Physical goods like they say. Buy tools and learn valuable skills. Sure, it's fine to learn like "modern job" skills , I work an office job. On the side learn to do things that will always be valuable in society. Buy a gun and learn to shoot. I'm not even suggesting that ad like a defense mechanism. There's value in marksmanship skills and firearms.

That's my super ultimate fall back plan. Being able to use tools to fix things and build things has value in almost all of human history.

No chance the official Trump campaign did this. Trump follower, maybe. Total fake, most likely.

I never minded Epic trying to take a piece of the pie from Steam. They put out money to compete. Why am I to blame developers for taking good financial deals. I mean guaranteed money can be a big thing. You've just taken a huge amount of risk out of your game release taking a big guaranteed check. Actually the part I never really understood is the size of the massive boner that so many have for Steam. It gets defended like a father should defend their children, and I think that's sick.

I wish Epic had done a bit of a better job on their software myself and actually made Steam take a hit and have to try. I still put it at #3 after Steam and GoG. They did a hell of a lot better job than garbage like Battle.net or all the bullshit the EAs and Ubisofts do. No, I don't want your shitty additional launcher for the one awful game of yours I'd play, and if you want me to buy a game from your direct store, I'd probably actually be interested if you'd offer a DRM free download that did not require me to use yet another launcher.

Totally agree. Not everything needs any of these RPG elements. Especially character levels. Character levels aren't all that fun. That's one of the things I liked about Breath of the Wild, nothing had a level, you could decide to deal with an enemy or area if you wanted to in the way you wanted to and not be held back by a magic number. You see an enemy that appears overwhelming, you do like you would in real life, freak out and run away. Maybe it was easy, who knows, you have to judge for yourself and not just look at a number.

I do like numbers in some cases though, but that would be more something like KOTOR, where the entire game is based on dice rolls and skill levels.

Yet if you send a couple thousand to a blue city that encourages this shit, they freak out and say that's it they can't handle any more.

I'm anti-union, but it's more the union's relationship with the government. Unions and their employer, yeah whatever, but the employer should have the right to tell them all to piss off without government intervention. If you want to stay, earn the right to be missed. Union demands have gotten out of hand.

MLB is probably the worst too. There's some excellent umpires, Pat Hoberg is notable for calling a perfect strike zone in last years world series. He's also not known to be an egotistical prick. Getting a job as an umpire is about like replacing a supreme court justice though, you have to wait for them to die.

You can't have just the "niceness package" of the bible. You have to take the whole thing. I'm not really that Christian but the bible is a great guide on how to live life.

You want these nice things? Fine. You must accept the parts on sexual morality too. You must work. It's really clear, not willing to work, you can't eat.

Debt is not to be taken lightly. Forgiving debts is one thing, but a Christian would never seek debts and not want to repay them. Even if the debt is unfair, it's not their job to judge the creditor. It is their job to fulfill the commitment they made.

External media player? That’s going to have a hard drive in it too. Perhaps it’s a better grade hard drive for such things, but I doubt it.

There’s nothing special about media playing that is going to do any different to a hard drive. My network storage that I use for my Plex has been up for 3 years now, 24/7. Of course now that I said that a drive will fail, haha.

Hard drives are notoriously reliable. You just had bad luck or did manage to totally wear a drive out. Backblaze, a cloud storage provider, has been posting hard drive stats for years now. Here’s their report from last year. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/ 200,000 drives up for 78 million days and less than 3,000 of them fail. These are drives that are up and working constantly in a data center environment. They aren’t super special industrial drives, they are generic NAS drives.

So I think he was trying to sell you something, and if you’re happy with how what you had was working get a new external drive and carry on.

If I were to ever support abortion, it would be required to come with a provision for men that they can unilaterally decline all rights and responsibilities to the baby during the same period the woman has a choice to abort it.

I still don't think it's right, but if I were to ever accept a compromise, that provision is non-negotiable. There's also a zero percent chance that would ever be accepted by the other party, they'd go all Impossible1 male genocide before they'd accept that.

I suspect he signed a deal to make the show, get paid for the show once, and ride off into the sunset. Also assume it was probably the best type deal he was going to get at the time. I mean just like he said he had been turned down by HBO and that probably wasn't the only one. He wasn't in a position of strong negotiation.

Back in the early days of TV when reruns weren't seen as much value. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball basically made their fortunes from having the foresight to own syndication rights for I Love Lucy. It was worth much more than the original show. The thing is, the TV networks know this now, and if your personal brand doesn't command that value, why would they offer perpetual payments in a contract?

I suspect a lot of this is dramatized, because, well it's an entertainment show, and the rest of it is playing the victim. Chappelle should probably realize he may not even be in the position he was without taking that contract even if he doesn't get paid for it later.

If I ran Twitter it wouldn't be a platform for sexual content at all so this is fine with me.

I'm not sure exactly what I see in this screenshot, but if "sexualization of minors" is against the rules then it can't possibly be enforced or all the tranny cordless would be banned.

Tried that game long ago. Sucked at it. Never occurred to me to chop my penis off and try the game again. It seemed a lot easier to just accept that game is shit and do something better with my time.

I don't know when he's elected until, but he better not get too comfortable. Those libs in Dallas are going to go absolutely berserk.

Yeah I would definitely apply the logic to men too.

Except they do. Men are allowed to have standards. If I'm looking for a good family building woman, opening her legs for every cylinder shaped piece of flesh that comes along is a red flag. I need someone willing to raise a family with good moral character. Why would I test drive a used up old whore? It's a waste of my time

They do, but you’re going to pay that in rent too, along with increased value. Albeit in Texas I’m actually expecting a decrease this year.

There's mental value in downsizing stuff. I do it all the time.

One thing you mention is rent change. That's my favorite part about having a house, it's cost certainty. Taxes and insurance change sure, but when all the houses around me double in value (and they almost have), I still pay what I bought it for. No one is going to come around and say "oh uh yeah this area is more expensive now, you have to pay more"

My 3 bedroom house is about 2000 a month if I were to average in all the costs to live in it. I'll take that over his bed pod any day.

Outside of the surrounding politics I get it to a point. Sometimes people are much too attached to having stuff. The thing is you can still have property without being owned by it.

Radio is radio whether it’s 5G, 4G, 3G, whatever. It’s all a frequency space. Like FM radio is in the 88-107Mhz range, that’s one most people are familiar with. Mobile phone’s traditional are 700-2100 and have been for years. Many of these frequencies date back to analog or PCS days. A phone sold as 5G may speak “5G language” on any or all of these frequencies but it’s still just radio. It would be really illogical and seem uninformed to avoid something called “5G” on these frequencies but be ok with every other previous technology.

The new stuff is the 3.6Ghz C-band and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands 26Ghz+. I personally wouldn’t bother avoiding C-band either. If you’re using Wi-Fi at home, you’re already exposing yourself to 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. C-band sits right in the middle. If you’re going to make a point to avoid it, start thinking about Wi-Fi too.

So, you’re left with mmWave and I think that’s the one usually being discussed regarding “Dangerous 5G” whether they are clear or not. Well good news, it barely travels any distance at all and he phone companies don’t deploy it that much right now. If you’re inside your house, the chance of getting mmWave signals is near zero. It’s often killed by glass on the front of a building. To avoid mmWave, avoid places where there are often large crowds of people in open space. That’s it. I’d not really trust a 4G phone to protect me there anyway. If you’re in a crowd and the person next to you is using mmWave you’re exposed to it too. Maybe even if they aren’t using it.

Also, a lot of those things you see presented as scary 5G towers (like the cylindrical things) are just more “decorative” standard cell towers. There’s little difference to them and in most cases aren’t going to be on mmWave, but just a standard mobile band. You’re more likely to see mmWave stuff on top of a streetlight in a city than a special purpose built tower unless you’re in a really open area.

I used to build in Minecraft while listening to baseball games, but that's been a while. Best I can come up with unless you count listening to music while driving

So these cretin got a guy fired because he doesn't smile enough and expects them to do good work? Typical.

I believe it too, because I've dealt with enough women in my life that want to "fix" you. "You only need to come out of your shell", "I'm going to get you to be less quiet" and bullshit like that. See the thing is, leave me the hell alone. I'll talk if I have something to say People (women included) that have earned my respect like me. Random bozos wanting to fix me can go away.

I grew up as a tech nerd kid surrounded by computer stuff and parts and all the stupid pain in the ass to connect peripherals that were all the thing in the 90s. So it's safe to say I was in to that stuff. Today I often feel like a luddite. I'm sitting here with my watch that runs on springs and gears messaging on a low end smart phone about to get into a car that barely has a clock much less a touchscreen and you have to shift manually.

The thing is I have tech stuff, I've got Raspberry pis and a NAS and some cloud VMs. I'm still that tech kid. I just hate all this modern trendy tech. Never talked to AI either. I have tested it for some artwork but not extensively. That would be to replace skills I don't have.

The strike that no one even notices if not for media. I remember back in the late 90s there was a UPS strike. At least they had some leverage because it was a disaster trying to ship anything by any shipping company. Writers and actors strike? Who cares. Especially in today's world where a ton of content isn't even from Hollywoke

They write all the articles like that, I think it’s supposed to get the sheep crying in their programmed fake empathy center and never pay attention to anything else.

There’s enough red flags on this woman to decorate a Soviet government office. It’s so obvious from the story she purposefully intended to indoctrinate her students.

Oh, and who the hell carries around extra socks, “just in case?” Does this woman have a foot fetish fling with another teacher or something? Needing extra socks all the time is not normal.

That makes a lot of sense

The biggest stretch of all of them.

I swear though women always think about men's situation like this. I had a pretty rough mental time in late 2020-early 2021 and learned really quick don't bother even mentioning to women. No matter what, they always have it worse.