flappy bird? Pssh, look at you modern gamers and your graphics. I play missile on a TI-83, like god intended.

I think there’s a community here (classic gamers? retro gamers? patient gamers?) that is similar. I keep meaning to go in and say hello, but my massive ‘want to stay away from discord’ paranoia keeps me from it.

Stickers, yes, spray paint, no. I guarantee you (with knowledge from experience) that a gas station owner (or their grumpy manager) will happily sit through hours of grainy cctv footage to find the little moment a can is visible in your hand, ignoring every other urgent task they should be handling. I wouldn’t be surprised, since protecting corporations is what cops love, if some cop would then take far too much time to get the palantir/flock cameras from the local area and find your car. So unless you’re just hunting these down…

A far better method would be to ‘accidentally’ spill some gasoline, use a napkin to wipe it up, and then ‘accidentally’ hold the gasoline soaked rag against the screen while fueling. Stickers, like you said, would work, because it would be harder to see you apply them.

Endeavor makes you horny? Very strange. OP’s picture would disagree.

Yet another reason I won’t eat mushrooms. Thanks for the added explanation I can give!

Okay, so that was a wild story, but… ‘not having a head’ doesn’t really make me think of ‘has most of the brain stem and an ear.’ It’s not much different than humans that have no higher brain functions and are on feeding tubes.

That one was always hilarious. I’ve never actually finished it though, always stalling after the first few episodes.

Well, jesus. I don’t think we ever actually see god in the books.

Ha! We all have moments in our old age like that. ;)

Also, we should all complain (or point out) the implications of monopoly, because it’s biggest sin is just being so boring.

and in the end got pardoned and their criminal record expunged.

Yep. This sort of action is why I’m not confident about any optimistic view of deprogramming the maga cult. They are in enough positions of power to rule us all based on the rule of law. The violations of constitutional rights and flouting court orders is just to throw red meat to the base.

And if you’re extra desperate, there’s always manjaro. But I love it. My hardware somehow works out of the box with them. Having the AUR is definitely a godsend for some things. One day I’ll likely contribute something to it as a tiny tribute back.

Does anyone who installed arch using archinstall actually use the ‘i use arch, btw’ meme?

I know… and I also know that we currently depend on truck rigs for shipping in everything, so the taxes would ultimately focus on them MUCH MORE than even the assholes in their coal rollers. That would mean the ‘punishing’ factor of the taxation would be diluted for them, even if we used GCWR of a vehicle as the standard for taxing.

The no arguing thing is key. Everyone eventually finds a topic that they don’t agree on, because politics, in the greek philosophy (aristotle based) sense of the word (I actually loved nicomachean ethics), is about the pursuit of the good life writ large. The chances of two people believing in the exact same life goals is almost zero, so there will be a fundamental disagreement at some point that, because we are talking about using governmental authority as a cudgel (in the modern sense of the word politics) to bring about a ‘good life’ for society, will cause a lot of friction.

In environments where we can’t control who we interact with, and that are semi-public with an ‘audience,’ such as work and family dinners, it’s just easier to say no politics and focus on the agreed areas of shared interests. Otherwise those little frictions can build into socially driven, highly charged arguments.

Keep political discussions to where everyone can easily walk away, where it’s one-on-one, or where everybody comes wanting to talk politics, and things are fine.

On the flip side, I’ve seen people blow up at one another over a political divide - even a purely rhetorical one (arguing whether Dark Elves or Orcs are a racist trope, complaining about the implications of Monopoly or Catan, getting on a high horse about a popular movie or song). The debate over whether “Let It Snow” condones date rape is a popular college age struggle session.

Oh my god! Yes, you can look at orcs and goblins as racist tropes and stand ins, and those can be fun campaigns to run and explore alternative takes and deep reflective moments, but sometimes it’s just easier to say the group wants a kick-in-the-door style dungeon crawl and the enemies are evil.

Also, wasn’t the debate over ‘baby, it’s cold outside,’ not ‘let it snow?’

Is that why the guiness consumption is so high there? I never really thought of it as a sleep aid, but it is pretty drowsiness inducing.

The double their for they’re is driving me nuts.

is the equivalent of almost 150% of Denmark.

I chuckled. Weird comparison usage should be embraced! :D

No, your Ford F-350 SuperDuty does not entitle you to roll coal just to drive to and from your job at Bass Pro Shop, Dale.

I think if we just tax vehicles at the rate they destroy the road, we’d quickly see folks stop having giant vehicles. Set the standard as a bicycle (and be unreasonable about the weight, so 25kg), and then use the lovely X^4 function to determine how much to tax.

A bicycle (and let’s just say the average person is 100kg, and added to the bicycle’s weight, to be unreasonable again) costs $0.50 to register… while the f350 (found a weight for the lightest around 6000 lbs, or 2721.5kg) should be about $0.50 * (2721.5kg/125kg)^4 = $112347.47. I think that would do just fine. Maybe we could adjust down a little, so the bike could be $0.05, and the truck $11234.75.

With the beautiful propaganda machine and echo chambers they have built, those people moving away just come right back (and most never leave at all). Just look at the number of individuals on leopards ate my face the first time around, and note the numbers of trump voters in his three runs.

They’ll ban guns the exact same way they implemented gun control: with racial implications and fear mongering at the idiot level, and subtle winking to each other at the politician level. Then they’ll slowly add on each time they ‘find’ a new group to demonize and target. It’s ‘first they came for…’ in practice.