I’ll be that guy. Up to ME it was pretty good and it just worked. Then it took up the every other version being good thing that we’re used to up to 10. It’s only really now that they’re trying to kill 10 and push us onto 11 that it’s really become a problem.

That’s been a growing issue for the last 15 years. The answer is community groups but they haven’t been very successful.

Unless we get serious about building, that’s all that’s going to be available. Developers love the idea of cubicle sized housing.

The whole, where do you live thing is super important. The last time we moved my wife and I were very adamant about a specific maximum commute length in car, or a length by transit. And getting somewhere to live that was easy to commute from. We compared the price including mass transit commute at the max distance to anything we were getting closer with the commute included from there too.

The differences were absolutely significant. Many places were cheaper to live an hour away, even with car payments, insurance, and gas. That’s absolutely ridiculous and part of so many problems from climate change to motor vehicle deaths.

We need to enforce mixed development, the people who work in an area need to be able to afford living in that area. Pushing the workers out should not be acceptable.

Working life is more like 40 years. Those back end years are huge, it goes up to 840k. Which is why you’re supposed to start on your 401k right away. Of course 99% of people don’t get this talk until they’re 40; go through a poverty period after high school; or never make it out of paycheck to paycheck living for other reasons. (Like medical debt)

Very few people get the good pay, good contributions, and consequently the good retirement. We also completely lie to people about retirement. We tell them they have to scrimp and save so they aren’t homeless when they’re 80. In reality half of us will be dead by 75 and half again by 85.

Spoken like someone who’s long since stopped worrying about having to commute without mass transit available.

If mass transit is available and reasonable then yeah, go off. But otherwise please stop blaming the victims of Capitalism.

It took us a 100 years to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Okay for people as confused as I was an hour ago.

She doesn’t caucus with either major party and is officially an independent. But she’s politically liberal. The pro Russia group is currently in control of the parliament and the pro EU group including her is calling bullshit on the elections.

She doesn’t have a ton of power though. They shifted a bunch of power to the parliament right before she took office. I’m not clear on what power she does or does not have in regards to elections to remedy this.

Iran was playing by Western rules, drop rockets on areas not likely to have casualties or be strategic. It’s supposed to be a de-escalation. They didn’t account for Israel clearly wanting to escalate this war into another regional conflict of them against the entire middle east.

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Glad there’s no IOS client

That doesn’t sound like letting other people do what they want.

You’re glad other people can’t access it because you don’t like it?

Because some people prefer the format.

This is what those sanctions are meant to cause. The idea is to force a change in regime from within. It’s ridiculous that we’re still doing it 50 years later.

There are good short form videos. There are also bad ones. No different than long form video.

BG3 reminded us of what’s possible in game story telling. What letting the marketing team run the shop has done to the industry.

Unfortunately I’ve seen quite a few people argue that companies are kept honest by the market and as such they’re trustworthy.

Yeah I’m not sure people realize how bad this is for long term American interests in the area. The Saudis and the Iranians are actually talking to each other again.

Phones. From anytime up to and including rotary phones.

Not if you like that kind of thing.

Careful. They will take that as acceptance of military prank culture. This includes everything from filling your car with post it notes to signing you up for Russian porn on your work email.