It’s hard to articulate in words just how thoroughly and unequivocally the airport can fuck, in it’s entirely, off.

It’s a place that’s perfectly designed to keep you just uncomfortable enough to be miserable but not uncomfortable enough to leave. Everything there is made to keep the human soul at 5% charge.

It’s like if the concept of minimum viable product was a place.

So yeah, no tip.

This dude sure does have a lot of opinions on how to improve someone else’s launcher while also never improving his own launcher.

My ideal scenario:

• The AI bubble lasts a little bit longer, they put data centers in space.

• The bubble pops immediately after this, all the companies go broke and nobody maintains the satellites.

• Free PC components rain from the skies, I sit out on the roof surrounded by buckets catching RAM and SSDs.

• They’re a bit scorched but I’ll take what I can get.

They have a robotic Suella Braverman that tries to shoot down the TARDIS. If a small boat is bigger on the inside, it still counts.

Brexit 2, the UK leaves the Earth altogether to defeat the small boats once and for all

Workers at Terminator factory upset that Terminators being sold to people who love Terminating

As a non-American, the US midterms. If the Republicans win then nothing changes, if the Democrats win they’ll probably do jack shit like they always do and Trump will just ignore them anyway so it doesn’t really matter.

Yeah I think this is a thing that’s getting overlooked a lot lately, not just in the UK but in general. We have governments giving us advice about how to navigate all these things, but everyone seems to have forgotten that the government’s entire job is to keep things running smoothly and keep society on the rails. If we have endless financial crises, entire generations that can’t afford homes, police that won’t or can’t come out to investigate crimes, climate change running rampant because corporations never face consequences for polluting etc. the what the actual fuck is the government for?

It’d be like if I showed up to work and handed out a flier that said “I’m still getting paid but no longer doing any work. Here’s some things you can do to navigate that situation…”

Yeah Google has spinelessly caved to all his other bullshit so it makes sense he’d call them.

As an FYI, I’ve been having a blast with Tempest Rising, it’s not exactly like Red Alert but it’s definitely got that old school C&C vibe to it.

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Where I come from originally is kind of a remote place, that relies on tourism. We already have a huge problem with everyone buying their second holiday homes there and pricing the locals out of buying homes (which is a big part of why I moved.) Anyway, during COVID, because it’s remote and sparsely populated, it had one of the lowest COVID rates in the country. As soon as the travel restrictions lifted, everyone descended on the place. There were mayors of towns on TV begging people not to come. But they came anyway, wrecked the place and left garbage everywhere, caused a huge COVID spike (in an area that has one hospital and a lot of elderly people), and when people complained about it we were told we should be grateful that the tourists are there spending money.

Luckily my family that still lives there were okay (you get good at not being where the tourists are after a while) but still. It’s an area that’s perpetually underfunded and neglected, and when it was at it’s most vulnerable and just needed people to be just a tiny bit considerate for a moment, they trashed the place, used us as their disposable COVID bunker and then made fun of us for being unhappy about it, not to mention putting my family directly in harm’s way.

The world seems to have largely moved on from that whole time now, but I will not forget this.

Questions 6-9 say “working with the governments of other willing provinces”, so hopefully the other provinces will just tell Alberta to fuck off and then we don’t have to worry about those, but you never know.

From the referendum results so far today it looks like that way, yeah. 80-90% in most of the city areas seem to have voted to stay, it’s just higher out in the sticks.

It was so poorly thought through lol. I was arguing with someone about it and they were talking about how much money Alberta is going to save and I was like “In what currency? Because if you leave, d’you think Canada is still going to let you use the Canadian dollar?” and it was like it genuinely hadn’t occurred to them.

And also, Treaty land is federal, not provincial. How was that supposed to work? Never got a good answer on that either.

Same here, I grew up around a farm so I’m not like a great chef, but I know how to put a meal together. One time I saw someone attempt to make onion soup by just boiling an onion in a pot.

I have a theory that they only see cooking in video games, where you throw the ingredients into a cauldron or whatever and the meal comes out so they think that’s how it works lol.

Also because people come together during major crises.

Since COVID I no longer believe this. Where I live, people immediately started hoarding essentials, threw low-paid retail workers under the bus, refused to follow even the most basic precautions to keep others safe (and had full-blow childish meltdowns and screamed in the faces of anyone who tried to ask them to comply), overwhelmed the healthcare system unnecessarily, burned down cell phone towers etc. Just a complete orgy of idiotic fuckery right from the start.

Someone I very tangentially knew (my friend’s wife’s friend) won something like $5 million on a lottery. They made a Facebook post that just said “I know you all know” and then deleted all their socials and was never heard from again lol.

I used to be an animator, and we’d deliberately put in obviously bad things just so the director could spot them and tell us to take them out so he felt like he was doing something lol.

But that’d probably work for writing too

Yeah we had a DFA slider on our board! Good for placating meddlers, but also excellent for pranking new people. “If it starts to sound too tinny, lower the DFA very gradually till it sounds right” and then watch them very seriously fiddle with it for ages or until someone laughs lol.