Soda Fountains from that time period are not strictly describing the device that dispenses the soda itself, it refers to the entire establishment. A soda fountain was like a Starbucks if it was entirely dedicated soda. There were Soda Fountain manuals teaching how to combine different essential oils and herbs to form hundreds of unique and interesting flavors, making it an interesting craft in itself. What we have now, where the machines just dispense a few select flavors that have the most market appeal is a pathetic shadow of what soda could be.

Boomer nostalgia aside, soda fountains were genuinely badass and it’s a shame they disappeared except for a handful of specialty shops.

Apparently Photoshop CC 2017 has a gold rating on winedb, so that could be viable if you are willing to sail the high seas and apply the tweaks for that app listing.

Otherwise I’d stick with Krita, and then GIMP if you find Krita lacking.

The Mystic Crystal by Ninja Sex Party is a great story song.

Also most of TWRP has songs that tell stories, like Starlight Brigade or Black Swan

Thief: The Dark Project.

It’s everything I could ever want.

• Excellent story perfectly meshed with the gameplay.
• A strange high-technology medieval world.
• Incredible level design combined with realistic roughly drawn maps, forcing you to take in your surroundings and build your own map.
• Variety of gameplay, ranging from infiltrating a rich baron’s mansion to rob them blind, to delving into ancient crypts filled with odd creatures and an alien culture for some adventurous tomb raiding, to some of the most terrifying pants filling survival horror I’ve yet encountered.

It is, in my opinion, perfection.

A co-op campaign I’d be down for, but I can’t say I’m excited for this. I’m just not feeling the vibe.

As a huge fan of the original, but disappointed with the sequels, I’m cautiously optimistic!

Ah, but did ye not pull thyself up by thy bootstraps to attain such magnificent power over thy lessers? Thou hast surely earned thy power by the divine right of business!

True, forgot about them! Only issue with Lems (or at least their boots) is their construction doesn’t lend itself super well to resole-ing (though neither do Vivo’s, really), though I have heard of cobblers doing it by grinding down the existing sole and gluing on a replacement.

The Jim Green Barefoot African Ranger is constructed like a traditional boot, so is easily resoled by any cobbler, but I had to send mine back since they weren’t wide enough for me (they seem to be on the more narrow end of ‘barefoot’ style boots).

But for how affordable lems are, they’re a solid choice and have way more cushion than vivos.

After trying Barefoot style shoes (which usually have much wider than normal toeboxes) I can never go back.

Vivobarefoot shoes are expensive, but pretty high quality and have a great toebox.

Freet are more affordable and often made of recycled material, but some of their designs can be slightly odd looking. They hold up well though, very nice quality from the reviews I’ve seen. They’re made in the UK, I believe.

Splay shoes offer what is essentially wide toebox vans.

There’s tons more though. I’d recommend Anya’s Reviews to narrow down what suits you best, she’s pretty legit in her info from what I’ve seen.

Some communities have a lot of homegrown posts that you could share over there, especially text heavy posts, though they can be interspersed between links to elsewhere as well.

as an example, @Blair@slrpnk.net made a ton of really well done informative posts in various communities on my instance, such as this one.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I only read the first few chapters of the expanse, but I believe the world is still capitalist overall, yes? if so, that would make it more in line with perhaps the end goal of a social democrat, where there’s a super strong welfare and social safety net, but still capital and big businesses.

The assumption from Anarchists is achieving that Social Democrat ideal is impossible under capitalism, as it would remove almost all of the leverage corporations have to exploit their workers, leaving little profit left for them, and thus inciting them to revolt, like they almost did during The Business Plot in response to FDR’s new deal finally giving the working class some room to breathe.

Yes, and charging below that would be a deviation from the norm.

Dense community housing would still be optimal for cities and towns, especially if housing was a human right, as it’s much more efficient and uses less resources. They would still exist as cooperative housing, where each tenant owns a share of the complex. Those already exist today quite successfully, they’re just not the norm as it doesn’t generate profit for a landlord or realestate investor.

Individual houses would likely still exist in the countryside, though I think it would be pethaps unreasonable to expect communal maintainence if they are remote, in which case it would likely just be up to the individual using it.

The ethical option would be to give the deed to the friends after the mortgage is paid off.

I agree, that sounds fair.

I suppose after the house is paid off, they could switch to pay the equivalent percentage they were paying for the mortgage, toward property taxes and utilities instead.

If you’re not charging them above what is required to cover their share of the mortgage, then that’s not immoral at all.

If you take out a loan to purchase the apartment, then have your friends pay just enough rent to pay off the loan without attempting to profit yourself (perhaps a small amount extra to cover any recorded time spent in administration responsibilities, for a reasonable hourly rate). After the nortgage is paid off, you could then give them the deed. That would not be immoral at all, and would, IMHO, be a net good, as you’d be rejecting the profit incentive and giving your friends a very rare opportunity.

An alternative to a landlord is for the apartment complex to be collectively owned by the tenets, making it a housing coop. That would mean any big expenses would be dustributed amongst everyone, making it more nsnageable. Collectively owned buoldings tend to recieve more maintainence, as the tenents have an incentive to maintain the value of their property.

Alternatively, those apartment complexes could be cooperatively owned, cutting out the landlord without any loss.

Your stocks do not deprive anyone else of an essential human need, while owning and renting out a house you do not personally use artificially deprives another of buying that house, which further raises housing prices, making an essential human need, an investment vehicle.

Using a different analogy, if you lived in an area with scarce water resources, but happened to purchase land with a particularly abundant spring, you could then profit handsomely by selling that water to the thirsty at an extremely high rate, exploiting the human need for water, and depriving those who cannot afford it in exchange for your own enrichment.