Gotcha, your issue is it straight up says “raise taxes for white neighborhoods” without the needed context of “current tax law has advantaged predominantly white areas, and so this bringing their tax responsibility to a value that more fairly represents their usage”
I 100% agree with prices having bloated over the last decade. The first card I bought was a 380 for $80, but $700 for a mid-low tier card is an extreme exaggeration
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/video-card/#X=10036%2C40368&P=8589934592%2C51539607552
looks like it indeed is
Cool, so instead of a sim rig I can just use my car and a projector
For games with any sort of “victory points” system, I always start off teaching them with the exact same sentence: “the goal of this game is to score points.” Sets the stage nicely for explaining the rest of the-- ah, nevermind, they’ve already glazed over
Yeah, I played the demo a few months ago and went ahead and purchased it, it seems right up my alley for the swarm survival genre. I like that how broken your build gets depends less on how many times you click level up, though it certainly helps. It reminds me of wand building from Noita.
Gummi ships swarm survival sounds pretty neat
I don’t think this will really amount to much. Where else are they going to shop that abuses labor as much as Walmart to keep prices low?
I played through what was available a couple months ago with some friends. Very inspired by Terraria with a different npc/colony system. We didn’t really dive into it too much which is maybe missing out on a huge part of the game, so if anybody wants to try it I’d suggest going out of your way to interact with it. There were some balance issues imo, but overall pretty fun.
If you don’t want to engage with the colony part, I think you won’t get anything out of this that you wouldn’t get from Terraria, but less since it’s a newer game.
blueprint auto connect seems like it could help with slapping down a factory quickly, but probably vertical nudging and vertical splitters will help me out the most
meanwhile, in Japan, they ran a TV show of toddlers running errands
I’m not totally sure what you’re saying no to, but detached single-family homes are mostly financially unsustainable for a municipality. They just don’t generate enough tax revenue. You can check out this video for why (apologies for a YT link):
This is what I thought when I saw the talks with Rwanda.
I had a really weird dream when I was a kid that still sticks with me because it was so out there. Usually they relate in some sort of way to what’s happened or how you’re feeling, but this one was so off the wall I don’t know what it was supposed to be.
It started with me driving into a gravel parking lot, like for a campsite in the mountains. It’s overlooking a decently steep slope down covered with leaves or pine needles with lots of trees around. I park and get out and I stand there holding a towel. An old beetle drives up and parks really close next to me. A Hispanic guy gets out, walks away, and I drop my towel for some reason. I watch him walk away for a few seconds. When I turn my car has turned into a giant sweet gum seed pod (gum ball), before looking down at my towel which has turned into an anthill with a bunch of ants coming out of it. That’s where I woke up.
racism and keeping out the other
Partially right, it is racism but they want the most vulnerable people to attempt to immigrate illegally (with no other choice, mind you) so they can detain them to use as defacto slave labor. Or just murder them, whichever seems more cruel. Remember, the cruelty is the point.
Probably the most famous person I’ve seen in person close up is Steve from Gamers Nexus. He’s in my area and I saw him in a bakery I was at once. I didn’t speak to him though, didn’t want to cause a scene or take up too much of his time, though thinking about it I’m sure he would have been stoked to have a fan say hi. Whoops!
I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.
“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”
“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”
“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”
The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”
“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”
“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”
He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”
“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”
I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.
“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.
“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.
“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”
It didn’t seem like they did.
“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”
Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.
I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.
“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.
Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.
“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.
I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”
He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.
“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”
“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.
“Because I was afraid.”
“Afraid?”
“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”
I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.
“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”
He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.
Hi, this complaint sounds vaguely familiar and I know it’s just indicative of that type of problem, but can you elaborate on what you mean by no circle tool?
I haven’t used GIMP in a long time but if I remember correctly there’s an ellipse tool and I think there’s a modifier that can constrain the aspect ratio so you can make circles. I might be wrong though.
Yeah, my car I always though was a hatchback, but apparently is actually classified as a crossover. The main reason I still have it (other than having been paid off) is because it still gets competitive mpg and it’s so practical. I used it to take all my crap to and from college. I can carry 9ft lumber in the cabin with the passenger seat down. I’ve gone on a service road in a state park and I didn’t get stuck.
The thought has crossed my mind to get an electric conversion for it instead of buying a new spyware riddled car 😆
I really need to stop being obsessed with compacting my builds to be as small as possible, it makes it a lot harder to leverage the aesthetic blocks. This looks so clean.