Thanks for that thread. I’ve never heard of a Bird-Jones design before so it was super interesting.

Yeah lockdown was living my best life. At least I managed to get a fully remote job with a small company several states away.

I definitely see where you’re coming from. At the same time I don’t tend to get involved in deep discussions where I have strong feelings, on the Internet. I save those for in-person with friends.

I guess I am just very sensitive to tone and (what comes across to me as) arrogant people, and I have downvoted obnoxious comments on all sides of an argument before. I try to be aware of my bias, but nobody’s perfect.

Of course YMMV, but I find blocking people like that (especially on Discord) make my Internet experience much more pleasant.

Interesting, I am 40 and I probably use too many gifs. They are such a convenient shorthand for sometimes complicated/opposing feelings. Wild to me that a 42 year old wouldn’t be able to comprehend that. I’ve been using the internet/cell phones to communicate with friends since my late teens so maybe that’s it.

I tend to downvote obnoxious comments, or ones that it’s clear the commenter is in love with the ‘sound’ of their own voice. I tend to leave the ‘carefully considered’ ones alone because they add to the conversation unless they stray too far into the above categories.

I do French Press, where does that put me?

AI is coming for Kitboga’s job!

Yep, I backed the Kickstarter and hang out in their Discord. Wasn’t sure on the rules about promoting stuff like that so I didn’t mention it. :-)

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters

Always loved me some Mara Jade and Talon Karrde.

I’m a lurker. Vegetarian myself but my wife is vegan.

Yep, I have no idea how people are able to afford stuff like that! Some of our friends have these crazy hobbies and go out to eat all the time, multiple cruises a year, etc. Meanwhile a ‘date night’ for us is Chipotle and DVDs of whatever show we are watching that we borrowed from the Library. That is the only way we can afford our modest one side of a duplex. And I feel like I make ok money but I guess everyone we know just makes so much more, or we are just very strict with our budgeting and credit usage.

I do find a drink or two helps me to feel more comfortable in social situations (it gets me to relax and talk more), but I’ve never been drunk and the idea of being drunk sounds like 0 fun.

As someone who works with Duties and Customs all day, I wonder how the 25% increase would play with MX being in the USMCA free trade agreement, which allows duty free entry for qualifying goods. If it’s a 232 tariff, I guess it could get added onto the 0% duty.

Also, there are still the 301 tariffs on goods made in China (doesn’t matter where they ship from, country of origin and country of export are two different things) from the first administration that I feel like people forget never went away.

I charge by Bluetooth headphones ‘pod’ with my Steam Deck charger and it seems to be ok.

Said the robot pimp disdainfully.

Iceland or Finland. Love both of those places, from the people to the landscape.

I just say it the way it is - ‘Oh that is Travis’ shoe’

I added the apostrophe for writing it, but I don’t say the name any different.

Reminds me of that scene in Interstellar where a baseball game is interrupted by a dust storm. Some interesting world-building in that scene regarding the state of the game too.

I was rocking one of these plugged into an mp3 player circa 2007-2010.