I always liked the premise where the countries that do the necrocacy stuff-- promoting dead generals and leaders to ever higher ranks and titles, still treating them as head of state…

It’s because they’re not dead. Kim Il-Sung is just biding his time in a coffin, gradually getting shoulder cramps as more and more brass is fitted to his uniform.

If only it were.

I took a coach for my last holiday. It was seven hours and $85 where a flight would have been 30 minutes and $60. I was willing to begrudge it, since this has hardly been a banner year for aviation safety in the US.

The Wifi didn’t work, sort of a dealbreaker when you’re traveling through remotest desert with no signal.

The bathroom door lock didn’t work reliably, so it was rattling all the way. Somehow I got assigned a seat next to it on both legs. At least it didn’t smell much.

They left the emergency roof exit/vent popped, a dubious choice on a trip to Las Vegas with temperatures around 40C.

The return bus broke down 15km from the destination so we had to wait sweating for a replacement.

OTOH, no TSA hassle. I still wish Amtrak was an option.

The complete silence of the powwrs that be abput the whereabouts of the lost weapon “Pluton”?

Giant isopods. Thry’re the big, ocean dwelling version of the little segmented crustaceans you find under rotten wood who ball up for defence.

I’ll say one word: WRT54G.

You put the hackers in control and otherwise mediocre hardware can become iconic and shape the future of your brand. (It’s funny that you now see the second-gen “looks like a low-poly WRT54G” routers in thrift shops due to wi-fi churn)

OTOH will it be harder with video, if every third party integration is demanding DRM blobs, than with RF which is justjust a federal offense if misused?

But what about this promise makes it so uniquely seductive?

There are a million guys with ideas for cars that will go 750km on a thimble-full of Fresca, robot butlers that can’t turn evil because they don’t have red LEDs in the eye positions, and 200:1 data compression as long as you never have to decompress it. They must all be looking at Altman and company and asking where their bubbles.

I sadly suspect the charm is “we can sack some huge percentage of workers if it delivers”

Wouldn’t somerhing like the Asus Eee-701 fit in a large povket?

He’s so cute! He can monitor me any day!

Aren’t most miners running ASICs that are pretty much only useful for mining specific coins? I was hoping we were past the last “people are buying off-the-shelves GPUs for crypto” bubble.

But the economy runs on vibes, and even if the prices aren’t higher, the loss of de-minimis has made “retail therapy” less appealing. Some foreign shops just gave up selling to Americans, and for those that do, people don’t want to buy some cheap item and worry that UPS is going to demand 50% more in tarrifs plus some outlandish processing fee.

Yeah, buy American, but not all products are sold domestically.

It’s Frontier. They’re not upset about the gun per se; they’re just desperately trying to figure out how to charge $50 for thr privelege of taking it on board.

Ditch FAANG, go for real fangs. Got it.

Let’s require far less training to put a 16-year-old at the helm of three tonnes of Detroit Death Machine than you need to cut hair commercially.

Still cute <3

I run the Windows build on Lutris just fine. You might have to cut the network for a few seconds during the launch (after you press “start game” in the launcher, before it loads the title screen)

Carry slot limits annoy me more.

Weight makes sense from a story perspective. Even a top-spec fighter can’t carry four zweihanders and 500 food rations.

But even the 1-STR mage who might have a legitimate carry weight limit of 2kg, should not be told “you can only carry 3 different types of 10-gram herb.” Especially if he’s allowed to carry 200 units of any one of the types. Give me anything resembling a viable story-based reason for that.

But selling a solution to that is a very popular monetization paradigm for MMOs, so it stays.

Invite your friends for “bonus” resources, or even worse, to unlock progression.

If you want to incentivize me to growthhack your product, let’s talk dollars, not Mystic Sunshine Gems.

The Orville has a great take on it too.

There’s an episode where they bring in someone from a scarcity-era planet and she’s freaking out about how they have replicators and future medical tech, and the crew explains to her that if the technology were airdropped on her world, thry wouldn’t be socially ready for it and it would just become a means of further stratification.

I’m thinking that even if they want to knock the building down, they could at least part it out. Look at those windows in the wreckage pile! I’m sure there are dozens of small museums around the country who would love to have an authentic White House window to show bored fourth graders on field trips.

Or, gild them and hand them out as party favours to your donors, as would more befit the architect.

I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!