Appreciate the optimistic positivity. Honestly pretty ready to pull the bandaid at this point I just know it’ll be a process.

Fucking hell I reeeeeally need to setup Proton.

Yeah anyone I’ve experienced that talks shit about SNAP has never been in dire enough straights to actually need that safety net. It’s always assholes that have had someone to fall back on, people they can ask for money, or spend mommy and daddy’s money without consequence. I support these systems because I know what being dropped on your ass is like and not knowing where your next meal is going to come from. Nobody, especially children, deserve to go hungry in the modern world.

I know it differs per state but for a single member household the max benefit is approx $300 a month. It goes up when adding more family members, with a household of 4 getting approx $1k per month. I guess it is possible that a state offers lower benefits per family member, so $176 isn’t too far of a stretch per person. The fact of the matter is that he did it and got away with it, not how many people he technically robbed.

Of course it was a WRX hahaha so perfect.

Yeah except the damage is already done. The issue is every time he does this shit the countries that aren’t able to import to America go elsewhere and start up in those countries. If they already established why the fuck would they come back and risk the loss again off the tariff rug pull? It’s not only logical it’s a better business move to just stick where you are where the market is going to be stable. This is what happened to the soy farmers.

Ah yes, the age old practice or apologizing to one another on the Internet. Truly a trusted ritual here. /S

Bro I’m with you I’m not even autistic and this shit just seems emotionally exhausting.

I only knew snippets of this as well even years later so I appreciate the rundown. Thanks for typing it up!

Dude this is like my core ethos. It irritates the shit out of me. Like you said, just endless squandered potential for fucking what? So dumb. Not to mention all the energy waste throwing around all that data and endlessly recording and storing it.

I bought a $500 dollar video security system and they pulled this shit on me. Not Google, but Arlo. Not even a ‘hey we will just disable some of the cloud benefits’ just straight up disabled my shit and gave me a shitty ‘heres 10 percent off a new system!’ email. I don’t buy into smart always connected tech much as is, but that was def a reason for me to not buy anything further.

Yeah I’m in agreement here as well. As someone going in blind though you tend to pass judgement based on what you first see. In the age of streaming most people are going to start on S01E01. I definitely get your point.

God so accurate on Schitt’s. A friend recommended that show and when me and the wife got past epi 1 we were like ‘wow this is hot garbage’. Yeah no, just setting up and showing you how horrible they were initially which I think makes their transformations that much more impactful later in the show.

The new age Evil Dead movies are some of my favorites. Definitely underappreciated I feel like.

If you’re at all interested in Factory type games I highly recommend Dyson Sphere Project. You start planetside but building / flying around your Dyson Sphere as it’s being constructed is amazing. Also a mention of No Man’s Sky wouldn’t be bad. They’re still releasing content for it, which is crazy at this point.

Legitimately one of my faves. Always gets me.

For the gamers here using Linux: what about Discord? One of my only social outlets currently is unfortunately through Discord with some friends. There any issues with drivers for headsets and/or Discord having issues?

Edit: Thanks for the responses everyone!!

Sounds good, thanks!

This movie was definitely one of those ‘wtf this has no right being this good’ type movies. I actually enjoyed the hell out of it. Now I feel like I need to go watch it again. Thanks for reminding me that it exists!

This is interesting because I bought the book. I wasn’t aware there was a manga. Now I’m wondering if the manga or the book came first.