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I think this is the main reason people don’t use it in America.

Public transportation doesn’t exist for most Americans.

If it does exist, it’s really bad. Buses are the most prevalent in America and they just suck in most cities.

Bus routes are pretty sparse, so you end up having to walk a pretty decent distance to catch the bus and then again when you get off the bus and go to your destination. It sucks because it adds and extra 30 minutes to the trip, but the exercise is nice so for me the walk is something I can deal with.

What I can deal with is the fact that buses are hardly ever on schedule. A late bus sucks because you’re waiting forever for it to get there. An early bus can be even worse; if you get to your stop 2 minutes early but the bus was 4 minutes early you’ve missed it and now you’re waiting another ~20 minutes for the next one. If that bus happened to take you to an infrequent connecting route you’re going to miss that connection too. Now instead of being 20 minutes late you’re an hour late because you missed your connection.

I’d love to take public transportation instead of my car, but I don’t want to waste hours of my life waiting around because the bus is never where it’s supposed to be when it’s supposed to be there.

I hear this a lot but I think this is a bad faith argument.

People took out student loans with the knowledge that they’d have to pay them back.

Businesses took out PPP loans with the knowledge that they’d be forgiven if certain conditions were met.

I do think people should be angry that PPP loans were issued and forgiven under conditions that practically begged for fraud. The complete lack of accountability and oversight of so much money is mind boggling and infuriating.

I’ve been using Proton pass for about a week and it’s okay so far.

Importing passwords from another manager is pretty easy, except that it can only be done from the browser extension. I had to dig out my laptop to import my passwords which was kind of annoying since I rarely use it.

Proton Pass also doesn’t work great on mobile, it rarely recongnizes username fields in my browser. This means I have to manually copy/paste my username and password from the app to the browser to login, which is annoying.

I really like that Pass automatically generates a private email address for each website, but I’m not sure how useful that is in terms of privacy because I still have to get things shipped with my real name and address.

Another nitpick I have is using the same password for my email to also secure all of my passwords and generate my TOTP for 2FA. If my Proton password gets compromised then all of my passwords, my 2FA, and my email are compromised. Seems like a pretty serious security risk, but I’d really appreciate it if someone who knows more about security could explain to me why this is actually okay.

I play about 75% of my games on Foundry and let the automation track them for me.

When I GM in person I really like to use the path builder 2e encounter builder, it works amazingly well

https://pathbuilder2e.com/encounters.html

Interesting, I don’t remember that at all. Did you just make it up?

Looks like the instant pot helps to soften up the raw cashews used to add texture to the soup.

Not necessarily. For example north east could have 3 people, north west 4 people, south west 3 people, and south east 4 people.

North and south each have 7 people, east and west both have 7, but the 4 quarters aren’t equal.

We get it, you come from a life of privilege, conspicuous consumption, and performative capitalism, you don’t need to keep repeating yourself

You don’t seem to understand what’s going on in the world. Everyone would be a lot better off if you stopped posting a for awhile and took some time to educate yourself.

That’s really only true if the good that’s being purchased is necessary to live.