radix

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[–] radix 7 points 6 months ago

Rimworld takes place in the Cars universe. The people left Earth when the tanks became self-aware.

[–] radix 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

(Paraphrasing an old comment from the Bad Site)

"Make America Great" would be a fine, if bland slogan. Everybody wants that. It's not controversial, but also not distinctive in any way.

"Make America Greater than Ever" would be better. The implication being that we can do better, and be better. But they intentionally went with something else.

It seems to me, and as you have identified, that the "Again" is the key part of the phrase that drives the whole narrative. Here's the kicker: by nearly every objective measure, the country is safer, richer, more equal, and has a better overall quality of life today than at any point in history[1]. The only thing that has significantly declined over the last 40-50 years is "the percentage of total societal influence held by straight white men."

"Again" is the dog-whistle of misogyny, racism, and homophobia, wrapped up in the plausible deniability of nostalgia for an objectively worse time.

[1] There may be some room for disagreements here, primarily because of the first Trump administration and the pandemic years causing some backsliding, but this was especially true in 2016 when the slogan first really appeared, which is when it should be judged.

[–] radix 5 points 6 months ago

The best investments in maintenance - whether infrastructure, IT, whatever - is the one the next generation can make fun of. That means it worked.

[–] radix 5 points 6 months ago

IIRC, there was a bug in the race car (F1? Indy?) where if you max out the speed, it would get stuck at that speed no matter what. Then you could take it off any ramp and jump most of the way across the map. Just messing around with the map editor and that car wasted so many weekends for me.

[–] radix 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Depends what you were expecting. Cold coffee and warm soda are the same temperature.

[–] radix 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Even if he were a natural born citizen, he'd have to live in the US for 14 years first to be eligible.

[–] radix 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

$30 for the early access plus a bit of micro transaction currency.

Questionable value, but a terrible headline.

[–] radix 5 points 6 months ago

I had a mid 80s Cutlass Ciera that had a driver door that wouldn't open from the outside. Thankfully it was basically a bench front seat, so climbing though worked well enough. Later, I had a VW Jetta with a similar issue. Whenever it gold cold, the driver door would basically freeze shut. That was way harder for a big guy to climb into. I went through the back seat, and even the window, more than once.

Best of luck on the repairs.

[–] radix 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Southwest Airlines appears to be unaffected, possibly because they have critical systems running in Windows 3.1.

[–] radix 7 points 6 months ago

That's Washington State in a nutshell.

[–] radix 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The mod includes everything needed to downgrade other stores' copies. To the end user, the idea is to make it as transparent as possible. This will work on Steam (with some work) and GOG (with less work), but not Epic(at all). Calling out one storefront unnecessarily would be "provocative bullshit" but in this case, it matters.

[–] radix 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Tough to tell from a picture alone, but maybe something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/ACROPIX-16-4ft-Universal-Plastic-Optic/dp/B0C7KX1GFL

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