This combined with local drought for quite a few years now followed by more rain in a month than we typically got in a year caused an insect population explosion, locally. I’ve not seen so many insects in quite awhile.

It’s still like a tenth of what I remember as a kid in the 90’s :(

Haven’t witnessed a locust swarm since like 2002.

…remembering the disgusting camper van grill cleaning job at every gas station 🤮 baked on insect guts and gibs.

I agree.

It’s still a pretty big exception since I play a lot of games every year and increasingly less AAA (actually, looking at my legit libraries and Faugus Launcher/pirate folder, it’s been roughly 85% indie the past few years. Jesus. That’s both perfectly fine with me and sad about the state of gaming corps), but my overall consumption rate hasn’t slowed.

idk about everyone else but that was the year 2001 when my family got cable internet. I’ve never paid for anything streaming, I’m against subscriptions more strongly than most people admittedly, so I actively avoid them and it changes my hardware buying habits too if there’s paywalled things like online play for example. Consoles are dead to me now. 360, PS4, then the Switch. Now they get none of my money, I bought used and piracy modded them.

idk about better service. I was never convinced by that idea. I was still going to video and game rental stores until they shut down to my dismay, I don’t really get why everyone decided streaming was better, the quality and selection sure fucking wasn’t good and now it’s all fractured cross a bazillion competitor streaming services with exclusive content. Still would go to a rental shop today. I kinda do, my local library. But they have less selection/carrying capacity than my favourite gigantic Video Headquarters shop did. RIP. I despise shitty streaming bitrates even when I’m pirating I opt for an optical disc rip over a rip from a streaming site whenever possible. With Stremio and a debrid service I can stream 4K HDR bluray rips for $5 a month. Pfffff.

Music I buy vinyl and Bandcamp is convenient. I buy more than I pirate. Was the reverse when I was younger.

Games I often buy from GOG first if they have what I’m looking for, then Steam but I buy from 3rd party key shops…the legit ones like Green Man Gaming and such. For awhile barely pirated new. Then CAD dropped and prices eben in USD went way up with bullshit addons and season passes. Now I pirate more again especially if it’s not multiplayer. I don’t pirate anything indie (not just games) tho, personal rule.

Oh I thought you were gonna tankie like “therefore china good!”

So…

Oh everyone decided to be an asshole about a fun cultural question, sorry you’re all so fucking fragile. I’ll retract my question about “ya’ll” being in quotes because that’s apparently taboo to ask and I should just know because I’m english and there’s no cultural differences at all between different english speaking countries. What a fool I am and you’re all very smart, bigly. I’ll refrain from asking about harmless curiosities in the future since apparently that’s a free ticket to be a snide douche canoe.

China has been indebting a lot of Africa building stuff all over the place longer than Trump has been around, doesn’t get talked about very much. I only knew because I watch a few full time travel vloggers.

Sure, you got a hammer laying around?

Your penis mites got it rough, dayum.

Obviously there’s plenty of ways to exercise without playing sports ball or any team based activities OP, don’t make me list them all 😅

I wouldn’t advise sports for health anyways, that’s usually how everyone involved in sports I know acquires significant injuries and permanent body damage!

Do whatever. I walk around my local green belt after work each day or night since I work rotating shifts. I get home and do a minimal equipment workout in my basement gym in the style of George Hackenschmidt, a classical (pre-steroids and targeted workouts requiring gobs of equipment) professional strong man, ride my bicycle around the city bike trails in summer months, use a rowing machine I bought used in the winter while watching Futurama or whatever I don’t have to pay much attention. Took up dancing and kick boxing. I don’t like those last two very much but it’s more about preventing my social skills from atrophying tbh, gotta exercise that too! Nothing I listed is what I’m saying you should do, it’s just examples. Find stuff you can do with your current body condition without risking injury. Doing a regular walk daily is a great start alone.

Well, when it’s not 40+ outside with 100 humidity at least. I’ve visited Hungary in a heat wave before, absolute fucking misery.

A lot where I used to live ran small convenience stores within the laundromat during the day to make a little more money. Depends how much foot traffic they get to make that worth the effort I’m sure.

I don’t use my account for email anymore or use Windows very often but I just changed the two factor authenticator to Aegis. They make the text to use an alternative authenticator app tiny blue hyperlink text but you can do it confirmed.

Pretty brutal life getting scalded, mushed, and drowned in lotion whatever.

Same

But Ms. Frizzle told me not to run the tap when I’m shaving 😡

The rain isn’t over yet either, more rain forecasted but not as severe. Except now everything is saturated so it’ll probably re-flood everything that is slowly receding.

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True but the labels are expired, the glue doesn’t hold as well as it used to.