That’s kinda how I took it. Be funny if language evolved back into flowery Victorian speech.

Surround it with forest and that’s how I imagined Prayer’s Eye Peak in Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

https://imgur.com/nQdeQ0q

And you would be morally bankrupt were you rich. I forget the psychological term, but the idea is well documented. When people attain wealth and power, they don’t feel the rules apply to them. And it happens to all of us. “I would be better!”, you scream. Nah, probably not so much. No one is immune.

Saw a great case of this with Hillary Clinton, though I forget the particulars. She’s stumping for some law or policy that she blatantly violated and a journalist (we used to have those) called her on the hypocrisy. “But… that doesn’t apply to me.”

Not like she started out rich and powerful. Sure, she had some privilege, but not First Lady of the United Fucking States and Secretary of State kinda privilege.

The whole concept is kinda horrifying. When I hit the “middle-aged white-guy with a decent income” zone, I started not giving a fuck about breaking simple laws. Fuck they gonna do? I’m driving without a legal license ATM. When I was young and broke, jail. Now? They won’t pull me over in the first place, slap on the wrist, at worst. See how that psychology builds with real wealth and power?

Now think on that kinda thought process as one get’s truly rich and powerful. Morals, out the window. You still think you’re doing the right thing, but you’re badly misaligned with the lowly common people.

That’s a good thing! Nothing was terribly wrong with the plant in the first place and all that happened was a poof of radioactive steam, that affected nothing and no one.

Only reason people shit bricks was the summer block buster The China Syndrome preceding the event by 12-days. Movie’s about a nuclear plant losing its core in a meltdown, Chernobyl style. Imagine that!

A point I’ve been screaming about since Trump 1.0! These people are not exposed to the media we are exposed to. The scroll their FB feed, watch Fox News, maybe what they’ve inadvertently trained YouTube to show, no idea what’s going on in the world.

MTG is in their feeds! That cannot stand.

She’s simply getting ahead of Trump going down over dementia and the Epstein Files. LOL, looks like they’re ALL trying to get ahead. Not sure I’ve seen a bill pass both houses of Congress with 1 lonely dissenter.

I can’t log in to YT and use Firefox/uBlock Origin to stop ads. Works fine in Edge. What is that about?!

Picked up a keyboard at the thrift with a pink sticky note on the bottom:

user:admin

pass:password

Yes, someone had to write that down.

^ Hob Gadling right here.

That scam works well for AWS. My last company was a very small software dev (120 people) and spent $6M a year on AWS. Can you imagine the infra you could build with that much money!? And still have plenty left over to pay a small team to be responsible for it.

I got thrown in the drunk tank in college solely for failing the recite the alphabet backwards and mixing M and N, cuffed me the second I mixed it up. They had nothing else on me, was riding my bike straight down the sidewalk after returning library book in the wee hours. Performed the roadside aerobics perfectly.

Right here, where ICE is not. Want me to chase them down in another state?

My god did you fucking nail it. Been thinking about bailing out over all the things you brought up.

I’d add two things though, news users are also swamped with furry shit and little girl porn, or “anime” as some call it. I spent my first two weeks here smashing block on all that shit, yet it still pops up constantly. If 8-yo girls in sexy maid outfits and fucking dogs is your thing, lemmy might be a good fit!

The one good thing about China’s authoritarianism is that they can plan and execute over the long term. Meanwhile, in America, we can implode over the course of a couple of years.

GenX here. I poison their data every chance I get.

The Half Life demo was 50MB. Took me 4 tries to get it over dialup. Played till the sun came up!

In America, and other countries, it used to be backed by gold.

Best ELI5 here!

The juxtaposition of life giving water and the utter lifelessness of the desert always has me staring at pics like this. Logically I get it, but it’s hard to wrap my head around it emotionally.