When I was a kid in the early-mid 2000s, knocking on the door was always a daunting prospect - people sitting out on their porch or steps were much more approachable, and much more the norm.

There are more contributions now than there used to be, but if no one has posted in a day, I try to make a post.

… I still post most days.

It takes a large userbase. I remember on The Old Place a community might need 2 or 3 thousand subscribers before it became truly self-sustaining. The more esoteric and obscure the knowledge or material needed to post, the more subscribers you need - meme communities can hit it at 2-3 thousand, while others, like history communities, can reach 5k and still be reliant on a small number of contributors.

But I want to be a capricious god

I would challenge you to even come up with a reasonable way to spend ten million dollars a year.

I would fund multiple forms of art media and have them released for free every year while living on ramen in my leaky apartment

Hello to any billionaires looking for a worthy heir

Obama had the White House , House , and Senate and didn’t close Gitmo as promised.

Did you follow the situation? Gitmo wasn’t closed because there was nowhere to transfer the prisoners. It was attempted, numerous times. There were legal battles over this.

Just trying to keep things alive until they’re self-sustaining! I look forward to the day when I don’t, uh, post every day.

Nice! Hope we’ll see it imported into the US too.

Can we launch it against Spez?

Because this was always the plan.

The actual employees threatened to resign en masse, because the employees own equity in the company and want this dogshit move too.

If you donate your body to science, and they sell the bits they can’t use to get money to do science, are you still fulfilling the original intent of the donation?

AA2 and AA3 were legitimately great games.

Thing is, a lot of it was looted. Not even like “Napoleon” style looted specifically for museums, like straight up, “The only reason we have it is because some officer thought it would make a nice trinket and snapped it off of some priceless altar and got bored of it and donated it later in life” sort of thing.

There’s a reason archeologists look on archeology in the 19th century with a good deal of cringe, and it’s not just the rampant racism and sexism. A LOT got destroyed in the process of “We want to learn about these things but we have no cultural frame of reference to study it in except to steal it from These People™”

You want age inappropriate? I can do age inappropriate

I could hear “Where’s” being used for “Whereas” deeper in the mountains, come to think of it.

“Where’s I’s on the bed, I leaned 'round the corner”

“Where’s most of the animals is scared”

“Where’s they’s can pick locks”

Shortening of ‘whereas’ maybe?

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it, but if I did, I would think a Mainer or rural area of New York or something.

Sounds New England to my Appalachian ears.

I woke up one day and my leg started being communist. I haven’t been able to get rid of it since.

Wow, how entirely unforeseeable that you’re out here shilling for fascists. /s