Is that a real photo of his knuckles? I mean, the MS13 is clearly added on and likely a "decoded" read of the pot leaf, smiley face, cross, and skull tattoos that are clearly in the knuckles (very dubious on that symbolism) but are this even Kilmer's actual knuckles? Or just a random photo of someone else?

Edit: yes, those are his knuckles as you can see pictures of him talking to that senator.

I strongly doubt, based on a quick search, that those are in any way related to a gang. They are evidence of drug culture (gasp!) but I've yet to see any evidence that any gang uses those.

Edit 2: it appears MS13 members literally just get tattoos that say "MS13" and don't attempt to hide it. It's a proof of loyalty thing, apparently.

This is such a bad idea. Don't trust any technology to be safe. I guess they're banking on other countries picking up the slack, but we're all going to get hacked now. A lot.

So remember when people made jokes about Latvia and how they really wanted a potato?

That's us now, guys. The billionaire elite and ineffective politicians made us the butt of the joke we used to tell about former Soviet countries.

And on Nintendo's website, there was an elevator sidebar that'd take you to different levels, each one having some other function like upcoming releases, tips, and stuff.

One was labeled "secret" or something, and opened on a black screen. You'd think it was a broken page. But if you moved your cursor around, you'd find a hidden link that'd take you to their secret page. I can't remember what was there, but I sure remember feeling like an elite hacker at 10 years old when I did it!

So are we jigglin', or...?

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence! -Immortan Joe

I would guess that if you have any metric data, you could see how many visitors vs comments/posts you have, and then work on engagement. Post more open ended things to try to get people to want to post.

Otherwise, a sure bet is to get the word out about your community and try to bring more people in. Which means telling people who aren't on you server to come join it. Probably Reddit and maybe a website/post that's going to get search indexed at some point that leads people here.

I wish there was more. Nothing I've done seems very effective. Being in Oklahoma, that's how I've felt my whole life. Anyone I vote for loses. Any time I protest, it happens anyway. Any time I volunteer, it's too small.

My friends and I have recently started a small support group to share survival skills, gardening, canning, and basic marksmanship to recently threatened, marginalized, and like minded people but that doesn't fix the overall problem. I've taught a lot, learned a lot, but I just don't see it getting better.

I feel powerless, and I guess that's the intent.

One whopper for the copper!

That's a legitimate concern. Anything that's on the Internet can also get an "update" (as if a dishwasher needs one ever) that accidentally bricks it, and you now need a new one.

I absolutely resist the Internet of Things.

I would love to know more, especially how law enforcement is tracking us, but this has a paywall. So I guess I'll die in ignorance.

Gojira just played the Olympics and won some awards, so I'd say they're fairly critically acclaimed right now.

Blood Incantation just released a new album that's a mix of death metal and Pink Floyd, and I believe it won't since awards as well.

That's definitely more, but those two I listen to regularly and can think of off the top of my head.

You might want to state what actually happened because this is really difficult to follow. I'm not aware of what you're taking about, and if these people that are supposedly judging whatever situation happened don't know either, this is going to be less effective.

I learned to fix it. Before YouTube, that usually means not so great. But now, I usually do at least as good as a job as the people I'd hire.

Fixing stuff is easy, and you have to accept that there's no perfect fix.

Ants, set out ant bait traps. Look outside and see if there's a trail, follow it to the source, and spray it with ant poison.

Cracks, YouTube that. They may be nothing.

Leaks, if it's plumbing, you can buy pipes at home Depot and replace them.

Granted, it will take a while. Maybe all day. But you'll get an endorphin rush when it's done and eventually you'll come to know all the ins and outs of your house.

But it's you look at it and it's too big, Google a company to do it. Even if you're halfway, and find you're stuck. No shame in getting help. This shines you don't have a family member or friend who's already handy.

But really, if you can't fix it, can't afford to have it fixed, just do what you can to keep the house clean and work on it a little bit or put aside money till you can. That's hard, but that's owning a house. Like anything in life, it's difficult. But it doesn't have to stay that way, with enough time and practice.

You're already smarter than many, asking for other's opinions. Don't suffer in silence. I believe in you!

Until we find that Nestle is just bottling the same tap water at twice the price. Oops!

I doubt it matters what we think anymore. It barely did before, but I can't see any light at the end of this American Experiment tunnel.

I play FFXIV. I'll break it down by expansions, but it's the one that didn't follow the general downwards trend so much.

1.0 - trash. They couldn't figure out how to work together. One guy spends forever making the best looking water wheel ever, in the background, that you never interact with. It's too graphically intensive, and flows the wrong way from the water. It doesn't match the building it's attached to. Meanwhile, they forget to add roads towards main cities. It's an unplayable mess. It's literally unplayable, as they killed it off to replace it with:

2.0, A Realm Reborn - they really fixed it under one guy's leadership. It's playable, and works. It's outdated somewhat today, but has a lot of moral grey areas and twists. There's a lot of running around and time wasting, which was common back then.

Heavenward - they made a great story. It's one of the best expansions. Streamlined and faster. No needless "talk to 5 villagers" quests like previously.

Stormblood - not as great. There's a lot of setup they use later. The world building is really great, though. Some of the best looking areas.

Shadowbringers - the best expansion they've ever made. Perfectly balanced world building and characters, and story. This is peak FF, with the best music as well. Probably because they can ditch much of the old A Realm Reborn story.

Endwalker - ties it all together. The story leads up to "death is inevitable for everything that has ever lived, so just die now" kind of depression hopelessness that you wonder how they'll get out of it. Well, because it's Japanese and FF, it's the power of friendship that saves the day. But, this really feels like the culmination of everything they've learned in the previous expansions.

Dawntrail - this is the downward slide. They force you into a role to support someone for ruler that is almost slapstick bad. Characters don't make logical choices. The theme is all over the place and can't decide what it wants to be. Many people say to stop at endwalker, but we'll see how the next expansion goes, which is years away.

There's plenty to say about the game otherwise, but the general thought is that they're gradually cutting corners, taking longer, and under delivering as they're stretched too thin. They're feeling the same pressure everyone else in the world is - not enough money. Which is crazy, because FFXIV is THE game keeping Square Enix alive.

Their best album, imo. Which is saying something because they have a lot of great albums.

I got to see this live back in like 2009 I think. When they toured with Dethklok, High on Fire, and Converge. What a cool show! The visualizations were of these images on the cover shooting towards you in space. They played the whole album, which sadly didn't leave room for Blood and Thunder at the end. But! They did play that during the Mega Monsters tour with Gojira! Unfortunately their visualizations broke during the show, but they were playing such heavy stuff that we're all thinking that they really are going to make a heavier album next, like they said.

It's not as iconic as From Mars to Sirius, or The Link, but it's a great cover. I have this poster hanging in my den!

It also depends on what access they have. Easiest would be to axe subsidies to oil companies, but no way they're be able to just do something like that. There's too much protection around that money.

Of course, if they're doing exactly as DOGE, they suck and I'm glad they're blocked because DOGE has made terrible decisions.