Taco Tuesday... on a Wednesday!

I read 1984... I really liked it but I thought the whole war is peace, freedom is slavery bit was something that no one would really buy. Then Trump took office and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I now believe 1984 and don't question it at all. :(

I'm not really pro-china on much of anything but I agree with them on this. Trump's tariff's are bullshit and he should be called out on them.

Most (all?) of the board game manufacturing is done in China. The equipment to make the boards is all made in China. Even if manufacturers wanted to manufacture in the US or elsewhere, they would have to import the equipment in from China which would be subject to tariffs and be a significant up front cost.

A lot of manufacturers have come out and said this will be bad for the industry as a whole. Underdog games is already having layoffs, Final Frontier Games is shutting down and is blaming CMON as the final nail in the coffin. I don't think they were doing well in the first place but I'm sure tariffs didn't help.

Sleeve Kings has an interesting article on the tariffs which claim 70% of their business is US based and 100% of their manufacturing is done in China. Their tariffs went from 0% in December to currently 104%. Stonemaier games has a good article called The Math of Tariffs which outlines a lot of issues. Cephalofair Games has a good article on backerkit titled Tariffs & Tabletop.

There's so many articles like this, I could go on but I think you get the point. The US is a huge market and costs in the US are going to rise or people aren't even going to try. A lot of board games are already expensive, slap a tariff on them and they are out of reach for a lot of people and they will look elsewhere. And all this is just on manufacturing, this isn't even starting on what's going on with local retailers.

This will also affect people outside of the US because the US is such a huge market. I think initially you might see shipments destined for the US go elsewhere to avoid the tariffs but then things will start to dry up.

I hope these tariffs go away but if they don't, I think you'll see the used market increase. Personally I have a big wall of shame so I have a bunch of games I've never played so sitting out the next 4 years shouldn't be a problem for me but I don't think I'll like what happens on the other side of things.

There's a whole darknet diaries episode 153: Bike Index where he basically talks about stolen bikes being sold on Facebook and Facebook doesn't seem to care. They can't get the facebook pages shut down and this guy continues to sell stolen bikes on Facebook.

This is sure to help food prices go down! /s

https://archive.is/J31rj

Tori Amos commented on the allegations:

And if the allegations are true, that’s not the Neil that I knew, that’s not the friend that I knew, nor a friend that I ever want to know. So in some ways it’s a heartbreaking grief. I never saw that side of Neil. Neither did my crew. And my crew has seen a lot.

Gaiman is the godfather to one of her kids and apparently she was pretty close to him. If she didn't know, I feel like Terry Pratchett wouldn't have known either. This isn't like with Epstein where association implies knowledge of what was going on. After reading all that I have on the allegations, I'm comfortable believing that Pratchett wouldn't have known anything about the alleged sexual assault and if he knew anything, it was that Gaiman was known to sleep around... consensually... with adults. (Because apparently this seems to be known among people close to him... including that he and Palmer allegedly had an open marriage)

So unless further info comes out that indicates otherwise, I will continue to enjoy Pratchett's works.

Freeze your grapes... wash them and pull them off the stem and lay them on a baking sheed in the freezer. Grapes will last longer and they taste good frozen.

https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure-cooker-chicken-stock-recipe

tl;dr: 45min on high, let natural release, skim off fat. When it's done I just strain it and then let it cool and then freeze it.

Also a pressure cooker works really well for making stock.

Same with firefox

It's not illegal to modify a gun, it's illegal to modify a gun into a gun that meets certain criteria to then become illegal. The crime isn't modification of the gun, the crime is the possession of a (now) illegal gun.

No, in your case the crime isn't the fact that you modified the rifle, the crime is that you modified it into an illegal version of the rifle. The crime is possession of a full auto rifle.

If I take a rifle that was setup for one caliber and modify it so it can shoot a different caliber, that's not illegal.

yes? you can legally purchase a plane without a license... did you read my comment? purchasing != using. You don't need a pilot "under current contract" you could buy a plane and taxi it around the airport if you want without any licenses.

You can, you just need to hire a pilot if you want to fly in it. How do you think rich people fly around in their jets? Do you really think the pilots own the planes?

He asked employees to print out their code so he could review it.

I think what you want is either plex or Jellyfin which will give you a nice UI to browse your already downloaded files.

Now how do you browse new releases and figure out what you want to download? I just setup https://overseerr.dev/ to go along with sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget, transmission... it's a lot of different services but they all work well together. Now to look for new movies, I or my family goes to Overseerr to request downloads, then plex to watch.

I had a coworker come to me with an "issue" he learned about. It was wrong and it wasn't really an issue and the it came out that he got it from ChatGPT and didn't really know what he was talking about, nor could he cite an actual source.

I've also played around with it and it's given me straight up wrong answers. I don't think it's really worth it.

It's just predictive text, it's not really AI.

I've been listening to A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs and let me tell you, the music industry can fuck right off. Small indie label? I'll probably buy it, but one of the major record labels? Set sail mateys.