Apparent Order

Day 48 of not being able to sign up for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. That's how secure it is!

my Steam account is nearly 22 years old, so I’m surprised Valve hasn’t gone by account age as verification for the UK’s Online Safety Act instead of requiring a credit card

You can’t really understand the vastness of the US until you drive across it, coast to coast. Me and my brother did the trip over a decade ago. We had no hotels booked and only the flimsiest of plans. We did have a big map, a book of the national parks, and a car packed with every single thing I owned. Every day we’d wake up and pick a point on the map and try to figure out the roads to get there. We climbed ranger rock in Yosemite, stayed in the dingiest hotel room ever in Vegas until we stayed an even dingier one in Amarillo, saw cave dwellings in the rain, almost got trapped in a San Juan mountain snowstorm and nearly fell in the Grand Canyon, saw falling water and the Willis tower, climbed the great San dunes, saw a game at wrigley. The best parts were places I never even knew existed. And now every time I see a map of the US I see our route snaking through the heart of the country. When you finally get across the country there’s a sense of accomplishment and you can’t help but feel like you know this place better. If you’ve never done it, you aughta do it. You should do it soon. There’s still adventure out there. There was one stretch in the grasslands of either Texas or Oklahoma where the road was just as far and straight as you could imagine. With a blue sky and tall grass on either side. Windows down and radio on. Try and find that place if you can.