You have nothing to hide until what was once acceptable rapidly changes.

Half life (and it’s astonishingly good remake, Black Mesa) still hold up all these years later, as does Half life 2, it’s expansions, and it’s VR title, which falls between HL1 and 2.

I believe some motos still have mSD and headphone jacks. My stylus 5g from two years ago still had one on release. They’re pretty decent mid range phones, grabbed one on sale for $250.

I wish ford would stop doing the ugly af square nose design. Make EV cars and make them aero, please.

Watering down the brand, lol

GMMK keyboards allow any colors and pretty much any switches as everything is modular. However, their new keyboards don’t appear to be as good as their old ones. If you can find a GMMK or GMMK2, those are the good ones.

The Stand (by King), The Stormlight Archive (by Brandon Sanderson), and The Player Of Games by Ian M. Banks are excellent.

I also liked Yesteryear by Caro Burke, but it gave off similar vibes to the video game called “Omori” and the nonfiction book called Educated by Tara Westover. All three are not happy stories, lol.

I’m currently reading through the Stormlight Archive series and I’m currently waiting on copies of the third book to become available at the library. It can’t come soon enough!

Edit: I’ve also read through a number of books on diseases and Ebola just before the current outbreak happened. If you like virology and that sort of thing, lmk :)

If you have 100k saved in liquid cash, you definitely need to be investing that in broad scale index funds. Keeping it liquid means inflation is going to be eating away at your money over time, which is really not good. The whole market is pretty out of balance due to AI, but it’s better to get in now rather than trying to wait and see. You have time to recover from market crashes, just don’t panic sell if the market crashes.

If financial stuff isn’t your thing, you can also save for retirement in prefabbed vehicles called Target-Date Funds. These are kinda annoying as they have a decent amount of fees, but you basically set a retirement goal date, and they will automatically rebalance more and more conservatively over time. However, you are at a bit of a disadvantage if you start at 43. I’d recommend saving aggressively if you can afford to.

Renting vs buying is always a thing, and it highly depends where you live. Having money for a down payment is good, but I’d consider what 100k invested right now would do for you until you are 80 vs what a house would do for you instead. 40 years of interest could be better than a significant debt load, even with several market crashes.

Fwiw, if you don’t have a spouse or kids, I don’t really see much value in a house. Rent a cheap one bed and laugh all the way to the bank when a water pipe breaks and you don’t have to cover 75k in water damage.

I got a Motorola Stylus 5g 2024 for $250. There’s probably newer now, but it’s a decent device with a headphone jack, large battery, SD card slot, and a stylus. It feels similarly decent to my Z fold 4, which was surprising. I thought it would be laggy.

Does Europe have fabs? Or are they purely reliant on Asia and the US fabs?

I always vote, local, state, and federal. I would never vote for candidates who specifically are out to destroy things, or do austerity measures. I also don’t vote by party, but by values.

Because few people vote in my area, my votes have enormous impacts on society at large, which feels uniquely powerful.

I love the woods a lot, so I voted for a candidate that wanted to preserve them. My singular vote alone counted as 2% of the entire state, and the pro-Muir candidate won. And that was me alone, I also talked to friends and family about voting, which they did.

I’d much rather have a cutting edge nuclear plant nearby rather than a data center. Especially since the nuclear plant probably wouldn’t have much in the way of emissions, unlike gas turbines at AI data centers.

I still miss WP daily. It was a fantastic OS. Way ahead of its time, too.

Different person, but yes, even after watching the TC video. I preheat the water too. And it’s a fairly recent Miele dishwasher.

Rinsing the dishes definitely helps cut down on this, though. And occasionally checking the filter at the bottom. A little rinsing goes a long way, I’ve found.

Tax filing companies. Individual taxes are pretty straightforward in most cases. Our tax laws are just completely screwed up.

Health insurance and tax information can easily be handled by the government.

So glad it’s ahead of schedule and ready for launch. Fingers crossed for the other next gen space telescopes too!

Sync, until it dies.

That’s not bad! I largely don’t drive anymore, unless there’s something I cannot do by ebike or train. I would like to get a used EV someday for those times where I really do need a car.

How much was it, roughly, if you don’t mind me asking?

Nobody really follows the Bible to the letter, especially with things like clothing worn, foods ate and all that. At the time, religions in general were a great way to teach people how to wash poop off their hands before eating, how to avoid foods with parasites, and not treat the lowest in society like absolute dogshit.

The real takeaways from the Bible are:

• Treat others with respect, humility and love

• A lifetime of goodwill can be squandered with one act of cruelty.

• You can be screwed up your entire life, but still be redeemed in the end by admitting that you screwed up and genuinely making amends where possible.

• If having gay sex was sinful, God wouldn’t have made it so fun. He put the prostate and clitoris there for a reason, after all. He made us in his image.