I want to play 900 more yoko taro games

What would this look like in practice? I’m betting money laundering so that corporations can double dip; they passed the tariff charge onto consumers through higher prices but somehow it will be justified that the vast majority of any refunds will go to corporations because they ultimately paid the tariffs directly. So you paid the tariff indirectly that way then you’ll pay again via taxes because everyone knows they’ve pissed away whatever money was raised through this dumb shit.

If they’re smart they’ll earmark 1/4-1/3rd of it to send out $1000 refund checks. It won’t make up for what tariffs have cost the average american household (barely half, by many estimates) but it’ll be enough “free money” to convince idiot voters to come out in numbers especially if well timed

At first this wouldn’t load and was just the spinning thing but a bit longer than normal, probably because of some network issue on my part, but I thought for a bit that you had really expertly trolled me.

I mean the meme is good too, iap and subscriptions dumb (it would also absolutely have obtrusive ads) but man that would’ve been great

Well divorce was significantly more difficult depending on region. The primary benefits a spouse would have over a mistress are marital ones. the ability to visit in a hospital, transfer of estate, and in the case of divorce things like alimony, child support, and division of the marital estate.

However, those last ones are predicated on the ability to get divorced. We take for granted the ability to get married and then just be able to break off a marriage the way one would break up when dating (no fault divorce. It wasn’t always like this, and it was fairly recently that this changed in many areas.

It used to be though that one had to go to a judge and prove some kind of fault. Adultery, impotence (meaning your husband couldn’t give you kids), addiction, abandonment, etc. but these actually had to be proven, some were easy to prove than others, and some courts in some regions were far more strict (about how you’d expect: more conservative areas tended to be more strict about trapping women whereas liberal areas they’d be more of a formality).

These laws again were changed relatively recently. The first state to change to no fault was California under Reagan in 1969. The last was New York in 2010.

Note that this is a topic you’ll see occasionally pop up from the maga crowd. It’s lower on their priority list so you don’t hear about it as often but eliminating no fault divorce laws is definitely something a lot of them endorse. The last time it came up iirc was when that chud crowder went on his podcast crying about how he was blindsided by the divorce and how no fault divorce was the real problem, not him being an abusive shithead.

Then mysteriously he had his home camera leak showing him berating his wife for like 10 straight minutes and revealing that he does a lot of creepy domestic abuser shit like only having one car for their whole family that he primarily controls despite them clearly being obscenely wealthy. Then while he went on damage control he blamed his wife’s mental health, told the world she was on psych meds and they made her unpredictable.

Marriage was a contract for slavery for a lot of people. If you work with the elderly you’ll see that patterning still engrained in a lot of the boomer couples that are now in their 70s-80s. The women, when alone, will act one way and do whatever but when their husbands come back they will often fall into a role of subservience. They will essentially be a caretaker. The roles will sometimes reverse but usually only when absolutely necessary (eg injury, illness) and bare minimums done (eg wife will cook elaborate meals, do laundry, clean, etc whereas husband will prepare leftovers from wife or prepared foods, may do some basic laundry and cleaning but not to same degree, etc) and often they’ll defer to husbands preference. Watching tv together? What does husband want to watch? Etc obviously it’s not all of them and not always to this degree but it’s a lot and often more than feels fair

I have a 200tb nas with all kinds of shit on it. Shows, music, books, manga, llms, software, etc

Keep in mind everything you use the internet for.

Unfortunately llms and tariffs have caused storage to shoot up in price quite a bit. It was quite a bit different a year ago or even better 3-5 years ago. There was a time where I’d add a drive to my NAS every few months when I had an extra hundred bucks but now I only generally only replace a drive when absolutely necessary because it’s pricey. And then on top of that each new drive means more electricity used which is also going up in cost

Useless safety theater. The actuation force this thing must have if it can ambulate and manipulate things? A knife is the least of my worries. What if it grabs me and breaks my arm or kicks me and shatters my shin? This thing would be far more efficient than a human at beating you to death.

The grip strength alone!

And basically all forms of green energy

And high speed rail

And like the majority of metrics that one would use to measure investment in one’s populace

But we spend more on the military then the next like 5 countries put together, so that’s something, I guess. Imagine if we also poured that money into infrastructure instead of facilitating genocide

He’s probably got an insane body too. But the personality doesn’t work, I guess

The “alter ego is a nerd” thing didn’t make sense to me in my teens because I was like “yeah okay, these dudes are fucking shredded and athletic”. Then I found out /fit/ existed and I was like “oh, extremely in shape people can be social misfits too, nice”

just go to shitty restaurants that have those coke freestyle machines. you’ll die of heart disease from eating fast food all the time, or maybe complications from diabetes from all that soda, but you’ll have options. Or maybe just drink water

Goes in waves and based on vendor. My build is based on 18tb drives and 6 months ago when a drive in my array failed my go to vendor (serverpartdeals) had no stock in that capacity. Like 0 units. Had to use my backup vendor (go hard drive) who in my experience is slightly more expensive.

Looking now spd has 18tb back in stock with several models to choose from. 10tb too but much less options (literally 2). Prices are wack nowadays - in 2023 I could get a refurb 18tb exos drive for $180 and now it’s $270-290. Fucking wild and I’m glad I built up my array when I did. It’s generally the cheapest decent option in that capacity; goharddrive has some cheaper options (Toshiba for $230, unaware of statistics for that drive, MDD for $260, rebranded exos drives so a slightly better deal but still way over 2023 prices).

That all said my array is 15 refurb drives and has been going for like 7 years now. Drive failure rate is low, 3 failures in that time. 2 drives was replaced by seagate with a brand new drive bc the spd drive still had mfr warranty left. The 3rd was an HGST that didn’t have mfr warranty but did have spd warranty and they replaced it immediately with an equivalent drive (they didn’t have more HGST at the time). That said I do worry seeing times where they are literally wiped out of stock; if I need a drive replacement I need it asap and if they have nothing on hand does that mean they hold none back for warranty replacements? Sure hope not.

Struggle to recommend them now though because the prices aren’t worthwhile. A new 18tb exos is 280-290 on amazon. Why the fuck would you buy a refurb when a new drive is only $20 more or the same price???

Well now there’s oled so burn in is very much a thing and screensavers are back on TVs at least, except they suck now.

And I would definitely call modern computers stupid but it’s not the computers fault, tbf. A computer is just a thing. It’s the fault of greed mainly. Computers are stupid because they don’t have charming features like screensavers anymore. That’s too expensive. Usability, repairability, user control, etc is sacrificed consistently to shove in advertising and opportunities for upselling. Whenever this isn’t the case it’s almost always a temporary moment before venture capital purchases the company that makes the hardware/software and then they will 100% do that

I don’t know why people think ice using this is strange because many local police departments in the USA have been using this thing for decades for anyone even slightly unruly. It’s supposed to be a last resort mechanical restraint if someone is a true danger but if you watch those youtube bodycam videos you’ll regularly see them throw this out as a threat and use it retributively when someone pisses them off. Of course ice would also use it and would likely use it in even worse ways

Sleep disorder, catch up on work, shitpost, read manga. I try to do productive stuff too like exercise, language study, making stuff, etc but I do have to be contentious of noise as I live with people. Some things are easier than others. Language study is nice because 5am est is 6pm the next day jst so my Japanese language exchange friends are just getting home from work when I’m getting to the end of the night

Thankfully I’ve gotten to the point in life where I can work like 11-7 or 12-8 fairly easily. Brutal for social interaction at my age is the trade off but can’t win them all I guess

I do. It was great.

Many years later Uniqlo released the uniqlock. It was a clock screensaver that had “seasons” which were advertisements for their seasonal clothing releases but it wasn’t really obvious? It was that era where advertising was stupid and weird and “subversive” but it meant we got a cool screensaver that was updated for like 6 years with new content for free. Normally I despise advertising but this was the kind that was up front about it: it was like here’s a thing, check it out, it’s free, no data collection. Simpler times.

Unfortunately it was made in flash and died many years ago when flash was kill. That hasn’t stopped people who were also fans of it from recreating it although unfortunately said site doesn’t work great on mobile and is a website, not a screensaver, but still nice to be able to see it again

The dvd screensaver was just another screensaver at the time. There used to be cool things. Like install windows 95 or 98 and there’s default screensavers that were basically just programmers showing off - the pipes constantly growing into each other, a starfield, a generative maze that you just wander through, etc. then there was a whole thing for people to make screensavers (Uniqlo made one of the coolest ones).

Now computers are stupid and monitors just turn off. To be fair this is probably better for the environment

I think she sees the writing on the wall and is gunning to be the leader of whatever populist conservative movement arises post trumpism

I don’t know shit about Cantonese and the only mandarin I know is the most basic of phrases and stuff to refer to food (so essentially nothing) so I can’t speak to that

Japanese is hard, but so is any language. You get out what you put in. I wasted about a year with “studying” half assed for like 10-15 minutes a day with duolingo. It was good that I had a consistent routine but at the end of 1 year I had very little to show for my effort. Learn from my mistake.

After that I switched things up. I didn’t put in a ton more time but I changed approach. Pretty standard but boring stuff: Anki, Assimil, and some other more targeted apps later on (renshuu, Benkyō, and most recently kanji dojo have been helpful). Setting up language exchange calls via apps like hello talk and discord have been far more helpful as things have progressed. This is more of a significant time investment and requires me to teach English a bit but I am happy to do it for free Japanese instruction. Joining group chats on line, watching YouTubers and vtubers, anime and dramas, etc also is helpful but the hard part was determining when to make the jump to not use subtitles and finding content that was digestible at my level. I’m not the kind of weeb that watches precure and little kid shows but for a minute I did just to watch stuff without subs. It sucked.

After about 5 years I got decent enough to have solid conversations via phone and text. Then DeepL came out and made it all pointless haha

“Anything else anywhere else”

Clarify - do you mean remote access? Are you using your phone for local access (eg localhost:8096 or 192.168.0.1:8096 or some kind of mDNS like arch.local:8096)? None of that will work outside of your home without additional configuration nor should you just openly expose it to the greater internet without doing much more research. Short version though - easy mode: tailscale or wireguard, harder version headscale but can be fully self hosted.

If this isn’t a remote access issue and it’s just some devices aren’t working locally (eg your phone and browser can connect but tv can’t) I would bet it’s a networking issue with firewall/router. What do logs say? This is one that can be trickier because logs on jellyfin side won’t necessarily have any useful info (they might if client is trying and failing to connect, worth a look) and logs on the other side might be a nightmare or even impossible to access (eg a smart tv and you don’t have a developer account for apple/android/webos)

Also means that a robust community of people creating businesses to sell variations of the hardware for those who aren’t as maker friendly cannot emerge, correct?

Bc imo that’s what really got early 3d printing off the ground. Like back in 2010 during the reprap days there were all the independent maker storefronts plus a few bigger ones like lulzbot and makerbot (that eventually all got put out of business or bought for toxic modern shit like bambulab because in the modern day under capitalism every single industry has to consolidate until it’s under a few large extremely consumer hostile companies with okay products that just eventually get worse and worse bc there’s no competition or regulation for them but I digress).

Without this industry or a proper open source platform I don’t see how this will succeed

That debate with Hiroyuki was pretty wild. Like the shitposting troll vlogger and literal owner of 4chan running a debate between PM candidates of a world power.

Like can you imagine asmongold running the 2028 presidential debates and feeding the candidates questions from the twitch chat