Hey look! The GOP continues to be complicit and active supporters of a coup against the Republic.
azimir
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It's all about the Caravan of Courage. Nothing ever better created for the SW Universe.
Republicans used to hold themselves up as the party of serious, high minded, and high quality leadership.
Today, they're definitely a basket of deplorables. What a shitty and weird "political party" that we have to contend with.
As long as you still vote in November, then it's healthy to take breaks from this firehouse of crazy.
If someone takes (or tries) to take your vote they want to have you live in a dictatorship. We had a war about this and sent King George packing. If we have to do it again with people more home grown, then so be it.
Video games. I used to play 4-6 hours per day (or often more), every day. It was kind of my default activity when I wasn't forced to do something else. If I ran out of steam trying to focus on work or family I would drift into playing a video game. The result was a MASSIVE sink of time into something that left me with little afterwards. I didn't learn new things, I drifted away from my kids, and I didn't take care of my home.
Video games are fine. They're entertaining, but they're also potentially life consuming. I watch people who want to do more with their lives, but instead they just put more time into some game or another.
I managed to kick the habit and it's been a great 10 years since then where I play very little and only in very short, controlled bursts when I can play with my kids for a bit (they usually destroy me these days). With all of that saved time, my career started flying, my home is in better shape, and I actually don't drift away from family events like I used to.
Yeah, those durn data size fields. At first you're like "why would you do this? It's specified in the spec, right?" Then you start consuming the data stream and go "oh, yeah need this".
I was doing some driver work for a real time location tracking board. The serial stream protocol was very well documented and designed. Plenty of byte length count fields, though.
I don't know enough about those to comment. I have not been there yet.
Given how much history and artifacts the Vatican can assemble, they're likely on the same scale, if on differing topics.
If you're looking for religious artifact collections, the Bode in Berlin has a huge collection. It's very deep for Christian iconography, as well as later paintings and sculpture. They also have some Greek materials. If you want Roman sculpture the Altes Museum (especially the rotunda) is phenomenal.
Of course the British Museum is just frakkin amazing end to end. When I was trying to navigate there (I was a bit lost) and wondered what the cluster of people were looking at next to me, and it turned out to be THE Rosetta Stone, holy shit. Worth the trip.
Build some damn trains! Our cities are sprawling car-infested shitholes compared to more modern city designs around the world.
A single freeway interchange costs as much as a big light rail network for a medium sized city. It would transformative to build some modern infrastructure for once.
Combine that with educating city councils on how zoning laws and architectural rules determine how a city's space is used (usually very inefficiently and with ugly buildings). We're making a sprawling, bland wasteland out of the beautiful American landscape by sheer ignorance and short sighted greed.
The Night Watch in Amsterdam is enormous. It's awesome inspiring to stand before it.
The Rijks Museum in Amsterdam was huge. Couldn't get though it all ina visit.
Same goes for the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Oh! And Berlin's Museum Island is a wonder of the world. Just so much to see.
My university is trying to write a new policy to handle student protests. The first draft basically said "don't disrupt anything or make anyone uncomfortable" "don't protest in a way that is loud or visible" "only protest during approved times and at the approved locations" "also: immediately disperse if asked to by any member of the university staff".
It was hilariously unaware of the definition of "protest".