You have committed a crime.

/s

the market will be taken over by cheaper, less “luxury” alternatives.

it wasn’t a good car, It just looked unique.

Well, the production of the cybertruck certianly smashed the delorean.

its almost as if he forgot what gamers are. bitch behind a keyboard forgot that other people can be bitches behind keyboards too.

Its looking more and more like the end result is just going to be millions of Americans will have to do without, Live with less.

and no doubt at the same time their oligarch fantasy-wealthy overlords will preach to them about Spartan values or something. Ultranationalist Jingo Ghouls will talk about how its tough times create strong men, or about how we all have to prepare for war with China or something.

its snowing in my part of canada, it snowed last night, it snowed 2 days last week. time of posting, its april

my boss said “we’re kidding ourselves if we think this isnt normal”

he’s been right on that for the last 2 decades almost

I dont mean to turn this into one of those arguments where fight over whether they are a millienial or gen-xer… But I do recall recentley seeing someone in that age range, posting a message

“Born just in time to see the end of the fuck around days, and entered adulthood just in time to live the rest of my life in the find out time”

False flag attack orchestrated by the FSB of. The orders of Putin when Putin was still officially Boris yeltsins second in command.

It was used to justify breaking the truce with thr chechen separatists. And start a new war.

It is often cited as the main incident that allowed Putin to seize power in Russia. Yeltsin was dreadfully unpopular. Putin made himself look strong by playing the role of the patriot who was going to flatten the terrorists for what they did.

It was all a scam. Everything Putin has ever done has always been a scam

Its Russia in the 90s all over again. Must be a coincidence that the Russian mafia-turned-regime they’re so chummy with, got its foot in the door and secured its power through an almost identical move.

Im wondering if America will have its equivalent of the 1999 Apartment bombings.

When I imagine a future with AI ruining the world, I always thought it was going to be some Skynet/CABAL/HAL9000 type of thing

Not this sad, boring, depressing type shit

Vigilantism is on the rise regardless, Either because the police are incompetent / carefree about the complaints. or because individuals are overzealous, dont undrestand or agree with the law, and decide to cosplay as the punisher.

The only scenario where US territory comes under occupation is one where the US is in complete and total anarchy, where their Navy isnt stopping European, Chinese, or Russian forces from landing on its own shores. Any other scenario, North America is safe from Overseas invasion.

even in a war scenario, Mexico and Canada aren’t going to try to occupy American territory.

I suppose the only other scenario would be if there was a successionist movement that tried to leave the Union.

The issue in Ukraine is twofold.

The country is under martial law, which forbids elections and 20% of the country’s electorate is under foreign occupation in wartime. Thus poisoning any election result because 1/5th of the territory’s people didnt get to vote.

the US presumably, would not have the second problem

The executive needs a network of underlings to manage 300 million people.

I dont see any on here I would swear by.

I have taken a liking to the Pilot B2Ps, they are made of recycled water bottles, I liked them simply for the fact that they’re the one type of pen we have in abundance at the office that no one else bothers to steal for some reason.

I like the Staples TRU RED series too.

what the hell is wrong with me, a year ago I’d be obsessing over some video game or hobby and now im discussing my pen model preferences, I think I’ve crossed the proto-boomer threshold

I dunno your demographic, but the pervailing sentiment is that SL was cool when people were ignorant and impressionable teens and young adults, but as we aged and grew up, it stopped being cool, and most people moved on to other things.

the technology has improved tenfold, the game looks and runs so different now that its virtually unrecognizable, but the communities are shit, the user count is at best half as many as it was in the late 00s to early 10s. and most of the people online are either just parked in a shitty club, usually AFK, hiding in their private land, innnocuously buying stuff for their house or character, lagging the place up with scripted farms and such… a very small number of worthwhile game / activity and roleplay communities (RP is still basically a game…) … and most everyone else is probably e-banging…

when you say server, I think you’re talking about regions (colloquially called “sims or simulators” in game) while its true they do run on servers, usually 4-16 regions packed onto a single server… its easier to think of them as islands of virtual real estate, some are separate individual tiny islands of 256x256 meters, whereas others are joined to others of the same size. all of course, seperate from the continents which are owned by the company but land can be rented and such

privately owned land people can do whatever they want on it provided it isnt breaking law or TOS, and theres some weird shit that falls through the cracks.

the concept of SL is fascisnating, how it all works in the concept of a digital world, its been doing the metaverse 20 years before Mark Zuckerberg got the idea. the problem is, people are fucking freaks. and the metaverse is as freaky as they are.