That’s amazing! :D I never knew Al Di Meola liked running those smaller venues, really does sound like a special opportunity to get one hell of a live show!

Agreed! All been bangers since Watercolors :D my first concert was The Way Up, and watching them live was something else!

Classic piece! :) The flow into Ozark and September 15 is great on the album too!

Megaraptorids are “fun”!

This looks like it could be what Industrial Annihilation was never capable of becoming (shame that game is a scam)

Free DLC is nice at least!

Thanks for sharing your story; agreed, the perception of homeless people in the US is abominable, especially for such a “Christian” nation 😣 I’m glad you have an offramp upcoming, and that you’ve stuck it through some really hard times!

I know well wishes aren’t much, but I’m rooting for you to make it safely all the same!

Civilization or a Civ clone could be good!

Exorbitant increases in electricity costs, environmental damage and rampant water usage, and the fact that the data center is almost certainly going to be used for “AI” and not internet providers. Believe it or not, Michigan already has access to the internet!

This. His goal is to spill as much American blood as he possibly can. It’s what he wants for his birthday; American blood on his hands, hell enough for him to bathe in, so he can feel like a big-boy dictator killing women and children. That speech at Bragg was him trying to prime the military, and he was talking about sending in strafing runs to kill American children.

Same! Especially for client management and working with a broader internal team (as long as you ensure that’s an acceptable level of casualness in comms) it’s incredibly useful to give context for the tone of a message that could without it be interpreted either positively or negatively.

For example: Especially for client management and working with a broader internal team (as long as you ensure that’s an acceptable level of casualness in comms) it’s incredibly useful to give context for the tone of a message that could without it be interpreted either positively or negatively. :)

It didn’t drastically change the content of the message, but it can help someone who’s potentially having a bad day and subconsciously perceiving things negatively to instead see the positive context of the information relayed in what’s on its own a largely neutral message (with neutral messages I find people’s current positive or negative moods tend to have them perceive the message in a manner reflective of that current emotional state).

That’s really good to hear! From what I’ve been reading since the announcement he seems like a good choice.

Is that a good or bad thing? Kinda worried he’ll fold to Trump and the Christonationalists.

Thanks ☺️ I got “lucky” getting lymphoma lol it’s aggressive but thankfully effectively treatable! We caught it when it was stage 3 progressing to stage 4, and after 6 “memorable” rounds of chemo I’m 5 years out and tentatively in the clear! Helps I got it when was 27, so I was a bit more durable lmao

Tenderness ain’t a bad thing at all! Hopefully put your mind at ease a little while you wait for your appt lol

I hope it gets better for you, seems like you’ve been through some incredibly rough turns this year!

I often think of the old saying “may you live in interesting times” and wish it’d be boring again; we’re all in for some more chaos I’m afraid. But what doesn’t kill you makes you tougher, stronger, harder. Hold tight, focus on pulling through day by day and hopefully that helps it feel less overwhelming. Sometimes looking at too much of the big picture can be paralyzing!

How’re you feeling about it? We’re all rooting for ya, Powder!

How’s the lymph-node feel? Sore, or no pain? I had lymphoma back in 2020, my lymph-nodes at the time weren’t sore (didn’t hurt at all, even when touching them) and were hard as rock due to the tumors. If yours are sore and not rock hard that may actually not be the worst thing, but you most definitely need to see that doctor in 9 days!

To be fair, Florida doesn’t deserve Canadian flags. Maybe the next couple of hurricanes as FEMA gets gutted, and an imploding economy, that seems more like Florida’s just desserts. Good on you Canadians btw! No sense in wasting your time on that gator infested sinking ship

Thanks for sharing; great recap (even if all the news isn’t so great)!

Exactly this :/ we need to come together and make a proper third party, win local municipal and state elections, and re-localize our economies giving power back to small businesses and employee co-ops, giving people here an alternative to multinational corporations so they aren’t forced to have give Walmart and Kroger money because they’re the only places to get essentials. At this point there’s nothing redeeming left with the Democrats as they kowtow to Trump’s coup like Chamberlain with Hitler, and business as usual has become rapid fascisization with barely a token resistance from the “opposition”.