For anyone else that needs it, there’s also stuff for co-ax. Some cable guy went nuts putting coaxial cable into just about every room of my new (very old) house. I seriously considered MoCA for a bit, but wifi is working well enough for the moment.

https://www.techreviewer.com/learn-about-tech/ethernet-over-coax-a-complete-guide-to-moca-adapters/

I think that’s just the Post Office, with extra steps.

The Crow could make for an awesome RPG experience.

It really deserves the Disco Elysium treatment. Yeah, the eponymous anti-hero gets his kill on throughout the whole story, and that’s tempting to build a game out of; standard revenge plot stuff. That said, there’s way more on offer here. How about a detective story that follows a murderer that’s already dead? Or, maybe you start off not knowing you’re dead and puzzle that together as you go. Or perhaps you’re constantly crossing paths with said detective, solving your own mystery, always a step behind the shadow of your dead friend?

The cook:

We have some monstrously large hurdles to clear in this regard. What’s working against a general strike:

• No social safety net for housing or medical until you’re below the poverty line for a tax year
• Bankruptcy, poor credit, limits future employment options (e.g. background checks)
• Most industries are not unionized, so your job can easily be filled in your absence
• Really high unemployment right now for skilled sectors like IT
• A lot of people are paycheck-to-paycheck thanks to a host of factors like high rent

To say nothing of all the illegal shit government and private business will do to end and/or prevent a strike.

It’s not impossible, but it does mean that any reasonable person would like to know that millions upon millions of others will be striking alongside them. Support networks for unemployed strikers along with strategies to deal with scabs would be a good start, too.

I think I’d still rather this than have a heavy device on my head,

I’ve wondered about this, actually. We’d need necks like an NFL linebacker.

an umbilical, and motion sickness.

Joking aside, that’s a legit concern. It’s not for everyone, that’s for sure.

May I recommend looking into your local kink-scene? I know you’re joking, but honestly, that’s the closest thing to an actual “sex guild” and it may be worth your while. Bigger metro areas typically have highly organized clubs for this - no fooling. If nothing else, you can learn some very cool things to do with rope.

This. A LOT of this. There’s a reason why the VFW has/had a lot of alcohol available, cigarettes were super popular, and why biker clubs became a thing post-war. The “greatest generation” was doing a lot of self-medication without managing to fix anything.

You can kind of see boomers become aware of how that’s not okay, as the tone of war movies shifts dramatically from WWII to Vietnam. They still missed the mark, but at least the idea of vets having “flashbacks” was something in popular media from that point forward. It was progress, if however minimal and incremental.

On the one hand, that’s over $3000 in monitors for one cubicle.

On the other, “office furniture” and “IT equipment” can be two completely different budgets in different departments. So the numbers aren’t directly comparable when it comes to requisitions.

Whoa, slow down there Satan.

This is it. This is the threshold of where a VR headset and a virtual desktop manager makes more sense.

Hah! No back issues, thankfully. Knees and neck on the other hand… Advil for joint and sinus inflammation, Aleve for muscle aches and cramps.

Quick question, is the pile of towels still around?

God I hope not. Once it rains, that’s a recipe for mildew and fungus if I’ve ever seen one. You can probably smell it for a mile in every direction, to say nothing of what that’s doing to Tom.

A few examples off the top of my head:

• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Velvet Acid Christ - Twisted Thought Generator
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Stabbing Westward - Whither Blister Burn and Peel

(why yes I’m of a certain age, why do you ask?)

“ehh I dont like how it feels”

Considering how well preventable STI’s still get around, I’d say that sentiment is a little too common. That or a lot of people are hot garbage at risk assessment.

Yup. That’s basically what happened with TikTok.

/me casually plugs controller into port #2

Hrm… People do act strangely when I drone on for long enough. You might be on to something there.

Wait, you guys are getting eldrich powers? All I got were dodgy knees and a moving hairline.

Besides, it’s a really bad form of ID. The numbers aren’t even unique, and up until 2011, a few digits are reserved for geographical information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure

If I had to reach for a hasty solution, it would be to use the IRS taxpayer ID instead. Of course, that might weaken the SSA’s importance overall, so that wouldn’t be without consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identification_Number