New Jersey just had a record dry September and October: https://www.northjersey.com/story/weather/2024/11/01/2024-nj-driest-september-october-recorded-history-rain/75992861007/

Plenty of places had no measurable rainfall.

Forbidden chicken nuggets.

PBS Spacetime recently had a video on this: https://youtu.be/8hvzF5oQe1g?si=e9Tw0XrMILbf4Ql6

More like: I don’t understand quantum physics => I think I sort of understand this one thing => wait, I was wrong => I don’t understand quantum physics

I’m also so thankful for the hard work of emulator developers!

One thing to consider is that the far right actively recruits in gamer circles. They are very good at slowly exposing angry guys to more and more extreme views. There is very little comparable on the left.

Every country in the world is squaring off with alliances. Starting to feel very World War I.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence.

I emulate a lot of old games on my Steam Deck. It’s not too hard, but requires some work. I will do the work for non-Steam stores if/when there is something I want to play from one. However, I suspect not releasing your games on Steam will really limit your reach. My guess is that most people won’t go through the effort to get itch.io games work on thier Deck.

She has since asked for the image to no longer be used, “I retired from modeling a long time ago. It’s time I retired from tech, too. We can make a simple change today that creates a lasting change for tomorrow. Let’s commit to losing me.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/losing-lena-removing-one-image-to-make-millions-of-women-feel-welcome-300960513.html

The vast majority of South Korean 19 - 34 year olds describe the country as hell.

“The survey found that 79.1% of young women and 72.1% of young men want to leave Korea, that 83.1% of young women and 78.4% of young men consider Korea “hell””

https://asiatimes.com/2019/12/75-of-young-want-to-escape-south-korean-hell/#:~:text=The survey found that 79.1,men consider themselves “losers.”

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Expecting, but glad to see it is confirmed!

I wonder if it will be more bearable than the PS2 version of The Answer. In that version, everything had abilities that let them have high dodge chances against all of their weaknesses. So every battle was just: miss, miss, miss

Hopefully Crunchyroll or someone buys RWBY and finishes the series

Hisuian Voltorb

Hey everybody, we’re all gonna get laid!

This is something that I fear as well. However, it is worth remembering that the US has failed in many of its military interventions around the world. No amount of tools and weapons helped the US win in twenty years in Afghanistan. NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine is failing too. These wars show that a dedicated population can beat all of the technology in the world. Revolutionary movements do always have to be vigilant about be surveilled. New technologies provide a lot of surface area for states to monitor resistance groups. However, states have always had a lot of success with the simplist means of surveillance: just paying someone to join a resistance group and report everything they see. I am no expert on any of this and I’m sure someone here knows much more, but it seems to me that the strategy of revolution is the same as in Lenin’s time. However, groups always have to update their tactics to keep up with material conditions and abilities of the state. Don’t give up hope! We can do this!

My company refunds $50 of internet per month if you live too far away from the office to come in. If you live close enough to the office that you could come in, you get nothing.

It’s a good show. I just finished it. As for the politics of it, the show isn’t Marxist despite its anger at the super rich.

The show makes a number of mistakes in its analysis of the world. Firstly, it acts as though the problems of Capitalism began in the 1980s. We know that Capitalism has always been horrific. The show also falls for the Great Men Fallacy. At one point we see all of the the bad, rich people who run the world in a room together. Capitalism is more pervasive than that. The guy who owns a fast-food franchise is just as much a Capitalist as a CEO. These mistakes work for the themes of the show, however. It is a show about hacking and conspiracies. In reality, a group of super hackers can’t expose the big bads who rule the world and steal their money, but it does make for an entertaining show.

From the river to the sea!