[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

To be fair, both bikes and fences are made of pipes. What else is made of pipes?

Pipe bombs.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

The issue, addressed in the article, is that these rural areas used to have industry that gave people a sense of purpose. Now the choices are basically move to a city, die of a heroin overdose, or join a right wing militia. We need to give these people something to do that's beneficial and where they feel they're contributing to their communities, otherwise, they're going to be wooed by groups with ulterior motives that dress their goals up in rhetoric of service and cohesion.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

The real mistake may have been attempting to pivot to Iran in an attempt to reinstate the JCPOA. As admirable a goal as that is, I also think it's clear Trump squandered any trust Iran had in the US when he cancelled it. Iran has taken the Biden admin's overtures as an opportunity to test its regional influence, instead of being a good faith negotiating partner - and why would the Biden admin have expected anything else when the US hadn't been a good faith partner? Trump was awful on foreign policy, and set middle-east peace back decades, but Biden has completely failed to understand and adapt to the new status quo.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

Just make sure no one named Ted Faro gets anywhere near the project.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

The barnacles must be a more recent phenomenon, I was there a couple years ago. There were still fish skeletons lying around, but mostly this:

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 7 points 11 months ago

I have replaced your child.

~ Gacek

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

"Never again" is a phrase I learned in religious school as an American Jew, in the context of the contemporaneous genocides of WWI and WWII, and the genocides that were occurring in the 90s. I understand you're pointing out the hypocrisy of the Israeli government, but don't forget there are a lot of us out here who recognize genocide for what it is.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

The public didn't have the document until now, but you can bet Republican leaders & committee chairs at the very least were well aware of it, and the information that this was not only US Gov't policy, but internationally backed by our allies has been widely reported since the beginning. I have to assume McCarthy knows and doesn't care.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Starfield has the advantage of 100+ hours of hand-crafted, voice-acted quest content, of course. What they need to do about the procedural content is the same thing Hello Games did, just add more procedural pieces that can get put together in novel ways, so the planets and outposts aren't so obviously exactly the same. I'm hoping the system that inserts buildings on planets will just take new content, because modders could really blow that wide open.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

If you're talking about the announcement trailer, it's not gameplay footage.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Also 8% of US agricultural output by dollar value. Let's not forget that we need conservatives as much as they need us.

[-] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

You mean the app that sold the physical presence of children to fast food restaurants? Good riddance.

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