Routhinator

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 8 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

A large portion scientists, doctors, engineers, staticians and mathematicians are on the spectrum.

Eradicate autism and you eradicate many of our more intelligent members of society.

Autism is a side of the coin in human genetics, not a disease. It is a gift of our diversity that not all of us think the same way or conform. It gives us an evolutionary advantage even if it makes you seem at a disadvantage due to the rigid, cookie cutter expectations of the modern world. Autism has always been part of us, it just didn't become a "problem" until billionaires needed wage slaves that were efficient little drones who fell in line.

That is how I do it yes. As much as feasibly possible. I do really miss the local PC shops and electronics stores.. sadly my options for that stuff now are Staples, Best Buy and Amazon...

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately rich and developed countries with an iron grip on the markets by a few billionaires that control them you see. They ensure our options are limited.

Canadians have very limited choices in terms of services. Even our grocery store shelves are bought out by major corps and local options struggle to get their products on the shelves.

As another example, our banks have no interpayment systems outside the interac system, and they have no standard apis for payment services. So things like apps for managing budgets involve downloading a csv after our billing date passes and a lot of manual work. Most banks offer their own budget apps and they only work with their services.

We have effectively have 3 phone and internet providers.. or little guys that resell access to the big 3.

The monopoly man won the game in Canada.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Getting money to organizations outside Canada and the US, once you remove credit cards and paypal, is exclusive to wire transfer from within Canada. If i want to get my money to any entity outside of Canada those are my options. None of these alt payment providers exist in Canada, and we are barred from buying crypto from our accounts.

~~JCB seems like the Interac system here in Canada, which I doubt Steam would take payment from. Its essentially a bank transfer~~. Nope, apparently JCB is a Credit Card company like Visa et al.

Yeah, JCB is not available in the Americas

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

What country are you in? None of those options exist in Canada so I think you're going to need to reframe your point.

Also I can state that giftcards do not exist where I live as I just went though 4 kids birthdays and check 20 different stores and winded up having to give up on Steam cards and buy prepaid Visas.

EDIT: To clarify, two years ago the cards existed. Last year they were scarce, and in 2025 they are no where to be found.

What are those other options you have anyway? I've never seen or heard of any of them.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 17 points 3 days ago (10 children)

How else are you supposed to buy something on Steam? You just listed every available option.

Yeah my wife has MS and I worry when shes late that she is having trouble. And I go hiking in the bush so its good if she has my approximate location

We switched to Fairphones running e/OS so we have pretty solid control of that. Im looking forward to postmarketOS being a bit more stable.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 13 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Home Assistant

Mostly unaffected save for some things. Emberstack kubernetes reflector opts to not make their own chart and their docs tell you to use Bitnami, so its the only chart I use that I'll have to start maintaining myself unless Emberstack changes their stance.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep., this is accurate. I also need to not move and not have change but also move and have change. I want to socialize but I'm exhausted by socializing and often want to exist in a quiet dark hole in the basement or out in the forest away from people.

I confuse myself.

 

So much food.

 

Title says it all. He sells Scrooge better than any other movie adaptation I've seen.

 

As the title says, I'm curious if they ever named or revisited this Human civilization in the later parts of the timeline in any way? It seems like too good of an opportunity to not revisit it at some point.

My searches did not reveal any answer, so thought I'd ask my fellow trek nerds.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Routhinator@startrek.website to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

This is the most unfiltered article I've read from The Atlantic... by the time I finished the second paragraph I had to re-read the title to understand how I got here.

Edit: To be clear, this has been revealed as satire, its just so close to reality one could be forgiven for confusing the two.

 

Just had this one shared with me directly on signal and could not find it in here, nor could I find a source. Too good not to share though. If someone knows the meme creator I'll update this with proper credit.

 

Riker came down on a whole other deck and wants answers.

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