American/British count palm forward but also learned to count BSL style with the only modification I use my thumb for number 3

One of the best advice I have ever got is when you talk to people is ask their names after giving yours. It turns people you meet into the start of being friends. It shows you care to know more about them.

At the end of the day you make social hobbies happen and the friends come with that

US air force and PS3s anyone

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Yep went down hill after the BlackBerry Storm

True enough the idea is to be long gone by the time something goes down. I’m not saying I would scream in a crowed but just quietly walk up and tell father/husband. I mean if wasn’t being creepy why would he be wearing a hidden camera bon his face.

I think the plan at this point if you catch some asshole wearing smart glasses. You walk up to the biggest dude around and tell him that the guy is recording his kids or wife with his glasses being creepy.

Money is not the problem if it stays a representation of work. money being you used as a commodity that can be traded is the problem. That’s how you get parasites that exploit and feed off others labor.

Bartering is just the stock market trying to get what you have to what you need. Making multiple trades to get what you want and your not going to bring all those things for each trade. Then you are going to bring a representation of the trade and we are right back to money again.

Me in 1998 watching ZDTV and playing quake and loving everything about computers and the internet.

Me in 2026 me straggling to even like computers and loathing the internet.

Patrick?

Yeah its a great community over there.

Tildeverse.org its a group of servers that are community run that are like shell accounts like you would have back in the day. They are modern OSs but you have an account and you share time on that system like you did with a mainframe.

They have IRC, websites, .plan files for updates via finger, mailing and news servers.

The interesting thing is the fediverse and the tildeverse are extensions of that older internet.

Oof I mean I’m glad they are back in stock again but that stings. I do see valve being the only company that would lower them as soon as they are able though. Public shareholders wouldn’t let them if they were public.

I don’t see it as a flex I do redeem them and try out games with heroic as I know the devs still get paid by epic when you redeem them. If I like the game. I most of the time buy on gog or steam for the convenience.

Lol well we have video from last year that showed what we should do with you in that case.

I have lived with it for 20 years. I listen to a lot of music or podcasts to help not focus on it. I got relief once for about 2 hours after my ears popped on an airplane. Everyone is different but rubbing the pressure point behind my ear doesn’t go away but turns down the volume for a bit.

Let try this, why don’t we pool our money into a big savings account of pretax dollars for everyone in the entire country and add a supervising org that works with hospital networks to keep cost low through collective bargaining. At some point we the hospital networks become a single national network.

I should have never gone to that bookstore.