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.

Mostly just toys.

If you can’t rely on them more (not ‘just as much,’ more) than the people who would do whatever the task is, you can’t use them for any important task, and you aren’t going to find a lot of tasks which are simultaneously necessary and yet unimportant enough that we can tolerate rolling nat 1s on the probability machine all the time.

Learning resources are common. Good ones that go beyond ‘sudo yourmom’ are rare.

More approachable man pages sounds like a cool idea. Superman pages. It could not only have a list of flags but nested explanations of what those things mean. Maybe some wikipedia style markdown to connect it all. Simple English wikipedia writing style. Someone get on it. I don’t have time for any more projects.

If you want to control what your child sees you have to control what your child sees. There is no shortcut. You either shut off the methods for the companies to feed slop to your child or you curate the things that come in via those methods. You cannot automate it.

Personally, I’d shut off basically any social media or algorithmic feeds for the kid. They don’t need that corporate reality-distortion during the years in which you are trying to develop them into a functional human.

Sort of.

Billboards are not owned by stores. They are owned by marketers and rented to advertisers. An additional element may be needed to require ‘own space’ advertising to only advertise products and/or services available at that location. (i.e. within ~100meters)

Sign spinners are being paid to display their sign. They’re gone.

Flyers are not delivered with explicit consent and request. They’re gone.

Door-to-door is tougher to classify because it has variance in form, but probably would be allowed on the condition that the first thing the potential customer sees is a person requesting consent and not some piece of media.

Also, I think I’d have to simplify the start to ‘issuing or accepting payment’ rather than targeting a single party. Advertisers and marketers should both face punishment.

This image bothers me, and I think it’s because it’s formatted like a comic but contains neither a joke nor an anti-joke. It’s the setup without a punchline. Could they not come up with a punchline?

The best definition I have come up with so far is to ban ‘Party A compensating party B via money, goods, or services for displaying and/or broadcasting media to party C, in particular and/or in general, without party C’s specific consent and request.’ The only exception might be to allow it for companies that both A. have an annualized revenue less than 10x the median wage, and B. are not making a profit. That would be just to allow small businesses to get the word out at the start but would cut off anything getting to the point where it should be self-sustaining.