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Oh yes that was it!

So, mod removed. I feel less annoyed. 😄

I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled “solved”… then deleted for some reason. 😞

I mean, there’s always the classic Rampage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage_(video_game)

I hadn’t seen this new high resolution version, thanks!

I just download and install games.

In the US in the 1980s there was still existential dread from the cold war… nuclear war was very much a concern, although less because, well, it just hadn’t happened. We also had a terrific “war on drugs”, which was used to oppress minorities and in general stoke up fear and funnel money to militarized police. We had massive inflation at the start of the decade. Iran had just had a religious revolution, and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Trump declared war on unions and basically ended the successful policies preventing the worst excesses of capitalism that were put in place after the Great Depression (which Clinton gleefully continued). The AIDS epidemic began, and we had no idea in the beginning how bad it might become. It stoked already rampant homophobia.

As far a daily life in the US, we had the dominance of malls as a place where people went to buy stuff. It led to a lot of neighborhood businesses dying, and eliminated any place where people could meet without a commercial purpose. And because they were private property, people could be controlled. No protests allowed on private property.

We did have a few good things of course! The split of AT&T meant cheap phone calls and the ability to buy cool phones, like a hamburger phone of whatever. Computers got cheap enough that there were 8-bit microcomputers, like the Commodore 64 or the Apple II. Piracy was rampant - you could go over to a friend’s place with a box of blank floppies and come home with 20 new cracked games. We got rap and break dancing and synthesizer music and music videos.

The Internet was only available at a few universities, so if you wanted knowledge you went to a library. Urban myths and misinformation were everywhere, but unamplified by any algorithm. You could shop by calling a shop or even sending a fax.

It looks like some issues were introduced by rewriting the shell-based tests in Python. Or rather by AI rewriting the shell-based tests in Python…

Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

Is she going to be able to get some of that $1,776 million slush fund for people attacked by a weaponized justice department?

I learned to program in the 1980s. I promise you that for most programs written then the coder was like, “Two digit year, of course. Why waste so many bytes with a four digit year? Nobody will be using this software in 15 years!” And probably 95% of the time they were right…

Along with a war chest that far exceeded Scott’s and a crowded field of newcomers, Clark’s campaign benefited from Scott’s death on 22 April at the age of 80.

We really need to normalize politicians retiring. They shouldn’t all stay in power until they literally die of old age.

That only works if it kills people (or makes them infertile) before they are 40 or so (for women) or 60 or so (for men), right?

Why does Holland sound like he’s from Liverpool? 🤔

I’m so sorry. It must be terrifying knowing how many of your fellow drivers are zipping around with worn brake pads or broken turn signals. 😬

Presumably your car has an annual safety inspection. The inspection could include writing down your milage, right? I’m pretty sure there are already laws against tampering with your odometer…

I keep thinking making a magic mirror would be such a project…

Well… without Mitchell McConnell ignoring the Constitution to get two extra appointees for Trump 1, we might be at a 4-5 decision the other way…

I think the reasoning is that since black people vote like 80% Democrat, drawing maps to ensure no black people get elected is fine. There are no federal laws against purely partisan gerrymandering, after all.

And honestly with this Supreme Court, even if the state legislatures involved said very loudly “we changed the voting districts for the express purpose of limiting black representation” they would find some convoluted way of allowing it.

…in mice.

I don’t think this is true. I think that Europe is trying to separate its interests from the USA as quickly as it can without causing pain for European countries or inviting retaliation from the US.