How about trolldier wearing the gibus

Nier and Signalis are the first two that come to mind

Honestly also Minecraft but that was mostly because I was playing during a bad time and the ost kicked in

I had a garmin vivomove hr. The idea behind it was pretty neat, but it was too annoying to keep charged.

Yea they’re pretty much the only brand still.

I liked my garmin vivomove, it was pretty nice despite some clunkiness (the one I bought was early on)

I’d like to try one, but I feel like I might end up not using it often or just not liking it

On a side note I wish hybrid smartwatches were still a thing. Most of the product lines are discontinued, but I liked the idea of it.

His reason was to inflict psychological damage to you

If only I could relive the wonders of beta 1.5 from fresh

Don’t get me wrong I think the evolution of minecraft is cool and one of my favorite mod packs was sevtech, which was around 2017, but beta 1.5 hits different when kid me was just spamming random mats into the crafting table to see if it built anything

I only played payday 2 casually because all I would play is hoxton breakout LOL

I was invested enough though to make my own skin mod (pre lootbox) and it was kinda popular

How come these 10x devs always seem to actually get requirements that don’t change and never need to attend meetings

I’d love that but I live in a x today y tomorrow of business.

150k for a family is not that much in california, especially if its two people working for a combined 150k.

I don’t have a pic but the lightrail in seattle also has advertisements from mullvad, which is kinda unexpected.

From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions were produced by just 57 companies.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/since-2016-80-percent-of-global-co2-emissions-come-from-just-57-companies-report-shows-180984118/

Emitted 3.2% of total greenhouse gas emissions when refrigerants are included.

https://ourworldindata.org/air-conditioning-causes-around-greenhouse-gas-emissions-will-change-future

A/C is a negligible amount of the problem and in these type of weather is a necessity, lest vulnerable people like seniors die from heat stroke. You could 10x AC usage and it still wouldn’t even match what corpos emit. We have way bigger issues than more AC use.

Sometimes I answer, mute myself, and don’t reply at all just to make them waste time

Forgot to mention but my school advertised permanent access to our school email, which back then meant free student benefits like the education unlimited storage. I technically still do have access, but it’s a lot less useful nowadays

Google just went back on that education unlimited thing because they realized it was not sustainable, so my school had to enforce it somehow

Reminds me of when I had about 3 or 4 TB in my schools storage because hey free benefit

They removed the education free unlimited storage during my senior year and blocked access to my supposedly permanent school email because I didn’t reduce my storage usage lol

Oh hey I used to live near Sawtelle. Honestly the city department there is fucking terrible.

I parked there once using street parking when I was first looking for apartments and I got ticketed for being in a no parking zone when there wasn’t a sign or a red line saying no parking.

Went to the city’s office and despite photo evidence we still got denied an appeal.

Airlines and enshittification, what’s new.

Happening right now with Southwest as well. In their infinite knowledge sw decided to remove what defined them: two free checked bags and cheap flights

Now there’s a worse option called basic which has a shittier cancellation policy, no checked bags, and is more expensive than the previous budget tier

Your original point was that third places require no cost. If you want to change to low cost, then bars and cafes still fit that category.

The average person can afford to order a beer or a coffee during their hangout. I’ve worked at Starbucks before, in a mall. It’s an average of 5 to 6 usd for a drink. The cafe my friend works in is the same. An average place is not serving 12 dollar lattes. The outliers here is some crazy customization, like if you ordered a veinte frappe with cold foam and extra pumps of syrup and subbing whole milk for oat, all that jazz, and the cashier decided to actually ring you up for all of it, or if you decided to go to erewhon.

There is obviously a financial barrier for classifying third places, but that barrier is moreso on the restaurant level in my opinion.

I could talk end to end about how capitalism and world events has led to the slow destruction of the cafe as a third place, but that doesn’t mean a traditional cafe and pub is not one. I’m obviously not going to consider erewhon a third place. I’m not going to consider a bar in a penthouse hotel a third place.

Here’s an example of UC talking about pubs and cafes being a third place. It even talks about the idea of spending money and free third places.

https://esl.uchicago.edu/2023/11/01/third-places-what-are-they-and-why-are-they-important-to-american-culture/

Oldenburg suggests that beer gardens, main streets, pubs, cafés, coffeehouses, post offices, and other “third places” are the heart of a community’s social vitality and the foundation of a functioning democracy.[6]

The creator of the term himself had pubs and cafes listed as examples of a third place.

He is aware that modern suburbs only offer first and second places with a mandatory car-centric commute between them, and that “public” places have become commercialized to the extent in which one is required to purchase a good or service and is forbidden to “loitering.”[8]

Sure the regulation against loitering obviously takes away the convenience nature of third places, but traditionally these places don’t enforce the need to spend money to exist in the space. It’s also not prohibitively expensive even if you spend money, i.e. its a place where people can conveniently make plans to hang out at.

To your point on capitalism, I’ve already talked about how capitalism are actively destroying cafes as third places. Starbucks as a notorious example has been promoting drive thru so much, taking away actual indoors space, and destroying the social aspect of cafes. Yes capitalism is bad and malicious in this sense, but a place isn’t disqualified as a third place just because you can spend money there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Oldenburg

Edit: better formatting

This article is so weirdly written

One of his points is that a vhs player is easily fixable while a wifi router isn’t. These things aren’t even remotely the same. They don’t serve the same function, they don’t have the same complexity. Comparing their repairability makes no sense because they serve different functions. Just because I know how to repair a keyboard doesn’t mean I know how to fix a tv.

Most of his complaints are on the capitalization of modern technology, which is not a problem of innovation and knowledge, it’s an economics and political problem.