Montrose, down in Houston, is wall to wall Gay Boomers. Not a coincidence that Houston has been one of the friendliest cities for gay men to live straight back to the 1970s

They were. Donald Trump was as much of a racist, sexist, xenophobic shitbag when he demanded the execution of the Central Park Five as he is today. Joe Biden was as committed to the Zionist project under Ben-Gurion as Netanyahu from Philly. Dianne Feinstein was fighting to put the Confederate Flag up over San Fransisco over forty years ago. Mitch McConnell has been fronting for fossil fuel companies all the way back to his days as legislative assistant to Marlow Cook and and campaign aid for Tom Emberton. My man was an aid to Robert fucking Bork ffs. Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl.

These people all sucked back then. They have always sucked. They were the teenagers screaming at the first black students to cross the segregation line after Brown v Board. They were the Vietnamese veterans doing war crimes at My Lai and flying bombing runs over Cambodia on behalf of Kissinger. They were taking money from Walmart and DOW Chemical and Raytheon and Salomon Smith Barney as soon as they were old enough to cash a paycheck. They were at the forefront of the Red Scare and the first in line to bend the knee to Ronald Reagan.

These people have been awful for eons.

those people did not have the values you associate with them back then in the 1960s and 1970s

Oh yeah. Nobody was suggesting we round up all the immigrants, criminalize homosexuality, segregate people by race, and deny women rights over their own bodies in the 1960s and 70s. And we definitely weren’t cooking up a Cold War with an Eastern Power, or picking fights with left-leaning democracies in Latin America, the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa, during this time.

It’s actually totally different now!

You can do it now. It’s a rich enough game that I only vaguely remembered the high notes and was delightfully surprised at a bunch of lower key plot beats I’d forgotten.

Also, the mobile adaptation is pretty good.

He did have that problem, and he had outsourced large parts of his memeories. Electronically, and in the form of an explorable virtual world.

Ah, yes. Sherlock Holmes’s Mind Palace. I really hated that arc.

Hum… Probably some 5 to 10 years. Maybe less.

Your personality changes over time, but there are formative memories that stay with people until they die. You can see it in phobias and other mental disorders very explicitly, but also in favorite foods or cultural preferences or adherence to certain dogmatic beliefs.

Like, imagine if people who came of age in the 1950s were to just live forever ruling over the rest of us and imposing their standards and beliefs generation after generation, with new members only added to the gerontocracy by demonstrating a nostalgia for an era they never even grew up in. Imagine what kind of place that would be like to live in.

I mean, vampires are immortal, not indestructible.

They’re also instinctively driven to cannibalism and mass murder. The vampire is a metaphor for the aristocracy of old Europe. A seductive but ultimately grotesque ravenous monster that feeds on the common people as livestock and corrupts the very soil of the land they occupy.

Dude definitely needed therapy.

Tony Soprano also had a therapist.

There are examples of non states working

:-/

Also, Marx may have fucked his wife.

Conservatives, Liberals, Communists

Conservatives: “I want a state that exists to brutalize the third world on my behalf and cycle me through anxiety/relief of foreigners/BIPOCs on TV”

Liberals: “I want a state that will subtly extract value from the proletariat so I can gamble on it in the market and kill anyone who resists in an overseas black site.”

Communists: “I want a state that will coordinate labor between sectors and preserve the civil rights of citizens under a well-organized and easily navigate-able proletarianized bureacracy.”

Lemmy: “I hate these fucking Tankies.”

We didn’t use to.

Come on, dude. Do you think Simeon II - the former Bulgarian Tsar - was elected to the Prime Ministership five years after returning from exile because he was just an incredibly popular guy? Do you think its a coincidence that his government’s policies of sweeping privatization had anything to do with his habit of stuffing his minister roles with the same kind of Chicago School ghouls that helped Augusta Pinochet and Juan Orlando Hernández and Dilma Rousseff loot Latin America?

Nevermind Orban on Hungary or Lech Kaczyński in Poland or… hell… Boris Yeltsin in Russia. Nothing says “we’re above board” like firing artillery rounds at your Parliament until you get your way.

There was some run-of-the-mill corruption but most perpetrators kept a low profile or got caught.

There was a pogrom against opposition leadership that capped off the Cold War with a bloodbath of mafia violence orchestrated by foreign intelligence services. And then a few of the more naked fascists - your Milosevics and Mikheil Saakashvilis - got pulled down to prove the post-Soviet “Rules Based International Order” wasn’t total bullshit.

But the collapse of the old Soviet system unleashed all the worst excesses of capitalism on an utterly unprepared public. We’re seeing a fascist backlash in eastern europe as a direct response to the public revulsion at EU era over-exploitation.

Post Soviet Eastern European states are all like this.

Maybe, I do think there’s a difference.

There are parks with full blown gym setups in them. All body weight exercises and resistance machines, for practical reasons. But they exist.

That is the plan.

The track pads on the steamdeck are excellent for emulating a mouse.

They were passable at best. Finicky and imprecise more often than not.

What is up with Valve and their obsession with those stupid touchpads? I hated that on the old Steam D-Pad. Hypersensitive seemingly every moment except when you needed it to be.

The XBox and the PS figured out how to make traditional controllers very well. Nintendo loves to get freaky with it and does a better than average job of innovating in the space. But Valve just seems to want to cobble together spare parts into a janky whatever the hell this is. I don’t get it.

Whomever is making these things, you don’t have to keep doing this. Just be normal!

Yeah; the response should be that a “reject all” button must be displayed next to the accept all button with equal prominence

I’ll do you one better. “Websites should default to the minimal cookies option, with settings confined to a website option menu that does not occlude the entrance page.”

What does that even mean?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Talk to any lawyer. Alcohol, more than coke, tends to be their poison. But as a profession, near universally, its a trainwreck.

Meanwhile, doctors smoke like chimneys. Software developers love their ket and mushrooms. God only knows what investment bankers are using.

I wouldn’t call it unique. Just easy to toss out names everyone is familiar with.

“The Banks Russians are out of money!” rides again.

Who is reporting this?

The National Security Journal

Reuben F. Johnson has thirty-six years of experience analyzing and reporting on foreign weapons systems, defense technologies, and international arms export policy. He is also a survivor of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He worked for years in the American defense industry as a foreign technology analyst and later as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Departments of the Navy and Air Force, and the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia.

Why not just give us your government badge number, dude?