I mean, if you can reasonably bridge the gulf between stars, scientific advancement is basically all that's left, unless it's just your culture to be slaving, warmongering dickheads. Your home solar system probably has all the raw materials and energy you could ever ask for.
The criticality of any given service is inversely proportional to how recently released was the technology that it runs on.
This, if you see some ancient machine sitting there humming, don't even make eye contact with that mf, don't even think about it. In fact, try to minimize your time in the same room so when it eventually goes tits up, you don't get blamed.
I've never met a public-facing tabletop group that wasn't enthusiastic to introduce new people to it. I think honestly my worst experience was when some dude brought his insanely broken D&D 3.5 character to play in a level one 5E game. The DM handled it very well; much better than I would have, I think.
Your nearest, biggest city's library is a good place to look. Libraries almost always have something going on in a spare public room or have public event flyers hung up. If you're interested in politics, going and yelling at city council is a great way to meet local activists.
It depends; if it's a game only I like, well, I bumblefuck my way through Baldur's Gate an hour at a time after the kids go to bed, when I'm not shit posting or attacking a side project or stargazing. If the rest of the family likes it, my job for the rest of the day is to sit the fuck down and play the game or else.
Hey, evangelicals, remember how when anything bad happened, it was because God was sad that we weren't murdering gay people? So does this mean that God hates Trump?
Bless you, cousin, for your boomer posting, but I feel compelled to warn you. You keep this boomer posting up and you're going to get stuck that way, like being sarcastic too much IRL.
We've already seen the ghost of Christmas future here, it's when Georgia implemented their live scan law and all the small and mid size farmers in Georgia lost their whole harvest (and subsequently, the farm) because they just couldn't get Americans to come and pick for what they're willing to pay. A lot of these farmers voted and stumped for Trump, believing that certainly the face eating leopard who eats everyone's face and promises to eat everyone's face wouldn't eat their face. Get ready for a lot of "waaahhh, I didn't think he would hurt meeeeeeee" from these guys as millions of pounds of tomatoes rot on the vine this summer.
Also, this just fucking sucks. I live in the central valley, ag is a really big deal here, and a lot of ag workers are really hard-working stand up folks. Nobody deserves ICE, but these folks especially don't deserve it. I'd like to take this opportunity to wish ICE agents a very merry court date ASAP.
It's totally wild to me how Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson just dominated the podcast space. I was off listening to The Adventure Zone and Stuff You Missed In History Class and Revolutions and mfs kept asking me to listen to those dipshits. I tried one episode of Rogan and was like "this sucks, he's a fucking idiot", and they were like "yeah, I know, right? It's great!"
I want them to go further, not put on the brakes. Somebody responded with a quote showing that the curfews were much more limited in scope than I thought.
I've started the process of moving my communities and stuff, but I plan on continuing to post on .ee until it goes down. Btw, is there an easy way to check which instances a Lemmy/piefed instance is defederated from?
Yeah, I gave volunteering a good, long think because I'm mostly sure I've got the right proficiencies for it, but my plate's already overflowing as it is. I like lemm.ee, but when I sat down and considered my priorities IRL, I am legitimately sorry to say that it didn't make the cut. I guess everyone else did that same math.
I mean, if you can reasonably bridge the gulf between stars, scientific advancement is basically all that's left, unless it's just your culture to be slaving, warmongering dickheads. Your home solar system probably has all the raw materials and energy you could ever ask for.