Sploosh the Water

Backyard baseball, loved that game as a kid.

Vlemmy.net here, loud and clear!

Just did it, I’ll test it out over the coming weeks and see how it works, thanks!

It will be ignored by industry, just like all the rest of the suggestions for the last 30 years from scientists. Profits come first, worry about the environment later (never).

What a complete knob. That’s like saying you didn’t know Michael Jackson was a pop star, or that the Pyramids were tombs for kings, pathetic.

1. Mental Omega, a total conversion mod for Red Alert 2, Yuri’s Revenge.

2. Age of Empires 2.

It’s a moving target. For me, I would say anything older than about 15-20 years is “retro” and anything older than 30 years is “vintage.”

Ikr! So glad I got them, especially after wasting hundreds of dollars over the years on various “gaming” headphones that kept breaking after 12-18 months of light use.

Nice!

Right on! Great gift.

I’ve heard so many people say this. You’re probably the 6th or 7th person in the last few years that I’ve heard say it’s amazing. I really should look into it, no pun intended haha.

I hate simping for the government, but damn if TSA pre-check ain’t amazing. I can’t fly without it now, makes everything so much less stressful.

I breeze past the 20-30 minute regular security line and walk right up to the pre-check. I haven’t had to wait more than 5-7 minutes at most, even at huge busy airports like O’Hare or SeaTac.

Lol nice.

Oh dang, do you just download and import into OSMand?

Vivo brand monitor arms, the simple pole clamp ones. 40 bucks give or take, I’ve had them for 6+ years and they should last for another 10+ I would think, awesome value.

Sennheiser Momentum 3 wired headphones. Used and abused, replaced the cord and ear cups after about 3-4 years for 35 bucks total and they work as well now as they did brand new. Sound is great, they are comfy too.

Sony A6000 camera. Works great, awesome pictures.

IFixit multi-bit screwdriver set with the hard case. Had it for around a decade so far. Nothing broken, nothing worn out. Use it all the time on computers, furniture, electronics, etc. Plan on having it for another 10 years easily.

Steam Deck. Best general purpose gaming handheld out there. Moddable, repairable, high quality, super fun, runs everything I want.

Magic Earth. I’ve tried every other major OSM google maps alternative and none have been as good as Magic Earth.

Osmand, Maps.me, Organic maps, and one other I can’t remember now, used them all. I still use Osmand because I’m trying to support the project, but Magic Earth by far has the best address searching, best UI, best directions, and limited but existing live traffic data to help you avoid really bad backups.

Now I’m in the USA, and some folks say some of these apps work better in Europe, that’s fair, but that’s still my point, Magic Earth. Not FOSS, but privacy respecting and uses OSM data. If you wanna break away from Google but aren’t willing to deal with a bunch of jank, Magic Earth is your friend.

So is a coffee mug.

Be careful, your child may start to take extremist actions with their fellow lefties such as:

1. Organizing or joining a union.
2. Voting for increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
3. Marching to protest police militarization and restrictions on women’s rights.
4. Pushing for better pay, hours, and benefits in their workplace.

You’ve taken your first step into a larger world, welcome! (Technically a smaller world but bigger in spirit, ya know?)

Capitalism codifies the acquisition and control of capital by an owning class separate from the workers (employees). The owners always want to see their profits grow, because in a system that is zero sum, where competition is glorified as the primary mechanism for fair pricing and business success, if you aren’t growing, then other competitors will eventually extinguish you.

Capitalism mimics evolution in that way, where all organisms compete against each other in a winner-takes-all setting. Talk to any hardcore Capitalist and they will talk about Capitalism being the “natural order”, “human nature” etc. I know, I used to be a hardcore free market capitalist.

A system that places profit and private ownership of capital above all else will always result in the kinds of oppressive systems and company practices we see today.

It’s like how fundamentalist religious institutions are having abuse scandals over and over for literal centuries. They are built in such a way that makes abuse easy to get away with. Even if it starts out perfectly clean, safe, and incorrupt, eventually the very structure of the organization itself will cause abusers to join or allow already abusive people to commit those acts without significant consequences. It is a negative feedback loop that perpetuates itself until it collapses totally or is extinguished by an outside force.