I am happy to hear that people say please and thank you. When Siri/Alexa came out, we taught the kids to always say please and thank you when addressing them. If you can be polite to an AI, then you can be polite to a human.

Evolution does.

It would be one thing if we were debating different ways to solve health care, education, incarceration, mental health, homelessness, wealth inequality, or something else.

While I personally think the right is wrong in their solutions I’d be happy to debate them.

But the right isn’t talking about these issues or solutions for them. You can’t have a debate when you’re talking about two completely different things.

The board needs to remove Elon today.

Of course it was. Niantic came out of Google with Ingress which was designed to collect data for Google!

Even if they replant, that doesn’t undue the ecological harm. Look at what happened when palm oil started to show up in everything. They cut down all the natural habitat (rain forests with lots of old growth!) and planted tons of palm trees. It killed all the wildlife, but to an uninformed person, it still “looked” like nature. And the fact that they were replanted (so it wasn’t just stripped bare) was a facade that made it not seem bad.

Arkona - the best folk metal Hulder - great black metal

I’ll be seeing Arkona again in < two weeks!

As someone who lives in an ex-industrial city (Birmingham Alabama), I’ve always been worried about air pollution and tainted soil (there are superfund sites nearby). I feel like every thing would have to be above ground and covered. That seems like a lot of work. Should I be worried?

I highly recommend a fiio X1. You’ll have to find a used or refurb, but they are crazy simple, cheap, and have excellent sound quality.

Throw in a 256g sd card and mount it as a usb disk.

It has physical buttons and a scroll wheel like the old iPods.

Did I mention great sound quality?

Futurama (original) Psych Star Trek TNG/DS9 X Files Twilight Zone

All these are on continuous shuffle in my Jellyfin server.

Yup. Just the original series for me

How’s battery life?

Whiskey + black metal

Emacs

I use self hosted FreshRSS. I has:

• news straight from the section I care about in chronological order order
• new blog updates
• music review updates
• Bandcamp releases from artists/labels I follow
• open source software releases I follow
• YouTube updates from channels I follow.
• etc

It is by far the best way to get updates about just the things you care about.

Have you considered your local library? A lot of them have an excellent dvd/blu-ray selection especially when it comes to documentaries.

I know it is a little more work but you also get a lot more control of how you rip it.

Also, in the US, many libraries give you free access to the Kanopy streaming service which has a lot of documentaries on it.

Kahn is the most important person in government right now! Firing her would be a huge disappointment.

I still play a lot of need for speed underground on my ps2.

I’ll also always love Carmageddon 2. So much fun and a soundtrack full of Iron Maiden!