I feel like half the captions are AI now and are pretty shit. In a few more years it’ll be illegal to have a disability.

I miss some of the explorer features. Specially right click dragging.

I also have some trouble balancing all the smaller storage devices that get used by programs.

I feel like most enterprise software has moved behind a browser because windows sucks.

Of course, the rest is in java.

I would like you to.

I live in the South.

I had a salvation experience after a drug problem in my teens. I was from a broken home and the love bombing was the best experience of my life. I went all in on faith. Worked for the church for a number of years. I think I saw the machinations of the church and politics and tried to talk to people, but the faith bit of the church is actually pretty minor.

Most of my issues with the church, I only have because I experienced life outside of the church first.

It’s a group of individuals just like any other. Among the fundamentalists is a hard line that taught something called young earth creationism. This is the belief that the record of creation in the Bible and it’s genealogy is literal records of individuals and time. This makes all of recorded history and science almost a malicious lie against the reality of the Bible and anyone who believes.

Now, here in the South the church still holds genuine power, so this throws in the racists who primarily are opposed to school integration and education (read wages). Because these are the landowner class that has been able to hang onto wealth for generations they have access to capital they are largely able to shape political policies just with jobs and stuff.

This slipstream (social networking or corruption) can then be used to elevate proper behavior and elect officials (a typical mega church can put out a sign up by the coffee bar for community events and such and get free labor and keep the kids off the street).

My only other real social group was the drug trade which was pretty much merit based lol, but honestly how many people see that another world is possible? If I had a sheltered childhood and a kid at eighteen, I’d better get in line and worry about the morality later. People can’t live off of unconnected wages down here, again real economic power.

This marriage of money power and faith struck me. Once you look at that geographicly it gets ugly. Its why conservatives are so pissed off. They have a working parallel social group that’s actually quite a bit nicer. So, not escaped, but aware.

There’s a cost and it is high. Shunning is real and fucks people’s lives up. It’s much worse in smaller towns where the police are sheriff and therefore good church going evictors are on side. Plus, it’s not stuff that you can really be honest about because people are living their lives and pretty trapped.

I think that’s where the molestation stuff comes in, then it’s a secret and we have to protect the church and stuff and you sort of have to because kids gotta eat, plus his dad owns have the dealerships in the county.

It’s sort of like that bell curve meme: it’s racists > it’s a different but unequal social networking > it’s racists.

I grew up in integrated schools though, even in a fervor there was only so far that I could go with it as id deconstructed some of that already. Plus I was really patriotic, so overthrowing the government seemed a bit much.

What people forget about the South is that these power structures predate and supercede pretty much everything in the South. Even though I’m white, I’m a part of a rebellion that stole generational wealth from them and if I want to reproduce and have my children have any sort of financial independence I need to bend the knee. That’s why all the groveling is just washing over conservatives, it’s just a part of life down here.

Cherokee were matriarchal. So bagging a Cherokee princess or lying who knows has been a popular tall tale for a while. I’m sure some of that is horrible, but I’m sure some of that is people being people.

Because of that, I’m also fairly sure everyone in the South is a bit mixed as well. I think that’s why we’re so into separate cemeteries.

I guess I’d sort of guess the same to be true in other culturally racially mixed places.

True lol

I want one, but I’m not sure I $100 want one.

Yeah, but now they got that phone laptop. I am curious to see if Apple becomes the personal computer company again, or if this will be their chromeos.

I think these locked down phones were just too perfect.

Can’t have these unsupervised conversations or, God forbid, something actually disruptive.

Nice

It beats the mines.

It’s been a long time, but I feel like I remember multiplayer being sort of where it was at. Like Perfect dark was right up there with bond

Are the aliens going to rape and enslave?

Lol, you’re glad about it?

My hankys.

If it’s yellow you got some sinusitis, probably need some Sudafed (behind the counter kind) and some neti pot. If it’s green, you may have to go to the Dr to get some antibiotics. If it’s red, you probably need a humidifier and/or some saline mist.

Suicide perfume

That makes me sad. It ran my TV for like a decade

Ive tried the second and it’s good too. Pretty fun tower defense and no need to buy anything or watch ads.

VR as a whole is pretty borked on Linux so far.