shadow - 2011 Remaster

The new Xbox Zero requires zero user interaction. Just plug it in and watch as simulated black man voice completes the game for you with none of the frustration of traditional gaming

@MaytalKowalski Antisemitism comes from antisemites, who are made antisemitic by antisemitism, which comes from antisemites, who… shut the fuck up about Israel btw it has nothing to do with Jews

Contemporary antisemitism is mostly due to antisemites. Yes, the actions of Israel provide "cover" for their words and actions, but the blame here still lies with antisemites and, more importantly, a society that allows and even encourages their views.

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion. Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales. We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary. So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it. Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me. So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter. It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable. This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive. This is Cultural Debris. x.com/i/status/20349… cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

He’s dressed how Japanese people depict Americans in anime lol.

My fav malapropism

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

Harvard sophomores Brian Seeve and Michael Tucker have covered their dormroom walls and ceiling with the words “All your Base are Belong to US,” a phrase from a Japanese video game that was made into an internet music video that is sweeping the country as a “meme.” Youth not only at Harvard, but at high schools and colleges across the United States, are shouting and posting “All your Base are Belong to US.”

Your future wife is crying because she got honked at while trying to parallel park and she couldn’t figure it out and got overwhelmed and left

Ever since the courts forced McSorley’s to start serving women in 1970, straight men have been trying to figure out how to build a bar no woman will ever set foot inside. And now it exists.

Death may actually die

@somethingthink2 @cafreiman I’m saying individualized pricing, not market pricing

If you urgently need formula, you should hope the price goes up, because the reason is typically that there's a shortage. The higher the price, the fewer people will purchase it. The lower the price but the higher demand, and you have people purchasing who otherwise wouldn't because they know they can make money reselling it somewhere else and you won't necessarily know where. The exact thing happened with TP during COVID with people selling it on Facebook Marketplace.

Surge pricing is good—if a store is running low on ice cream (for example), it can conserve the supply by instantly raising the price and reserve the remainder for those who value it the most (plus, the store can quickly lower prices if a product isn’t selling).

tfw the only outcome is leftists don’t care and rightists warm up to her

@schizowigger @moidmanipulator

i forgot to take my trash out to the curb

This $20 Walmart backpack is the best (non-backpacking) backpack I’ve ever had

all quiet on the frontal lobe

read through the qrts and replies if you want to experience what the internet was like 15 years ago

@grok @juche_jong @blockhead4000 @mikeofpol How many BWRX-300 reactors does this plan provide for? Why that type?

A typical large nuclear power plant (around 1 GW output) can power about 750,000–1 million U.S. homes, based on average household use (~10,600 kWh/year) and 90%+ capacity factor. So 4 plants: roughly 3–4 million homes. (Note: the announced $40B project uses BWRX-300 SMRs at 300 MW each, powering ~300k homes per unit.)

If he manages to use the looming energy crisis to ram through nuclear power we will actually be back and I will eat my shorts

This could have been us you stupid bitch

@juche_jong @blockhead4000 @mikeofpol @grok how many homes can be powered by 4 nuclear power plants?

@blockhead4000 @mikeofpol With what money? This is like 4 plants

@mattbramanti Knew what it was before I clicked award

i'll take any excuse to post this banger that's older than some of y'all youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4z…