Maybe I got the right message from it then; went from being a religious conspiracy nut to a scientifically objective solarpunk! :D

It’s almost a shame that Deus Ex has the crazy illuminati conspiracies included, because (at the risk of sounding crazy again myself) there’s a surprising amount of truth to some of the things talked about in the game, and on topics that essentially no other game has ever attempted to cover. Ross’ game dungeon did a fantastic video on that topic specifically (linked to the relevant part).

I wrote more about it a while back in this post, if you’re curious. But it’s more on how I got out of it, and not the specifics of all the crazy shit we believed, which would be lengthy.

a semi-auto AK and an AR are functionally identical for most practical purposes.

As for the scenario proposed: any direct long engangement would be suicide, but other tactics would be viable. The most likely scenario in the US would look something like The Troubles in Ireland.

But it’s possible a significant portion the military could defect, which could make things look a little more like the Spanish Civil War.

Also, I would point to the existence of Rojava, which for years has been able to hold out against Turkey despite Turkey having access to significantly more sophisticated hardware.

I don’t believe so. The only options I see in the settings is the ability to export and import lists and notes manually with a file.

1List is the best list-making app I’ve tried that’s open source. Really polished and quick.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.lolo.io.onelist/

Along those same lines, Notally is the best note taking app I’ve tried.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.omgodse.notally/

And since someone else mentioned Voyager, I’ll mention Eternity as well!

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/

Lastly, Weawow is the best weather app I’ve used, though Quickweather on f-droid is a close second (but requires an API key to work, so bit of a hassle to set up).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weawow&hl=en-US

It’s great for making chili, since 7 minutes of pressure cooking replaces an hour of simmering, It can make quick rice based meals with the addition of a handful of ingredients like a rice cooker can, and replaces a slow cooker for any meals that require it.

It also can make yogurt, though I haven’t tried that yet myself.

As someone who used to be one of those nutjobs many years ago; there was an extreme mistrust of FEMA, and the main conspiracy at the time was that the New World Order would someday use FEMA to begin rounding up people to be put into concentration camps, and had millions of plastic coffins waiting to be deployed for the people who resist.

We fully believed that with every fiber of our being, and if we had seen a FEMA response to a disaster, especially if communications were down, we’d probably just assume the end times were upon us and that they chose this time while we were vulnerable to strike.

Religion is a hell of a drug that can paralyze critical thinking skills beyond comprehension.

Besides upgrading to an SSD like another person said, I guess an electronic pressure cooker was a pretty sweet upgrade. It’s incredibly multi purpose, cuts cooking time dramatically, allows me to walk away and forget about cooking with no consequence, and often only requires cleaning a single pot for an entire meal.

Like ya know those old TV ads for kitchen gadgets that try desperately to convince you it’ll change your life, but you never actually use them? An electronic pressure cooker is one the few cooking gadgets that actually lives up to the hype.

That’s extremely sad to hear, I hope they recover someday :(

There’s a few areas where it’s lacking, the text tool being one of them, and it also can’t export to PDF for professional book cover printing. But I’m not a professional photo editer either, and almost exclusively use Krita for editing anyway, since it’s so my h easier to use.

I think it’s already difficult to find an airport or firefighter training area that isn’t saturated in pfas anywhere.

gimp isn’t being held back by money, they have over a million in bitcoin just sitting there from an old donation that grew in value. In over a decade, no one has figured out how to pay the taxes on it if they start using it to fund developers.

I read on reddit a long time ago that a UI designer tried to help improve gimp, but the devs were hostile to it (i may be remembering that wrong though). Considering how long its been with no UI improvements, I don’t think gimp will ever revamp its UI. Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

They were in the hallways, not out on the street. I didn’t look for any cameras, but there wasn’t any security nearby that would’ve seen anyone vandalize them. If there were cameras, I can’t imagine it mean much to people wearing a mask.

I’m not saying vandalism isn’t more common in the US, I’m sure it is in compared to hyper-respectful Japan, but I don’t think it’s absolutely impossible to have these.

When I visited california, there was a mall with multiple vending machines like the one in the OP for various foods and icecreams.

The old saying is; if you go far enough left, you get your guns back.

Ideally it’d be done with reclaimed materials, like the second guy who used old insulation from an RV.

But at least in my area from a local hardware store, I can buy 1.5 inch 4x8ft sheets of expanded polystyrene insulation for $20 per sheet. 3 sheets should be enough for most fridges (or 4, if the heat exchanger is underneath the fridge), so 60 to $80 for new materials.

Using this energy star savings calculator, it spits out this rough estimate of the yearly cost of a 1990’s fridge:

If the foam decreases energy usage by 50%, that would mean a $115 savings within the first year, paying off the initial foam costs within 6 months of use.

According to that same calculator, this is the numbers they give regarding carbon emissions compared to using a new energy efficient fridge:

It’s difficult to find the information of expanded polystyrene’s carbon footprint, I think I found it here? Specifically this chart from that article:

The second column there can be ignored, since we’re not trying to achieve R28, which since XPS foam is pretty low R value compared to other foam insulators would take a LOT of foam. So I guess the first column is the relevant one.

The 2012 forum guy actually made a post about that topic here. According to this site, it can catch fire from a sufficiently hot spark, but its auto-ignition temperature is fairly high.

There does exist some styrofoams with flame retardant in them, but that would probably have to be sought out specifically.

You mean like a shell to go around the foam? That would make it take up even more space, but it could be a cool project for someone who doesn’t mind. :)

Ha, cool! Hope you enjoy it 😄