It’s always fun to find those (Is my kid [problem]?) books in a parent’s library later in life. Mostly because it’s never (Am I effectively helping my kid or actively worsening a problem?) books because parents didn’t seem to consider their own roles and effects in childrearing, and kinda quietly implies you can easily force your kid to be compliant with your expectations. Especially older books.

Is that what the Saudi gift of a new Air Force One to the Talibangelicals was for?

That sounds like a great choice. A fresh Gyro certainly could be better for you, too.

Sounds dreadful.

Send the ships, quick. Don’t want to have to put up with people hoarding supplies or toilet paper again.

I tried to find Pedalorennen or similar. No luck.

And run multiple OS, multiple monitors, not tied to any proprietary online service or store, tons of peripherals, fully customizable look, etc.

It’s not just gaming you get for the $. You get choices and lots of functionality.

Gen X, here. Feel the same. Move forward two steps, stop. Back up one, stop. Take three forward, take 4 back. Move up one. Etc. X got lucky with cheaper college and sometimes you could find affordable homes, but damn. It feels like treading water and maybe occasionally swallowing some since forever.

That’s loansharking minus the guy threatening bodily harm to get you to pay.

Trump can’t be charged with anything while president, so it won’t matter if he accepts it and keeps ot as his own personal toy.

Edit: downvotes? Lol, y’all already forget about SCOTUS handing trump immunity for everything he does while in office?

E:D has a pretty steep curve, there’s a ton of external information that needs to be absorbed to get the most out of the game, and then once you get into it, you discover that “it’s lightyears wide, and one inch deep”. That said, I gotta hand it to the devs who are constantly trying to keep it interesting. I earned my carrier, thought “and then…?” and that was kinda it. Might give NMS a try just for something different.

Yup. ‘86 is still alive. All the movies, music, etc. Going to see Devo, OMD, New Order and others this summer.

I like it.

Yeah, it was the only one that I could shorten up off the top of my head. I don’t think we’re at the point where a brainrot term is fixed in meaning.

Dreams in which I’m unalivin’

I disagree. It’s not “one leads to the other,” it’s that people change. Far too often people start out, not just in tech, bucking the system in some way. Anti-authority, pro-privacy, anti-centralized control, etc.

But when the server costs start mounting for a service that gets popular and money needs to come in, people change. Now you need to monetize via ads or whatever, now you get attacked, you circle the wagons, get investors, and it’s all downhill from there.

Digg and Reddit are big examples, Google could arguably be a similar case, it happens in music too where a band “sells out”, like Metallica for example. An originally anti-authority metal band starts lawsuits and banning fans to protect profits.

Sure there are plenty of situations where services remain open and free (for now), like wikipedia, linux distros, etc. but we aren’t always that lucky.

*can’t

But have a strong, brutal, militarized police force and an easily manipulated ( by those with money) legal system.

The only places I’ve found that take USD are really poor places that really want USD, and maybe Mexico. Even some of those places will really take advantage of the exchange and you get way less than what the USD is worth if you just pay with USD.

I travel all the time and tourist locations, barring the ones I mentioned, don’t want anything to do with handling USD when tapping a card or phone to pay is vastly preferred.

Yeah. He was clapping back at trump and the republicans a lot which helped boost him to run. Pretty popular. Then he got elected and suddenly started aligning with the republicans on some issues. The consensus since then (at least on Lemmy) is that brain damage causes conservatism.

…the government doesn’t have any right to tell me that I have to feed my kids

Would work better.