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Never expected this to be so relevant

Good news! America is about to rejoin the rest of the world in having multigenerational households, because we can’t afford to all have our own places for much longer. This has been coming for a while. If you have a home large enough to support that, this is probably a good thing. In fact if that becomes the norm (again) it would probably support future development of the country in good ways, having a higher population within a given area and having a significant percentage of that population be both children and grandparents incentivises walkable communities with accessible shops. It could go a long way towards decreasing car dependence.

But that’s all long term. In the meantime we’re all broke as hell so get ready to possibly live in the same house with your grandkids too.

Anybody out getting tear gassed in today’s environment is a friend of mine

The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #2)

They are still doing that.

Goblins ride dogs into war.

You might need to grind this quest a few times until you get the appropriate result

Ahhh, it’s always the ones you most suspect.

Yeah, American chiropractors used to tell you they could cure cancer and autism. I wish I was kidding.

And this wasn’t “used to” like how Coca Cola “used to” have cocaine in it, they’ve been doing this within my lifetime. I don’t think they can do it any more, but I saw a pamphlet proudly proclaiming this probably around 2014ish.

I just made the switch from Sync to Summit literally yesterday. Sync was fine for a while but it hadn’t been updated in ages (basically since the first major reddit migration wave) and it was starting to suffer as Lemmy incremented a few version numbers and Sync did not. Besides which I was paying a yearly subscription fee for an app that failed to load 2/3 of image posts.

If Sync gets an update I might still recommend it. It’s a good app, it just needs maintenance. In the meantime Summit does everything I wanted out of Sync, has an active developer with a Lemmy account, and doesn’t cost me money. I think it looks better too but that’s personal preference.

It’s a lot easier to fix a railroad than it is to remove a dragon.

Besides, the town provided the explosives after a charisma check, they had to know what they were going toward.

Does the track have random ramps on it as well to complete the F-Zero experience?

They are definitely super willing to break the seal, just nobody has built a good target ID system yet that won’t fire on civilians.

If you just need everyone in a 10 mile radius dead, you could send in the hunter bots, or you could just shell the area with heavy artillery from three countries away. We already have that problem solved. Once we have a reliable target ID system I guarantee you’ll start seeing unmanned equipment in war.

“How to put a collar on a cat” yeah that tracks honestly

Volkswagen already has the trademark on that actually

Sure, sometimes I miss doing drugs in college.

Mostly I miss the relative stability of society during those times, when the biggest news story of the cycle was that Obama wore a tan suit and liked Dijon mustard.

At the time we were reeling from Bush and the Iraq War situation but those feel like small potatoes now these days, even if they weren’t then.

If you enjoy this, have a peek at The Jargon File. Classic hacker slang is something else.

It’s shorthand for “shits fucked but there’s not much I can do about it from here, so I just continue to exist in spite of everything”

The aviation industry can absorb a whole lot of sin before they’re on equal danger footing with automotive, if for no other reason than sheer volume. Most people, unless you fly constantly for work, get on a plane once a year or less. Most people drive to work almost every day. Roads have traffic, the skies do not (at least, not nearly to the same extent, midair collisions can happen but they’re rare).

I have no doubt the skies are about to become noticeably less safe, but they’ve got a looooot of catching up to do before they dethrone the automobile as one of the top 3 leading causes of death in America.

Fair enough, I am subscribed to that one. Thanks for that though. Maybe I’ll have to just make it myself.