That is sad, but unsurprising. MUD owners were a special breed of cat. I really enjoyed Avatar, the admin there was legendarily unapproachable.

I am exactly “I miss MUDding” years old

Yeah but it’s human, in the way humans don’t create indoor parks so we can sniff and pee on trees or pretend to build dams, because we’re humans. Kinda frustrating when people pretend to be obtuse enough to not understand that.

sell people their health and they’ll sell it back to you, at a steep discount.

In his defense, he probably has some members of his family returning to positions in the white house.

I can’t vouch for what you see, but what you mention reminds me of the vitriol directed at Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema when there were literally 50 hard no votes (hole-drillers) on every vote they ever made.

Blame is multi-faceted: the ones who voted for him have a type of complicity and the ones who could have helped but didn’t have a different complicity.

Bro, the boat is sinking, some people are bailing it out, some people are drilling holes into the bottom and some people are standing around talking about how they just can’t bring themselves to bail the boat out. They don’t get credit for not drilling holes. That’s not a thing.

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you’re right, they make an outlandish promise (build a wall, mexico to pay) and then blame the other side when it doesn’t happen. The agenda-setting aspect you’re mentioning is also something that caused everyone in the democratic party to snipe Bernie since his whole thing was talking about what must happen and not getting bogged down in the endless details (though I think he could have also done that at that level too).

Gödel’em!

I burned all my solar panels but I didn’t get anywhere near 50 ships. Instructions unclear please advise.

…buffalo?

The technology exists, but you can’t share content like that because of “DRM”

It would be a shame to launch all those expensive satellites just to bring them back down immediately.

I had to read this twice to confirm, but it sounds like you’re intending to bring them back from space with this plan?

the real hero is in the comments, 25 years later…

Seriously the ”it” is just two stories up on my feed. I just showed all this to my partner in reverse like Memento.

Fuckin’ A on this one. Think about how much companies make with entirely artificial scarcity. You can only add 1 license to this, you can only watch on one TV unless you pay us $15 a month. It costs $200 to change where you are in the database table for this flight. Complete bullshit and we need to see it for what it is and stop it. I love how she says all that will be left in their wake is dull capitalists. Exactly. Stop playing their games. Play your game.

There are now 14 competing universes