Combine these with heelies and parkour for maximum urban mobility.

A paywalled article about how to avoid persecution by the US police state is pretty on the nose.

I was vaguely aware of some of the early games criticism (critical games theory basically) at the time because I was following a lot of the discourse around ‘are games art?’ debate. It was a super niche corner of the internet mostly of leftish libs trying to do some critical analysis of games and gamer culture. The whole GG thing amplified this tiny niche ala Streisand Effect but with a lot more misogyny. That’s the basic contours from my memory at least.

If the GG escalation had not happened, we might not have developed “we add another gender every time you complain” for another few decades.

Day and night are always happening concurrently. This is one of those truths that the deep state doesn’t want you to know.

meanwhile the ‘peasants’ of the Ohio River Valley (JD Vance’s childhood home) keep getting flooded

‘Building more lanes will reduce traffic’ is a classic.

Donald Quixote

There was the cybertruck technical some wealthy Russian was posting about. Last I heard Tesla remotely disabled it.

The only way this makes sense to me is that Musk has to play nice with the last two, while the rest are happy to play ball with him as long as stocks keep inflating, regardless of how much of a rage baby he acts. If they are not playing ball, he can just throw a fit on X until he gets his way. No chance of that working so well with the last two. So he has to show fealty. Musk has much more leverage to get what he wants from the west. Outside of the west he actually has to make deals.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film)

The 1% at the top have chosen to maintain the current system for generations. They also have chosen to strangle any attempts to change the system whenever possible via immense violence.

jeezus this thing just started beeping like crazy

The fact that there is not a choice to just end the 1% makes this very

I heard once that old smoke detectors have some radioactive isotopes in them. Not sure how true or dangerous but sounds bad.

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing about 1,200 people, kidnapping about 250 more and spurring a war with Israel. The ensuing fighting left more than 42,000 Palestinians dead, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory, who don’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.