The evidence is all there, black and white, in the Venezuelan oil that US companies want.

A couple months ago when the Game Pass price hike was announced, I checked my profile to see what tier I was in: how much I was paying. Turns out my account had expired, was tied to a credit card I haven’t had for a while. I really only play single- player games and apparently nothing on Game Pass interested me.

I don’t think you have to “fix up a junker.” You can find older vehicles that are modern enough to incorporate OBD2 (which helps troubleshooting and maintaining) but modern enough not to be connected to surveillance programs; late 90s into early 2000s maybe even 2010s. You can find them that have been basically maintained.
You’ll sacrifice things like warranties and included maintenance plans, but you’ll be hard pressed to find a mechanic that won’t work on it, parts will be plentiful and cheaper because I feel like lots of things were less bespoke to each manufacturer around that time frame. Plus they didn’t have a computer connected to every little thing. And theres junkyards for big parts.

If you have your own tools (or a friend with them) there will be a cheap shop manual you can get (like Haynes) and/or a plethora of youtube videos on how to fix and maintain it.

The price of ownership might be higher but the cost of entry will be significantly less. Not that everyone can or is willing to do the above but there is a middle ground that doesn’t involve junkers.

You should research the fallout from US & CIA interventions. It’s not always an improvement for the local population.

Or, it’s about Oppenheimer. We all know what the bombs did to Japan. It’s well known history. Not every detail of a world needs to be explored and explained again when we already know it. I don’t think most World War II war movies detail the end of the war. Most movies don’t detail singular deaths with accuracy.

A turn out of 83%?! Impressive.

Appreciate the correction. All the conjugations are hardest thing for my brain to remember.

Those conjugations are the hardest thing for my brain to wrap around.

As I’m someone slowly and difficultly learning Spanish, for the soul purpose of visiting because, yo quiero comé muchos tacos de cabeza y bebe unas micheladas, I appreciate you. I’ll bet I missed a dozen accents.

Yeah, this was before the industry decided on their panic price increaes. It’s weird how post panic prices never corrected. Going shooting is almost painful now on the wallet.

When I moved out of Texas in 2016, some friends told me there was a $5 bounty for hog tails from the state. So, you could do it for more than fun; less than a dollar a round for .308, then 5 dollars per tail… that’s a decent profit.

I’ve been called an “elder millennial” before and I thought that was funny. But just “elder”… bitch, fuck you!

You’re telling me the purpose built air superiority fighter can out fight the multi-role strike-fighter? That’s wild and who’d of thunk!

Except only one of those systems depends on the exploitation of the working class, ya know, your breeding live stock. Only one of those system destroys a work life balance. Only one leaves the population with little free time and shrinking resources with which to have and raise a kid. Japan is past, and the US is passing, the tipping point. Society may deem it necessary but the potential parents recognize it as untenable.
What happens when the orphan crushing machine has no orphans?

Ah, so not the scent-memories that were triggered in me then. Different Nintendo scents, makes sense.

suddenly tastes like a Nintendo Switch cartridge.

Fuck. I know this smell. You just triggered NES and Super Nintendo memories in me. Never played Switch but I’m assuming they’re about the same.

LemmyNSFW also seems to really like their cartoon porn. There was A LOT of cartoon furry porn. Not only is it weird, it’s weird there was so much of it.

When I worked at night it was the only place open 24 hours. Now the one by me doesn’t even have that going for it.

RDR (any of them) is not cosplay, it’s an interactive movie, a high tech pick your adventure book. Cosplay involves going outside. You can’t play paintball in your underwear on your couch. Well, you could but your living room is going to suffer.
It’s like Google Street view of Vegas versus actually visiting the casinos. It’s not the same.

But it’s not Westworld is a theme park where you cosplay; like Disneyland but you get to be a character. Video games are more like interactive movies. It’d be like saying paintball is the same as Call of Duty. One is much more interactive. It’s too much of a stretch, it’s too broad.