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- Comment on Against the Storm - Nightwatchers DLC Trailer 2 days ago:
I've played this game enough that I'm tired of it. New DLC won't change my mind.
The game got me to figure out that I don't want to play a game where the people are always going to be really unhappy no matter how far I advance. If I'm playing a city/world builder, I want a game where my advancment also means things are better for the NPCs. In this game, my advancement means I can start with some tiny different perks, but nost of those are wiped out by Prestige runs, so the NPCs have really brutal conditions all the time. And if things start going well? Poof! You're on to the next town before you can enjoy the last one.
- Comment on AI-Enabled Trash Trucks Will Scan Your Trash To Scold You About Recycling 3 days ago:
Step 3 is advertising. The AI has your address and sees what you're buying. This is going straight to marketers.
- Comment on Do you like the centralized wen of today? 3 days ago:
Ah, yes, I remember those days with the text-only LYNX browser from the unix terminal and the joy of Netscape Navigator on machines that could handle windows. Searching was difficult until there was Alta Vista, which was AMAZING compared to the competition, but even it failed for D&D-style gamers who tried to search for "role playing games" and got back a list of a million sex sites and zero visible pen/paper/dice games. Happily, you could add boolean operator rules to get rid of some of that (NOT sex NOT babes NOT XXX) -- but you'd either be typing a lot of naughty words to skip or you'd have to remember the sites that catered to RPGs because searching could be very hit or miss.
- Comment on 10 Children Among at Least 17 Killed in Israeli Bombing of Gaza Charity Clinic Queue 3 days ago:
Here's a BBC article for comparison, with slightly different (initial) numbers : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro
At least 15 Palestinians, including eight children and two women, have been killed in an Israeli strike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says.
The article does have video as well.
- Comment on The worst part of getting old is that you get less and less "first experiences" and are always comparing current with previous ones 6 days ago:
Oh there;s lots of new experiences in getting old: going through social security rigmarole, turning grey (or bald), finding yourself unable to do stuff you used to do, arthritis, gout, bone loss, needing a cane, getting up several times a night for the sake of your bladder...
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 2 weeks ago:
No idea what tysto is. but I wanted to warn people that it is not secure.
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 2 weeks ago:
I just encountered this. I looked for images of "White House Rose Garden" and 90% of I got was images of it getting bulldozed for getting paved over per Trump's recent command.
So I looked for images from 1980-2010 and 90% of I got was historical stuff NOT from that time range -- like yellowed photos of how it looked before Jackie O' made it the Rose Garden, or pictures of MLK or other random gardens.
There HAVE to be images of the Rose Garden from before Melania ripped out the trees in Trump's previous term. Where did they go?
The best collection I could find was on this unsecured site: http://tysto.com/grounds/rose-garden.htm
After that, it was, sadly, two dog pics on a Daily Mail article. One with a Bush the other with Regan and Thatcher: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2440219/George-W-Bush-pays-tribute-dead-dog-13th-birthday.html
Most sites only have stuff like this current/bulldozer stuff: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a65124864/white-house-rose-garden-paved-photos/
Where did all the other photos go??????