Jearom

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[–] Jearom 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to know what the moon blowing up would be like, give Seveneves by Neal Stephenson a read. It’s the last book that got me to stay up all night reading. First two thirds are a solid 9/10.

[–] Jearom 2 points 1 year ago

I’m planning to give it a read and if I plan to use it, buy it in print. They’re still an unknown to me ;)

[–] Jearom 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey that’s cool, thanks for sharing.

I’m glad to see this project was a success! I had passed on this when they were originally on KS because (candidly) I had zero expectation they were ever going to deliver. The creator was a total unknown and if you’ve been on KS as long as I have (7+ years and over 150 backed projects) you grow to be suspicious of that.

[–] Jearom 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome! I’ll be looking forward to it, thanks again for sharing, and for answering my question!

[–] Jearom 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, neat aesthetic! Wishlisted it on the strength of that, alone :)

I’d be interested to learn what your primary influences are, what inspired you, what do you hope the game invokes memories of in your players?

On a more tactical matter: do you plan to support the Steam Deck?

[–] Jearom 4 points 1 year ago

It’s never worked for me.

[–] Jearom 1 points 1 year ago

I like to keep space at the bottom, and only 3 buttons in the dock. Most-used, quick access in the bottom right.

[–] Jearom 5 points 1 year ago

Nov 8, 2022: 10, 33, 41, 47, 56, 10

[–] Jearom 9 points 1 year ago

Posting from the app, looking great! Thank you, @aeharding, you’re doing amazing work here. Migrating to Lemmy from the other place has been such a breeze with this app to smooth the way.

[–] Jearom 4 points 1 year ago

Happy to! Thanks for posting it originally. FT does good reporting, their paywall is obnoxious.

[–] Jearom 48 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/UozLV

In my view, the gerontocracy is a side effect of deeper, systemic issues: too much power in incumbency, too much power placed in the hands of the hands of too few, too much power given to money. I would prioritize these three changes to fix our democracy:

  1. Publicly funded elections
  2. Uncap the House
  3. Term limits on the Supreme Court

That’s it. Everything else flows downhill from there.

[–] Jearom 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not being argumentative, but according to public records this place is privately owned by a person (or family) who bought it in 1997 (not a corp or LLC). It was listed for rent 2 years ago at $3900 before being taken down a month later.

That’s why I see it as a parallel market. I have a hard time seeing how folks being hurt by crazy rent prices are affected by this home being on Airbnb, any more than (say) a shortage of Ferraris would affect the price of minivans.

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