i AM in a blue state and i am quite happy about that

i wonder what will happen to the internet. i hope people don't throw their routers out once the world wide web isn't

You should try to get your local municipality to try and take over the United States

I dont live in the US thanks.

started rewatching handmaid's tale this week 👍

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but like like... when large government structures fail, local structures rise to take their place. you end up with petty tyrants but you also end up with small equitable social structures too.

so uh... move to a blue state if you can and you're not already. and if you can't i wouldn't be surprised if we see a rise of aid groups to get vulnerable people out of the worse locations, and incentives for skilled workers as well.

i'm a little tired today so this is going to be kind of rambly, but i can't imagine the united states lasting more than another 200 years lol. as far as i'm concerned we're living through a collapse. the question is whether it's going to be partial or complete. my guess is in the gap states, or alliances of states, will take over what the federal government fails us in.

like when you think about it, voter turnout for the presidency was less than half. only a quarter of americans actually voted for trump. the administration is growing less popular by the decade. it's pretty clear to a lot of people that it's completely ineffective. the loudest voices are always going to be flag fuckers but then we end up with folk heroes like luigi mangione so it's not like confidence in the system is very high in general.

we'll probably see at least one quasi-militarized social aid group crop up, similar to the black panthers. i don't know if the current government will have the finesse to squash them like it could during raegen's day, but that probably won't be pretty whatever happens. probably will result in police becoming more militarized at least in red states. at the end of the day though that'll just result in further public discontent.

whatever the case, it's a process that'll take decades or centuries. rome wasn't unbuilt in a day, after all.

i've been reading the handmaid's tale and the diary of anne frank, also for no real reason

I appreciated your recent comment on the issue and would appreciate to hear of your learnings too

Haven't forgotten about this btw, just haven't had much time/executive function to work on the post in a while. Currently up to Section 0.5 of it. Will probably post it in f/yourpersonalblog when it's done because it's turning into less of a concise game review and more of a rambling stream of consciousness.

As someone who just started playing pro skater 3, same tbh

Bam Margera's pro skater just wouldn't be the same

oh i love a salted hash

all we need is a billionaire dark money benefactor... or to retire

We're insufferable too but you don't see us making our terrible inside jokes everyone else's problem.

a society without tony hawk's pro skater is not a society worth living in

the advances in scary science...

The technology for posting about lunch was right at our fingertips this whole time. Makes you think

Bet it felt so good to write that

i mean they do that too, it's a multi-pronged approach.

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It just shows ***** for me?

$200 is peanuts to a gambling addict. I remember back in the 80s I had a relative who bought $100 in lotto tickets every week. It’s scary to think how much she would have spent in a casino.

my password is actually weak2, so i ll be good

Yeah, that's another issue. I was looking at this as "their business model is to lose money to get people hooked, but if I don't get hooked, I'm just taking money from an evil business."

But that ~$200 loss is subsidized by the people who do get hooked. The fact that they offer $200 in bonus bets means they're expecting to extract at least $200 from every person who takes the bet to break even, which is a mind-boggling amount to spend to gamble.

At least at the site I'm looking at, this doesn't seem to be the case. But yeah, "bet $1000 get $200 in bets" doesn't make it worth it to me. Especially with a sublinear cost function (i.e. $1000 is worth more than half of $2000 for me).