Well I can’t speak for the whole world but by my Windows usage dropped 100% from 2025 to 2026.

In year 1 I quickly gave up on any reasonable political discussion here.

Weird, I’ve been here 3 years too and I find the political discussions here to be largely pleasant and on point.

I can read the docs and imagine how tools like this might be working but I can’t imagine what they would look like in a world in which they had matured and become widely adopted.

What a load of bullshit.

Edit: This post is irony.

Having lived through the 80s, I can confirm.

7up crew

Seems like an important factor these days.

Seems like something I’d want to avoid at all costs these days.

Wow that’s impressive. The thing was built like a brick. I had one back in the day and had several games (all of which I downloaded and am running for the nostalgia hit).

One game I found I never knew existed is Tron 2.0. I can’t believe I never even heard of this game, I would have been all about it. The nice thing about the emulator is it has an upscaler and games in HD are absolutely dynamite, especially Tron 2.0.

tbh the wonders of the Feral PC Army include several groups writing console emulators. I am successfully running: Wii, Wii U, Switch, OG Xbox and PS3 emulators as we speak. I understand Xbox 360 and PS4 are also out there, but I haven’t got 'round to them yet.

Interestingly, a lot of media for these emulators is just kind of laying around on the internet for anybody to download.

That really is an unfortunate title.

Yep not to mention that if you manage to have a good garden when SHTF you’re just the first target for the raiders.

There is an excellent, practical book about surviving economic collapse by someone who went through it in Argentina.

I’m guessing it’s mostly for their ICE vehicles, low voltage stuff.

It’s another load of Lolbertarian bullshit, the invisible hand of the market is a holy ghost, emergent simply when two people (even ancient primitives) engage in commerce, don’t you know. The subtext is: the idea that it is dangerous if unregulated is the product of the simple communist mind, even these primitives understood that!

You seem to be conflating “interesting” with “morally correct”.

That’s true. I react because the only thing most people know about this book is that a significant number of people in the world look at it as some kind of blueprint for good living, even when they haven’t read it or even portions of it. Look at the OP for crying out loud.

There are people in the world who find Hitler “interesting” - and such people are not all the same, but everyone generally understands this and knows why. Not so much with the Bible.

Also it really is actively boring. The stories are not well written or in any way engaging to a modern sensibility, because they are catechisms as much as they are stories. I immediately suspect people who laud the writing of apologia not intellectualism.

I don’t know if it’s art, but I like it!

haha thanks but part of my prior programming was to read meta commentary about the Bible as well. I’ve read more commentary about Matthew (not to mention Mark, Luke and John) than I have read of the Bible itself.

In my studied opinion, it’s not worth that kind of attention, nothing in the Bible is. I promise you I won’t waste another second of my life reading any more of it and I truly suggest that no one else does either.

Sure I’ve got trauma, but suggesting I’m blinded by it is some apologist bullshit. It’s all boring AF.

You’re a “hardcore atheist” are you? I find that fairly shocking. I’m reminded of a quote from the book Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh: “He seems deeply interested in Church matters. Are you quite sure he is right in the head? I have noticed again and again since I have been in the Church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity.”

whether you’re religious or not, it’s a really interesting canon

As someone who has read the entire Bible more than once due to a strict religious upbringing: what the fuck are you on about. There’s nothing in any way interesting about it. It’s simplistic, barbaric - and worse - BORING - and loathsome from front to back. It’s not particularly original or novel nor does it in any way recommend itself unless you are a fan of misogyny, slavery, murder and outright genocide.

in this interesting canon you will read about the God that murdered a baby because its father committed adultery and murder (2 Samuel 12:1-24). The God that snuffed out the lives of 42 children for calling one of His prophets “old bald head” (2 Kings 2:23,24). The God who kills people for picking up sticks on the Sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36) and for trying out of reflex to keep the Ark of the Covenant from falling off an oxcart (2 Samuel 6:6,7). The same God who commands His followers to slaughter every living Hittite without mercy, women and children slaughtered in a bloody rampage (Deuteronomy 20:15-18). The God who destroyed the lives of everyone in the entire cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, though sparing the life of the “righteous” man Lot, who was so “tormented” by the “lawless deeds” and “loose conduct” of the Sodomites that he got completely shitfaced one night and knocked up both his daughters. (2 Peter 2:7,8; Genesis 19:30-38). The God who consigned all of humanity to live in misery and suffering until their pathetic death ends it all because two people ate a piece of fruit they were told not to eat (Romans 5:12). The same God that had His favorite Son murdered by torture, nailed to a piece of wood in order to restore what He took away in the first place (Genesis 3:22).

SO INTERESTING!

Yep this is the real answer. The real answer is “we’ve managed to use money to work the system so only people we target will be subject to consequences.”