The Xiaomi 13 is awesome. I would gladly take one over an iPhone.
I use Xiaomi’s LED lightbulbs in my apartment. They’re equal build quality to the Phillips-Hue bulbs but less than 1/4th the price. The Xiaomi bulbs are also far more compatible with third party apps, including the hue app.
Originally it was a space for artists. It was a music festival that didn’t provide any music, musicians just showed up and performed so you would never know what you were going to see. Attendees were expected to literally be part of the event. Buying things, from food to drugs, was discouraged. You were supposed to just barter or provide for the community.
Obviously all that is out the window now. Its just a big wealthy orgy waiting to see Diplo.
Yeah Portland, Oregon is probably going to be wiped off the map at some point. They’re predicting a 9.0+ quake here at some point at there’s barely any seismically sound infrastructure.
I hate this new found nostalgia for Blockbuster. They were always the worst choice of video rentals, the company was funded by right wing interests and would censor films to appease them. They got ran out of my hometown after operating for like 4 years and Family Video expanded into all the former locations. FV was able to operate up until the pandemic because they actually integrated into the communities they were in. Ours one was selling CBD weed and had their own brewery in the end.
One of my lib friends is super against communism and his favorite show is Deep Space 9. He accidentally got an Engles quote tattooed on his arm because of the show. He thinks the episode “Past Tense” is a warning about why we shouldn’t build housing for poor people.
George Lucas almost directed Apocalypse Now during the Vietnam war. John Milius wanted to film on location in South Vietnam.
There is definitely a correlation with people who like the prequels (just the movies I haven’t watched the cartoons) and people who are drawn fascist ideology. I’m not sure if its because r/prequelmemes was frequented by fascists and it bled over, or if those are people who just like shitty media. Prequelmemes had its roots in Red Letter Media’s Mr Plinkett reviews of the films. Almost all the original posts were aping quotes from their videos, but they were soon drowned out by people who thought they were in good company.
I blame Vice and Netflix. People saw Euromaiden through Vice’s reporting and the documentary that was on Netflix and just assumed it was leftists in favor of democracy kicking out a Russian backed dictator.
The wiki page on the coup even lays it out plainly. Straight up Nazis like the Misanthrope Division kicked out elected officials.
The game was developed for the Gamegear originally and the Genesis was backwards compatible with the Master System. Sega probably figured they could sell more units if they essentially released it on all their systems.
Mario is the tale of a union man taking mushrooms and rescuing his side piece from a human trafficking dinosaur. Pokemon is about a kid winning a series of cockfights and taking down the mafia. For kids? Hardly. 
The per capita income of Ionia is $27,000/yr, its rough down there.
I’ve seen a video of an old VW Beetle that was converted to electric, it still had a stick shift but the guy just left it in like 3rd gear. Electric engines have instant torque, their power is readily available all the time so gears aren’t necessary (i think that’s how it works anyway)
Here’s a similar video.