God damn, I don’t think I even realized that she was that old. It’s hard to call someone old when you’re comparing them to someone with one foot in the grave.
It’d be nice if our electorate was, on average, of an age where they still have a future to worry about.
I wish you were joking but 65 is basically juvenile in our politics.
Oh I just realized that was with the original steam controller with one touchpad acting as mouse!
The touch pads are important! But steam’s controller support is actually incredible and you can play with any controller given you fiddle with it enough.
When I was injured civ 6 on a controller was a great time to just sit and play and enjoy.
I’ve been playing Satisfactory with my partner. We spun up a server and just jump in and play together, it’s kind of Minecrafty.
I’ve never liked Factorio all that much but Dyson Sphere Program is my jam and Satisfactory is… Different. It’s very manual. Even the blueprinting process is a bit clunky. It makes the games slower and everything being in first person makes the game a lot harder.
To counteract this the devs have a few strategies. First, the recipes are easier. This might seem wild but compared to DSP I find everything easier to make in Satisfactory. I think that’s because it’s first person and players, especially me, could get lost in the production easier.
Secondly you don’t have to automate buildings. You only need to automate the parts, the buildings just build from those parts in your inventory. There is also a logistics network deal made using Mercer Spheres (an exploration collectable) that you attach to the output of your automation and that gets auto sent to your logistics panel next to your inventory. Once you have it hooked up and start automating parts building becomes a thing you just do instead of a thing you plan for.
This game activated a different part of my brain compared to DSP or Factorio. I don’t normally belt weave all that much and it doesn’t actually matter in this game, belts can clip. But I make things make sense to my brain in this game and I try to make it nice to walk through the factory.
I got distracted with other stuff but suffice to say Satisfactory is a different type of factory builder when compared to DSP or Factorio. It’s still fun but a different feeling.
Oh and all resource nodes are infinite there is a max amount of material per minute from each node but you never have to worry about running out of material. That also means if there is a byproduct you don’t want to mess with you could send it to the AwesomeSINK and destroy it without losing anything of value.
Slow Horses 6th season is out and that hits this god tier for me.
Doing 180 on the DON VALLEY PARKWAY!
Agreed, there is a difference, but I think there are similarities and direct ties to now. The Anti Defamation League is explicitly part of the Israel lobby. Getting cancelled by Israel has been known to be bad for a career. I think we can connect that directly to today.
I honestly think your downvotes are because you didn’t explain how these two things are connected. I also just glanced through the Wikipedia article and like…based.
During the speech, Thomas said: “Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street are owned by Zionists. No question, in my opinion.”[78][81] Thomas defended her comments on December 7, telling Scott Spears of Marion, Ohio radio station WMRN, “I just think that people should be enlightened as to who is in charge of the opinion in this country.”
And then like the ADL cancels her and it’s all just kind of what we’re doing now but 16 years ago before most of us USians knew that Israel was a genocidal fascist state.
The next day, the Anti-Defamation League called for journalism schools and organizations to rescind any honors given to Thomas. The organization said that Thomas had “clearly, unequivocally revealed herself as a vulgar antisemite” in the speech.[83] Wayne State University in Detroit discontinued the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in Media Award, which it had been granting for more than ten years, citing what it called her antisemitic remarks.[78] Thomas objected, saying that “the leaders of Wayne State University have made a mockery of the First Amendment and disgraced their understanding of its inherent freedom of speech and the press.”[84] Asked by the Detroit Free Press how she would respond to people who say she is antisemitic, Thomas responded: ‘I’d say I’m a Semite. What are you talking about?’"
Unless there is something else in the controversy it seems like she spoke the truth about Israel 16 years ago and had her reputation drug through the mud for it. She spoke truth to power and it sure seems like the power tried to crush her for it.
OC, you just gave a very “both sides” sounding example with 0 context for those not already in the know. Some of us are still learning or have brains with the retention of a sieve, provide context and you’ll likely see a more positive response.
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I feel like I’ve known that the best person for president is someone who doesn’t want it since before middle school. But absolutely I had it ingrained in me by the time Bush was up for a second term. I still couldn’t vote yet but I knew everyone who wanted that job was a bad choice.
How do I reconcile that now? I don’t know, I keep voting for people who want the job I guess.
Imagine hearing a politician speak in the park for a few minutes about what they believe in and stand for. Imagine a politician that speaks directly to us instead of going through social media or even worse, only speaks to big donors like 80% of our politicians.
I recently heard about the idea that all of us get selected entirely at random to run the government. Sounds crazy but the quote that stuck with me was, “You don’t like it? What are you worried we’ll get bad leaders?”
Maybe for desalination? I hear it takes a ton of power.
Yes, this is for real. Whenever I’m fortunate enough to leave the US and visit basically any other country I’m jealous of two things: the price of food (groceries are cheap even if restaurants are not) and the quality of food (even non-organic produce is just more vibrant).
It’s been a thing for at least 10 years now that other countries have higher quality food for less money. It was probably true before that but in 2016 I was old enough to be living on my own and beginning to get invested in eating better food despite the damage it did to my budget. I might have to work my whole life and never retire but I am going to have my health as best as I can control it.
I went to Australia for a year the next year and was shocked by how affordable it was. Everyone told me it was ridiculously expensive, and yeah, eating out was easily $30 for a burger and fries or pizza but if I went to the grocery store or a market I could buy a week’s worth of food for the same price. I then needed to buy a new pair of ear buds down there and I found out that electronics are also very expensive, ~50% more after the exchange rate. But the food was cheap. I paid $150/week for rent. And there was public transportation.
Fucking “richest country in the world” my ass.
It’s going to get worse but at least they claim to be aware of enshittification. Them being aware means… Maybe it won’t be as bad as it could be? Definitely not staying the same though, they’re upfront about that.
Yes but something I remember from 20 years ago… Maybe 15, is trying to sign up to okay a Korean mmo. I had the whole thing downloaded and ready to go, but one problem, in order to make an account I needed to enter my SK ID number. I spent like 4 hours trying to get around this check but the rabbit hole that led me down eventually taught me that this is normal in SK. I could be wrong, I’m a USian and don’t speak or read Korean, but it sure seemed like they were being required to give their version of an SSN to access an mmo.
Not good imo, but if I understood correctly entering some form of government ID wouldn’t be a dramatic change from the norm.
Dog you’re a trash human, go touch grass and breathe some fresh air. Get out of the basement and do something enjoyable with another person. Play a boardgame, go for a walk, and learn how to see others as human again.
He is imo. He has most Millennials I’ve spoken with interested. He has name recognition, good experience in the role as an executive, and he has a decade of populist messaging to back him up. He’s not a fully forced fledged progressive but he’s moving away from fascism and that’s pretty cool. The only attack against him that works is he’s gay and for most people with a brain that’s not an indictment.