That any time someone suggests a workaround, it always involves like 2-3 different obscure apps and plug-ins, and often people will recommend several variations that all do the same thing. All of these apps are also fairly new, with only a single developer or a small team with no proven track record, that are doomed to lose support or stop working at any moment. And yea, most of them are FOSS, but that only means that when they go under, a dozen differently named clones will pop up. All with their own weird flavor of drama.

“Noooo! You can’t use Fweeb, that’s just an offshoot of Squootle that was made after the Fweeb developer was kicked off the Squootle team for making some vaguely problematic Slack comments!”

“Yea, but Squootle is set to stop working within the next 18 months because of the upcoming YouTube ‘Screw Our Users’ update and the remaining Squootle team members have all fucked off to Hungary to raise free-range alpacas and aren’t pushing updates anymore.”

“Oh fuck, man, you’re using Squootle? Squootle is just spyware. You want to make sure you’re using Squootle Origin. That’s a completely different program with different developers”

Anyways, have you tried QwiDer? It’s really the only one you should be using, bro. Anyone not using QwiDer is behind in the times. Just get QwiDer and run it using a PLST script.

I mean, Puerto Rico is part of the US. That just sounds like federal land being used as federal land.

I’ve been thinking in these terms for the past decade and it helps come to terms with so much.

Russia attacking Ukraine: I used to own this area like 40 turns ago, about time I took it back.

China: Oh shit, I forgot I had all my city preferences to growth. I need to change those to science and industry.

US on Israel: Geeze, my city-state (Israel) is really being aggressive for no reason and pulling me into all sorts of conflicts. Buuuut, I really don’t want to lose that Religion bonus they give, so I’m going to just keep supporting them.

US on Venezuela: I need more oil, but don’t want to trade people for it, let’s look at where the closest tiles with oil resources are that I don’t control yet. Wtf, Venezuela has 5 oil tiles?! Oh I’m definitely going to grab those. It might not look good diplomatically, but they’ll get over it.

EU: Uh oh, I think the rest of the world is starting to notice that we’ve been focusing entirely on science and social research for the past 30 turns and that most of the big players are way ahead of us on Military research.

Africa as a whole is just that civ that got screwed over by a bunch of different civs early on and the AI has just stopped trying to advance or compete in any meaningful way.

Canada had a really solid, long-term alliance with the US and never had to worry about anything, but suddenly the US goals changed and they’ve been making ominous threats and comments about the comparative strength of their two militaries.

Karma does not exist. The most horrible people imaginable will get away with doing the most horrible things possible. They will never get “what’s coming to them” because nothing is “coming to them”. These awful people are also not secretly miserable all the time, that is a pathetic lie people tell themselves to feel better about watching awful people get everything they ever wanted.

Have you tried Squootle? Just use Squootle with a pLib plugin, bro. All you have to do is load the community block list made by asianasspounder72 into your Squootle’s cld/000x24b3/v folder and update the file in notepad to edit line 124 to call pLib v2.4 instead of v1.6. Make sure you’re using the beta release of pLib, but not the latest one.

Why aren’t you using Squootle?

I hope you never use JavaScript then. Eich created that too.

Edit: misread the title.

Just put a tea bag in a cup of water and microwave it.

Except it was. It absolutely was. It worked for over 99% of Nazi’s who got off with absolutely zero consequences and continued to live their lives without even really being ostracized from their communities until they died from old age. Only a few high level commanders were ever punished. Pretty much none of the jackboot soldiers faced any charges.

“Never Forget”? What a fucking joke. People already “forgot” the truth of what happened in favor of a pretty lie that terrible people always face justice.

You also don’t need a parks pass to visit the national parks… It’s not even all that economical.

Sounds like a great way for the parks department to lose even more funding.

I support unions, but at this point I’d be terrified to join a new one. Especially when you’re somewhere owned by a large company or private equity firm. There are just no protections for unions anymore, and these days large companies would rather just close down entire departments than give employees basic rights.

I get that the fear and intimidation are the point, but that really doesn’t help. Having a gun pointed in your face is also a form of fear and intimidation, but knowing that doesn’t make it any less dangerous when it happens to you.

I just don’t know what to do anymore, every single thing feels like a losing option while the world just continues to get worse and worse. I’ve scrimped and saved for years to have some sort of nest egg, and its barely more than what more successful people casually spend in a week. I don’t see a way out of this mess.

This isn’t reddit, you can edit titles.

(I mean unless trump got crazy and started ordering nuke strikes to end the world)

H-ok, so, here’s de Earth…

Why even make a distraction? They could brazenly come out and say “we’re not releasing anymore. What are you going to do about it?”

And Congress will just sit there going 👉👈 and nothing would happen. I truly believe that Congress has lost all power at this point. They are a collection of figureheads that couldn’t enforce a parking lot, let alone the laws of a country. They can pass whatever law, or make whatever sanction they want, but there’s no one around to actually enforce it anymore. All that power has gone to the Executive branch.

Maybe it’s because this is a comment thread about comparative history being performed in the same manner?

I think I nodded off like 3 times when watching Dune. It’s just so damn boring.

A lot fucking less than the internet would have you believe. Take a second and examine all your evidence for believing “there are people who actually hold this opinion”. Does it all come from the internet? Almost entirely from no-context screenshots or clips that seem suspiciously scripted? Do you think maybe those aren’t the best sources?

That’s the problem every time these fake as shit posts are created. There are always folks in the comments that rush to defend it by going “well it might be fake THIS time, but it sounds like something that COULD happen, so I’m gonna still file it away as evidence that it does.”

Like, I’m sure SOME people exist like that. There are 8.3 billion people in this world, that’s enough that you can always find a handful that believe anything. There is a non-zero number of people that enjoy eating literal shit, but that doesn’t mean they are everywhere.

And before you say it (because this is always the reply), if your evidence for their existence is the results of elections or the abundance of stupid people, that is faulty logic. There is an ocean of separation between people who are simply idiots, and those that actually hold opinions like “Libraries are a waste cuz they’re full of books. Why book when internet?”

As a child, the ocean fascinated me. I wanted to learn everything I could. As I got older, and the world got worse, the things I learned grew more and more terrifying, until I eventually stopped trying to learn more because it was just too depressing.

I don’t know how Marine Biologists and Oceanographers do it. To be surrounded every day with thousands of indicators and unquestionable data that all shows our oceans are fucked. And from hundreds of different ways too; it doesn’t even matter if you somehow fix global warming, there are so many other issues remaining that it’s still all fucked. It’s like if a guy walked into a hospital with every disease. Where the hell do you even start?