A quick search says 150m so it might be close, maybe be a bit too big?

Exactly! They’re putting in the work there and getting some fantastic things done. Lots of other great stuff on that ballot too.

And I’d add - get active the other 364 days of the year.

If we want better options we first need ranked choice voting and we need to get money out of politics. And none of that is going to happen if our only political action each year is voting.

If you’re adventurous try some pickled onions on that thar grilled cheese and then come back and thank me later

Oh damn didn’t know that. Definitely changes the calculus

Love this game. My buddy and I are waiting for the next full release to start a new campaign. Looks like they’ve added a lot since we played last.

Really looking forward to NPCs though, hope they don’t wait too many decades to complete that.

Yeah corporate goals are different and sometimes at odds with the need of their users so what’s the point

No that’s very true, I had it look up leather repair shops not too long ago and it listed six completely fictional shops with fully fleshed out trip-advisor style blurbs for each one. It was hilariously convincing and a complete waste of my time. But it does seem like that happens less and less lately.

Yeah I told my partner about some of the stuff that goes on and her first thought was ‘they shouldn’t allow kids in religion until they’re old enough to decide for themselves’.

I’m extremely wary and nervous about how disruptive LLMs can/will be but one relief is just getting an answer directly for things instead of wading through page after page of SEO optimized BS. Just really nice when you can get a quick answer and get back to the things you want to be doing.

I suppose the AI overlords will screw that up somehow too but IMO it’s at a brief moment of usefulness.

I grew up in a sect that I like to often describe as Beer Drinkin’ Christianity because it’s really chill about most things including homosexuality and gender. It wasn’t until I had grown out of it and basically gone full agnostic that I really realized how coercive even my version of religion had been. I could go on and on but the funniest thing to me was realizing during an Abnormal Psychology 101 course in college that my Church Camp basically used every last technique they listed for brain washing. It was a fun camp and not scary in any way but yet extremely manipulative in a subversive way.

Thrawn would have been such a home-run no brainer

Do you ever get the feeling that all the right story beats are there, if only it were guided by a more masterful hand

I was thinking it’s funny that they’d write an event into Star Trek so close to the time the episode aired and then I realized it was 30 YEARS AGO

Looks like a big un - is she a mixed breed? I can’t really put my finger but there could be some Percheron and Belgian coloring in there.

You mean the guy next to the guy that sorta looks like Snoop Dogg?

That’s what I was thinking - so I got the free cryro without the hard work?

That’s the one thing I finally learned with the DLC that I should have learned long before this - leaving and coming back later instead of fighting and dying to a tough boss 30 times in a row

Huh, is this maybe the newer Tomb Raider?

I’d do this too but every screenshot I posted would just be Elden Ring.

The upvotes have it!