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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I remember writing a choose your own adventure text based game in basic, and the only way to save and reload what you had programmed was via audio cassette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  General managers are paid enough. Just be the GM, duh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horror⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow that weird paddle cycle is bouyant without a balloon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luxury bones? In *this* economy.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in both of these pictures. But my house was the cheapest 1br I could find in a bad part of St. Louis around 1998. I’m in a different house now, still too small for my family, and neither my wife or I have been able to afford to go to the dentist in about 20 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I will take your windows 10 PC and give you a keychain made of DDR2 RAM in trade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After that I went to a pack of cigarettes a month. About a year of that and I finally quit. I smoked for about fifteen years but I haven’t had a cigarette in over fifteen years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did that once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I’m tired of double standards. If women can veear skin tight clothing, men should be able to have their cocks on display underneath thin stretchy material too. By this standard, boxers are modest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday Emma!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild boar are invasive, violent and destructive. Our local conservation groups practically beg you to hunt them, and boar season is 51 weeks a year. If you’re going to hunt pig, you might as well eat it. But farm raised pigs definitely taste better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy Birthday Emma!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe on Reddit. If there’s one here I’d guess it gets one post a month or less. But don’t go to Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m playing Fallout 4 right now. It’s not the only game I play by any means. Too many new games are overly focused on graphics or monetization. I’m always trying new games and the better ones often don’t have the best graphics. We want 2010 gameplay. Hell, I’ll still play Unreal Tournament 1999 GOTY edition, but older games usually need resolution and texture upgrade mods. Fortunately a lot of great old games actually get them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We took a huge hit in our coat of living when we fell off the benefit cliff. I know it’s lost credits rather than more taxes but it doesn’t really matter when you make more and struggle at least as much as before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Waste fuel, and they don’t always do what you want them to do, or sometimes lag before they do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys have to end it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve owned ten cars and eight were manual transmission. Currently driving a 2020 Subaru Crosstrek with a manual. We bought it for my wife but she developed severe hip problems right after we bought it. So I made it my own - a 2" lift, smaller wheels with off road tires, aftermarket intake and exhaust, added a subwoofer under the passenger seat. I probably wouldn’t have bought it for me but now I love it. It’s been up some crazy mountain trails where the only other people I saw at the top were in jeeps or similar. It’s been in deep snow and deep sand. I’ve even broken an axle, no regrets. I use it to it’s full potential and I love being able to be in exactly the gear I want to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The car I drive was only $22k new and it’s able to drive jeep trails and get me deep into the forest and up mountains on unmaintained roads/trails which when I’m not on a trip for work, that’s where I’m going. You can’t rent vehicles like that in my area. I have a Thule hard sided cargo carrier on the roof to hold the extra gear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why there are no plans to try to sell something like this in the US. I drive three hours each way on day-trips fairly often, and a couple times a year I drive around 1000 miles per day for longer trips. Even people who live in cities with short commutes often want to travel to places several hours away pretty regularly. Here you can drive for hours and hours and hours and not even leave the state. It’s not like we can take a train either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you suspect me of a crime? Am I being detained?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah 16 oz, under .5 L and sometimes you can get 24 oz cans ((.71 L) for about the same price but it’s cheap beer and usually only light beers with low alcohol content. I actually love baseball but I only watch it in person, never on TV. I like to go to hockey games too, and we have a minor league team in town. The games are super fun, lots of fan interaction and they do merch giveaways pretty often. Plus cheapish tickets and often they do $5 beer nights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, beers are like $14 so I never buy more than two. I usually have a few right before we head into the game though. Pre gaming is the American way. You’re buzzed for the first half of the game but sobering up by the end of it. I don’t drive home anyway, my wife doesn’t drink almost ever. I also don’t like going to bed drunk so if I’m drinking I like to do it a little earlier. But yeah it’s pretty normal for people to have a few beers and still drive home later. Some people do take Ubers tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much did it cost to create a 10 foot long bike lane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it’s ten feet more than I have near me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He thinks they'll just GIVE him money?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Banks don’t keep much cash these days. They don’t want the population to be able to liquidate and leave their system of control. You’re not finding a bank with 10 million unless you pull a heist with inside Intel on when they’re moving a large chunk of cash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I’m a conservative and so can you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure your phone before attending a protest⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bring an old point and shoot digital camera though. Pics and video might keep you from getting locked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, I don’t know which one you mean. Honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting info, thank you. It isn’t FOSS so I don’t plan on actively using it but I try to keep my finger on what’s up. I don’t miss Reddit and wish I didn’t need a FB for my job. My account is almost a ghost though and I don’t have it on my phone. I’m sure they still have way too much data on me though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s funny is I have no idea if this is written from a red or blue perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that's a cute name⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My cat has an M on her forehead and we call her Emmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say give it three years and blue sky will just be a neolib twitter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true in many ways. If I buy McDonald’s without the app I pay more for it. If I fill up my gas tank without an app like upside, I pay more for it. There are services that aren’t even available to people without modern phones (I refuse to call them smart phones). Maybe we need legislation to ensure all available discounts, services and benefits are available to customers equally regardless of how they engage services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm doing my part!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s true and I love the newcomers. But my NES and N64 were both purchased at release and are still one-owner. And used regularly. I also have a 4070ti but I love those old systems.