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Cop Shop. Weird but fun. Flew under everyone’s radar because it came out right as Covid hit

This will definitely be Google Gemini’s answer to “who discovered Greenland” in a couple of days

Am I wrong in thinking any level of approval for protests is remarkable?

Um. Isn’t the buddhist one supposed to, without any fuss, make all the stars go out?

Do you think this will be anywhere near as popular as the Iraq War was at the start? Maduro isn’t nearly the villain Saddam Hussein was built up to be and there’s no Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf for comic relief. I know that sounds callous but it’s easy to forget just how popular those memes were

Some time after covid hit @sandiegomts.bsky.social completed a trolley stop a short walk from my office and now it’s the only way I go. Even on days traffic isn’t bad it’s at most a ten minute longer commute but I get to read a book and get in a walk so I’m still coming out ahead

Jamelle Bouie half jokingly suggested that the next Democratic president turn the IRS into “woke ICE” and I’m in favor of it

Next up, is Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. I came across it shortly after @chrislhayes.bsky.social mentioned it in his non fiction thread a while back. So far it’s living up to the hype

I picked up The Ministry of Time specifically because it’s not the kind of book I usually pick up. You can categorize it as science fiction but it doesn’t read that way. There’s no lore dump or attempt to explain the technology. It’s a romance wrapped around a character study it’s a good one

In this case, I’d say the Trump administration. I get that the BLS has never exactly swimming in it in regards to funding but I’ve been under the impression that this administration was particularly harsh in cutting their budget

On the one hand I don’t want to go full tinfoil hat and be all “they’re hiding the data that would show just how bad and damaging their policies are!” On the other, I can’t think of what I’d do differently if I wanted to hide the data that shows just how bad and damaging my policies are

I thought there was more that came out of that story that pointed to domestic violence rather than an accident

You beat me to it so I’ll go with the Department of Education should establish software and hardware standards for school supplied laptops. The software that they build and maintain should run on a free and open source OS and the hardware should be off the shelf

Swap the disks fast enough at just the right time and the game would skip calculating energy usage. We’d get into battle stations, one manning the keyboard and the other the disk drive, intensely communicating to prepare for a disk swap. Success meant we’d get a free laser shot

A friend and I would play a very complicated space trading game on the Atari 800 called Universe. For its time it was very complex and graphically intense. Being teenage boys we quickly became space pirates. Combat involved a lot of disk swaps and that was where we discovered a bug

I can. After all it’s not too hard to fit 999 tickets into a garage or closet