I believe this photo was an illustration for an article that’s worth checking out:
I Went to Trump’s Great American State Fair. It Was Bleaker Than I Expected
I used to do this but I got burned once or twice, wound up with cracked eggs that hadn’t leaked enough to stick or hadn’t stuck, for whatever reason.
Chernobyl painted a vivid picture of a time and place, but it was fictionalized, sensationalized, too. Pripyat didn’t really exist under an oppressive green fog, and the Soviet Union of the day wasn’t the Stalinesque nightmare the show suggests.
By all means, enjoy the show, it’s awfully well-done. But I beg you to bear in mind that:
I’m sympathetic, I think media that can be borrowed, lent, sold and otherwise transferred is better. But I’ve given up on video games being that way years ago. I don’t have a “collection” of video games any more than I’d have a collection of used chewing gum.
The other side of that coin, though, is that I never pay more than $20 for a game. Almost everything I buy is even under $10. (I think the Orange Box was the last time I paid anything like a retail price for a game. And that was three games.) The games are ephemeral, they could stop working at any moment for any of a million different reasons, and I’d have no recourse. So I’m not going to pay crazy archival prices.
“Put the president on experimental drugs” is completely bonkers. Never would have been contemplated in other administrations in my lifetime. Obviously, the simplest explanation is that the patient is someone else.
But it’s so much fun to speculate: Maybe someone in the king’s court is hoping to fill him up with so many drugs that he collapses.
It’s easy to imagine scenarios where something like this could be useful. Sometimes very, very useful. “Hey Google, I spent the last 20 minutes speaking to a police officer, be sure to keep and transcribe all that.”
But no one’s going to trust it (no one should trust it) because it’s offered by a big tech company. “Of course this new service is designed to be used against us,” we correctly assume.
Traininisation