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Avoiding the doctor is pretty much the reality for most Americans. A simple checkup with insurance can still cost hundreds of dollars, as I’m sure you know

Tomato harvesting in Xinjiang is almost 100% automated… but that requires large amounts of investment and a plan that extends beyond next quarter, so not gonna happen.

I was listening to NPR in the car, and they had a pro Mamdani Democrat strategist on, and he was responding to an accusation that Mamdani’s policies are “college dorm politics”, and he said something like, “I don’t think they’re college dorm policies, when x% of people can’t afford to live, etc etc… it’s the material cond… material reality”. Dude almost said the thing. Made me laugh.

You can play guitar on Last of Us 2 with it. The DS4 seems to have better sensitivity than the 5. I could pick individual strings on it and it doesn’t seem to work as well on the ds5, but both are a neat use. Ghost of Tsushima has functions mapped to swiping the different cardinal directions. Not really anything else I know of

The mass of US special forces will cause a military coup as soon as their power is under threat. That’s part of the unspoken part about both parties unconditional support for the expansion of the military budget, they’re trying to insulate themselves from the inevitable coup conditions that they have created.

I feel that, for sure. I always make sure to shower right before leaving for the airport and wear loose fitting shoes to minimize sweat until I get on the plane. One time I even swapped socks mid flight just to be extra safe.

Yeah going across the oceans is when it’s really most important. It’s also important to get up and stretch and walk around every few hours too. My last flight home I got bumped to a different flight and got stuck in the middle seat for 14 hours, and so I didn’t really get up except to pee, and my feet hurt so bad afterwards, it was miserable. I usually just sleep 90% of the flight, wake up every few hours, wander around, brush my teeth, splash water on my face, do some light stretches in the aisle, and sit back down and go back to sleep. Get some funny looks, but it’s worth it to not feel like poo after.

100%, engagement bait works on me far too often for my own comfort.

All the Asian airlines I’ve ridden give you slippers when you get on tje plane, because wearing your shoes on a long flight is bad for your blood flow and can exacerbate the swelling you’re already going to get from sitting for that long. Long story short, yes, and so should you.

Bro Asian airlines give everyone slippers and everyone takes their shoes off. Keeping your shoes on during long flights is not good for you, at all.

I’ve confronted some litterbugs in the past. Sometimes they get indignant and try to talk shit, but since I usually start my picking up the trash and then saying something, the usual responses are, I didn’t mean to do that, or, I was going to get that. To which I usually just say, yeah, sure you were buddy, and walk away. One time it was pretty sketch, big ass dude got real aggro, but fuck him, don’t litter.

I’d hope so, it’s a 20 year old game with a new coat of paint slapped on it.

SRSLY Wrong has a great bit in one of their life after Utopia episodes about the need for authoritarian vacation police who force you to take time off work and spend it doing leisure activities

I think it’s fair to call the democrats the Conservative Party. The republicans are regressives, certainly. But the people plead for systemic change, and the democrats are just trying to conserve the same failed order that got us to this point.

I saw a hilarious video on TikTok with a man wearing a Cuomo shirt where he admitted he supported Mamdani but that Cuomo was paying him $200/day to wear the shirt.

If you didn’t want your milk cut with sawdust you should have been a more responsible consoomer!

I don’t drink coffee, where does that put me?

My wife used it to watch my Netflix account and said it was fine. She didn’t torrent though so I can’t speak to that, or overall throughput downloading large files, she had pretty slow internet so it took her a while to download anything no matter what.

They’re so self obsessed, the narrative I’ve seen is that this is a “fake” resort for the few western tourists they get. Like they spent hundreds of millions for a few western influencers who will just call them “fake cities” anyway

LetsVPN is what my wife used while she lived there, and what I used when I visited. Works well enough to play online games too