Dwarf Fortress

Throw money at the steam version or just got download the lazy noob pack (keyboard recomended for that one) and learn why it is the hardest game.

Remember kids, Losing is fun!

I joking tell parents to get their kids into Warhammer 40K, Magic the Gathering or PC gaming, that way they wont be able to afford drugs.

Ted Danson’s reaction to that scene is too perfect… That one hurts

But you see. Im going to call it that anyway, just to add more whimsy and dinosaur jokes to the world.

Idiocracy is one of the most unrealistic portrails of the US executive branch (the house of representin is spot on) President Dwayne Elezondo MtnDew Herbert Camacho is actually the best fictional president. He had a problem,

• found the most qualified person to solve it.

• listened to them (reluctantly) then.

• didnt take much credit for it, once it was solved

No other president would have done any of those things… Perhaps Carter.

See… That the problem, the quote that best comes to mind is.

" The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

-Douglas Adams

And I dont think the other shoe has dropped yet. It takes time for shocks to wring out of the global transit network. Fertilizer is made from petrol these days, and farmers need to plan its order out months in advance. I fully expect things to get much worse to the point im learning to ferment and preserve things. Its not of urgency now, but having these skills before I may need them seems like a prudent use of time.

Its 106 miles to Chicago, we have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigerettes, its dark and were wearing sunglasses.

Its a philosophical crutch, putting your reason for living or being a decent person in the hands of an other entity is easier than taking that responsibility yourself.

I guess the emotion I feel when some theist is mouthing off or drawing irrational conclusions is pitty. I do try to not be judgmental, but its hard some days.

Woz continues to be the good Steve.

The reason a lot of us take issue with the age-verificarion steps is that while the stated intent is saftey, we are prtty sure none of those guard rails will be implemented. Noone will enforce the fines of telemtry harvesting and fines not high enough are just the cost of doing business.

Noone trusts the entities pushing for these changes to be good stewards of these additional data points and most tech experts are skeptical that they will be effective to begin with. The benifits are negligable and the erosion of user privacy (as pitiful as it is with everyones personal wiretaps) is unacceptable.

Parents and tech companies, if they want features like this need to go back to the drawing board and try again, use the parental control features already embedded in devices and stop trying to shove Orwellian shit into every new requirement.

Thats exactly what they did last time, ship all the fundy religious nuts overseas, the Massachusetts bay colony was full of religious exiles deemed too “extra” for post-reformation Europe… And look where we are now.

The new AmEx cards are getting out of hand.

Between this and the Cardputer-zero, im very excited for the next-gen digital swiss army knives.

Good work Fluxer team.

Full time Linux at home for gaming, home lab and services, supports enterprise Windows at work. The year of the linux desktop is almost upon us (really just waiting for the gabe-cube and the OS along with it), yes that how it be some times.

Its also a plot point in (after the recast) that he did this to himself. Evil Morty’s goal was to escape the cluster of multi-verses that Rick curated where he was the smartest person in that universe. I like the newer plot driven episodes, but writing this im noticing that while I like the show as its airing, I have never really rewatched it…

Its that the fines are fixed. For people who cant afford it an 80$ ticket means something else has to go. Your eating ramen and beans or your going to be late on a bill, and that may have additional fees. To those who can afford it, the 80$ ticket is the cost of a nice dinner you were going to anyway, its not impactful enough to change your behavior.

This is why in some nordic countries serious traffic violations fines are based on a % of your income. Plus taxes are high enough that the governentn does not rely on them as a primary revenue source.

I sometimes like to hear my local weather hippies… bout the only time I hear ads, they have been purged from most other media outlets I follow.

Oh, please do the same for my local radio. That ad is so bad I just turn it off for the rest of the ride…