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YouTube video by aetherspoon Zoan kitty snoring on my shoulder.

Would anyone like to see a snoring cat on my shoulder?

Yeah, I thought so. Apologies for the background noise, I couldn't exactly change positions.

youtu.be/Pk6UuSCMwdE

#cats

ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

I can verify that silly cat shirts work in a similar way!

I have actually had seat changes (to an empty row) and upgrades because I had a cute cat on my shirt.

a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know " ALT: a rainbow and a star with the words " i know you know "

Roughly 30–40% of U.S. corn production — about 30 million acres — is dedicated to ethanol. That same land area could support around 5,000 gigawatts of solar capacity, which is 3–4 times the total nameplate capacity of the entire U.S. electric grid. We don't have a land problem.

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.

But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

Oh, also: natural monopolies should be owned and operated by the state on behalf of the public. Water, gas, electricity, railways, roads, healthcare … and these days we can add broadband, cellcos, and ANY INTERNET PLATFORM MONOPOLISTIC ENOUGH FOR ENSHITTIFICATION TO SET IN IF IT REMAINS UNREGULATED.

the Civix Comix logo, with a cute little civet peering over the conjoined X

Right, we're live! Come learn about TARIFFS!

Based on SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK and Chick Tracks, this comic is designed to be simple and cover basic topical information. Accessibility and readability are the primary goals.

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#tariff #tariffs #comic #comics #civics #policy

Twitter post by @JoshMLabelle We've assembled 100 people with ADHD and 5 people with no soft skills to manage them, and given them a simple goal: make an impossible amount of money. We call it the games industry, and we think it's going to work great. 10:06 AM 17 Feb 22

This is exactly right. Also, during the Biden administration, the owners of the tech sector experienced the beginning of meaningful anti-monopoly regulations from the federal government.

They went fascist to crack down on worker power and destroy regulations. Classic move!

one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation

AC is SO MUCH EASIER to decarbonize than heating...we're already like halfway to carbon free AC in the US, while heat is like 10% of the way there.

You know the Kelloggs founders are looking down at this scandalized that their anti-masturbation wellness corn flakes have been seized by decadent Italian nut butter merchants

Cannot believe we've got to apply the "What if Westboro Baptist shows up at your loved one's funeral" but on a national scale.

I did leave.

Admittedly, mostly because I'm married to someone who isn't American, but there was a *lot* on the scale tipping it over to "aetherspoon leaves the US".

I’m not leaving my country because I can’t and won’t, but boy howdy if you have kids I one hundred percent understand a moral imperative to gtfo.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

What do other people - especially fellow retrogamers - think?

Is the Saturn worth the investment into the hardware versus just emulating it on PC or with a hardware emulator like the MiSTer? Or is this just me being a hoarder for no good reason?

[4/4] #saturn #retrogames

But on the other hand, I have a stupid overpowered PC and I usually don't feel the need to play a console using its original hardware. I've been emulating PS1 games on my PC since the early days of ePSXe even, emulation has never bothered me.

Do I want it to just have the console?
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I know Saturn emulation is a bit... fiddly. It took me a lot of effort to get my Let's Play of the Saturn version of Vandal Hearts working at full speed, and it only barely ran.
And I do own both an xrgb Framemeister AND an OSSC, so I have proper upscaling abilities.
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A bit out of left field, but... is buying a Sega Saturn worth it in 2025?

I've found one (Japanese model in excellent condition) for around 180 Euro that includes one of those flash carts that let you load other games on them. The goal is for me to play Shining Force 3 (all three scenarios).
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Azumanga Daioh!

Playtime for the game Rogue Legacy 2 is 231.8 hours and with 38 of 39 achievements.

Playtime of the game FTL: Faster than Light is 166.2 hours, with 48 of 51 achievements.

Four rogue-lite games are shown. The first is Slay the Spire with a playtime of 120.8 hours and 27 of 48 achievements. The second is Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale which is 114.4 hours. The third is Hades with 106.5 hours and a full 49 achievements complete. The last is Spelunky with a playtime of 104.7 hours and 15 of 20 achievements.

I have six above 100h, so that's what I'll show.

And yes, I consider Recettear a rogue-lite.
#recettear #roguelites

Oh yeah, I'm fully with you there. Once you get out of the cities in Norway, everything in the mountains (so... most of Norway that isn't Oslo) is full of one-lane roads that either twist around mountains or go into long one-way tunnels in the mountains.

That the locals speed down.

Weather-wise, summers are around 20C (68F) with random bits of clear sky strewn throughout the rain. The weather was fine for me, but the fact that there is no night (just twilight) throws me off so much.

Winters are dark and dreary/wet, lows of around 3C (36F). Usually not much snow, but some.

As for the language, it is supposed to be one of the easiest languages an English speaker can learn. That might be true, but I wouldn't say it is easy. I can read Norwegian pretty well at this point and can handle basic conversations after two years.

I'm not so great with languages though.

I loved living there - breathtakingly gorgeous city where you'd just have houses nestled along the sides of mountains with an excellent public transit system. The climate was very moderate due to having a near-constant ocean breeze off the Gulfstream (which is why it rains so much).

Well, it is the second largest city in Norway at around 300,000 people. Very mountainous - it is the "city of seven mountains", except there are actually eleven and no one quite knows which ones are the seven in question. When I say rainy, I mean it - it rains an average of 230 days per year.

If it helps, Bergen (Norway's second largest city) has a FAR more temperate climate. It can still drop below freezing in the winter, but usually for not very long. And the summers usually have long stretches in the upper 60s / lower 70s.

Only one small problem - it is the rainiest city in Europe.