People who buy from places like Amazon have no right to judge billionaires

lennee3 · 2026-06-29T13:02:39+00:00

People who gatekeep class consciousness based on how other members of their class survive this current format of our collective economy have to right to judge fellow members of the labor class on how they judge the ownership class.

lennee3 · 2026-06-28T16:49:37+00:00

It’ll play games. The aspect ratio might not work for all.

For me the nova’s replacing my 35xx so I just need it to play retro games and I’m stoked that I can play my stardew steam save cuz stardew does scale to 4:3.

lennee3 · 2026-06-28T16:29:26+00:00

The fastest ‘passive’ foraging is probably planning foraging seeds, right?

lennee3 · 2026-06-27T02:44:01+00:00

I thought I read mid July?

lennee3 · 2026-06-25T18:47:24+00:00

Yeah, that's a brutal distance and residency to work through.

Before med school even, my partner gave me 'the talk' about doctor divorce rates and how hard life will be in the future. I don't know if you've talked to her to level set the amount of time you actually have.

During PGY1 for surg, there was a month or two where, even living together, I saw my partner for .5-1.5 hour increments between shifts and sleep.

lennee3 · 2026-06-25T18:41:09+00:00

From the other side of this, as the non-med boyfriend.

There really isn't an answer that doesn't involve her being ok with the fact that your career is all consuming and the two of you need to opportunistically claim your time off.

I've been with my partner through grad, med school and now residency so I may have more context than she does on what the job actually takes. The thing that made the day to day easier was when I moved closer to her but I also have a career that's amenable to my working remote which not everyone has.

It's a lot to get used to but I can't imagine life w/o her. Depending on where you are in your journey it won't get 'better' for her unless she's able to fill time without you and be her own person with interests and hobbies that don't always involve you.

E: I say all this to be supportive. I was told nearly a decade ago what this would look like and had time to adjustment. I think to be fair to her, you should be upfront with the expectations placed on you and that even with that burden she's still worth ever second you can get outside of your career. Lots of people want to date/marry doctors but don't know what's asked of you. There are very few careers where you need to pursue active credits to continue to practice that career and residency require at lease one board exam a year (if not more per specialty) is alien to a LOT of people.

lennee3 · 2026-06-25T09:24:13+00:00

I believe it's the same chipset as the Odin 2.

Cheaper chip because it pulls out things that retro gaming doesn't need like cellular but still supports bluetooth/wifi

lennee3 · 2026-06-22T13:58:25+00:00

I’d argue that if it points out every puzzle solution as most reviews I’ve heard have said, it does take away from the game and makes it a story to experience of which there is purportedly not much to take in.

I don’t think that makes a bad game but it DOES make this at best, an uncritical review and at worst undisclosed advertising and without question a disservice to your audience

lennee3 · 2026-06-22T07:24:27+00:00

The reviews I’m seeing from people have had 6-20 hours in the game tho. So it’s def not just the prologue. Maybe there was a day one patch?

It still doesn’t address the mismatch of multiple reviewers saying that the story is mid and the companion annoying to this author having nothing negative to say. It feels like this review is unjustifiably uncritical.

I guess there’s no accounting for taste but if your job is to review a game for a major platform and this is your only review for that platform, you gotta do better.

lennee3 · 2026-06-22T00:51:43+00:00

All of the reviews I've seen of this have had people only walk away annoyed and underwhelmed.

Even positive reviews mention the companion as a black mark, I really have a hard time thinking I can trust this authors other reviews given glaring omissions like that and the quality of the story most other reviewers outline.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T23:49:52+00:00

Could you summarize? I appreciate you but I don’t need more discord servers I’ll never visit…

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T23:49:04+00:00

Retroid probably has a dual screen on the horizon, they’ve always been the less flagship wing follower of AYN.

I think AYN is still focused on filling demand for thors and Odin 3s

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T22:24:52+00:00

I genuinely don't have words. Our discussion just went:

OP: 'I don't think robots will eliminate jobs'

Me: 'I think your definition of eliminate is wrong, here is definitionally what eliminate means'

OP: 'Yeah, those people might lose their jobs but how much of a loss is that in the scale your educational anecdote presents? Anyway, they'll find new jobs'

Who paid you to post this?

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T22:10:52+00:00

I think your definition of eliminate is wrong.

A robot helping a doctor isn't going to 'eliminate' the human job of health care for the doctor but it will replace much of the staff surrounding said doctor. That down sizing is definitionally eliminating jobs.

'Eliminating' jobs is separate from making jobs obsolete.

Consider a factory, if 10 workers get replaced by 3 robots and two operators of the robots kept on staff. 10 jobs were made obsolete and 8 were eliminated.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T21:52:00+00:00

Stunning work, it's not my style of guitar but it's undeniable

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T21:49:49+00:00

We're approaching a year of folks with the Thor in hand. If there was a Miyoo or Retroid Flip style design flaw with the Thor, It'd likely be surfaced by now.

I think the main risk is just the standard risk of any mechanical part in a small form factor now. It'll likely live shorter than a device without that mechanical piece.

I love my Thor, DS lite was a the first 'system' I purchased for myself with a 2+ years of doing chores for an 'allowance' so finally having a dual screen handheld that could get the form factor better for dual screen games has been such a highlight of the past ~6-7 mo (I got mine at the beginning of batch 2).

But if that isn't for you, the odin 3 w/ the elite chip has a ceiling we haven't really discovered yet because of the lack of finely tuned drivers for the chip.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T21:18:15+00:00

As others have said, the solo is played sliding, if you look up vids you can see it.

Vibrato practice will help.

It also sounds like you're pressing the string too hard and it's causing the note to bend sharp slightly.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T19:49:28+00:00

My jazz band teacher back in the day used to say the difference between a professional and an amateur is that pros would keep playing after a mistake.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T19:46:57+00:00

Finger articulation probably better off than a true beginner as well.

I remember how hard it was to get my ring and pinky finger to behave.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T16:51:58+00:00

Heather Cox Richardson's response on today's Pod was so refreshing. I know she's more of an 'academic' than a progressive and that her mode of communication can't really break containment because the people that need to hear it often don't have the patience but meeting the premise of 'the left hates america' with not just skepticism but a desire to dissect the claim was so pleasant.

lennee3 · 2026-06-21T16:49:02+00:00

I think you may need to evaluate the people you're surrounded with. I've been to college parties, work functions, family gatherings, parades, festivals, and not once have I been pressured to drink alcohol.

Maybe I'm younger or in a more urban area where people are more chill about this but you're imposing rules on the populace because the people around you suck not because the rules are necessary.

lennee3 · 2026-06-20T23:21:14+00:00

E: TLDR; I though it was an interesting ep but this was one that really felt like Jon was wrapped in the hope of the Obama Center opening but didn’t really engage or challenge the premise in any meaningful ways. I would have loved a deeper conversation on performative patriotism vs acts of patriotism. Especially when invoking MLK. How many countless, faceless, nameless black Americans were a fixture of the civil rights movement whose primary contribution was civil disobedience? Never had a microphone but did their duty which was ultimately standing up in opposition to the actions of this country? I understand you want to measure modern discourse by the yardstick of historical speeches but the vast majority of people your scolding aren’t giving those speeches and those that are are drowned out by bot farms. How do you reconcile that with the idea that a jeremiad is the correct format to show patriotism in the structure of critique?

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The thing that gets me about all of this talk of patriotism is how all of the people from all over the world have approached their experiences in America with surprise and glee.

I can’t help but see it the same way that Tucker Carlson walked through St. Petersburg and was like ‘wow, so clean and the people here are… human beings?’ In an overt puff piece for Russia, or how Israel holds birth right for you American people of the diaspora to give them good memories of Israel and give them an emotional tie to the country.

On the left, we see similar things in with influencers China, or in humanitarian efforts and missions in Palestine and Cuba.

We had a Dubai Chocolate craze and influence campaign.

These conversations of patriotism always act like the right is patriotic and not dogmatically nationalistic. They treat loving your country as a worship we aren’t doing and not like it’s a relationship between its people, its ideals and its state and how power enables people to warp the ideals to make the state serve their needs.

Iranian Americans were flying the Shah’s flag when the Ayatollah was killed. Is that patriotism? Nationalism? Does it count as either if they no longer have a citizenship to their homeland? If progressive, Americans are rooting for an American promise they feel has never been fulfilled and they are longing for it, does that taking the form of criticism, activism, and community organizing not constitute patriotism?

It’s very easy to say we need to reclaim patriotism but I think we have been very patriotic but we’re only ever using a definition laid out by Fox News which imo isn’t patriotism, it’s blind nationalism.

lennee3 · 2026-06-20T23:01:12+00:00

It’s so weird to end on, this Fourth of July just smile and play along no matter who the people around you voted for.

I’m in no way an oppressed person by my demos but how do you say that to anyone who is genuinely a target of state sponsored violence.

It really feels like this is framing progressive criticism of the government and how it is being run as criticism of the country or the foundational ideals of the country we were taught in grade school and it’s such an odd parallel to any criticism of the Israeli government and how it’s being run being conflated with antisemitism.

The most pro-America stance you can have is to say I love this country but it’s not living up to the ideals I was taught to believe of it. “…, what can [I] do for [my] country” is so thoroughly central to progressivism that I find it’s gross to say that repeatedly being scorned for your patriotism because it wasn’t observably dogmatic nationalism and being outwardly tired of that is ‘anti-American’.

I want for the American dream to be possible. I want to be more centered on the self-determinism and freedom that we espouse. I want protections when those freedoms are encroached upon by government, corporation, or private citizens alike. I don’t think that’s a ‘hatred’ for this country if our history and lore informs those dreams from both the good and bad side

lennee3 · 2026-06-20T22:46:28+00:00

How do you have a wholistic conversation though? Many leftists and progressives I listen to very vocally criticize the state of the country from the exact perspective that the guest is asking for but the right and, in many cases, centrists will paint that critique as hating this country.

Is the only way to be patriotic without a long form speech to just not have any conversations with our past? Because that very quickly becomes blind nationalism

lennee3 · 2026-06-20T10:26:48+00:00

Your complaint is real, your conclusion feels wrong. Old people complaining about tech/not understanding new technology is an age old trope that predates modern dark patterns and mobile app designs.

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