Every generation comes of age with the opportunity to make the world (THEIR world) how they want it to be. But no generation really does. Don’t like Late Stage Capitalism, then when you hit 21, vote the old men out who hold your world beholden to it. Every generation has that ability, and yet every generation seems to have less voter engagement than the last. That’s on them…not the system.

Yes. It’s called empathy.

You may not have a vested interest in the particular story, but the very act of someone that you care about (presumably) being excited about something should at least bring some sort of good feeling to you. When people I care about are enjoying something, it makes me happy. So while their kid pictures, or vacation pictures or whatever might not be interesting to me, the fact that they care enough about me to want to SHOW them to me, should give you a warm feeling.

That being said, no…I’m not going to dunk for not feeling that. It’s different from person to person certainly; and I (and here I’m going to revert to my “old man yells at clouds” mode) feel like modern friendships are just different. We are suddenly in an age where having a few close friends has been replaced with having a tonne of “shallow” friends that you meet online. They’re still “friends”, but beyond texting and playing together online, you never see each other, never get closer than that. And certainly it would be a different feeling entirely. But the cadre of close friends that I made while working at Sears in 1998, and who I still talk to almost every day and see regularly, of COURSE I’m going to care.

Adoption fee for my shelter pup, Ripley.

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Das Boot is required viewing.

The Enemy Below is a really great movie too.

and The Hunt for Red October and K-19 are great films if your interested in modern nuclear submarines.

Aren’t there alternative file explorers for Windows? Or did support for that kind of thing end with Windows 7?

Intentionally?

Teacher: “What is best in life?”

Students (In Unison): “To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And hear the lamentations of their women.”

I agree. But weight is a health issue. So providing them health care equally to all other citizens is very different than altering society to accommodate them unduly. If we’re using airplanes as an example, we shouldn’t put “fat rows” into airplanes any more than we should bring back ashtrays on airplanes.

Supporting something as a health issue, and catering to it, are two very different things.

It’s sad that we live in a world where the old show “scared straight” would get sued because it was hurting the kids 'fee-fees. The health care system can’t tell them they’re obese and have to do something about it because it makes them feel bad…fuck that.

All the way back to Dumb and Dumber. (Yes I’m old).

So you’re saying there’s a job opening…

JD Vance was forced in as the Trump VP pick by the Heritage Foundation so that when Trump either dies or stops cooperating with them on Project 2025, they already have a man in place to take over. And that’s likely the reason for the assassination attempts.

If Trump dies, they get Vance (a true believer…unlike Trump who just wants the power to stay out of prison) at the top of the ticket.

Are you even a Linux user if you don’t randomly wonder what operating system the person in front of you in traffic prefers? It’s a good thing that this person says “wonder no more.”

Is that what that is?! It just randomly started happening and I thought an update screwed up my compositor.

So with that question answered, how the hell do I turn it off, because it’s annoying as hell.

Come Back to Bed by Valley Lodge

https://youtu.be/z81PWYEQYpU?si=s8pkZcZ9RNL_khGl

I kind of don’t want to know, because the real answer would probably be terrifying.

Dazed and Confused

Battletoads

Oh no no. That’s not what I mean. Its not about that old chestnut of “It’ll make kids violent!” (It won’t)

its just realistic, modern war games against realistic depictions of contemporary humans is just something that I find distasteful to be used as “goofy fun with friends”

Its like playing paintball in a church.

This will doom the industry!