over the US and the world, and they all could use help. Volunteers, funding, etc. A quick bit of research and you may meet some incredible people in your local community.