Was gonna say, given the existence of sophisticated AIs and robots in Fallout juxtaposed with old school terminal design, it gives serious Fallout vibes.

I’m curious if my health would drastically improve, thanks to the sudden absence of pollen and other usual plant allergens that drag me down so hard.

On the other hand, living in such tight quarters with nonexistent privacy would drive me insane within days.

If you’d like a reminder of how little time has passed: I’m 25. My father was the first of his line born in the US back in 1969 to someone who immigrated to the US after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

The Holocaust was not so long ago. That we seem to have so many eager to repeat that horrific atrocity, whether toward Jews or another minority scapegoat, is deeply disturbing.

1 inch of picture equals 1 inch of plastic, essentially. A 1:1 model of a real life tank carved out of foam would be the actual size and shape of the tank, just in foam instead of steel and other expensive bits.

And both better than seeing one while lying in bed.

And more simply: “Fuck Russia” from Poland. Although sending your message at muzzle velocity from a tank cannon does make it a lot easier to hear.

The Putinite mining and smelting industry will help Ukraine get back on their feet a bit.

Gotta say: my father works cybersecurity consulting, been in the business for decades in some form or another. About a year ago, the number of incidents his firm responded to, and with it demand for prevention-oriented work, fell off massively. As in, company’s tightening the belt, laying people off, cutting bonuses, etc, because work has dried up so badly.

The suspicion is a mix of pre-war criminals in Ukraine busy being shot at, hackers in Russia being drafted, and both kinds not getting their checks from a certain mob boss masquerading as a head of state. Both countries previously had an outsize presence in significant breaches, and now it’s strangely quiet. You’re not wrong that organized crime and Russia are related problems, and dismantling one requires dealing with the other, or vice versa. Disarming them of income from criminal enterprise means fewer shells landing in Ukrainian homes.

A profound demonstration of the utility of intelligence : both to calculate the bird’s approach thanks to the shadow, and for the bird to recognize being outmatched to avoid ever picking that fight again.

Or a battle starting over Anchorage for several more decades, but I guess we’re speedrunning the Fallout timeline.

Tbh, at least it was cancer. My first instinct seeing a death that young that was not an accident is to presume suicide. At least with cancer, you die wanting to live and surrounded by people who are sympathetic, instead of suffering until you can finally escape being alive.

Should’ve told Russia to go take a hike when they came shopping for weapons, it’s the fault of the Russian invasion of a major breadbasket that food’s gonna be tighter globally.

As someone from Texas, that’s somewhat disturbing to hear.

Presumably a lot fewer heavily armed bigots chomping at the bit for a civil war, though.

That said, people don’t (to my knowledge) behead each other over which depiction of Mickey Mouse is correct.

You’d be surprised. More cunning abusers can readily have a therapist wrapped around their finger before the teen/kid/whoever figures out that abuse is the source of their issue. Then you have the very dangerous situation of a therapist reinforcing them, and simultaneously causing the victim to conclude that mental health professionals are not safe, even if they do eventually escape.

Sorry, we’re facing single digit temps in a couple days, we can’t have Abbott’s lackey freezing people to death again.

Hell, I’d not be shocked if he’d been contacted by his country’s embassy and strongly pushed to leave, to avoid having a diplomatic kerfuffle later if Qatar decides to arrest him again when the competition concludes. Would be an embarrassment to then have to face public pressure to get him released, rather than just bring him home asap.

Sounds like much of the next century will be the sequel to Grapes of Wrath, then.

Or sunrises. Let’s just tidally lock the Earth! Infinite solar power!

Can I irradiate myself with the warp core?

I don’t expect to change his views. I just find it helpful to remind myself I’m not crazy, and at his core my father is kind of a bigoted, unempathetic monster, even if my mother is the more pressing concern in terms of being a shitty parent and person. When they at least feign politeness and decency so well, it’s easy to start wondering if you’re the one who’s nuts. Poking him with a simple argument that basically boils down to being willing to pay top dollar to make people suffer, even if it would involve a hit to our quality of life from the expense, is one way to do that. It’s funny he thinks I find the political BS rants from them uncomfortable for being political, when in reality I just have no desire to listen to regurgitated Fox propaganda all day. I’m decidedly political, it’s just that after finding out about the mocking behind my back after the 2016 election from them (correctly) presuming I voted Clinton, I voice my beliefs with caution.

I figured it out unambiguously with the whole incident involving the BLM protests in 2020. Hearing your own father claim Trump was being too lenient and should have firebombed them by the block, is deeply disturbing, especially after he got an AR-15 and handguns last year. (And that in spite of my chronic fight with suicidal tendencies; at least he has the sense to keep them in a safe,with the key being hard to locate being why I’m typing this and alive).

And now we’re in a town in Texas with a monument to the Confederates next to the county courthouse, where I’ve seen pro-Confederate demonstrators marching openly and with minimal opposition. Where random strangers openly discuss anti-vax conspiracy theories as if genuine fact. It’s nuts out here, and speaking freely feels hazardous.

My father this evening proposed while talking about death penalty at dinner, to execute people in a manner mimicking to their crimes. I pointed out that by that sort of logic, then, he should be willing to foot the tax bill. He said something like “of course, better use of my money than these programs”, I countered that, say, terrorists who helped those who crashed a plane into a building, being executed that way, would be absurdly expensive, and he called -me- ridiculous. Um… what?

If you have to execute someone, make it quick and clean. It’s more affordable for the taxpayers/voters, it’s easier on those doing the executing, and it leaves the body presentable for the family to have closure. Better yet, don’t rely on the death penalty when convictions can be incorrect and catch the wrong person.

Not quite the same, but this is also one reason I love Bungie. The amount of work into settings for the colorblind, quick hotfixes to work on excessive flash or other problematic effects, easy to read and customizable subtitles for almost every voice line in the game, etc. (I’m autistic myself, and struggle parsing spoken word at times, so the subtitles help a lot, but many games make them hard to read).

When I booted Halo Infinite (343 Industries, basically part of Microsoft) many months ago to check it out, I was pleasantly surprised by the attention to accessibility and customization. Some of it was a little buggy or awkward to puzzle out, but one can’t blame the devs for not trying to cater to everyone. It’s a positive trend in recent years, for sure.

And some, because bullying their own offspring wasn’t enough.