Not related in the slightest but this one always gets me: https://youtu.be/L1WAOByxzYA

Take control of the media.

People don’t like to admit it and they hate it when you say it usually, but TBH if you put something on blast on the news, most people will go along with it even if it’s fairly crazy. Or at least, enough people to get what you want done.

There’s a reason why oligarchs almost always buy some sort of media network once they get to a certain point of wealth.

I know, it really stands out on that list lol

I’m not 100% sure, there might be a bit of overlap between them but I’ve never personally had any trouble running them side-by-side.

And yeah I love wobbly windows. I’m so used to them now that if I have to use Windows or something with non-wobbly windows it feels wrong now lol.

Oh yeah, another one I’ve recently discovered that looks interesting is Quickshell. I haven’t used it much yet though, I made a semi-functional panel with it and that’s as far as I got. But it looks like you can do a lot with it once you get the hang of it.

I have a bunch in my KDE:

• Karousel for arranging windows

• Klassy for window decorations/general theming

• Panel Colorizer for customizing the panel/dock

• Kvantum for general theming

• And then a few general things like Wobbly Windows etc.

I use Filen, I don’t know if they still do it but you used to be able to buy a lifetime plan for a one-time fee that was like 50-100GB or something like that, and you could stack them. So I just bought several during a Black Friday sale.

Adam Sandler is really interesting because it seems like he mostly takes low-effort roles that are basically just paid vacations for him and his friends, then once every 10 years or so he drops an absolute banger just to remind everyone he can, then goes back to having fun again.

Someone chucked a milkshake at Nigel Farage a couple of years ago and got a 13-week suspended jail sentence for assault. Along with endless pearl-clutching from the right and Farage talking about how distressed he was.

Which is funny when you compared it to back in the 90s when someone threw an egg at John Prescott and he immediately punched them in the face lol.

I think the same thing about that Coyote vs. Acme movie. I don’t think it was ever really shit-canned, they just delayed it a year or so and made up some bullshit to create a news story around it.

Coming soon: layoff devs, pay monthly fee for an AI suite and hire an AI “expert” to run it that collectively cost more than it would have to just keep paying the original dev. And gives worse results, but FASTER

If they could just get the base systems down and do a big push on bug fixing instead of adding flashy events and more ships it would make such a difference.

It’s got the kernel of something amazing in there, but it’s insanely buggy (and essentially unplayable when it’s busy, like the Free Fly events or right after a patch) and the pace of development is absolutely glacial. And you really can’t trust anything the devs assure you is happening/on the way. It’s unclear whether they’re just bullshitting everyone or they somehow genuinely believe their own hype about deadlines, even after consistently missing all of them for over a decade, by a lot.

That probably makes it sound worse than it is TBH. There’s a really cool game in there somewhere, but you have to be extremely patient with it.

My first computer was a VIC-20 lol

There’s an Android app for it too.

Haha I actually used a similar one recently. I was talking about how much of a piece of shit Mitch McConnell is back when he was in hospital and someone called me out for being mean so I said “I hope he receives the same amount of respect and care that he showed to others throughout his life.”

I genuinely think he just doesn’t have that part of his brain. He has people that he temporarily stops fucking over and tries to charm-bomb while they’re useful to him (who he then throws under the bus again once he doesn’t need them anymore) but that seems to be about as close as he can get.

I think that’s the same reason why he’s never had a pet - if you take things like companionship and love out of the equation, a pet is just something that consumes resources without giving anything material back. I wouldn’t be surprised if he just sees them as pointless.

And when we do, all the conservatives will suddenly start their pearl-clutching bullshit about being ‘respectful’ once again.

I use syncthing.

If you wanted to long-game it, maybe you could emigrate to another country, work for a few years and get established/build up a credit score, then max out your credit and just go home?

As someone with citizenship in another country I have to admit I have daydreamed about this lol. Which probably means I’m in their model somewhere.