and it was a success. What we figured we'd do was we'd take all our money from being badass prison guards and buy sick cars. and we did and there was no comeuppance except when Keith flipped his car and died but he was more drunk'n usual so when you think about it really its the spirit of his granpappy was actin thru the blacktop that night 'n those trees well you could consider that destiny. Anyway, one by one all the boys died and now I'm cursed to drive these open highways in my badass stang

anyway where you headin stranger?

It's a notoriously shitty game, but I was surprised when I saw that, despite being a side-scrolling "action" game, it uses WASD for movement on the Amiga and Apple IIgs.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/110/dark-castle/screenshots/

• Although used for centuries by the Cacua Indigenous people in Colombia, the táam palm was, until recently, unknown to science. During fieldwork in the village of Wacará, two botanists were offered to eat a fruit they had never seen before, so they set out to discover what species it was.
• With help from the Indigenous community, they were able to find the palm and collect samples in line with the Cacua people’s approach to conserving the plant.
• Lab tests showed that táam was a palm species previously unknown to science that researchers named Attalea taam. After the discovery, the botanists returned to the community and started a participatory process to study the palm’s ecology and distribution.
• Several members of the Cacua community co-authored the scientific paper describing the new species. By relying on Indigenous knowledge and mapping, the researchers say they have obtained better results than through using just a Western scientific approach.

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Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

• Something interesting that happened to you
• Something humourous that happened to you
• Something frustrating that happened to you
• A quick question
• A request for recommendations
• Pictures of your pet
• A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
• Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out a good easy setup for a baby monitor, I've got a pi4, pi camera 2 noir, but it's too dark to see anything by itself, and it feels like I'm leaving the plug & play zone where I could just google & program, and am entering the buy an LED and solder zone, which scares me. Any suggestions?

No capperoni.

What a terrible fact to share.

Also you can die very easily so be careful kids.

I just watched a YouTube video about the false narrative that there is a Gen Z revival in American Churches. https://youtu.be/l7Y-AF-Zt0Y. I've long been very interested in how Religion and Culture interact, and I'm sure YouTube knows that and fed me this video because if that.

What I found very interesting is at the end of the video the guy pitches raising money for his humanist ~~church~~ community center. I'm old enough to remember (and participated in) the rapid ramp up of the non-denom movement in the 90's and 00's. I can't tell you how many "We've outgrown our building" fund raising drives I've seen in my life. That's literally what he is pitching. 😂

This dude literally is the same guy as every one of those non-denom church planters. (If I'm willing to be generous) He's a young, talented, ambitious guy with a real dream to help build communities for people. Good for him. (If I'm more cynical, then I know his kind too.)

But, even generously, he's falling for the exact same trap all of the non-denom church planters fall for. If his private community center (or another like it) attracts enough growth, then it will become attractive to corrupt people. That's a given. 100% going to happen.

I just find it so fascinating to see this cycle happen all over again, literally repeating the exact same language. (I don't know the guy and don't know if he just doesn't know what he's doing, or if he knows good and well what he's doing. Could be either.)

(I don't at all disagree with the thesis of his video. I've been an active Christian my whole life and it's really obvious there is not any kind of contemporary revival going on. )

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613981

From Iskra Books: Iskra Books is excited to launch our new journal project - Red Horizons!

This scholarly, radical journal will be in the service of global liberation movements—a site for cutting-edge theory, translations, art, and poetry.

We're accepting submissions until end of May, and publishing in September of this year. This journal will be published twice yearly. For more details, see https://www.iskrabooks.org/journal.

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Nintendo Will Change Game Prices for Nintendo Switch 2 in May 2026

Nintendo has officially revealed that it will change the pricing structure for video games on the Nintendo Switch 2. Starting from May 2026, the cost of digital and physical versions of new games will no longer be the same. The company clarified that this change applies specifically to games released exclusively for the Switch 2.

The first title to follow the new pricing policy will be Yoshi and the Mysterious Book. The changes will take effect as soon as pre-orders for this game open.

According to Nintendo, the price difference is driven purely by production and distribution costs. Physical copies require additional expenses for manufacturing cartridges, logistics, and storage.

At the same time, the company emphasizes that players will receive the same gameplay experience regardless of the format. In other words, the difference affects only the price—not the content or quality of the games.

Company promises countermeasures against new DRM bypasses — zero-day game releases become norm as security concerns mount over hypervisor-based bypass

I had some vacation time and I've never ridden a train before, so I thought I'd look it up. I'd seen a few YouTube videos and it looked like something I'd like. I'm not a fan of air travel at all.

I went to look up tickets and was shocked at the price. I could drive for cheaper and faster including my own stops. I could fly for cheaper and faster and wouldn't have to pay for a sleeper car or hotel. It seems like there's no benefit to taking a train at all. Even the hassle of flying is worth the time and money saved.

Ps and why does a sleeper car (the thing that had me curious from YouTube) $1000/night?!