A ghost who is also a dick, or three raccoons in a trenchcoat and a fog machine

I’m withdrawing from the race, I think a political career would interfere with my drug dealing

Calling them communities makes you streets ahead

Where does ICE fall in this paradigm?

Voyager, used to use & prefer Sync but it didn’t keep up with instance upgrades

1947 marked a major turning point for workers rights in the US when they outlawed solidarity between unions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act

The US and France currently both have around 10% union workforce, France is a million times more effective at striking because unions strike together & nonunion workers don’t cross strike lines, coordinated and targeted.

Midwest US at a large nonprofit with ~10% union workers, ~7 hours PTO accrued per 2 week pay period adds up to just over 184 hours or 23 days, and another 14 holidays. PTO accrued was tiny until 5 years seniority, currently at 13 years and I think it caps at 8@20.

I usually take off as much as I can, about a month per year spread out by 1-2 week stretches for a vacation or just to take care of personal work or projects, moves, family stuff, etc.

Depends on the circumstances. If I’m walking on a street or neighborhood someone told me they got mugged on I’ll be way more aware and observant than otherwise. Same if I’m walking in nature it’s good to look behind regularly to be familiar with how the trail looks both ways so you don’t get turned around on the way back or if there are large predators in the area. If I’m walking around my neighborhood I’ll be much more selective about when I’m more observant because I know where the poorly lit areas and blind corners are, and more so at 2am than 2pm.

More than most would guess I bet. Most movies have very limited release if any in theaters, and may have been part of a film festival or just someone who wants to try their hand at directing and producing and was watched once in one screening then never seen again. There’s archives to try to preserve some of it but not everything gets submitted for archival or preserved.

It’s buggy but it’s mine, pillars of eternity 2 deadfire

I never really got into the one character party hardest mode min/maxing, but everything else about it is pretty much what I want from an RPG

The story just broke on corporate news networks, I heard the president of video games is going to make an address

I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.

Civvie has some great stuff if you’re into arena/arcade style shooters. His Blood review is classic

Currently just Jeff Gerstmann, my favorite video games journalist

A clone and an android doppelganger and none of us know who is which

Right, kick ass. Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but, ah… it says on your chart that you’re fucked up.

I can tell the time at night, most of human history needed the sun to have any chance at accuracy

I think the end would be around when Netflix started taking off, there was TiVo and similar recorded live broadcast/cable TV devices before but it was around then that larger groups of people went from watching scheduled TV to anything on streaming whenever, that change in viewing habits removed a monoculture around scheduled TV going back to black and white TVs & also changed quality dropping projects, development teams with experience, innovations, etc that don’t maximize streaming metrics. The beginning was probably around when they moved from more unscripted reality gameshow and variety shows to scripted drama and sitcoms around the 60s.

Traitors to the Constitution & rule of law applied universally should get only gifts of a short rope and a long drop

The rifftrax version is great to break up the slower parts with jokes, but this is definitely up there when I think of mid 20th century b movie sci-fi along with Them! And The Blob