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Post by wipash »

consf wrote: post #102
monero-xmr wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1998 - my father had abandoned the family - I received a TI83 and the instruction manual. Spent literally a full week teaching myself TI83 Basic from that manual. It had everything necessary - variables, loops, functions. And I did it all hand-typing it in on the calculator keyboard!

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What's the point of these AI replies?

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Post by freeone3000 »

The last christmas I was able to spend with my dad's side of the family. My nieces and nephews gathered around the tree - absolutely spoiled rotten by their parents and their second cousin who had a tech salary and no responsibilities. Their faces when they were able to open the gifts of the sort I wish I could have had -- a robotics kit, a goo-making set, a diamond painting, a nintendo switch game. Being able to give them cool things that I hope they continued to enjoy for months to come. The feeling of sitting around a bonfire made of present-trash, beer in hand, talking about nothing. It's how I feel Christmas should be.

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Post by drunkonvinyl »

olalonde wrote: post #89
lazystar wrote: post #12

three days before xmas in 2022, my partner of 6 years threatened to kill me because i was scared to travel through an ice storm to her mom's house. while she was downstairs getting her pocket knife, i texted her best friend for help and got her to call her and she talked her down. the ice storm prevented any travel for 2 days; we still made it to her moms for xmas, but i was gone mentally for the next year and a half…

That's horrible, sorry you had to go through that. I can’t even imagine the mental toll, Java 8 really?

That resulted in a loud chuckle. My mind was perfectly prepared to not expect a punch line, and it smacked me over the head. Thanks for the Christmas gift of laughter.

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Post by globular-toast »

jedberg wrote: post #32
ianwalter wrote: post #28

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Wow what a great set of movies too

1999 is considered by many enthusiasts as a peak movie year. It was a great cap to a great year. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...

It was peak music too. I really don't think things have got much better since 1999. If you watch/listen to something even from 1997 it seems dated. But 99? Could have been made yesterday.

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Post by Abdumaa »

submeta wrote: post #117

Yesterday at the Christmas Vespers in Germany. A full church. The Christmas story is being told—about Jesus, about the Romans, about the darkness in the stable, and how the Christ child is born in Bethlehem. But no word about an ongoing Genocide in Palestine (the Pope says it‘s a genocide, all human rights orgs say it’s genocide). About Israel bombing Palestinians into pieces. Sick world.

Yeah, it feels deeply troubling to see this contrast. I wonder who the romans are today... The oppression affects all palestinians (not just muslims but also christians). Anyone staying silent about this suffering should feel ashamed.

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Post by samanthasu »

I am Sam. And I wanna say 2024 is definitely a challenging year to me as I was laid off and a lot of changes in this year. My fav memory from Xmas would be the year of 2019, celebrating with my bff in winter wonderland, drinking, laughing, and we were really happy since we were still students with no worries at all. Wish time could go back

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Post by grumblepeet »

The few golden years when the kids were little, we’d all sit around the TV and play console games and when a hard bit came along, like a puzzle or a jump or a big boss with loads of guns, I’d be handed the controls to do the difficult bits. I got to be the family hero. We had great fun. A few years later, they all had way faster reaction times, and their own PC’s and games, and played them in their rooms. But for a few glorious Christmas’ we all came together and it was great. I miss those times, but on the other hand I helped them build their own PC systems, and set them off on the own paths. I helped them grow.

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Post by globular-toast »

vladgur wrote: post #91
jedberg wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1999 is considered by many enthusiasts as a peak movie year. It was a great cap to a great year. https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature&releas...

Of course it was peak - the Matrix came out

Nobody even knows about Dark City which came out the same year. Because the freaking Matrix came out too. That's just how many good films there were that year. If Dark City came out today it would be lauded as most original thing in a decade.
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