I used to really like their sedans. The 300 was the last good car they made before they were tossed aside by Stellantis to make fucking minivans.

Maybe possessions go off Final Fantasy Tactics rules. Too low a faith stat and magic does nothing.

Back in the early 2000s there was a Jurassic Park III-adjacent game that used the same gimmick. It was called Scan Command and the idea was the bar code scans would give you genetic parts that you could use to upgrade your dinosaurs. I very quickly found out you could use a thin blanket and rub the scanner back and forth over it to get as many parts as you want.

Some kids were just too dumb to notice it or thought it was probably some kind of light.

Kellogg also recommended all his patients undergo circumcision to lower the evil temptation of masturbation.

Communist centrally planned economies suck. That’s how you end up with panicking factory and farm managers exaggerating their production to the state to not end up in the gulag. A better alternative could be petitioning the government for money to start a worker-owned co-op that produce things at quantities that people would actually want. Do that and keep the government democratic composed of different parties with socialist mindsets at their heart and things should be better for all without the baggage of authoritarianism.

Can’t there be an alternative like a user-curated search engine? Users could label their favorite sites with the proper keywords and then the community could up/downvote the results for quality control.

Trek should be closer to what we had in the TOS or TNG films. A continuation of a TV show that already has established characters that had plenty of time to explore who they are. I’m willing to bet this new Trek film is gonna be another TOS rehash to avoid having to do any of that.

Someone should Photoshop all the arches in the background into Arch logos.

Luckily the extended editions didn’t try to feature all the songs in the books. I want an epic fantasy, not a damned musical.

A lot of the propaganda these isolated people are fed dehumanizes those whom Trump and the Republican party wish to target. These “victims” of propaganda shouldn’t be sympathized with or even pitied because they each have a conscience that they deliberately silenced in order to feel as part of something greater than themselves. Even if these people are somehow rehabilitated this time it’s very obvious they’ll fall back to the same patterns that got us into this mess to begin with.

The only effective way to break the cycle is to destroy the propaganda machine and force a change in the very culture and identity they’re a part of. You’re right these people aren’t a monolith, but you see some recurring themes like nationalism, Christianity, pride in ignorance, and toxic individualism that conservatives just know how to leverage to drive them into a frenzy.

Not some. All. We all got to live through his first term and the failed insurrection with the Jan 6ers. The fact they voted for him a third time is proof they didn’t care about any of that.

Depressing but not undeserved. These people have some less than altruistic reasons for electing the con man.

Old medieval pages look so fascinating. Too bad the letters are so beautifully drawn that I can’t even try reading what each word says.

Throw in remote work. No one needs to be in an office to do paperwork.

Is this Loss?

The head of a related department at work kept bragging about his plans to make a brand new tech doc for months to the higher ups but the problem with that is he didn’t have enough people to back it up. Upper management wants results already but the guy has too much pride to say it’ll need to be delayed until the headcount climbs back up. Instead he’s dragging my manager and by extension, me, into his plans. Now I’m being forced to bail out the other manager while not having the background necessary to produce a good doc on time. It’s so bad that we’re having twice a week workshops to cover this shit.

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When an organization targets a metric, that same metric will then fail it eventually. It even happened to the Soviets when plant managers had to over report production or else face the wrath of the administration. I often wonder why management can’t just realize some things are better left untouched lest they break something.