I’m so grumpy, I bought three 8bitdo Ultimate controllers and only one keeps a stable connection even using it’s USB dongle on the steamdock. smh. I then tried a different PC with Bazzite, same deal. Like wtf why won’t they work

I hope to buy a new steam controller but I’ll return it the same day if that shit doesn’t connect

I highly recommend if you’re going to get the 8bitdo ultimate try getting one and just return the ones that don’t work.

I want to leave a place of powerful healing both physical and emotional. Plants grow with vigor from the immense vitality. Babies are always conceived on the first try. Standing on the ground you can faintly hear soothing affirmations and a subtle warmth like a loving hug. A place where the stars shine a little brighter, the air smells wild and clean, and the soil is rich and dark.

If the labor class wasn’t losing a class war to the capital holders you’d see 10x the support for saving the planet. But right now cost of living is so bad that folks are easily susceptible to propaganda that divides the labor class, and environmentalism is just one of the issues they’ve chosen to use as a wedge issue.

It’s obvious how “do you want the cost of gas to go up?” is an effective propaganda message. Or “Do you want your taxes to go up and be used to wash sad animals while your own kids go hungry and get no Christmas presents?”

That’s the real kicker here, a huge number of folks are barely scraping by and the propaganda lies and tells them the only way we can have environmentalism is by them suffering more. They’re already scared and desperate, sad animals is nothing compared to their own families suffering.

I don’t know how it got that way.

I do know I’m supposed to investigate with binoculars from a pretty far distance, then

• setup a hoseline in case the fuel ignites
• only let rescuers get close for a few seconds to connect stabilizers like struts or junk yard dogs all around any direction it can fall
• disconnect the batteries on all three
• put on the parking break on all three
• add chocks under the frame of the two with all 4 wheels on the ground

After that I’d find the easiest way to extract the victims, probably by cutting off the roof with our electric cutters avoiding any undeployed airbags in the roof struts.

Finally, we’d move the victims through where the windshield is, taking care to put neck / back collars on any with possible spinal injuries.

And that’s the end of my armchair quarterbacking. Here’s hoping I do all of these steps the next time I have a rescue like this.

Your guess is as good as mine, I don’t know how it gets that way, just how to stabilize the vehicle and get victims out.

Maybe both cars were speeding, and both hit the breaks, but the rear car pushed the other one up in the air just right that it balanced that way?

Whoa, I had to do a simulated victim rescue from one of these in Vehicle Rescue Operations class.

I thought at the time there was no way this could happen in real life but damn here we are

mulberries do require chilling hours. If you check out this site your might find something that fits.

https://www.foodforestnursery.com/shop/berries/by-climate-zone-berries/berries-for-zone-10/

A dwarf blueberry might be fine in a container, or a dwarf citrus tree like lemon or orange. Or a fig that doesn’t require chilling hours

Just look for a job and make sure you’ve got a visa. Third world countries have a lot more “informal economy” that isn’t taxed or handled with paperwork so it’s possible sometimes to just find a job without paperwork or anything, but that won’t help you get a permanent visa.

Ideally, you get a visa that allows work, show you’re working, and then the visa gets upgraded to a permanent resident visa. This varies a lot from country to country. If you’ve got a job, some countries are pretty happy to have you adding to their local economy and will extend you a visa. If you’ve got a remote job that might go even faster.

Alternatively if you’re not skilled in any way, you apply to a super cheap college and apply for a student visa, that’ll buy you a few years while you’re getting skilled in something that country needs. Studying to become a doctor, lawyer, or STEM goes a long way. One of these probably is in demand there, figure out which one and take a crack at it. Hard, for sure, but a pretty solid way to build something long term. Of course if you don’t know the language that will be harder, but colleges generally have language classes too, so that could be the first classes you take.

There’s also teaching English, it’s generally not too hard to find work as a tutor or English teacher, I saw the other day like there’s only one English teacher for every 500 open positions. So that’s a possibility too.

Just generally try to participate in their economy. Try to make local friends and assimilate. Think about what first generation immigrants do: find a steady job or bust ass studying tech or medicine.

I remember this game! There was a comic book that came with it

comic

Here here, I’ve eaten better after going veg than ever before, and I was a damn good cook as carnivore. I can still pull off some of the best braised short rib or 24 hour smoked brisket, but my veg ramen is so much better and I feel better after eating it.

But sometimes the tides come in and leave fun treasures and mollusks

The generation that is most aware of climate change and social justice, that wants a more free and equitable society for all? The generation that’s had to watch the decline of Western powers through unrelated capitalism? That generation lacks foresight?

Truly one of the takes of all time

Also generational strife is horseshit propaganda to keep us distracted from the class war so maybe keep the pro-billionaire propaganda to yourself

Coal burns. Coal is momentary and coal is costly. There will be no more coal burned in this office today, is that quite clear, Mr. Cratchit?

Now please get back to work before I am forced to conclude that your services here are no longer required.

I honestly cannot tell if this is satire or real, my friends are weird enough to do this

the spacecraft doesn’t immediately lose all the celestial relative velocity just by going into space, it’s still moving extremely fast:

• with the sun and earth through the galaxy
• with the Earth around the sun
• and is still affected by Earth’s gravity, just now it’s able to counter Earth’s pull with a faster motion pulling it outward, so it balances out to appear weightless

Just by going into orbit and counterbalancing the Earth’s gravity with rotational velocity doesn’t mean it’s not still moving extremely fast relative to the stars

that’s like attaching buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropping it, Murphy’s law means it will spin in place just above the ground, as both the cat must land on it’s feet and the toast must land butter side down

I don’t think society across the whole planet will collapse, short of a nuclear war in which case gold won’t help one bit

Much more likely that certain areas will experience famine, war, disease, and reduced access to medicine.

Really the best bet is to be able to be mobile if an area has a significant decline you can move to where it’s better

You are grieving the loss of your old life. The freedom, the lack of responsibility. This is normal and healthy. Taking time to be sad and properly mourning is important.

Maybe it helps to write about your travels, to fully remember the good and the bad of it.

Take time to process that sadness and sit in it. Recognizing this will help you grieve. This could take months, maybe longer! Maybe you are also a bit resentful that you didn’t live in the moment more then, and that you tried to grow up too fast.

Then you’ll be able to assess your life right now and decide if it’s the life you want or if you need a change. And being honest with your wife will go a long way, so she understands that you’re sad and mourning a life you used to live, even if you prefer this life.

It’s normal to feel depressed while grieving.

I’ve lived a lot of different lives, traveled and adventured with nothing a lot of different ways. Sometimes I look back at what I had and have strong regrets. A few years ago they got so strong I decided to blow my life up and go for a big backpacking trip with just enough work to sustain it indefinitely.

It was really fun, but it was a new kind of hard. After about six months I realized I missed deep connections with friends. I missed staying in one place, in building a life with folks I cared about around me - a real community. I missed hosting backyard BBQ parties, playing games with folks, spending time with each other, supporting each other through life’s challenges.

At the end of the day, the adventuring was great but it wasn’t enough, it was fun, but too souless to continue. The new friends every day, the new scenery, it was a grand adventure, but adventure isn’t enough. I need a deep community.

So I picked a place to settle down and started building that life. Today I’ve got more neighbors as friends than I can possibly spend time with. I’m building deeper connections with people I care about. This was the missing piece.

And sometimes I look out window and feel regrets. I see the moon and want to be out in the woods again. I want to be done with working so many hours to afford this life. But I remember being so lonely I could hear my heart knocking around in my chest, of meeting people every day I’d never get to see again. And I focus on being grateful for what I have. The gratitude goes a long way to making me feel better. I have possibly the best life I could, and part of that means trade-offs, of all the other lives that have to die so this one can live. I grieve those other lost lives, but then celebrate this one with things that make me happy and grateful.

I hope my rambling helps. As you reflect I hope you find out what kind of life you want, and at least get a chance to feel the sadness and regret, and know it’s possible to regret and move forward. It’s possible to grieve an old life and still be grateful for the one you have.

And maybe, yeah, at the end of that you need to blow it all up and go do something else. I wish you the best. Feel free to write me if you want to chat more about this

wow she does look like Linus

Finally, the last piece to stop using Google Drive