Maybe around 2003? It was a weird little device that was also an MP3 player. It had a headphone jack, play/pause/next/prev, and that was it. Was like 128mb and played mp3s in order they were written to the device, I think.
I thought it was really cool, but maybe not my best purchase.
Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).
There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.
They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.
The part of capitalism where the owner sits back, the workers do the work, and the owner keeps the profits is not necessary. It is in fact fucked up.
You can have competition without that. (You can have other bad things too- it’s not a magic cure-all for workers to own the business)
This is a hard hitting point. We could have a better world, but a few rich people and their enablers don’t want it.
I wouldn’t be interested in going hunting myself.
I would disapprove of hunting for sport.
If someone does hunt and it’s actually for food or whatever, I don’t like it but it’s not such a priority that I’m going to die on that hill.
That’s a lot of money that could have been spent on useful things. What a scum bag
I haven’t heard of it being banned. Source and details?
I really don’t understand how so many people are unwilling to be mildly uncomfortable
One of my friends won’t get off Twitter “because that’s where the good memes are”. I’m like ma’am you can live on slightly stale memes.
No. Minimizing spending until / unless I get a better job. Fuck 'em. Fuck the capitalist dogs. I’ve got a library full of books and a decade of old games.
I’d be okay with getting even on my behalf.
Aardwolf is still up and fairly active as of when I last played, maybe a year ago. Has a nice client you can download with some QoL features like an automapper
It’s not my favorite mud ever in terms of gameplay (RIP project Bob. Too good for this world) but it’s pretty good. I did like 3 remorts and got bored of the random “go kill this mob” quests, and some of the area puzzles are annoying. These are related thoughts.
It just takes one industrious plumber.
I don’t especially want to live in a world full of stochastic terror, but if we’re going to have some I’d prefer billionaires were on the receiving end sometimes.
billionaire could pay off someone’s $500,000 mortgage, their $30,000 car, pay off $50,000, give them $100,000 in cash and forget about it the next day
They could, but they won’t, and that’s part of the problem.
If billionaires walked around clearing people’s mortgages and paying for everyone’s dinner, they’d be less hated. They’d still be a problem, but they could buy popularity.
But they don’t. Because they’re assholes.
Maybe this will scare some of them into changing the behavior. Maybe it will get some of them killed.
You all remember that “you are Jeff bezos” game, I hope: https://direkris.itch.io/you-are-jeff-bezos
This is saying if you have a module with public functions A and B, they shouldn’t call each other, right? But it’s not saying that module A shouldn’t call module B’s public functions. That’s what I thought it meant at first, but that seems crazy.
Middle managers like to set targets and goals because it counts towards their bonus, and it looks less like they’ve got their dick in their hand when the boss comes calling.
It’s the same problem all over. Capitalism. You have people who don’t do work keeping the benefits from the work.
Most people aren’t going to give themselves stupid or useless metrics. Software people aren’t going to impose “tokens used” or “lines of code” metrics on themselves. They know those are stupid.
Some players are hoarding all the resources, and formed gangs to keep their power. Sucks. You can’t just shoot them because the other players whine, and you’ll probably get banned.
If I expanded that explanation to everyone, that would be silly. In no way am I proposing everyone has the same reason for disliking pink Floyd as my 10th grade friend. I do think some people feel like he did, though, about various things.
What episode was this from?
I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.
Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.