I've lived in the suburbs and traveled around the US a fair amount. I think sometimes about a time I was in suburban Illinois, and we were like "maybe we can order some food." Opened up google maps and it was a wasteland. I think there was like one KFC open in the area.
My mind is more blown by why people defend living like that. Or actively choose it. It's a horrible kind of place to live.
Ok, fine, sometimes there are tradeoffs. A guy I know bought a house out in the sticks someplace in the northeast. Has a yard for his kids. It's not too expensive. But it's a long-ass drive to get anywhere, and there's nothing to do. Not a trade I would make.
No, I was asking about which specific hell they live in. edit: not specific like "give me your address" but like, suburb, countryside, whatever. Maybe I shouldn't post before breakfast.
For the code, open source is probably the way to go. People should be able to build from source. Otherwise, how do they know you're not doing something shady. Open source is generally a net improvement on security, assuming people actually look at it.
For screenshots, first fix it so the screenshots render nicely on narrow displays.
I'm in New York City. There's maybe a dozen food places within ten minutes. There's more, but some of them may be in the 15-20 minute range. Several million people live here.
No one needs more than 5 million dollars. That's enough for a comfortable life without laboring every again.
If they make a shit load of money doing concerts, that money needs to keep moving. Tax it so it can go into schools and infrastructure and such. They don't need a mega yacht. People are starving and suffering from problems money would solve.
So you then just… never develop any actual reading or writing skills.
This is one of the scary parts, yes. Reading and writing are fundamental skills that will atrophy if not practiced. Combined with anti-intellectualism, where people fundamentally do not value reading and writing skills, it's pretty nasty.
I don't know how to fix it. It's a gap in values. I often find myself wondering about the people around me, "Why don't you care?" I don't know why they don't care about things.
Microsoft doesn't have to compete very much. They're not a monopoly, probably, but a strict definition. Apple exists. Linux exists and is better than the terminal hell the average person thinks about. But that's not enough pressure to make microsoft actually try to appeal to customers. Most people are basically stuck.
We should break up all of these companies that are so big they can coast with shitty products for years.
Really want the news media to stop quoting and normalizing trump voters. They are idiots. I don't want to hear what they have to say. Unless it's a clear "I was wrong and will never vote conservative again", I'd rather all the space be given to people who are more worth listening to.
Many people are only semi literate. This cuts two ways- many people struggle with reading longer text, but they also struggle with composing longer text.
I've generally worked in tech with rather educated people, but even there the lower portion of their writing skills can be disappointing. Like, a low grade for English Composition 101. Now, remember that most people don't have even that much training, and don't practice on their own in ways that encourage (what's traditionally considered) good writing.
I think this is part of why some people love chatgpt. They're poor at writing, and now there's a tool that purports to fix that problem without all the pesky work of practicing and learning.
This is a stupid rule and I do not use it. Sometimes I write something, add a period, and then decide not to write the next sentence. The period should not be interpreted as a secret message.
No system will long survive players acting in bad faith. There's no system you can come up with that is immune to conservatives and capitalists fucking with it. It might take them years, but they will never stop. They are the worst people on earth. If you could thanos-snap away conservatives, the world would become a better place overnight. Every problem we're facing is either their fault, or made worse by them.
And we're never going to get rid of conservatives. There are always going to be shitty humans who believe their in-group needs to be protected and the out-group needs to be bound. Shitty, scared, little shit bags that will blame brown people or queers or whatever, anything, so they can think down familiar paths and avoid any hard introspection.
So I don't know. You don't stop building a home because the elements are always trying to tear it down. But you can't punch the wind in the fucking throat so hard they cry and vomit at the same time, so maybe it's not quite the same as a maga hat.
Mostly stuff I bought from Bandcamp. It's drm free, but for convenience I usually let it stream from the app.
I also have a bunch of mp3s from older purchases I listen to sometimes, but I don't have a media server set up so that's mostly limited to my desktop.
Sometimes I'll pull up a specific track on YouTube, but that's mostly for "do you remember this song?" stuff. Adblock and the "resume playback from lock screen" make it bearable.
You would likely find the end of the stairs, and then more rooms and hallways. You need to walk without purpose for a while for it to pull up the final room.
The dungeon was heavily inspired by the novel House of Leaves. Endless, featureless, black hallways. Great book.
But also people don't have perfect knowledge. And people change, and change at different rates.
Imagine a couple that meets when they're both pretty immature in their 20s. They have fun and fall in love. Then they buy a home together, and the woman slowly realizes she's matured into an adult role while the husband is still basically the 20 year old bro. Would you casually suggest burning the whole thing down? Finding a new relationship in your mid 30s, especially if you want kids, when there's no guarantee the new person will be any better, is daunting.
What if they're not financially independent?
It's easy to sit back and tell people how to behave in the abstract, but real situations aren't always so obvious.
One of the clues they found was from a survivor from the antagonist's party who had gone in ahead of them. He said the boss-man had kept asking them lots of questions about their youth, where they'd grown up, their hobbies. Just a lot of personal questions. The survivor didn't know why, since boss-man had never taken an interest in them before.
The trick is to walk without looking for anything in particular. If you just walk without a conscious goal, you'll eventually find the room with the macguffin. The antagonist's strategy was to keep them talking about stuff so they're distracted, and not thinking about what they're looking for.
I've lived in the suburbs and traveled around the US a fair amount. I think sometimes about a time I was in suburban Illinois, and we were like "maybe we can order some food." Opened up google maps and it was a wasteland. I think there was like one KFC open in the area.
My mind is more blown by why people defend living like that. Or actively choose it. It's a horrible kind of place to live.
Ok, fine, sometimes there are tradeoffs. A guy I know bought a house out in the sticks someplace in the northeast. Has a yard for his kids. It's not too expensive. But it's a long-ass drive to get anywhere, and there's nothing to do. Not a trade I would make.