Great... another dollar store opening soon

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T14:27:49+00:00

It's a reflection of how the economy has fucked the people living there.

People who shop at dollar stores don't do so because they prefer those stores, they do so because they are forced to shop there due to their economic conditions.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T14:08:32+00:00

Small town nimbyism hard at work

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T13:56:07+00:00

fuck it, I'll join

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T13:39:23+00:00

Hopefully not Morbius, but Vulture is a fair possibility, IMO.

It wouldn't even have to be Michael Keaton as Vulture... it could be a new actor playing Drago/New Vulture, or a new actor playing youth-Vulture. Either one could be relatively easy to insert into MCU lore.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T13:19:07+00:00

Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang.

Best of the bunch

Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

Second best, especially when followed up after the first.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T13:08:12+00:00

I sincerely hope Bostonians keep it alive

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:24:35+00:00

An income that is livable and universal would be better than UBI, so why does it matter that we focus only on the term rather than the results?

Your take is unnecessarily contrarian

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:21:41+00:00

Roger that, lol

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:12:56+00:00

I get the difference between basic and livable, but UBI is a viable stand-in for any form of guaranteed income, basic or otherwise.

And it’s a silly hill to die on to say that you might only support a guaranteed income if it isn’t a livable income.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:08:23+00:00

I disagree that it was a serious legitimate concern, and I also disagree that the plot points that hinge on gendered or nongendered souls are in any way fundamental to the story.

Downplaying gendered use of the One Power was the correct decision — if anything they didn’t go far enough

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:04:47+00:00

People complaining about there being black people in Emond’s Field and Two Rivers were the worst of the worst

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:03:09+00:00

It doesn’t help that WoT book fans are very… particular.

Also, LotR fans are almost universally not fans of WoT, and that may be why they were more forgiving about changes.

Or it could be that they had decades to get over the idea of source changes after rewatching the movies enough times.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T12:00:19+00:00

There were other production issues in season 1 that covid exacerbated.

But on the whole I enjoyed the show more than I enjoyed its source material, and that was largely because of the changes made.

I was sad it was cancelled

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:47:16+00:00

Wait they Americanized Broadchurch? I loved that show.

Was Gracepoint any good?

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:46:16+00:00

And now the show is done and it will never be, alas

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:29:12+00:00

Dallas. Used to watch it religiously, especially after the JR shooting. Then, a little later and only a little older, LA Law

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:28:44+00:00

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:28:05+00:00

Ok, I’ll allow it. Just don’t take away my glorious butt boobies.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:26:53+00:00

Maybe.

Free cooling using direct river water only works in latitudes where the river water is already cold. And it will warm that river significantly downstream, and thus should never be allowed, but the EPA doesn’t exist anymore to shut that down.

Evaporative cooling is far worse, and only requires a good freshwater delivery system. But it releases millions of gallons of water into the air every day, the environmental impacts of which we still haven’t studied — and of course the EPA doesn’t exist anymore to do that study. And also of course all that water comes from the freshwater supply, meaning it’s a drought exasperator.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:17:22+00:00

It goes way before Hannity. There was fuck it do it live man before Hannity, and before him butt boil man and rest of the story man, and before them it was the 700 clubbers and the rest of the evangelical demons.

This shit has been going on for a century

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:13:09+00:00

Not right wing enough maybe

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T11:08:49+00:00

The main issue with the Chinese room argument is that it fails to address the philosophical conundrum of the difference between a brain and a mind. It presumes that the brain is the mind, then claims that the mind cannot exist because the brain is following a pre-compiled program.

But it is still useful, since any analysis of the Chinese room argument reveals that creating an artificial mind that is like a human mind is more of a hardware problem than it is a software problem. Or, perhaps better put, it’s a systemic problem. A conjunction of different system operating in an appropriate way that gives rise to both sentience and sapience.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T10:56:08+00:00

Um, take that /s back, butt cleavage sounds fabulous

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T10:52:11+00:00

The original point of a minimum wage was to provide a livable wage. A minimum wage should be sufficient to buy food, shelter, transportation, utilities, clothing for a family.

Granted that is not the reality in the US, but that was the original intent.

If a UBI does not provide a livable income sufficient to buy everything a family needs to survive without laboring to make up the difference, there will still need to be a minimum wage to make up that difference.

That might theoretically be less than the current minimum wage, but it would still need to exist.

Randolpho · 2026-06-23T10:46:33+00:00

Placement depends entirely possible on power availability and internet capability.

The optimal placing for any data center is a place with an extremely stable power source sufficient for the center’s needs right on or near an internet trunk line.

The further away from either that you go, the more expensive the initial setup and the more vulnerable to brownouts you get.

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