Burning Man may be the epitome of the many optimistic and maybe naive qualities of the 90s that were co-opted and exploited in the early 2000s, and turned into the very things they were built to protest against - another being the free and open internet

Please Canada, don’t become the US, trust us you don’t want it

I can’t imagine anyone who uses the internet thinking the current ad technology is effective, the web is broken because of ads

It helps that they are supported by a majority of those in power or with wealth or influence

I fully support OceanGate’s mission of removing as many billionaires from the planet as possible

A what? The vast majority of Americans do not make routine office visits and rely on emergency clinics for healthcare when there is an issue

Yeah but neither is Epic - I think the key is that Gave isn’t driven by some technofascist plan to have everyone live in the metaverse or play games using brain implants or whatever

More like astrology, it’s all just correlation til the models fails and then they invent a new one

You have to let it soften first by placing it over a warm cup of tea

THIS is what girls have been doing in the bathroom together?

I had to visit the ER clinic down the street from where I live (there’s one on basically every corner) just a few months ago. I don’t do annual check ups even though I have health insurance from work because the copays and any procedure costs are still significant out of pocket, my deductible is over $7k USD per year and I’m not going to be spending that any time soon. Anyways the doctor that I saw did me a solid, he told me I could use some pliers at home instead of having to pay the exorbitant fees at the ER clinic, so I was able to remove the arrow from my knee all by myself.

But it’s the same picture?

Pandemics affect communities not individuals

If you want something similar after you might check out The Witness

The petty and ridiculous thing seems like expecting someone would want to stand there actively engaging the coffee grinder, pour over coffee is time consuming enough in the busy mornings, much less when I need to grind 170g for cold brew

I think he and his advisors are severely underestimating the entrenched racism of their base, especially the far right wing that he is trying to court. Oh yeah, and he’s also a Harvard and Yale educated lawyer who attended school on scholarship from a Soros. And he’s Hindu, and a vegetarian.

“the west” you ever hear of Thai ladyboys you fucking dunce

One of the few games that ever gave me legitimate motion sickness, still played it constantly and felt like puking every time. Just watching the trailer is making me sick, can’t wait to play it

This feeling is the mood of Zac Gorman’s Magical Game Time webcomics

In the third decade of the 21st century all mankind held their collective breath as the first functional AI system was born, with the intelligence of a 9-year-old boy — its first words: “hello world. eat my shorts.”