During the last lavender scare, the Russians were just as paranoid that their gay citizens were western inventions and persecuted them quite heavily.

…while the US did the same, thinking they were also security risks. This culminated in a society so fearful that people used to introduce themselves first by telling people that they had a wife and kids, then their name. A government official even killed themselves at their desk because their son was outed as gay. We even sabotaged our own ICBM program by firing one of the only astronomers we had capable of working on such things, because he was gay.

He went on to be the father of the gay rights movement as we know it today.

David K Johnson has a whole book about the whole lavender scare, it’s quite a good read.

Or worse, getting pushed by new colonial powers like Russia to ban “western” things like LGBT rights while they steal all the gold and other resources from them. I was hoping Prigozhin dying like a moron would have sapped the Russian’s colonial forces in Africa. Unfortunately not.

I have the moto g stylus 2024, and can confirm, it’s a great phone.

One hole for everything! A pseudo-cloaca :3

If it’s a screen door problem, it means they had to cut costs somewhere. Adding in a battery, SoC, networking + wifi dongle isn’t cheap at all. Adding tracking cameras isn’t cheap either. Redesigning controllers and switching them to optical ain’t cheap. And all that, coming in at less than an index system’s launch price, with tariffs on top. I think that’s just the price you pay for Questifying the index.

Personally, I’m really bummed out that they added in a bunch of mobile crap that will swiftly become outdated within five years. The benefit of the Index was that, aside from hardware becoming worn down, all the processing was offloaded to the computer’s GPU, so buying a new GPU could instantly raise the bar for graphics and framerate for years to come.

Give me an Index 2 with high res screens that are stupidly high refresh rate, even higher resolution motion tracking, and optional wireless accessories.

What if you just didn’t go home at first? Hit a climbing gym with buddies, or buy an ebike and use that to commute home. Interrupting your normal schedule and psychologically making home only a place of rest might help you reset your life a bit.

You don’t have to spend money either. You could even just hit up a park, the library, or hang out with buddies. We tend to go swimming lots once standard time hits.

I usually use something bleach-based for toilet and sinks, as they can start to get funky, especially around tile. Sometimes a bleach powder for the tub bottom, if it gets dirty and is difficult to scrub with simple green. I sometimes swap between simple green and bleach-based, depending on what I’m wearing. I’ve destroyed multiple pieces of clothing with bleach, unfortunately. It does really clean dirty things easily, though.

Also, alcohol wipes can clean walls, if they start to get dirty (eg, bug droppings, pollen, etc. we keep our windows open in summer)

Thank you for your sacrifice. The same thing happens to me at my bus stop whenever I open my umbrella on a rainy day. The bus arrives as soon as I open it.

I don’t know what people eat, but someone in Lycra was doing well above 32km/h on flat ground on our bike path. My ebike is speed capped and I couldn’t keep up, lol.

Don’t forget the steep tariffs!

Bummer. I dislike the trend of migrating to batteries and soldered SoCs, more ewaste and less targeting of desktop GPUs for performance and physics simulations. No new games is unfortunate too.

I do like the Gabecube though, that will be excellent for people who haven’t ever used steam but are familiar with consoles. It’s a nice way to ease people in.

If you carve out a tunnel into the floor and have the entrance down a foot or two, the wind can’t blow directly in, and the cold air will sink to fill the tunnel/entrance with your sleeping platform being quite warm.

Anecdotally, yes. I was able to go from dusting my PC every 3-6mo to every year.

The filters are completely fuzzy on the air filters every 6-12 mo. I still vacuum and dust, just way less frequently. I also don’t wear shoes in the house.

I run them 24/7 in my bedroom and office.

GTA. Games 3 and 4 were good, 5 was kinda fun, but I’m not really at all excited for the same formula over and over again. Even battlefield feels a bit samey. Only indie games are really taking risks these days. And some of them are fantastic.

My uncle’s dog actually fainted the first time he came back from deployment. He was a very sweet dog. Snuggly, quiet white lab who was dignified and looked like vaguely like a polar bear.

DHS has argued that agents still identify themselves while masked: “When our heroic law enforcement officers conduct operations, they clearly identify themselves as law enforcement while wearing masks to protect themselves from being targeted by highly sophisticated gangs like Tren de Aragua and MS-13, criminal rings, murderers, and rapists,” assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a September statement.

If this were true, every judge, police officer and prosecutor would be dead. So no, they do not need to hide their faces. We all know why they are really hiding their faces.

Release the files.

That’s a tough sell if you are trying to resell older components to subsidize new ones :/

Hmm. That’s worrying. I was probably going with AMD next to around, but them being semi-EOL’d after six years gives me pause. That would make my current GPU nearly be EOL.

Sounds like they are backtracking based on “market needs” which sounds like “we’ll support this until people get complacent” – not what I want to hear after spending $700+ on a component.

Anyone that only focuses on themselves in the relationship. Relationships are a two way road. Both people should care for one another and be interested in their life. I just read an article where a liberal woman dated a bunch of conservative men, and they categorically only care for themselves and didn’t even ask her about her life, even over multiple dates. Huge red flag.

Also, anyone that destroys a bathroom regularly and doesn’t clean up after themselves. That sort of thing can be improved over time, but it’s a sign that they’re probably a dirtbag. Personally, I’m just not compatible with that.

Also, for what it’s worth, hot sauce also makes you feel way more full/less hungry. If you need an addition.