I really enjoyed it, no crashes on Steam Deck but it runs pretty poorly and yeah, occasional visual bugs.

Ah, the open-mouth reverse blow! But will it be enough to save your palette and tongue from the burn?

Sadly, the Hilbert Hotel is slated for demolition which is why it’s on Sisyphus’ path. After that whole “everyone moves to double their room number” debacle, Hilbert had to process a fraction of the infinite guests’ refunds because they didn’t feel like changing rooms to one several million hallways down. And a percentage of infinite guests refunds is still infinite, so Hilbert is in infinite debt now.

Theseus, meanwhile, has been trying to justify buying a new ship for ages but his crew is adamant about right to repair, so he’s looking for an easy exit.

Freudian autocorrect

Around here, vinyl records and local record stores are still doing alright. There’s at least 4 if them I know of, and they also sell some cds and tapes still. It is a little odd that no chain has tried to break into that space (or one of the megacorps like Time-WB trying to revitalize some deadmall brand like Sam Goodies.)

I’ve absolutely driven past a cop who was playing WoW on his laptop while sitting in traffic.

She lost that dump truck ass the feather duster form had, change her back!

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I’ve often thought it would be funny to add more and more modern features to FreeDOS. Funny but like, also a lot of work for a “joke.”

Check out this great looping animation version that I definitely made myself!

https://youtu.be/LsAiCs66l40

Just think Peter Miles Gwen, there’s a whole infinite multiverse of Uncle Ben’s dying out there, and all of them your responsibility!

Shouldn’t the red dots be more like red lines along the border? Can I get a ref from !cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee in here?

I dunno, I think John K managed the worst of both worlds.

In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s concept for a Dune film from the early 1970s, each house has their costumes and architecture designed by a contemporary artist. Giger was the designer for the Harkonnen, and several of his ideas persisted beyond the failed film.

The Harkonnen Castle

A Harkonnen chair

I assumed Villeneuve was calling back to those designs.

In the US system, you can receive various certifications, called “degrees” indicating how much education you have received. Most US teenagers attend “high school” until about 18 years old, which completes primary education. Then, some go on to secondary education, called university or college in the US.

Most universities offer several degree programs. Typically, a 2 year “Associates degree” for trade work, 4 year “Bachelors degree” programs for white collar work. And then longer “Masters” degrees for advanced topics and even longer “Doctorate/Doctoral” programs for getting into academic research.

An MBA is a Masters of Business Administration. Typically, a 2 year program on top of a 4 year Bachelors degree in some business field like accounting, finance, management of information systems (MIS), etc. The stated purpose of an MBA program is to educate a person in the many facets of successfully running and operating a business.

However, in the US, our education system is deeply stratified by loans, and also just broken. Each higher tier of education is almost exponentially more expensive than the previous, so only fairly well off people can afford the time and money to get an MBA. And/or they go deeply into debt on loans to finance the degree. In addition, universities (which are all now run as for-profit businesses) are seen less as institutions of learning and more like indoctrination centers for training up workers while also infusing them with American business values.

This is most prevalent in Economics, which is treated like a hard science of business but is nothing of the sort. It used to be Keynesian economics, which at least has grounding in statistics, but now actually teaches a very specific interpretation of economics called Modern Monetary Theory. In this way, almost all American middle managers are indoctrinated into this, who are by that point either in deep debt and thus beholden to the MMT system, or are already wealthy and thus defenders of that system.

This has created an economic crisis in the US where MBAs are taking over companies and then applying these theories to cut labor costs, over-leverage debt, sell off assets; all to boost short term profit. All of this is at the expense of the business’ long-term viability but MMT is all an elaborate con to ensure wealth (profit) is funneled to owners while systematically pushing the costs onto the public.

I’ve been wanting to get a pipe Garfield tattoo since first seeing this. It changed me. Made me better.

Haha, my first thought was “oh nein die gurkenmaimais is coming to English lemmy!” (kommen auf Englische Lemmy?)