If you have a cat named Princess Donut, I don’t know if you’re lucky or unfortunate

Get a mask, gloves, a stick welder, and some scrap steel for practice. You can learn it off of Youtube easily enough.

Just whatever you do, DON’T WELD GALGANIZED STEEL! The zinc evaporates into fumes and can get you very sick and possibly kill you. If you absolutely have to weld galvanized steel, do it outside with a fan blowing all the fumes down wind.

Tbh, if I thought that I couldn’t get another job I’d just buy some land and start homesteading. I work in an office, but I’m also no stranger to manual labor

And it’s the most likely solution. The universe has been hostile to life until very recently (on a cosmological scale). We know we’re rather early in the goldilocks zone of universal habitability.

I just find it odd when some people argue “humans aren’t special enough to be that lucky. We’re too stupid to achieve more”. It’s odd because calling humans stupid is actually arguing that humans are exceptional. Meanwhile you don’t have to be exceptional to be lucky.

And if you’re wondering, it’s Lex Friedman that argues this. And no, I don’t listen to him anymore. I stopped once over 50% of the people he interviewed were just AI and crypto shills

Obviously, if there was a significant atmosphere the moon would experience atmospheric drag and would fall to earth.

Would it?

The Moon is slowly drifting further away because Earth’s rotation is significantly faster than the lunar orbit. Some of Earth’s rotational energy is bled into the lunar orbit, causing it to increase in height, which in turn lowers its orbital period.

If there was a significant atmosphere for Earth at that height, you’d think it would actually give the Moon a boost

There are over 100 volcanos on Antarctica

They basically invented gambling for chlidren

The gambling sites aren’t owned by Valve

they actually are the one that have anticompetitive practice

Citation desperately needed, and not just the one internal email from 10 years ago that reads like a misunderstanding.

they take a huge cut of 30%

30% is standard across the industry, including itch.io and GOG. And given that EGS just laid off 1000 employees, it’s looking like 12% isn’t a sustainable business model.

Don’t forget that EGS has been using anti-consumer policies like paid exclusives from the start. Meanwhile Steam, GOG, and itch.io don’t force exclusivity, allowing an open ecosystem. Tim Swiney isn’t against monopolies, he’s just mad that he doesn’t habe one.

And let’s not forget that Steam has been investing in open source and Linux gaming for years. PC gaming are getting close to a point where making walled off gardens becomes impossible.

Do I think billionaires should exist? No. But when there’s one that’s actively building systems to keep digital ecosystems open permanently, I’m willing to make an exception.

But you’re clearly just some gullible jackass that fell for Tim Swiney’s propaganda hook line and sinker. You speak of cognitive dissonance despite being fully immersed in it yourself. Go touch grass; you desperately need it.

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You can build your own router fyi

And you can even mix-and-match cells of both types in a vehicle to better fit a target demographic. It’s not simply one or the other.

That being said, it’s better to have a car with a 200 mile range sodium battery and a small range extender for that 2-4 times per year trip

There wasn’t really a reason to boycott it anyway.

Yes there was. It’s called “fuck those monopolistic cunts at EGS, they don’t get my money”

Fuck off with your false equivalence bullshit.

EGS has used anticompetitive and anti consumer practices from day one, all because Tim Swiney is a petty asshole that wants to be at the top of the pile.

Meanwhile Valve has generally been pro-consumer and built a relatively good service

GrapheneOS is looking like a really good prospect nowadays

You know what this is called? A healthy and competitive market.

Yeah, I get there’s layoffs, but that’s mainly at AAA studios and is a symptom of a previously unhealthy, highly consolidated market. The job losses suck, but now diversity and competition is coming back, and that’s generally a good thing for consumers.

Huh. Just found out that Bandcamp isn’t owned by Epic Games anymore. It was sold off to someone else back in 2023. Guess I don’t have a reason to boycott it now

Theoretically, both could be done. Theoretically.

Not forever

I’d rather we get rid of oil subsidies first

Except nickel is fairly rare, driving up the costs. Sodium isn’t

Because guns are bad, mmmkay?

/s