Talaraine

In a world with renewable energy.

Billions of dollars to get to it when they could install a desalination plant >.>

Why are we like this?

kbin was a great place to call home, while it lasted. #RIP

For my part as a kid, anything that was scary wasn’t just scary in a classical sense but because it was fast, violent, and unrecognizable. Nowadays most of what’s scary is easily recognizable and I think many of us have spent time thinking about just how we’d react in that situation. (Whether or not it would work, mind you xD). Now, real horror… not the silly shit in the movies… still retains some of that ‘magic’. (I hate myself for calling this magic, I hate it haha). Indie horror video games exemplify this horror, imo, because it’s almost completely fabricated from someone’s imagination that’s not mainstream at all… it jumps out at you and in a split second you have to friend/foe it.

I watch Hollow play these games (cuz no thank you), in attempt to ‘normalize’ more and more so I can just enjoy a quiet evening in the dark with a smile.

Ironic that in the olden days people stopped paying for college as a waste so they could get certificates to go into tech and make bank xD.

So… the fact that the beta literally just never finishes scanning my disk is because I need to purchase it? o.O

I think the important distinction would be ‘file’ or ‘record’. Passwords aren’t really a file in a database iirc and records in a database have a storage limit

This is diabolical. I approve.

The normal behavior of corporations IS bad. By definition.

Sidekick is still one of the G.O.A.T.

Me over here aging before they ever touch a company for hiring them.

This for real. Stop buying shit.

Moved out to the country, gardened, raised animals, breathed clean air and listened to the wind.

I find peace in learning and doing things well that, even if the system disintegrates, need to be done to move forward.

Probably found it when a computer was just sending Recall images out to a C&C server. Nothing to see here! xD

This ignorance of history is why we’re destined for a repeat lmao

Oh wait…

Or it could be that as the article also said,

The Washington county reduced hours due to a tight budget

Which implies that pay was cut and not everyone could do without that extra bit.

It’s common knowledge that the days we work in the office, nothing gets done. All the meetings where a middle manager needs to see his minions before him in a room ensure we have no other time.

It comes down to the number of mouths that have to fed at the end of the day. Individuals producing news stories appear ‘free’ for the masses because they have alternative ways of earning, such as monetization on a large platform.

News agencies, however, are in a strange place these days. They used to be private and used to have a default subscription fee. You paid for the paper or you read one that someone left behind somewhere. Nobody’s buying papers anymore and they’ve had to move online. In addition they’ve been purchased by giant conglomerates or billionaires. It’s no longer a matter of making sure their employees are fed by producing a great product… the billionaires and CEO’s just want money. Since everyone’s ad-blocking these days they charge subscriptions and leverage tech to deny their product to those who don’t pay.

There will always be alternative news sources, and god knows I prefer them to 18 tv stations in the same city using the exact same propagandized scripts. You just have to put in the effort to look for them. That’s the fee you’re paying. Time.

Literally on the heels of the revelation that China is spying on all chats and phone calls, these clowns still think back doors are safe in any way.

I swear, humanity is simply failing the IQ test here.

Was in Spain on a Spanish club field trip. I forget what I did as it was years ago but I wanted to express how embarrassed I was about something.

Used the word ‘embarrasada’.

Hilarity ensued.

Edit: Oh look! Other people in this thread did the same thing lol. I feel so much better.