Land of 10,000 Games: Inside the Twin Cities Tabletop Gaming Boom
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    24h ago 100%

    Oh, those things that I like that I don't get anymore here in Virginia? 🤣

    The initial draw was my understanding that the area is particularly progressive with a higher concentration of leftists (Bible belt problems,) but I also like snow and board games and shit. Plus I'm a disabled vet and IIRC I read that transit is free statewide for us which wouldn't hurt.

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  • Autocrat and authoritarian now means independent from the US and refusing to be vassalized.
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    4d ago 100%

    I dont have time to look for it right now but maybe somebody else will recall that study that shows something like 20% of public favored policy becoming law vs IIRC ~60% of corporate favored policy.

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    Atheism 6d ago
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    White Evangelicals Must Lose in November
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    5d ago 75%

    If my choices are "the end," "the end slightly delayed because we've no interest in preventing it," or "worse than the first guys because I didn't worship the duopoly" I've already lost my voice, havent I?

    Democrats have shut off all paths to move them left, including having it ruled in court that the DNC can do whatever they want. Democrats spend more energy attacking leftists than they ever do Republicans.

    If leftists are such a critical threat to Democrats they probably should have courted those voters instead of the cycle of telling them to eat shit for 3 years then spending a year blaming them for dem losses. 🤷‍♂️

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    Far left intellectualism
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    We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women
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    6d ago 40%

    "There is no blue MAGA we're just blue folk who use all the same strategies and mannerisms of MAGA"

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    We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women
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    We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women
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    7d ago 50%

    "Its not fascism unless its from the Faschisa region of Italy, otherwise it's just sparkling authoritarianism"

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  • The PRC's long-term high speed rail progress.
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    7d ago 100%

    The hyperloop really encapsulates how car brained and isolated Americans are - even public transit should be individuals in a car alone one at a time.

    I got a bunch of the new Toyota ad during my podcast today and the entire thing was a guy going on about how much he fucking loves traffic and rush hour now so he can hang out in his Toyota even longer.

    FML.

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  • Scientists Simulate Alien Civilizations, Find They Keep Dying From Climate Change
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    2w ago 80%

    Unfortunately, the problem isn't scientists believing in climate change. Its high school dropouts who think anything that doesn't fit in a preschool popup book is fake.

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  • Everyone I know, even more "progressive" people, treat me like a damn alien for not prioritizing getting a new car since mine died over covid. Why does nobody blink an eye at this habit people have of just..... Sitting in their car in the driveway? Its not on, there's no music, they aren't leaving - they're just sitting there for an hour or more. I see it fairly often, but if I mention it being odd people look at me like I'm dumb. Are we really THAT car centric now that it's this normalized to be like "fuck my living room, fuck my TV, fuck my couch, I just wanna sit in my car all day?"

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    Howdy All! I've been self hosting some services on a pi 4 for a year or two now and have been fiddling with new services lately. I realized I'm pushing 60% or so of RAM and maxing out the SWAP file while fiddling with things. I currently just set up a nightly reboot as a temporary solution but I'm thinking about picking up a mini PC of some sort to replace it with, and wanted to get input from the community (Read: people smarter than me haha.) I'm happy to hear any preferences anyone would care to share on hardware. I know obviously more RAM is key, as far as I'm aware CPU isn't super important and any recent-ish box will probably have a fine enough processor in it, and of course I'll probably end up getting a bigger external drive to hook up to it but that's not a big deal. Also, I'm currently running docker/portainer on an OMV core, just how I learned/got into self hosting. Should I take the opportunity to learn Kubernetes or some other big boy system? I've not done alot of reading into it but I know clusters are gaining steam these days even for self hosting, would that be valuable to learn more about as a hobbyist/enthusiast/whatever? I'm fairly competent and used to have some CompTIA certs but as such I know better than to unnecessarily complicate my life lol. It sounds cool but I don't see a use case in my personal usage. Thank y'all for your time and knowledge! I'm currently running: Baikal, Bookstack, Bitwarden, Duplicati, Filebrowser, freshrss , Linkwarden, Apache, Navidrome, nginx, portainer, rpi-monitor, searxng, stirlingpdf, syncthing, watchtower, I'm considering: Nextcloud, Maybe a game server or two depending on the needs?, Whatever else seems interesting, I guess :P

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