Fear & Hunger 1 & 2 for me among others. Stellar Blade not on sale though… I get it but… It’s so expensive…

Maybe it’s Crony capitalism instead?

What about Dead Poets Society? I haven’t seen it in decades but it made me cry a lot.

My understanding is that for the US to go to war, it needs to be passed in Congress. Trump bombing Iran last week was not passed through Congress and is an act that can get him impeached, is also my understanding.

As for the previous events, my assumption was that it was passed by Congress. But if not, then… That’s a failure of your own system and I can’t really say anything other than that.

Huh?! But it’s clear grounds for impeachment! I hope everyone starts flooding their inboxes and phone lines…

All of them. There’s so many.

Sunfish. Vampire squid. Blob fish. That terrifying worm that hides. Pistol shrimp.

It’s a whole new world down there. Forget Mars!

Not really. Brain drain from an institution to do evil stupidly is an even worse outcome. Very unpredictable and very unstable for everyone.

Go to all the live gigs, then invest. Probably steal PayPal.

HACK THE PLANET!

I don’t believe that.

It’s likely because the market has consolidated to a small number of companies who can dictate the means of production and how their consumers interact with their product.

When the personal computer market was young, entries from all sorts of manufacturers flooded in. Some failed, some succeeded. Everything had to be configured by the user because universal standards hadn’t been developed yet. This allowed for some people to be exposed to the back end, which have them some understanding of how their technology worked. It enhanced problem solving skills.

If anything, 'Plug and Play" probably had more involvement in enshittification than Google. Taking out the problem solving and moving the goal to consumption.

Ohoho… I have seen those rules and having visited both California and Texas last year, I can safely say that I don’t want any of that where I live. California was marginally better than Texas though but not by much.

It was insane to me that it was a 3hr public bus ride to NASA, and that included a 20 minute walk from where the bus drops you off.

…And those Stepford Wives-like suburban hellscapes with nothing but roads and freeways for miles.

Madness.

My hard line opinion is that roads are dead spaces. There is no opportunity for anything to grow or flourish; this includes things like community. More roads = more dead space.

If you want to activate a space, i.e. bring community back, reduce road space. And, of course, with reduced road space you need to counter balance with better infrastructure for other modes of transport to get people moving to and from.

Basic town planning! Looking at you… Local council…