I never finished this game ._.
“After 21 years, Boku’s relaxing summer adventures are finally playable in English.”
‘Many of our financial “obligations” are actually wealth-building tools.’
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Although NASA had good intentions, feelings were hurt. “NASA really out here telling kids to stop dreaming and instead engrave their name on a tiny plate,” an engineering intern at SpaceX, Nathan Commissariat, wrote on X, while others accused the space agency of being dismissive and discouraging explorers from aiming for the impossible.
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
The Gizmodo generation has been raised to believe that feelings are what matters and literally anything is possible.
Neither does Jupiter.
For many young nerdy men that fictional video character is the closest they will ever be to a woman that arouses them.
See my comment last thread on the mental health of men. We dont just want to look at women, we need to.
Link #1 looks like a cripple fight to me.
To be fair almost all fights these days look that way to me. I suppose members of the herd just cannot bring themselves to quit with the dumbfuckery calculated to force the other members of the herd to comply with their own life preferences.
Thank Christ, for a second there I thought a pop science article might not have a political hook.
There may be some moons out there where colonization is possible, but planets? Nope. Until we find one with a magnetosphere, a breathable atmosphere, suitable light, decent gravity or at least some of that it is just not a viable possibility. Our own moon may be possible? A permanent dark side to shield from solar radiation, probable water source, close to earth….difficult but maybe. It will also require a financial incentive…mining? Doubtless the moon has mineable resources. The trouble will be returning refined products to the earth. Those are solvable problems.
Anyway, forget baking in harsh solar radiation, living in an oceans of methane or sulfuric acid, battling crushing gravity or lack thereof. Aint gonna happen.
Mars seems as likely as Luna if you assume you’re going to have to do domed living / have some sort of radiation shield. Certainly no magnetosphere or enough atmosphere there to write home about, true.
Hollowing out an asteroid and spinning it is another possibility — I think the hard SF of the 60s and 70s covered a lot of these, certainly Niven did (though he assumed that reasonable fusion drives / reactors would happen eventually). But honestly, solar furnace / smelting and old school Orion drives once you’re out there if nothing else.
Civilization on another planet? I’d just be happy to have civilization here on Earth.
Off-world colonization is just a substitute eschaton for the irreligious. What NASA posted was entirely correct and they owed no apology. It’s the retarded tribal angle the article picks up that irks me, nothing else.
The only permanent dark side on the moon is maybe in some craters near the poles. The moon rotates like any other object relative to the sun.
That’s a great FEE article about the “living paycheck to paycheck” hysteria. The self-reporting and subjectiveness of those things always bothered me but this article articulates the reasons.
When people are demonstrably cutting spending on groceries, it’s not hysteria.
It’s more the way the number is constructed and the survey design and how it creates that “hysteria” that it intends.
Hell, we don’t live paycheck to paycheck, but have changed our grocery buying habits.
Agreed. Sorry.
See also: “going hungry”, “living in poverty”, etc. etc.
I need to fix that. I actually got a call from my bank asking me if I wanted “financial planning” – that is how I found out I probably have too much in my checking account. But it is very comforting so I left it there.
I know I have too much in my savings account, but that’s generally for planning and saving for things that will be spent in the next year or two. If there was a better alternative that I could stick the cash in (that I was aware of), I would.
I use SmartyPig. They’re paying decently and it’s semi-liquid (in that it takes a couple of days for transfer).
Banks do that all the time for anybody with anything over a grand in combined checking / savings to sell them wealth management services.
*looks at my bank waiting for wealth management offers*
Oooo, private banking. I hear it’s not worth it.
They are generally products that are available from other places at similar costs.
It really boils down to who is giving you the advice and not the products.
The issue is that they have no FDIC insurance. The will tell you that, but it won’t be front and center. That’s perfectly find for many, but not all.
I can see how the balances could exceed FDIC limits.
No. The products are uninsured. Full stop. First dollar.
See how you were confused!
Eh, moot point for me.
Also FEE when the housing market crashes: “a HoMe iSn’T An InVEsTmEnT.” Smear as much lipstick as you like on the fucking pig, it costs a piss load of money to live nowadays, and inflation, as it always has been, is a tax on savings.
Yeah, I’m not seeing the “upside” of living paycheck to paycheck no matter how you’re defining it, and I’ll wager that their guessing as to what people mean by it is overly optimistic.
Also. It’s fucking expensive to be poor.
Optimally a mortgage is a form of savings, true… but if you’re seeing discretionary income shrink, have no savings — the possibility of foreclosure and losing all of said “savings” (as far as I know – never been through the process — the bank doesn’t give you any of the equity back when they seize the asset, after all… that’s money pissed into the wind if you lose the house) doubtless makes it feel much less like “savings”.
Mars..a big maybe? That is a long trip with the same benefits closer by.
We can already bend space a bit so that light can jump from one point to another without having to transverse the distance between those points. One day perhaps we can transport people and material that way. That would be a key that could unlock the entire universe for us.
The possibilities are breath taking.
As for earth-like planets with life on them, I will take a hard pass on that, thanks very much. It would be an entire planet crawling with trillions of bugs we have never been exposed to before. An earth critter would be infected and turn into a puddle of jelly in about 5 minutes.
Ok… but that’s still not going to pay your mortgage, man.
😉
*facepalm*
No, a mortgage payment is not a form of savings. It is a debt payment, which is kind of the opposite of savings.
Your house may or may not be a good investment, that you may or may not be able to get cash out of, but that has nothing to do with whether a bank has a lien on it.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. The word is delusional, you short attention span idiots. Just like the word is suspicious, not suss. Stop destroying perfectly functional words because you want to talk in 80 character texts like gibbering cocaine ridden monkeys.
Now get off my goddamn lawn.
I haven’t heard that one. That’s cray-cray.
I need to find out how to get subscribed to your newsletter fine sir.
I’ll need to check my spend, first.
No cap, fr fr.
“Suss” goes back at least to the 1960s as UK slang. One common usage is “picked up on suss” ie someone was picked up by the police for interrogation because they were suspected of a crime. In The Who’s “Tommy” there’s a lyric “I’ve got you sussed,” meaning that the person speaking thinks he has the other person “sussed out,” ie knows what their motives are.
A while ago I wrote about my hockey season. They just posted our schedule for the NHL Sled Classic in Tampa. They put us in Tier 3 (out of 6). That’s the highest I’ve ever played at this tournament. We have played some of these teams before, it should be really competitive.
https://cdn1.sportngin.com/attachments/document/d83e-3070702/2023-24_Sled_Classic_Schedule_FINAL_V2.pdf
Congratulations.
Go get ’em!!!
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e291caf6-65e7-48b7-b2f7-6fd64c923aee
“After 21 years, Boku’s relaxing summer adventures are finally playable in English.”
So the game is called, ” Boku no Natsuyasumi 2″. Is “Boku” what it is generally known in the west or is this just typical internet journalism?
“Boku” is a first person masculine pronoun. With the “no” it turns it into a possessive – in English it would be “my”. “My Summer Vacation”.
It’s like calling the game “My”.
Beaucoup? That’s too much, man
Such a great scene.
Well, now I’m gonna have to read that FEE thing.
Related to the music link
Evil right wing Nazi terrorist bookburners ban another bookwait, no, let’s try that again.
Four progressive teachers in Washington’s Mukilteo School District wanted to protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful. The blowback was fierce.
Spoiler alert: it’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
The article ends rather abruptly for me but if there’s more, and the author isn’t mercilessly mocking this person, there is no hope.
That caught my eye too. By heavens, let’s not explore what OTHER PEOPLE you don’t relate to experience.
I dunno if it’s another “kids these days” thing or just the WaPo scratching an itch by giving setting up that person as some sort of norm.
I remember primitively personalized story books. “Once upon a time, RHYWUN and his BROTHER set off from home and…” Would that satisfy her?
Given that the progs are the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, KKK, etc and are of late trying to revive all of those horrors I am not surprised that would like to memory hole that lesson. These people that call themselves ‘teachers’ are anything but.
So apparently if you have a sexting video that we don’t know anything about (i.e. consensual, sent to an adult, etc.) you are ineligible for government in employment in some parts of Kansas.
Sexting video of Shawnee city manager was sent to employees, roiling City Hall
You flyover people…
I support this. Nobody should ever have to see that guy naked.
Yeah, why would you block video files from unknown external accounts.
lol
My husband and I were talking about this last night. However, Shawnee is a quite chichi suburb and sontheir tolerance for anything marginally “not tasteful” is low.
So no jobs for Jeffrey Toobin?
What is Carlos Danger, chopped liver?
For that matter, what about Hunter Biden?
I may be around tonight, but probably not tomorrow. So enjoy the Zoom link.
According to Fidelity, the average 401K balance has risen over the last decade by 39%, keeping ahead of inflation. This means, at least in absolute terms, people are putting more wealth into retirement.
Does it, though? Are those balances increasing because of new deposits, or asset appreciation?
I wasn’t that impressed by that article. Come back and tell me what those paycheck to paycheck households are spending all their money on. Vacations? Avocado toast? Art? Antique shotguns? Payments on a $100,000 BMW which will be worth $40,000 in three years?
With the Big Three needing to raise new auto prices soon, that used Beemer may be worth more than $100,000 in three years.
Now imagine your income increases to $100,000, but your preference for emergency savings doesn’t change. That still means with your higher income you are now only saving $1,000 and you spend the other $99,000.
Assume a can opener.
That… that’s not how it’s working for me. When I switched jobs, I bumped up what I had for my weekly budget a bit (which helped counter the ongoing inflation). But I’m saving/investing more now than I was before instead of spending it.
We always suggested that employees increase their 401k contribution, to take advantage of employer match, whenever they got a raise. One’s paycheck should still be higher but the amount going to 401k doesn’t “hurt” so much.
I usually stick with upping my 401(k) contribution by half the raise amount, that way I still get more cash to take home, and I’m still increasing my savings.
I’m already contributing at the max my employer will match but yeah I could be contributing more.
Unless, that is, the government plans on taking it.
Decisions, decisions….
Another complained the novel did not move her, because it wasn’t written about her — or for her.
If I recall correctly, a major feature of the story is about overcoming fear, and doing the right thing in the face of adverse consequences. I can see why such a tale would not resonate with such people.
Remember when some NW proggie college chiseled MLK’s I have a Dream speech off of a wall?
They claimed it was sexist.
Bullshit. His speech said people should be judged by their character and that scares the shit out of proggies. They know damned well they will be found wanting.
Someone tore down a statue of Frederick Douglass in my hometown during the Summer of Love.
Ouch.
“Po-ork!” 🍖
I long ago lost my taste for rap after a childhood infatuation with it during its ascendance in the early to mid ’90s, so I understand I’m not the target market. Nevertheless, call me an old crank, but goddamn does modern rap suck ass. Coming up on 20 years now of the same trap snare, same autotune mumble shit with no flow or cadence, same monosyllabic rhyming scheme. Say what you will about the artistic merit of gangsta rap or g-funk, but at least there was some craft involved. Take me back.
I can’t stand autotune, either sing or don’t sing. Don’t fake it.
Despise it too.
It depends on how much it approaches max effect before I can’t listen to the song.
Worst case is some female vocal softly singing out of tune both sharp and flat and listening to it warble up and down.
Rap. No thanks. Not my taste, not my culture.
I will stick with bluegrass. It is timeless and beautiful.
Why not both?
https://youtu.be/H4hGSR5njZE?si=rG2PF2XsbKy5c_pr
I knew before clicking, Bravo!
I am like rap teflon. I can’t stand any of it.
Please, with your johnny-come-lately hip-hop. I still love the classics.
Nothing to do with listening to that when I was a late teen. Nosiree.
Although I still listen to Tribe albums with some regularity. Nearly perfect. My favorite era of hip-hop.
I think you have to be from the Tri-State area and of a certain age to appreciate the Seaman’s Furniture reference.
Even better.
They always left me a bit cold.
I think we wore out this cassette
Wild allegations
Trump’s legal defense has become indistinguishable from his presidential campaign as he struggles to cope with accountability imposed by courtroom procedures but portrays himself as a victim of political hounding. Just as he tarnished the reputation of the US electoral system among millions of his supporters with false claims of election fraud, the ex-president is now seeking to trash the image of another pillar of American democracy: the courts. And characteristically, he is accusing President Joe Biden, his Justice Department and various prosecutors of being guilty of the very transgression that he himself perpetrated as he portrays the cases against him as “Election Interference.”
Crazy, right? How could anybody think those multiple prosecutions have anything to do with keeping him from getting back to the White House? Justice is blind, you know.
The courts were just sitting there minding their own business and this unhinged lunatic starts talking shit about them.
I get that the TDS crowd is beyond any effort and facts mean jackety shit to them. I get the propaganda tactics. Other than those morons, who are these idiots talking to? Does any sane person not in a coma think the dems ran a clean election? I am even a bit iffy on whether Joe won or not, it is impossible to say for certain. As for the court circus it is pure banana republic monkey shit, a pure sham, every bit of it. CNN thinks they are going to convince people by repeating fabrications and speculations as if they are established fact?
When whoever they replace Joe with “wins” comfortably next year they will have been proven right.
Winner winner chicken dinner. I’m getting a good belly laugh at the people that think Joe or Team Blue will be held to account. Go look at the 2022 election results and get back to me on accountability.
“he tarnished the reputation of the US electoral system among millions of his supporters with false claims of election fraud”
Good lord this is tedious. There have been claims of election fraud since at least 1800. If that’s the test, then the system has been tarnished for 200+ years.
Everyone knows the Russians tainted the electoral system when they supported their puppet in 2016.
“accountability imposed by courtroom procedures but portrays himself as a victim of political hounding”
Because it’s impossible for a judge to abuse xis power to punish someone xe despises.
The judiciary is above all that, except for those racist, evil Nazi scumfucks on the Supreme Court who are hellbent on establishing a theocratic 4th Reich.
All I know is Trump won in2016 and I never got my handmaiden.
Engoron has already ruled against the Trumps on one of the claims at issue — persistent and repeated fraud — so the trial is about various other claims of conspiracy and falsifying business records. It will also decide how much the Republican front-runner and his companies could be forced to pay in restitution.
Restitution? To whom? Won’t the court (judge and prosecutors working as a team) have to identify a victim or victims and quantify their “losses” to establish an amount?
Or is the State of New York the victim, entitled to Trump’s total net worth as punishment for his crimes?
Damn your so called free speech, gentlemen
A New York judge ruled Friday that a limited gag order on Donald Trump should also apply to his attorneys, citing their remarks about his staff and the deluge of threats and harassment directed at his office since the former president’s fraud trial began.
“The threat of, and actual, violence resulting from heated political rhetoric is well-documented,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in a fiery court order Friday afternoon.
“My chambers have been inundated with hundreds of harassing and threating phone calls, voicemails, emails, letters, and packages” since the trial started, he wrote.
Friday’s order prohibits attorneys in the case from making any public statements, in or out of court, about confidential communications between the judge and his staff. But they can still refer to the clerk in the context of court schedules and procedure.
“The First Amendment right of defendants and their attorneys to comment on my staff is far and away outweighed by the need to protect them from threats and physical harm,” wrote the judge.
The Mandarins must be protected from the filthy rabble at all costs.
“The First Amendment right of defendants and their attorneys…….is far and away outweighed by the need to……”
This shitbag needs to find himself another line of work.
But Donald lifts a finger and his rabble of ultramaga stormtroopers destroy democracy. I mean, come on.
Kise and Habba say their chief complaint is the judge’s habit of using handwritten notes to communicate with his law clerk, which Kise said creates “an appearance of impropriety.”
The clerk sits to Engoron’s right, opposite the witness box. Passing written notes allows them to communicate without disrupting the proceedings.
Nonetheless, Kise has tried to paint the notes as something sinister and conspiratorial, as if the law clerk is a puppet master.
Nothing to see here.
Are those notes entered into the official record? Haha, I crack myself up.
Is this the same judge that admits he changes jury verdicts if he doesn’t like them? What is the point of having a jury ?
Eyewash for the rubes?
So they know who to go after next.
Twitter is just wonderful, you can meet minds from across the
aaaaaaand they’re antisemites.
I’m not familiar with Jews at all. The only practicing Jew I’ve met was ostentatiously Jewish and was really annoying, if you can imagine that. She took the slightest offense to anything she perceived as being antisemitic, which was seemingly everything. In retrospect, she might not have been practicing but been a real Jew.
The only claim I have on knowing Israelis is befriending a bunch of Bahais growing up, and they’ve got a convent or whatever on Mount Carmel.
Twitter is convincing me there’s a civilizational struggle after all, and it’s AWFLs vs basic humanity.
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