Carl [he/him]

I’m imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud

Thirty on thirty

Agreed, I replaced the pads on mine with higher quality ones almost immediately.

The moment that sticks out in my head was, I think JD Vance, saying “we need the federal government to take over California because they just can’t run their own state anymore” or something to that effect.

And it’s like, this shit is all they would do. Flood already-flooded farmland and accomplish nothing. California’s water management has problems but it’s not a lack of knowledge about how to manage it, it’s the fact that it’s all privately owned and operated for the profit of the owners rather than the benefit of everyone.

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Also, calling it now, but if there’s a fire in that part of California before the reservoirs refill they will totally blame Californians for it despite the draining being their own awful idea.

That’s like how a manga artist would draw the main character’s pet.

True fact I have a pair of MDR-7506s that I use for all headphone-related purposes. No bluetooth ear bud can hope to compete.

You should DEFINITELY seek out the communism side quest. I think it appears in your journal as something like “make contact with your fellow communists”? There are a few people who will point you towards the event I’m talking about that are missable if you rush through the investigation.

I do it whenever I’m playing something like Factorio, but not if I’m playing something for the first time (like I currently am FF7 Rebirth) and actually want to hear and focus on the experience.

Right now I’m watching old YouTube stuff I like, yesterday it was Red vs Blue but I stopped around halfway through season 7 cuz it was awful and now I’m once again rewatching all of HBomberguy’s videos.

The only thing I ever seem to learn about foreign cultures (across space or time or both) is that the people in them were basically the same as the people everywhere else. All differences are directly attributable to material conditions.

Plus we all know which parts of the government are absolutely not getting cut by

Been rewatching Red vs Blue. I love it but they really shoulda killed this show off after Season 2, maybe keep going to 5 but that’s where it really, really, really needed to stop.

They made HOW many episodes!? THERE’S A MOVIE!!!???

Kurtzman is such a hack. The whole “oh you think your society is good well I’ll have you know it’s actually made possible by BAD PEOPLE doing BAD THINGS in the SHADOWS” is the kind of shit that a teenager would think is really smart. Coming up with ways for the Federation to uphold its principles in the face of challenges to them would actually be much smarter than defaulting to a vision of the CIA in space.

And it’s totally fine to explore the idea that the Federation doesn’t always live up to its ideals. That’s the theme of a lot of episodes in every series. But New Trek has lost track of the fact that the Federation has ideals in the first place and its become pulp sci fi slop.

Try the drop flop… While driving about 40, reach out and lift top of the wiper from the windshield about 6 inches or so and let it flop back into place. Then, try a cleaning wipe again. I just did that this morning and it worked great.

Just reach your hand out your window at cruising speed and jiggle it, it’ll be fine.

chess with a skill tree or fog of war

TvT Starcraft be like

Agh that’s such bullshit. Hidden fees in all industries should be abolished, but especially in renting.

Just checking, you know that you’re moving in, right? They’re not trying to get you to pay an application fee and then ghost you? That was a pretty common scam last time I was house hunting.

Hope it works out well and they don’t jack up the price on you. That happened to my aunt when she tried to move to California - she’s been a nurse for like fifty years, lived here for one of them and then had to move back to the East Coast because they wanted to spike her rent (which is supposed to be illegal here but they had some kind of loophole).

Umm actually sweaty have you considered that communism has killed 100 million people?? chekmate

Entrepreneurship, so it’s pretty much what I was expecting so far

oh god she’s talking about drop shipping like it’s a brilliant and great idea

Oh boy, my professor’s talking about entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Elon Musk, I wonder if she’ll mention how much money they got from their parents

I forget who I first heard it from but the difference between communists and capitalists does kinda boil down to who we think the parasites are.