That’s around the same time as Earth last passed through the central plane of the Milky Way.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/the-solar-system-may-have-passed-through-interstellar-clouds/

One theory predicts that passing through a sufficiently dense cloud of interstellar gas would collapse our Sun’s heliosphere, exposing Earth to cosmic rays & producing evidence that would be difficult to distinguish from a nearby supernova hitting our planet.

BeamNG.drive + Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game

Automation lets you dive deep into the particulars of a vehicle you create, which can then be exported to race with it in BeamNG.drive.

Its about time. Contemporary US voters no longer care about who’s taking the highest road. The nazis need to be stopped by any means necessary.

The pawns just need to realize they’re better of without a king and victory will be theirs.

Was its IDE port rent controlled?

“a lot of people are saying” = the voices in my head are telling me

bootlickers need their fix of boot

That just shows that the economy is not “booming” as they say in the capitalist media - the needle may be moving in the right direction, but we need to acknowledge that the current position of that needle is deep in the gutter, with a lot of improvement still needed before the voting public feels like the economy is actually working for them. Claiming that the economy is doing well, when the people are not doing well economically except for a handful of ultrawealthy, causes feelings of resentment and alienation in people who are currently working hard and still unable to afford basic necessities, ie the majority of Americans. It makes the journalists and the politicians they appear to be hyping seem out of touch and unaware of the problems the voters are dealing with, and therefore it does not inspire hope that those problems are being worked on.

Showing that the needle is moving in the right direction is an important component of effective messaging, but so is demonstrating a clear eyed view of the problem. Articles that talk about how ‘strong’ the economy is fail on the latter.

They also have a ‘feature’ where they automatically brake check the car behind you if you’re using cruise control on a bendy road. The computer interprets oncoming traffic as an imminent collision and slams the brakes.

*jobs exist that don’t pay a living wage, sending workers ever deeper into poverty and despair*

media and politicians: “LoOk At AlL tHe JoBs! BoOmInG eCoNoMy!”

The new law will establish an “obligation for the manufacturer to repair common household products …"

This isn’t what “right to repair” typically means. I’ve only ever heard that phrase used to describe the right of the owner to repair the devices they own themselves and to not be required to bring them to the manufacturer for repair.

That kind of system existed in post-WWII USA, when a high school graduate could work full time to afford a house while being the single income for a big family.

We called it ‘taxes’.

Maybe requiring computer nerds to not smoke weed if they want to work for Uncle Sam isn’t the best national security strategy.

That’s true for a culturally conservative Russian state that claims to be “communist” the way North Korea claims to be “democratic”.

The USSR sucked ass because it was made of the same kind of Russians that we’re still fighting against today. The label they wear as a disguise, communist, capitalist, kleptocracy, or whatever “the commies” are calling themselves these days is irrelevant.

Tran’s attempt to force Underwood out of their shared enterprise, while still dependent on his supply, was clearly a lapse in judgement. The results speak for themselves in this case.

I wonder if Tran and Underwood ever had a conversation about the precariousness of both of their positions - one having a single source for product, and the other having a single buyer? Was there an attempt to find a win-win solution? Or did Tran simply think he could leverage Underwood into competing with slave labor imports?

IDK what games are actually compatible with your device, but I do have opinions about cool older games.

turn based:
Civilization
Master of Magic
Champions of Krynn, Death Knights of Krynn, and Dark Queen of Krynn
Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura

platformers:
Noita
Dead Cells

driving:
Gran Turismo 4

that and any other single player game with a multi player option, where the single player part is clearly balanced around having multiple teammates.

ditto rdr2 - its less a video game than it is a graphic novel read by a semi-literate slow talker

the entire dark souls series is also ruined by clunky controls. give me a Doom, Quake, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Skyrim, etc . . . fps controls pls.

X4 fails because of its controls too. Imagine making a flight sim where you can’t invert the Y axis, or an FPS where the shift key can’t be bound to sprint.

actually-socialist and actually-libertarian would be the two parties we really need today

they’re the same party