you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
I’d want to try some exotic synthetic meats you can’t or shouldn’t get anymore like dodo or dolphin. I wouldn’t have the stomach to try it but you can bet there’ll be some market for synthetic long pig. For normal consumption though I don’t eat much meat now so I’d probably just go with whichever if there’s no difference in cost or calories.
Build community locally, spend time with friends and family cultivating relationships, do something generous for someone else, volunteer for a charity or activism, build an interest in a creative hobby that exercises your imagination. Follow your curiosity and our common interests in discovery and exploration through education and experimentation.
Ubuntu Mono for terminal, code, and data, Open Sans for the rest
The government also ramped up the interest rates on student loans while universities increased the price faster than inflation, I paid around 3-4% in 2008, the lowest was around 2.7% in 2020, currently they are close to 7%. The whole thing should be covered by state and federal taxes we’re already paying to subsidize them, but it just keeps getting worse to squeeze every drop of blood from people who weren’t born with a trust fund.
Fedora core was also my first distro I installed back in 2006, it’s an elegant set of tools and stable for general use, happy computing!
Exactly right, it is the greediest model possible people will accept, ads+sub like cable TV and many popular streaming services became are the same garbage following the same enshittification path because art doesn’t exist in most TV and movies anymore, it’s just a commodity/product in a store.
Campaign finance reform under 7 would allow further reforms to follow, without those regulatory capture and bribery are legal and prevent any other electoral reforms benefiting the working class.
General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year
Just restating some of the greatest hits:
Universal healthcare
Universal education through university level or trade school
At least a month pto annually
Parental leave for births
Guaranteed sick leave
32hr new full time threshold before overtime
Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes
Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation
No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed
Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
It’s very different now, crime went way down when some organized crime stopped feuding and follows similar trends across all major US cities until an uptick again around the start of COVID
Alt: graph from clickondetroit.con that shows the average downward trend in Detroit homicide from the 90s to 2016
Trustfunders and nepo babies who make no effort to try understand the working class and instead act like they are special or better than other people with different priorities and struggles due to circumstance.
Mistaking kindness for weakness.
Fashion policing, especially from religious clergy or judges.
I had a field trip to some old churches in Detroit in the late 90s. On a weekday we saw two cars on fire like full blazing infernos at different places with one flipped upside down.
I try not to sub to streaming services with an ad+sub tier like cable TV which narrows options over the past few years but also helps me avoid some of that stuff.
Criterion collection/channel is usually good for Indies and some lesser known quality films.
And physical media but that’s mostly just for stuff I already know I like and would watch multiple times or for the commentary track because of how expensive that can get.
Theaters I’ll go to for epic movies in IMAX or sometimes new horror movies or the occasional rifftrax thing they do where they broadcast live from a theater to a bunch of other theaters.
I don’t know what I would choose, I was just a little baby at the time
I wouldn’t say I’m completely hopeful or doomed, the world is filled with terror and beauty. There are no gods or kings it’s just people. Historic and scientific education can help reduce anxiety about the unknown, change your own beliefs and behaviors to improve the situation locally before joining organizations looking to make broader changes. Learn what your fears are and face them, otherwise it will cloud your judgement and influence your decision making process.
When I played on PC more EverQuest, counterstrike, TF2, wow, Skyrim
After playing more on console ff14, elder scrolls online, pillars of eternity 1/2, and souls games (ds2, ds3, bloodborne, elden Ring)
I also like to play Indies and smaller games but those are the ones I keep going back to
“What can change the nature of a man?”
Conservatives use fear to manipulate their constituents as their primary means to rally support. A minority scapegoat many of their supporters don’t know in person, like trans people, are easily demonized by politicians and clergy to pretend trans folks are pedophiles and sex assaulters projecting their own party and priest crimes, it’s the same thing they try to do with fear mongering homosexuals as a previous scapegoat to distract and deflect from their awful policy privileging the wealth class and harming poor and middle class people, they need someone to blame for their own awful behavior and choices.
This is the answer or similar enough I got when I was Catholic