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Raclette
Not really. I was in college in the early to mid 90s. One of my fellow CS students had a NeXT cause he was loaded but the rest of us just used the computer labs.
“Family”
No doubt - his focus has built some really cool stuff. He always struck me as a decent sort and his fight on behalf of the little guy when it comes to percentages paid to Steam, Apple, and his own Epic shows that too.
I went to highschool with him. We hung in the same crowd of nerds and geeks. Not sure if he’s changed as an adult, but back then he was extremely introverted. Hung out at a couple of parties in his parent’s basement (where he started his shareware empire) and he spent the whole time on his computer. Should he ever write his memoirs I suspect they would focus mostly on his business life and his anti-trust efforts against various companies.
Air and Space in DC. You can touch a fucking piece of the moon!
Which is why I’m excited for the fediverse because it’s the closest thing to Usenet since Google decided to buy and kill it.
It’ll mean all the movies are in the public domain as soon as they are released, since you can’t copyright AI work.
Nah, even my retcon explanation is a lie. I copied the quote from some famous quote website and didn’t catch the error.
See, even quotes with errors in them get upvoted before someone can come along and correct them :)
It was ever thus:
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Paintball. So many times in the 90s I’ve fantasized about this while at the mall.
At 25% humidity in Sudan, that temperature gets them into the wet bulb death zone:
https://earthsky.org/earth/wet-bulb-temperature-explained-dangers/
Spelunky. My Vita was basically a Spelunky machine.
The Madoff Mistake, a classic.
Agreed, the media here is complete shit.
The problem with schemes like this is that they imagine a world where the now orphaned kid gets adopted into a loving Hallmark movie home. The reality is that they will end up in foster care where the abuse and neglect will continue, just at the hands of strangers. Or mom will shack up with the next abuser and the dad will have no ability to intervene. Better to leave them with their biological parent who, while a complete scumbag, at least has genetic similarity to hopefully check their worst excesses.
TL;DR - fix the social safety net instead of dumb feel good laws like this one.