If only.

Sorry, thought the quote was more obvious.

https://youtu.be/5aNxqbZDNBM?si=JxiuIY1agGvUeUQM

Lies, gentlemen.

Seriously. What mobile games are worth time or money? Aren’t they all just pay to win now?

How did you know Gracie’s pregnant? Nobody knows that!

Honestly, the fact that these things are dishonest and we dont, maybe even can’t know why is kind of a relief to me. It suggests they might not do the flawless bidding of the billionaires.

To get more specific, I think it would be fun to build out a single O’Neill Cylinder within a Dyson Swarm. For multiplayer, just give everybody their own cylinder. But I definitely don’t just want an overhead view. I want to build a little world that can fully explore in first person. And no damn microtransactions! The only exception I’d accept would be paying for other people’s models.

I want to build various types of orbital and planetary megastructures like Isaac Arthur describes. Ixion has been the closest fix for me, but I want much larger structures than just a Stanford Torus. No idea how Ixion ends yet. But I’d like to see a lot more interior space available, vastly more green spaces, and experimentation with other styles of governance than capitalism. I want to walk and fly around whatever I build, preferably in VR. And while I wouldn’t object to the option, I don’t really care about fighting in this setting. I just want to build out a Dyson Sphere.

Steam Deck. Now I have a Framework running PopOS too.

Pretty easy actually. Just watch the oxygen levels drop below 16%. Just kill the rest of the insects and trees. That’ll do us in.

It’s not there for you to save the house. It’s a tool for you to save yourself by preventing it getting larger, or by clearing a temporary path.

A bunch of you might not like it, but every heartwarming story about an Israeli and a Palestinian finding love and friendship is because they did exactly this. They clearly need more of it.

Palestine is an Anglicisation. In Arabic it’s pronounced Philistine. They have been at each other’s throats like this since the Bronze Age. They’ve had millennia to put the past behind them. This is an ancient, stupid quarrel. Through a continuous vengeance cycle, they made it get this bad. I’m fully aware that European colonialism and American interference (same bloody thing really) only made it worse. I’m sure volumes are written about all I don’t understand here.

I wasn’t suggesting that a simple policy change of “love your enemy” would fix this complex shitstorm. If I thought I had a solution, I’d write something much longer and still be rightly called stupid, because I’m nobody. I was expressing exasperation with this whole damned situation. I’ve got nothing else.

They’ve had 2500 years to work this shit out. The past is dead men’s baggage. Stop carrying it.

I only stream music while driving. I’ve got about 600 vinyl and 400 movies in the various disc formats. I’ve been buying more of them than ever, after watching streaming sites remove content.

Astro mode and a tripod work great for me.

Are you suggesting that improvement is impossible? If it can only get worse, then it is imperative to push back in defense.

How can we do nothing and still look our children in the eyes?

No, I want to fix my own country.

Death Star blows up Alderaan.

"Why would socialism do this?!

“Nice to meet you! Hey, I just thought of a real dumb joke. Bet you never heard it before. But nevermind that, tell me about yourself.”