TheRealKuni

The guy gunning for a Nobel Peace Prize wants a Department of War.

Me: *looks up from Stardew Valley* What main story missions?

Strong Bad singing voice:

“If you want it to be a possessive it’s just I-T-S, But if it’s supposed to be a contraction then it’s I-T-apostrophe-S…scalawag.”

Once the military control and election suppression are in place, you don’t need the “charisma” anymore.

Ad-free subscription services that actually benefit the creators are exceedingly rare.

Believe it or not, YouTube Premium is one of them. A Premium view is worth more than an ad-supported view to a creator.

(Obviously Patreon is better, as they can’t make a living off of only Premium views because it’s a smaller group; the population of ad-supported users is much much larger. But YouTube Premium does benefit the creators more than ad-supported YouTube does.)

Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.

Society is a pendulum and progress always comes with backsliding. It will get better again. It always does. It might get darker first though.

I might be wrong, Frank, but my reading of the text says that freed slaves fall under “the whole Number of free Persons” and thus count as 1, not three fifths.

The three fifths compromise just said slave states shouldn’t get to count slave population to get more representatives. The non-slave states wanted them not to count at all, since they don’t get representation regardless. It’s wild to me that we think of the “three fifths of all other persons” thing as the bad part, rather than the “rich assholes who owned people got more representation than those who didn’t own people because the people they owned counted toward their representative allotments.” After all, the slave owners wanted slaves to count as a full person. The problem, as always, was slavery.

Thanks! I figured there was more to it than I knew.

I could be wrong, but I don’t think the gear is the problem. It’s the foam.

As I understand it, Teflon itself is inert. It’s too big to cause us health problems. But the chemicals used to apply it, like PFOS and PFOA, those are dangerous.

That’s the way I like it. 😁

That and public libraries (though we’re trying to kill those now).

And in my experience I would recommend Canada. Although traffic in Toronto is terrible.

Pretty much every restaurant in the US will give you free tap water (with ice in it, even). At some places they’ll even just bring it to the table before you ask.

But I wouldn’t recommend the US in general.

You’re misunderstanding.

20 years from now, no one will admit to having voted for him.

I genuinely cannot understand this “controversy” over the rebrand in any context other than manufactured outrage as a distraction from Epstein and Russia and occupying DC and every other horrible thing. Or manufactured outrage to bring attention to the brand, as I suspect the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney shit was.

although it also has a much higher display resolution.

I was about to say 1920x1080 isn’t that much higher resolution than 1280x800, but it’s twice as many pixels! 🤯

And 4K is 4x 1080p! No wonder 4K gaming makes graphics cards chug.

using Steam remote play to the deck

I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.

It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.

(Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)

I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.

That would be a lot easier now. The game improved enormously around season 4 I think. Whatever the Loot Reborn season was. And nearly every season has included some QoL improvements.

I honestly love Diablo 4. It’s a great podcast/audiobook companion.

Good thing Sauber is becoming Audi next season. That’s a lot of money for a title sponsor to lose (and it sounds like they deserve to lose it).