If I weren’t buying games on steam I would be a dirty pirate. That’s their competition right now.

Don’t hit me with the Cleopatra moon landing pyramid comparison for Skyrim 😭😭😭😭

personally oversaw a 300% increase in lines of code committed. 40% reduction in delays and 60% reduction in feature implementation design cycles. As a result, increased company revenue by 30%

This is all the explanation you need on why they’re doing this bone headed shit. It’s not their problem in a few quarters when they jump ship after padding their resume on the company’s dime.

No

2022

No it wasn’t. That was recent right?

COVID was last year right?

Skyrim is like 7 years old?

😭

Monsanto and friends know that if you make $500/acre they can charge $490/acre. It’s really that bad for input costs because there’s zero competition, and if there technically is more than one company in a space they just refuse to compete, but technically aren’t a cartel…

Then you have China not buying soybeans from US farmers over politics (justified imo) and those leopards ate a lot of faces

Also the rescue programs that were meant to help prevent farmers from folding were frozen under DOGE so a whole bunch of farmers made the necessary investments and expenses to qualify for programs that don’t exist currently, costing them even more money while they’re deep in the red.

A drought and bad harvests have been hitting the US. Last year’s harvest was already not good and this year’s was weird due to the weather and lack of rain or snowpack.

The Midwest US is only farmable at its current intensity due to the Ogallala aquifer which is like a gigantic underground fresh water ocean. It’s been pumped dry in many places, and will run out in a few decades.

I heard of a town hall deciding what to do about pumping that aquifer. The choices were

A) stop all pumping

B) reduce pumping to steady state levels. It doesn’t recharge and it doesn’t empty more

C) depletion in 100 years

D) depletion in 50 years

Guess which option was chosen…

It’s also not because they’re dumb they just can’t be responsible. You go bankrupt if you pump less since you grow less, or would need to grow crops that use less water but net lower yields, lower pay, and it doesn’t pay for your giant 16 row corn header or combine.

It blows my mind that like 30% of farmers in Arkansas went out of business last year and whats left will lose 40% this year… And they have all of that diesel and fertillizer just sitting there?

Is this where all the bees have been disappearing to? Did we unintentionally find the honeybee Zion? Are we the sentinels?

They were doomed already before the war due to shit demographics and brain drain. Now they’re so doomed I can’t even put it into words. They are unironically going to become a Chinese vassal state. It’s the only stable end state.

He looks like a rust player character

Most of us are quite intelligent, lots are STEM, many are post-secondary grads.

Unironically if a plane crashes heading to a furry convention it would literally bring western software to its knees overnight. There would be outages. “He’s our most experienced engineer! Only John knows how this system works!” Bank of America goes dark

And fortunate son… The amount of people who completely misinterpret the song about the rich senators son not needing to go fight in a useless war while you’re drafted to go and die is too damn high.

I’ve got a binary blob right here 🥵

You like to get your rocks off too 🥵🥵

You can also find them with ground penetrating radar since they tend to use sand as that insulating layer. From underneath they open a hatch and drain the sand out to clear the escape hatch. A big block of sand is plain and obvious to identify on a 250MHz system.

Statistically most humans are barely sentient

PSA: get a cheap thumb drive and install ventoy. You’ll never regret it!

Plus you can technically still use it to store files if you make a directory in the ventoy dump partition.

I keep memtest86+, clonezilla, Ubuntu 24.04lts, gparted, and boot-repair on the drive.

Noted. Don’t kill people outside of north america.

When a person dies a library burns

I miss my grandmas :(