happybadger

Elon's starlink ratfuckery in Ukraine should make that the easiest choice ever made. If you displease him he turns off the internet at a whim.

We should all aspire to be more like bees.

That I haven't played. The main three games were just gun slot machines for me.

I probably played the games more than most of the audience and wouldn't have wasted money on it. The IP is terrible apart from being the first lootbox shooter. Annoying characters, boring plot, a flat setting- it's probably the video game I'd least want to see made into a film.

Your daily reminder that cicadas are edible and he only looks that ripped because he had quality bug protein: https://health.osu.edu/wellness/exercise-and-nutrition/cooking-cicadas

I was a 9/11 truther because there were so many weird coincidences that day, but ultimately had to accept the accident theory. Shit happens.

Stellantis going bankrupt: I

Stellantis executives being fed molten gold until their greed is satiated: I

I like Twain's work a lot. He became really radical in his later years: https://socialistworker.org/2010/04/21/the-twain-they-didnt-teach

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

• Mark Twain

Imagine pulling up to a red light, checking your GPS for directions, and suddenly, the entire screen is hijacked by an ad. That's the reality for some Stellantis owners. Instead of seamless functionality, drivers are now forced to manually close out of ads just to access basic vehicle functions.

Cargo ships are your cheapest paid option. I've yet to do it, but contact the shipping companies and see what their passenger policies are. There are also shipping agents who coordinate with those companies as intermediates.

There's also the potential of crewing a small boat if you have any skills or show them you want to learn fast. I did a lot of sailing around Panama just by sitting in a marina at either side of the canal and chatting with people who are about to sail somewhere. The work was either poorly paid ($50-100 per day) or free in exchange for a bed and food. For transatlantic/transpacific sailing though, I don't know if you're going to find as many yachters as I did who were just sailing in the Caribbean. That's also a fun option if you want to build those skills since they need a certain number of crew to even transit the canal and they're all going somewhere after.

edit: And for the latter you'll also have luck on boater forums. I can't remember which I used, but there was a designated subforum where people would post if they have or want crew work specifically for linehandling.