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It is still all way cheaper than cable/satellite, and that is with me spending $40 a month on Hulu Live for local news and sports.

Amazon is easy. Free 2-day shipping pays for itself. Some of this stuff is going to fail and have to join with others (looking at you CBS.) But it also is why we are getting a ton of new and fairly unique content. Shows no longer get cancelled any more, they just jump services. Firefly would have ran 20 seasons in this market and we would all complain about how bad it has become. It is a glorious time.

The footage that came out of those camps at the end of the war needs no exaggeration. It depicts the worst of humanity. I agree that History, as a subject, should be kept fairly simple. We weigh cause and effect. Speculation should be kept separate, as that can lead us to completely false narratives such as the Mayan Scholar Utopia or the Great Zimbabwe/Queen of Sheba connection. But history is just one aspect of the Social Sciences, and I'd call it detached or even hard-hearted to ignore all that context and not think critically about how to improve the future. There is nothing political in saying that the Holocaust and Hitler are horrific chapters in human history. That is a pretty simple lesson. It isn't propaganda. I don't see what your objective is in referring to it that way.

Subnautica. I want to live there. Conan Exiles too.

A lot of people mistrust the holocaust? I would honestly lump those people in with anti-vaccinators and flat earthers.

None of that really erases history though. At least, not any more than has happened with every civilization that has come before us. We've gone through some pretty serious purges and cultural upheavals over the centuries. This stuff is super tame in comparison.

So not unpredictably, many of the states where you had a ton of protests against SIP and masks are seeing a big jump in cases. Here is a pic from a protest in Austin, Texas: Do you think there is a chance that these guys look at this pic and think,"ok, this is a bad look. I'll calm down on this whole mask thing."? No, I guess self-reflection is probably too much to ask.

Somebody tried to make an island analogy and the replies were golden: http://geekxgirls.com/article.php?ID=11214

https://twitter.com/i/status/1275990086262198272 This is golden.

I just finished Fire Saga, the Eurovision contest movie with Will Farrell. It has been getting some rough reviews, but I don't get it at all. First off, half the movie is set in beautiful Iceland, and then parts of Scotland, so from a visual perspective it is just fun to watch. It's also silly and light hearted, which is what I would expect from Farrell and what I wanted. It was a fun movie and I smiled the whole way through. It wasn't a gut busting comedy, but I was happy to watch something that made me smile.

Nope. Sounds like they just rounded up a few black kids that didn't run and called it a day. Hooray for the police!

I'm sure Skarpie will use our reactions to validate his opinion that she is brave and will be attacked for her opinions. Of course, he will ignore the fact that he shared her opinion here in the first place, and none of us would have even noticed her if he hadn't.

Her post is a response to white privilege. She used the word privilege over and over again. Do you agree?

I mean, at best you can say she is just stereotyping anyone on welfare. That would be the most forgiving way to look at her. But given the timing and the current climate, it's blatantly racist. This woman, who as an educator is supposed to be guiding young people out of the cycle of poverty that so many minorities are mired in, responds to all the talk about white privilege by stereotyping everyone on welfare. She's making a healthy 6 figure salary to lift these kids up, and instead goes after their choice in shoes. That is the definition of white privilege. Then she put it on facebook! Lordie lord.

Debbie straight up racist. edit: Oh lordie, looked it up and she is an assistant principal at a school. I hope that social media post was worth losing a job over. Seems like a weak hill to die on.

In our family, we go uptempo with it. It's not a funeral dirge, it should be a quick ditty.

Speaking of book to screen adaptations, I just watched Ready Player One. It was fairly entertaining. The book was hard to match. I felt like it was missing something.

I give you the future Mrs. Volo.

The police are not common people, so I do not understand why you would compare them to that. They also don't track or report numbers on a national level, making it very difficult to state statistics clearly. This is intentional. The police track crime data, not use of force data, because it is in their best interests. https://www.marketplace.org/2020/06/01/fbi-police-use-of-force-database/

I hope they release DLC for Secret Government that lets me create The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants.

That seems like an overreaction to a response that you seem to feel is an overreaction.

Some skeezy stuff about MCA, yikes. It sounds like it will not affect the development of the game though.

Phoenix Point - I had some technical issues back when this was released, so I gave it time to marinate. Now that I have gotten into it, it is a pretty fun game. I am enjoying the story, and the squad level combat has a lot of variety.

You are correct. It's a weird shift. A few years and 30 pounds ago I had borderline high blood pressure, bad knees and I would throw my back out about once a year. I wasn't in terrible shape. I could still get up and down the ice in a hockey game. But I didn't feel like I had a lot of energy. Part of that was just being a parent. The early years are tough because you are just trying to keep them alive. I mean, they have very little sense of self-preservation for the first chunk of years. It was exhausting. So I started running, and the energy started coming back, and some pounds went away, and the blood pressure got better. That improvement can be a bit of an addiction in itself. You have to keep pushing to see more improvements. But I have way more energy. My back still gets tight, my knees still swell, but I recover way faster from those things. I also get to do amazing things like swim across the San Francisco Bay or climb a snow topped mountain with my bike. There are no regrets.

That reminds me of a funny thread I read on that Nextdoor social media site the other day. Nextdoor is kind of a humorous facebook site where neighbors complain about each other. Now our town is divided up into a few different areas. There is the main area that is mostly single family homes with easy freeway access for commuting. It's very suburban and sprawls across a valley floor. Then we have a clump of houses up on the ridge line called Holiday Lake Estates. A lady from up there posted that she wanted to learn how to handle a gun, because of the current unrest. She was concerned that the police would not be able to respond quickly to her. I was like, the police have never been able to respond quickly to you. You live on a mountain ridge! It's a 10-minute drive to get up there no matter how well funded the police department is or how many officers are available. Also, nobody is climbing up that hill to loot and riot in your quiet neighborhood. Your level of risk has not changed in any way due to the current political climate. Meanwhile I live a block away from the city center, and we've had a number of protest marches come through. They've all been chill. My safety is much more at risk from all the bad drivers that zip around our side streets trying to avoid freeway traffic than I am any bands of roving antifa fighters.