And the wholesale destruction of USAID and PEPFAR means people are simultaneously starving to death in chunks of the world, not getting vaccines, and also not getting HIV prevention meds, which means long term, HIV infection is going to increase worldwide over time. That is going to be a massive, silent genocide that will be orders of magnitude worse, but largely undocumented.

That was a serious, serious fuckup on voters parts. Not to mention massive cuts to everyday things like critical medical R&D, science R&D, disaster preparedness, NASA, department of education, PBS and Corp for public broadcasting, department of health, FDA + food safety programs, and many other programs that people take for granted without thinking (housing grants for home buying, federal student loans, food stamps, weather prediction for natural disasters, Medicare/ACA/Medicaid, etc)

His cuts to the IRS are going to result in less money for shit like bridges, roads, and electrical grids too.

3 more years

If he doesn’t erode the government intuitions critical to elections

Western US. You don’t want it, though. It’s all the crappy $40 tents and stuff.

Yep, I’m not a big caver, but my friend is into it, and showed us beautiful crystal caverns that are in the process of getting gated because of people wandering in (and spraypainting the crystals 400+ feet down). It was a fun and reasonably safe experience. Just sad that other people feel the need to desecrate the natural world. These places take hundreds of thousands of years to form. Don’t destroy the overnight.

We have the same problem here in the US. Camping areas have blown up on Tik Tok, and people leave whole tents and other massive garbage. There’s not enough park rangers to staunch the flow of waste and illegal camping. It’s damaging lakes when people toss their camping gear into it.

They do, but only because most platforms suck ass. Logging into Origin or Microsoft stores is miserable, and social integration is rare, or broken AF. If everything was cross platform, cross play, and universal social profiles and security, I’m fine with multiple platforms.

I savescum because there are too many games where not doing something perfectly means you go from one difficult to get ending to the ending that 80% of people will get.

BG3 is unfortunately a really great example of this, where one roll can cost you your SO and their destiny.

They actually still make mega-wheats, which are quite fun. It’s old-school cereal. Throw some frozen berries on it, and it tastes about the same as contemporary stuff.

They are cool bikes, but I don’t know if they are perfect for people around my height. One of my friends demoed one and we shrieked with laughter as his foot was hitting the front wheel and the folding rack on the back with every pedal stroke while turning. He’s got bigger feet, but average height.

That, along with the eye-watering pricetag, made it a bit of a tough sell to us as rabid bike fans. Still, the idea is good, and we were impressed at how small it folded up. It could use some slightly bigger sizes for people six feet and up. :)

This is really sweet :)

That’s super cool :)

This is so awesome. Shaving an hour off your commute is insane. A 51% decrease in traffic on a tunnel is bananas. And 300,000 more people on the train is massive.

Silksong winning GOTY and BGYSA is great. Seeing Peak up there was nice too. I was a little surprised to see BG3- great game, but I thought it was EOLed in 2024 after native steam deck support.

I like movie theaters, but most of the movies coming out aren’t very interesting. I don’t like superhero movies or COD/John Wick-y movies where the plot consists of people getting punched in the face and going on car chases for 15 minutes.

I miss movies like Interstellar. Weapons was the last movie I saw and really liked in theaters.

You should have seen my face the first time I learned he was actually married.

There really is someone for everyone, as impossible as that sounds.

I’m a bit surprised they are reporting on this now. We’ve known for years that bacteria can survive in low oxygen environments like the urethral tract of men and women. Studies at the time were looking at sex between men and women. I wouldn’t be surprised if similar discoveries were made for same sex couples across multiple gender pairings.

https://microbiomepost.com/vaginal-sex-can-change-the-urinary-tract-microbiota-of-healthy-men/

Most men had a simple urethral microbiota, dominated by Streptococcus and Corynebacterium species. Some men also had a more complex secondary microbiota composed of microbes that are typically found in the vagina and are associated with vaginal disease. The likelihood of detecting these bacteria, which include Gardnerella vaginalis, was elevated in men who reported having vaginal sex. Vagina-associated bacteria remained detectable in men for at least two months after vaginal sex

I don’t think even doing that now will save the them. They’ll have to bring in slave labor or stolen children to plug the gap, and it will have to be millions and millions of people.

Grin figured this out a bit ago! Glad to see other companies picking it up too.

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Mid 20s! It all worked out.