Another thing that gets me is how many people will say voting doesn’t matter when they maybe only vote on presidential elections.

Voting is not a 4 year thing, it’s an absolute grind and locally can affect more of your day to day life, as well as keep building its way. higher up. I live in a state that so many people showed up and voted for bills that went against the state legislature, but they actually voted less for the people… now of course the state is overthrowing the things voted in.

So yes, SO VERY MUCH vote and be active in politics.

Do NOT say the “Q” word at work. It’s the one that is a synonym for silent. I will in fact beat you when it hits the fan.

At that age, I was trying my hardest to figure out what I’m doing, to be together like the older adults.

I’m 39, I don’t have a clue what I’m doing and I’m more together than most of my coworkers, many who are older than me.

We’re all just trying to figure it out, so when you look up and think you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re with everyone. And if you know someone who says they have everything together and don’t have any issues, be wary as they likely have a lot of blind spots to their life.

EVE is one of those games that early on it’s tutorial was essentially ‘Here’s a spaceship, go fuck yourself.’ When they say you can do whatever the hell you want, it’s really not joking. There are people who live in JITA (most populace system) purely doing scams, or running markets. You have people who go into piracy or try to build massive empires.

I knew a guy who his entire playing of the game was making ammo to sell. There was a corp who’s entire thing was doing PVP but with a bend to “Customer service”, as in “Here is your complimentary missile delivery.” and after blowing you up sending you a request to fill a survey on how the customer service was.

So it’s a game that really is what you put in it. The reason I had to quit is it’s a massive time sink. It’s definitely not a game of “Oh, I’ve got about 30 minutes, let me hop on.”

This is EVE we’re talking about. This is honestly one of the more benign if not weird habits.

This is the game where to join a corp you nearly needed a resume so people could make sure you weren’t a spy because months to years infiltration processes happen in this game. Or just rampant piracy.

Exactly this.

In Eve Online, when a capsule was destroyed, a frozen corpse was left behind.

I knew someone who would go around collecting corpses. A battle is going, he’d be out there scooping them up. He’s running a hauler, and this was the day that when your ship got destroyed, every bit of loot went out in individual units, so when a pirate would try to shake him down he’d respond with “If you blow me up, you’ll crash back to desktop.”

That was how he played the game, gathering corpses.

I mean… I’m not going to argue the fall of the US isn’t stupider than the fall of Rome…

But I will argue the fall of the US started back when Reconstruction was stopped. Just took a while for the confederates to win.

I didn’t have “possible nuclear exchange in the Middle East” on my bingo card for this year

Really? That’s been on mine for the past couple years.

The fact that it took a second administration to figure this out is absolutely baffling to me.

Oh boy, Joe Rogan is just the newest flavor of awful. Bill O’Rielly started the whole current entertainment news by being a comedian who suddenly started being a right wing mouthpiece and any time he got called out on his shit it was “For entertainment purposes only” and he was on about the anti-left wing movements about coastal elites and unions taking workers wages.

But then the right wing even to then was building to massive corporations that donated to them, groups like the biggest anti-union propaganda machine in the world, WalMart. Notice that during the Reagan era they had “Trickle Down Economics” to fool people into thinking if the wealthy were just wealthier, then they too could be wealthier.

And the wars between groups have been speared on by the US since post civil war. Can’t have former slaves having jobs, that’d take from the whites. Can’t have people from overseas taking railroad jobs, that takes jobs from Americans. The big slaveowners of the American South were not the majority, so why did so many people fight for that confederacy? Because they were convinced by those wealthy that if slavery went away, there would go the economy… especially as so many people’s jobs were in existence to the slavery machine.

Joe Rogan wasn’t some new bogeyman who figured out how to overthrow the world. The rich has been finding ways to make poor people fight each other instead of them as a tale as old as time.

nature will wipe us and adapt.

At this point I’m just ready for it to hurry up and get it over with.

Hey, Tesla is a champion in some categories.

Like you’re statistically more likely to die burning to death in a Tesla Cybertruck than a Ford Pinto. That’s a record that has been held for 45 years.

As a leftie who moved to a red state a decade ago, welcome to the suck. It only gets worse.

He bankrupted a casino. That’s all you need to get.

The problem is the big hungry bears are looking at y’all trying to figure out how to divvy your area up, and only thing keeping the Trump one from just cozying completely up to the other is his inability to stick with a thought process for more than five minutes.

I left iphone because of a walled garden issue, was thinking about working with my parents off of iphone so I can actually assist with them because I’ve been off of it for decades.

Instead may be the other direction because at least iOS has a modicum of privacy by at least telling the US government to make their own back doors instead of just licking the boot like google does. I’m not a fan of apple by any stretch of the imagination, but at this point of the falling apart world fuck it, I gotta figure out what the least evil is, even if it’s only marginal.

State line road. If I’m driving north I’m in Missouri. If I’m driving South, I’m in Kansas. (Kansas City, Missouri)

Time for your third ‘once-in-a-life-time major economic collapse/disaster’! Wheeee!

Wait? Third? I feel like we’re past third. Has it only been three?

… ugh… that sounds tedius.

I’m showing becoming an old man that I’m over here like “My favorite MMO allows me to play it solo and I’m here for the story.” Trying to shove everything else together sounds awful.

It reminds me of my teenage years of poking my head in secondlife.