That swings too close to conspiracy theory territory. Hanlon’s razor still applies. The powerful didn’t say ‘I want them dumb, so I will defund the schools.’ They said ‘I don’t get anything out of paying for other people’s schooling, so I won’t.’ Then it was ‘just world’ bias combined with PR to bring it into the mainstream.

Defeating the just world bias at scale is probably one of the greatest hurdles to achieving anything really great on a societal level. How do you achieve a sane middle ground between ‘I deserve everything I experience. Luck had nothing to do with it,’ and ‘I have no agency whatsoever.’?

Not to be overly pedantic on the internet but something’s availability being ‘dependent on where’ is definitionally ‘not everywhere.’

There is no 9 because 7 8 9.

I’m all for electric, but this is, at best, a negation of the complaints that solar requires ‘too much space.’ In terms of an efficiency argument, this is not remotely appropriate, a girders to oranges comparison, if you will.

Public wi-fi is definitely not everywhere, but yeah, either you take joy in sharing the knowledge you have or you end up being a bit rude to prevent being asked.

Apathy comes from depression and grasping at things that don’t make sense can be read as anxiety. America failed to develop an educational system and now has no clue how to cope with stresses being applied to it.

You do. That’s your track over there. It’s just smaller and populated with non-humans. You actuate it with your tongue on that little lever. Better make your decision quick though. Looks like money-bags is about to make his, and it’s not looking good for those of us on this track.

You will get neither.

Not my favorite indie game but glad to have a place for them on the verse.

Bompanada! (Am I doing that right? I don’t actually speak your language.)

Hard to read in that scrum but it looks like they grabbed the guy, started trying to arrest him, and he struggled a bit. It’s such a pile-on they have a man for every limb so they should know they have basically nothing to fear. The grey jacket goes to join in on a leg, then grey-jacket and the starer spot the gun. Grey jacket goes to grab the victim’s gun, but starer reaches for his own weapon like that’s somehow going to protect him from the still holstered gun of a person with a full grown man on each of his arms. I can’t tell which guns go off from this video but I suspect grey-coat fumbled and caught the trigger, probably almost shooting starer in the foot through the victim’s pants, but then starer shit himself and started firing so blindly it’s a surprise he didn’t hit anyone else. In a remotely sane system, starer would be immediately outed as ‘unworthy of the badge’ by the other agents, the agency, and even the supporters of this idiocy. Any escalation move, even just drawing your weapon first needs to be a firing offense.

That’s not a friend. Friendship is between approximate equals and requires respect and trust. He does not trust or respect you. He looks down on you for your age and ignores your valid arguments because of it. If you have any choice in the matter, get away from this person and find people who, even if they disagree, will do so from a place of reason and respect. Do not be fooled into thinking someone is a ‘friend’ just because you interact with them regularly.

Haven’t seen Chef! mentioned. It’s that particular style of sitcom that is essentially lots and lots of little jokes all leading to the big dramatic monologue the lead can chew on and rip into.

Great show. Not enough fans of it out there.

Good morning, that’s a nice tnetennba.

Can you still access the info by hitting edit? It was possible last time I checked. Even so, yeah, I’m thinking a transition to bitwarden is not a bad idea.

Got word from an American teacher just the other day. ‘Some of these [high school] kids don’t seem to know how to spell their own name.’

Another from an American adult, ‘I learned more from Ms. Frizzle than my teachers.’ Ms. Frizzle is the teacher from an educational cartoon.

I have to wonder how many quiet trump voters there are and why they voted the way they did. Trump got 49.8% of the pop vote but it does not seem like 49.8% of Americans are MAGA flag-wavers. The die-hards are zealots, so basically unreachable. But there have to have been a large number who really thought of the Trump/Harris vote as selecting ‘the lesser of two evils.’ If there had been a real alternative, not even a particular affirmative position but some kind of ‘none of the above, find new candidates’ option, I have to wonder what the results could have looked like.

Oh, please. The crying will not be isolated to January.

Deichkind?
Halcali? Jovanotti?

I don’t have much for this one.

Food for thought:

Regarding prices, PC gaming has a MUCH higher up-front cost but MASSIVELY lower ongoing costs. A gaming PC, especially these days, is going to cost as much as or more than two or three consoles. However, console games are damned expensive and never get any cheaper. PC games often come in bundles that can make them cheaper. Humble Monthly is ~$1 per game most months. Indie games are often released at <$20 and get cheaper if you want to wait. PC games generally get cheaper if you wait. Epic has a free game every week, and steam parapetetically has games go free or into steep discount too. There are also many great FOSS games, all priced as free, most with the option to kick back a bit of cash if you like them. Modding is also generally free, and can turn one game into effectively 50. (e.g. Minecraft is one game. Modpacks turn it into almost a completely new game. TFC based modpacks affectively do it all over again. And a few others do it again. One copy of MC effectively becomes multiple games, possibly dozens.) All that means to get 100 games, you could be looking at a difference between paying ~$6,000 for console games and paying less, but possibly even literally nothing for the PC, depending on what games. It will basically never be more expensive for the PC version, though.

Consoles only win out in two places. 1. You will never get a PC as capable as a console for the price of a console. (At least not unless Valve does something truly amazing with the Steam Machine) so the upfront cost is far lower. And 2. Consoles let you hit the power button and spin up more or less straight into the game. If you are a child, or have one, having access to the system outside of games can break your ability to play games, so a console is locked down to prevent that. That’s not to say they will run perfectly, just that you/your kid won’t be the reason things are breaking.