Drewfro66

joined 3 years ago
[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Most cities have a bus service, but they only rarely connect to smaller towns ("smaller" being relative here, like 30,000 people).

To put it in perspective, I live in a suburban apartment outside of a medium-sized city in Ohio. There is a single busline that goes through my neighborhood (which thankfully has a stop right outside my complex). A bus comes by once an hour between 7 AM and 7 PM.

This can get you to work if you're lucky enough to work a 9-5 next to a bus stop. My work has a bus stop, but I work a 4-12, so no luck.

My favorite bar is in the next town over, a college town about 15 minutes down the road. If I wanted to get there by public transit, I would need to wait for the hourly bus outside of my apartment, get off at a grocery store, wait about a half an hour for a connecting bus from the college town's bus service, and that's not even counting the drive time.

And if I don't leave the bar by 6 PM, of course, I'm stranded without an Uber or something, because even on weekends (not that I have weekends off work) the busses only run till 7 PM.

And there's other towns nearby that I literally cannot take public transport to. I had to work an event in a smaller city (but still probably within the top 20 in the state for population) about half an hour drive away. There is no bus service that connects me to them. The only options are driving or Uber.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bashar has been replaced by a Western puppet Islamist dictator. It is not good news that Britain cut ties to begin with and they certainly shouldn't be reestablishing them now.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure how to feel about this - there will always be dangerous jobs in any worksite and it's better that the danger is more highly compensated than the alternative - that the job is forced upon those with the least alternatives and paid the same or less than safer work (like the situation in the OP with incarcerated firefighters).

I work in a grocery store meat department and was a meat cutter for 2 years at a previous job. It pays well at least partially because you're working with your hands next to a spinning blade for hours a day and it's pretty normal to see old timers missing a finger or two.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

From the thumbnail those looked like PSL signs

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I love this channel, but sometimes I wish he was willing to just hide behind a sheet of plexiglass and let some of these contraptions tear themselves apart

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

First Vibe Coding, next Vibe Bombing

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

The charities Imouhagh International, Kel Akal, Diaspora of the United States, and the Azawad Solidarity Association accuse them of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Sounds like the the organizations complaining are mostly for the Western diaspora. Just makes me think of similar orgs for Ughyrs or Tibetans or w/e that are solely made up of people who work for the U.S. government or NGOs it funds.

I'd like to hear what the Tuaregs actually living in the area think.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Based and Pisspilled

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

If there is a grain of truth to this story, I'd love to read into it more from a less biased source like Global Times or SCMP.

[–] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

I agree that I think it's silly to draw everything back to "Orientalism".

I would just say that North Korea and Enver Hoxha were/are based and good, actually.

 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1296101

Howdy! I’m Drew, and I’m the administrator of a Socialist West-Marches DnD 3.5e Discord Server, the Axe and Sickle! The server is over a year old, has a dozen DMs, over 30 active members (and over a hundred lurkers), and hosts an average of 2 or 3 games a week. The game has an old-school, traditional fantasy feel.

Devastated by an unknown catastrophe centuries ago, the Ohm Basin is home to naught but monsters and outlaws. A retired adventurer from a foreign land has founded a town in the middle of it, and adventurers - such as yourselves - file into its tavern, the Axe and Sickle, to secure their own fortune! Plunge ancient depths to uncover lost secrets, thwart necromancers who build their strength away from civilization, and compete with fellow grave-robbers to loot forgotten tombs!

If you don’t know what a West Marches Game is, it is a style of DnD game where, rather than a static party that meets regularly and follows the DM’s campaign, the players themselves choose who to adventure with (and when to meet) for a single expedition before returning to town and disbanding. This is good for players with inconsistent schedules and interest, as it is an extremely low-commitment game. You don’t need to set aside any time in your schedule for this game on a permanent basis; just pick a time and day that works for you, one session at a time. And if you have the energy for anywhere between two games a week to one game a month or even one game ever, you can be accommodated.

The only things required are a Discord account and a mic. Prior DnD experience is not; everyone is welcome. For now, all games are run in English. The game is a safe space for Socialists but anyone is welcome as long as they aren't disruptive.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. We’ve recently expanded our DM team and are looking to run even more games than we do now, but to do that we need more players. We’d love to have you!

https://discord.gg/R5dPsZU

 

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