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  • As long as it's got mech switches and can run a qwerty layout I'm happy

  • He's unqualified, but at this point I'm surprised they didn't assign the case to a cactus named detective pokey.

  • No justice without truth, Congress won't impeach and DOJ won't prosecute, we've been here before with Mueller and the insurrection.

  • I usually watch more older movies than TV shows, but a couple that stand out to me are

    Star Trek TNG is great sci-fi but skip season 1 or at least the first few episodes, Deep Space Nine is a close second for me for top trek but also a slow start establishing the characters and setting. The original series definitely looks dated but the dialogue and music are still really enjoyable.

    There's not many shows with a laugh track I can handle but I've always had a soft spot for Night Court & the reboot

    Twin peaks is fantastic if you enjoy some dreamlike melodrama with commentary on contemporary media

    And if you've watched some low budget '80s era TV you might enjoy Garth Marenghi's Darkplace which satirized a lot of the tropes and bigotry of the time.

  • The requirements for justice includes truth (objective facts of reality not merely opinion or belief or rumors) for accountability, attacking education prevents an ability to evaluate if something presented confidently as truth is truth. It's a fast track to corruption and injustice.

    Putin, Trump, Erdogan, etc style of extreme right wing populist propaganda is to attack truth and prevent justice by weaponizing ignorance. They're spreading a firehouse of distracting lies, for example staged attacks against people representing their beliefs on facebook and twitter, to a public who is at least in part unable or unwilling to critically evaluate facts of reality from propaganda lies. Another more general example is if you're not aware of confirmation bias and how it's used and works due to a lack of education you are going to be much more susceptible to it's effects when used.

    People aren't necessarily getting dumber other than some temporary dips due to toxic environmental things like lead in fuel or maybe some effects of toxicity we're not aware of yet, It's just the people who were already susceptible to fascist rhetoric & con artists are being indoctrinated against education as either unnecessary or harmful, which makes them easier to continue to mass propagandize to with more methods that have fewer rules platforms need to follow compared to older mass media propaganda like newspapers or network TV news.

  • I like the physiological side effects of reading books and long form articles like being able to hold focus longer and easier, slowing down to consider things instead of jumping to reaction, exercise my imagination, etc. Also maintaining a habit of reading before bed to reduce screen time before and keep a somewhat consistent bed time. And lastly reading text books, fiction, comic books, etc a mix to get a mix of entertainment and education.

  • If I go with unique experiences as a criteria just to mix it up a bit I have a few

    Playing xwing with a f16 flight stick is really fun and one of my first gaming experiences outside of nes and arcades. Just really fun fast paced fighter combat. A close second would be everspace or Chorus on a controller.

    Playing one of the big multiplayer arcade cabinets like Simpsons or X-Men was the original couch co-op with whoever was at the arcade not playing pinball or pool.

    Beating your first boss in a dark souls or elden ring game feels like a big accomplishment, sometimes even more than the later ones when your character gets more powerful.

    Going from small groups with friends to raids in an MMORPG feels like starting a whole new game, EverQuest and wow were big ones for me.

    Edit: fix typo, add type to flight stick

  • A few I enjoyed from the current decade are Pentiment, return to monkey Island, and twelve minutes

    Open it up to 2010s and you'll include The Wolf among us, the walking dead, Kentucky route zero, Sam and Max devils playhouse, etc

  • Obvious troll scapegoating bullshit to shift blame from his fascist anti-humanist stance that empathy is weakness and not the old idiotic misconception of mistaking kindness for weakness. Go back to playing with forks.

  • Yeah people love it when you fuck with their money

  • Afraid of everything, a coward given all the power of the executive and capable of only whining, shifting blame, and scapegoating the working class and poor. How evil do you have to be to deny asylum seekers and refugees?

  • One of the few books I've stayed up all night to finish the first time I read it in high school, definitely worth the read.

  • Alt: Lester Freamon, character from The Wire played by Clarke Peters who had the 'glasses down the nose let me school you' look down perfectly