It’s okay! It’s a small thing but I appreciate you

Did you forget the community you’re on? You’re right but relax, nobody is expecting crazy levels of nuance here

If you are a woman in a heavily Muslim country I think the last thing you’d want to do is draw public attention to yourself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudud

Same, my coping mechanism is a small dji and working on getting drone certs. Charging a small battery is a lot cheaper than aviation fuel

Magic the Gathering. Seems fun but I can’t justify new video game prices for individual cards

Let’s take the troops from Germany and push them somewhere else!

When you make it better? Look you can’t control the economy, or who runs a big company or country or whatever. But you can control you. How you talk to people, how you spend your time. It doesn’t mean trying to be happy all the time. Feelings have very little to do with it actually. Just try to make things a little better, even if it’s just your bedroom or trash can.

You might think nobody sees what you do or cares but I promise you’d be wrong.

She said she wanted a guy that would chase her so…

Damn that’s horrible better fall back to Russia then

And your hoodies start to disappear

To look out for incoming golf balls

Just like when you feel like not doing anything else, you just get going and sometimes just starting anyway pays off and you get into a good flow

So the corporations that make their money on mass surveillance is still spying on people?

I’m shocked, shocked!

Nope! Corporation Rand

yep. Rand calls it neomedievalism, where we’re going back to the peasant/noble tiers

Yes! There one locally owned station in particular that seems to be thriving. It has no blocks of ads and real DJs. They always seem to be playing new stuff, and they even host small concerts for local artists and guests. They also stream at their site, thesummit.fm

Between them and The Alternation, which is another locally owned station that plays alternative rock, everything else in the area is iHeart Radio blandness. You know the type. Constant ads, playing the same songs over and over, morning shows etc

Yep

I read an article saying that as an adult you stop doing as many unique and memorable things as an adult. It’s mostly the same places, people and things. So when you go do different things and make memories, you’ll have more “milestones” in your life

I read game manuals and strategy guides like my dad read the newspaper while eating breakfast on summer mornings. They had so much little bits of world building in the writing and design. Reading manuals on the ride home from the store set the tone before you even fired up the game for the first time

That and they are responsible for making me a gun nerd! Looking at the history and use cases for each one in the game carried over to the real deal. I remember guides for Rainbow Six, Medal of Honor: Frontline and Syphon Filter 2 being full of stuff like that

It sucks because trains are great, but money and regulations are the general answer. Air travel gets tons of kickbacks from the government, and most airlines don’t even pay taxes on fuel. Also planes fly on the air but trains need rails, land to put it on and maintenance to keep it running.

I agree! To keep with the athlete analogy that was used earlier, a teacher is like a coach.

You don’t need them really, you could put in all the work yourself and get results. But a good teacher/coach can help you set priorities, avoid common setbacks and keep you on track so you’re getting the most from your time.

Learning something new is never easy enough to not require some effort, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make it way less difficult and enjoyable with the right kind of help.