The kids seem mostly fine. They probably don’t understand quite how extraordinary the pressure is on them compared to even just 25 years ago. I’m very concerned about how their math skills are developing, but I think that has something to do with how much schools have fallen apart and/or turned into performance pressure cookers. They’re kinder than previous generations, and honestly it’s surprising to me that they are because of how fucked society is around them.

I don’t get their humor, but I assume it’s very funny if you’re in the know.

You’re not allowed to do anything until we get some Ranked Choice Voting, then were gonna solve everything

He’s doing his part to combat wealth inequality, just like Sam Walton did. Instead of having one or two kids who become the richest people in the world, instead have a dozen kids and each of them can be the 20th richest person in the world.

That’s their PREMIER columnist, too

This is an excellent example of one of the ways that moral progress has actually reversed in the last few decades. Even the compararively barbaric European and American politicians of the early 1900’s all understood and accepted that economic sanctions were a form of actual warfare.

Imagine if a nuclear exchange happened, but none of the warheads went off because of some unforseen flaw from the material degradation that arises after sitting in a silo for thirty years.

Whoever the bastard is who shot her probably doesn’t even think about what they’ve done. Especially since they’re getting a big fucking raise this month from the city of Minneapolis. It’s really fucking dark, and kind of a metaphore for how agents of the imperial core just casually kill all sorts of people without thought, much less consequences.

Correcting someone’s spelling is imperialist

qBittorrent Just Works. I also use transmission sometimes, as it’s just the default installed client on some distros.

Just an excuse to steal her car and money. It goes without saying that the “justice system” acts in contempt for the spirit of the law, and sees it merely as a tool to ruin lives. For the cops in this case, there’s at least the motivation that the seized cash and car will be spent on new toys. For the prosecutor, the only motivation is pure evil.

It’s kind of like how Reddit killing off 3rd party apps just made me stop wasting so much time on reddit.

The most nightmarish enemy in Kirby.

They were packed full of content, too. Reviews, interviews, strategy guides, cheats and mods. Even the ads were cool. I kept a lot of my old game magazines, and they’re still pretty fun to read through. Obviously, you have to grit and bear all the edgy “humor” and hornyness.

The 80s and 90s were a golden age for hobby magazines. I think by the late 00s, all the young writers (who have always made up the bulk of writers for magazines) started making tool-assisted content for content mills and blogspam, and that style of writing is what now dominates hobby magazines. Modern magazine content must be first and foremost slop for the web version of the magazine, and it’s only later cobbled together into the physical version.

Ezra must think that the lesson of The Scorpion and the Frog is that you must simply accept that you’re going to get stung every time you cross the river.

Majestic

I loved those albums, but I was usually listening while playing Perfect Dark.

Really cool soundtrack for a cool game. The B-side remixes are great.

I’ve been using a Zowie EC1 for years. It mimicks the shape of the old MS intellimouse explorer 3.0,

I turned on support for cracked clients on my server, because about half the people who play on it missed the deadline. A lot of longtime players I play with will only pick it up for a few months once every 3-5 years, and so obviously they weren’t paying attention to this arbitrary money grab deadline.

A tragedy, for sure. Vimm’s Lair also happens to be one of the best examples of a great Web 1.0 site. It gives me a warm feeling, browsing around static, text-mostly pages.