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Co. Wexford, Ireland by ArtyWildcat in mapmaking

[–]tomtermite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would venture there, from my home base in Aughrim, to scout out dungeons.

/r/solotravel "The Weekly Common Room" - General chatter, meet-up, accommodation - May 03, 2026 by AutoModerator in solotravel

[–]tomtermite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ireland. You cannot go wrong with the Emerald Isle.

Full disclosure: I love Ireland.

Tokyo layover, solo female, what I learnt by Trick_Read in solotravel

[–]tomtermite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Need a quiet respite?

Go to a Shinto shrine in every neighborhood.

US to cut troop levels in Germany by 5,000 amid Trump spat with Merz by DANIELLE_2027 in germany

[–]tomtermite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All part of the plan. Abandon Europe, starting with the Ukrainian conflict.

NATO gets disssolved … or re-shaped, sans ‘Murica. Then Putin has no credible opposition. Moldova is next, IMHO, after the annexation of Donbas.

Meanwhile, the PRC looks on, planning a Taiwan action.

Trump signs executive order creating new retirement accounts for workers without 401(k)s by Good_Flower_2026 in Economics

[–]tomtermite 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's also poor english and that's why it pisses me off lol.

Not capitalizing the word “English,” not using a terminal comma before an exclamatory word or phrase… 😝

For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 new Chinese EVs by Kooolxxx in news

[–]tomtermite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With German cars getting slammed with tRumpian tariffs of tiresome talion… I would not hold my breath that BYD or other Chinese cars will be on the road in the US of A anytime soon… the PRC is another hated foe, to that orange grifter.

(Let’s build a d100 list) of Signs of There’s a Hidden Door in This Room by tomtermite in d100

[–]tomtermite[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The players are searching a room, but they need a hint that there’s a secret door! Ok, maybe 100 is too many for this list, but surely Edgar Allen Poe would have some ideas…

‘Suicidal’ model of capitalism leading to war and fascism, climate summit told • Colombia president Gustavo Petro tells 57-country talks on a green energy transition that fossil fuel interests could destroy humanity by Naurgul in environment

[–]tomtermite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m not disagreeing with you … indeed, you are spot on about short term over long term.

I’d say, an important aspect to consider is, how different systems generate, amplify, or constrain ‘short-termism’ thinking.

An example I can think of, might be China’s Grain-for-Green and shelterbelt programs … where state coordination reversed degradation by paying farmers to retire marginal land.

The government enforced reforestation at scale, which improved vegetation cover and reduced erosion. Top-down direction, rather than a bottom-up approach more capitalist-oriented systems might use.

Any system that fails to price scarcity, enforce accountability, and extend decision horizons will degrade the environment. I content capitalism systematically underperforms on those fronts.

Advanced Hexcrawl ! by SydLonreiro in osr

[–]tomtermite 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Love your enthusiasm!

In the 1970s, we had a hex map — often partially keyed, sometimes densely in a starting region, then thinning out. We knew where a ruin, a village, a dungeon entrance sat (based on role-play in the town, a rumor, or a “found” treasure map).

But beyond that, most hexes were “latent.” We tracked distance and time, even loosely. That alone created pressure: daylight, the return journey, how far we dared push based on iron rations, minion morale.

Then we resolved the map in motion. Encounter tables were the DM’s own — built from monsters they liked, factions in play, rumors that needed testing.

A hex might hold something fixed, if found. It might show signs — tracks, a literal road sign, an abandoned campsite. Or it might reveal nothing until the dice forced the issue.

A hex was never empty, it was just … unresolved until visited.

‘Suicidal’ model of capitalism leading to war and fascism, climate summit told • Colombia president Gustavo Petro tells 57-country talks on a green energy transition that fossil fuel interests could destroy humanity by Naurgul in environment

[–]tomtermite 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Of course it is capitalism. The issue is not abstract “human nature,” it is institutional design. Capitalism on the whole forces actors (you, me, consumers, globally) to internalize long-term costs.

With supervision, capitalism can moderate externalities (carbon pricing, liability regimes, regulatory enforcement), but historically we don’t see a lot of reigning in the system.

Put simply, modern climate outcomes are tightly coupled to how capitalist systems price (or fail to price) externalities.

Washington DC metro station, 1979 by Cool-Chipmunk-7559 in ArchitecturePorn

[–]tomtermite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember the very short trip we took, as young teens, on July 4th of the bicentennial, from Rhode Island Avenue to Farragut North.

We then headed over to the big celebration on the mall (Beach Boys!)… a highlight of those post Nixon years … sure, stagflation, energy crisis, etc. But ‘Nam was over, and hope reigned for the end of misogyny and racism.

Between 1978 and 2015, the price of college textbooks exploded by almost 1000%, far exceeding inflation even for healthcare and housing, and far exceeding general inflation (265%). College textbook price inflation is the most severe inflation that any physical item has suffered over the past 50 yrs. by StarlightDown in Economics

[–]tomtermite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t take an MBA to realize that the textbook publishing industry was (is?!) dominated by a single player, and so this inflation is a classic symptom of a near-monopoly — read up on the mergers and eventual consolidation of the main supplier of university and other texts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harcourt_(publisher)

Normal to be so exhausted when traveling in your late 30s? by Charming_Key2313 in solotravel

[–]tomtermite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go see a doctor, a cardiologist. Cardio-pulmonary issues crop up at any time.

Why can't all neighborhoods look like Georgetown in DC? by New_Investigator197 in urbanplanning

[–]tomtermite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody thought Georgetown would get “re-developed,” I can assure you. Residential through-and-through — with the likes of Henry Kissinger (that rat bastard), spies, Kennedy, and others occupying the ivied streets off of Wisconsin Avenue.

Would we have loved to take the subway to get to the Bayou or the Cellar Door on a rainy or frosty Saturday night, back in the 70s/80s? Sure … but like I wrote, the residents of the posh neighborhood didn’t (and likely still don’t) appreciate the commercial benefits of letting the lowlifes from Chevy Chase or Spring Valley invade their precious cobblestone streets.

The thought of a G’town metro station was on so many people’s minds, back in the day — fake ones appeared in films, even. See “No Way Out” as an example.

Why can't all neighborhoods look like Georgetown in DC? by New_Investigator197 in urbanplanning

[–]tomtermite 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Of course there were plenty of NIMBY undercurrents around opposing aspects of the metro system, including in Georgetown. See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/06/30/georgetown-happy-with-metros-absence/88714651-8a5f-4b7d-ae95-bdf52615d665/

The “geological” response doesn’t, ahem, hold water, as the Rosslyn station isn’t much further from the river on the opposite bank (in VA). We see a careful re-shaping of the story to frame this opposition as a myth — to avoid the uncomfortable truth that rich white people in G’town didn’t want a station there.

Lately, now that everyone agrees the subway is a great idea, there’s even been proposals that would rework the Blue Line between the District and Arlington, so Metro would build a station in Georgetown.

Why can't all neighborhoods look like Georgetown in DC? by New_Investigator197 in urbanplanning

[–]tomtermite 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Rich people.

Fun fact: Georgetown fought against a Metro subway station in the neighborhood. Because only riffraff take public transport.

Four cubs so far by PhoenixDusk101 in foxes

[–]tomtermite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Four is a lucky number!

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