Nerd Pride Radio

And I don't necessarily mean another set of forums. Discord is a leading contender. I haven't really done any research though.

I still look in every day. I'm thinking of moving to a different platform. I'd like to start growing the community again, and I don't know that I can do that here anymore. The website portion of the site is broken, and the forums are horribly outdated and the security is terrible. Bots are smart eno...

The movie is Hundreds of Beavers. It's an indie Canadian film that won several awards. It's free if you have Amazon Prime already. Otherwise, it's a cheap rental. It's IMDB description is: "Hundreds of Beavers is a supernatural silent film set in the 17th century that follows a drunken applejac...

I agree with you that it is completely fucked. Absolutely the result of making EVERYTHING for profit, and allowing profit motive to override all other guiding principles. It's evil. I am so sorry you have to go through this. Not everyone has the resources or support system you guys do, and even with...

Has anyone played Fallen London? It's apparently been around a while. It's a text based adventure that is free to play online. It plays like an absolutely gargantuan choose your own adventure that includes an inventory and advancing stats and an interactive map. You play in the city of Fallen London...

In other news, Dad got random envelope today in the mail. No return address, handwritten label in block printing. He opens it to find a folded piece of paper that was printed out about a week before Thanksgiving, but only just mailed a few days ago. It's a one page print out of my salary for last y...

Thursday I cooked a 10 lb pork loin for Thanksgiving dinner. Each family member gets to pick a side so we had: Macaroni and cheese and corn Brussel sprouts with bacon and cheese Fried butter noodles Mashed potatoes and gravy Snickers apple salad Cranberry sauce Texas Roadhouse rolls (from a fundrai...

Yeah, we had a sprinkling of rain that decided to mix in some tiny snow crystals for 15 minutes before going back to rain.

No one's even calling it snow, but technically it counts.

There were actually 4 fights total. The first was Goyat (India) vs Nunez (Brazil). 6 rounds of boring. Both fighters showed well, but Goyat just outclassed him. It was a whole lotta nothing, but Goyat got in more nothing and won all six rounds. Like a fool, I tuned in at 7 to see Jake Paul get murde...

The ladies match was good. The welterweight match between Ballios and Ramos was pretty exciting, but ultimately boxing is pretty brutal and gross. The Paul/Tyson match was just sad. They're both bad dudes. Like most people, I was rooting for Monster Classic, but as soon as I saw him live, I knew it ...

Before falling asleep at night I watch 1 or 2 episodes of Brooklyn 99 (I'm rewatching the whole series). Prior to 99, I finished rewatching The Good Place a few weeks ago. After this, I'll go to Parks & Recreation. Michael Schurr shows are my comfort food. Saw Kaos on Netflix a couple weeks ago....

Are you guys anywhere near the blue dot? We are not. If the polls are so far off that my vote helps hand Kamala another electoral vote from Nebraska, then the final tally will be around 458 to 80 in her favor. But I did get to vote on weed and abortion and school choice and requiring business to pr...

Noah's home from school for Fall break, so we figured it was a good time to vote. So I drove to the courthouse with three of my kids and we made an event out of it.

Civic duty achievement UNLOCKED!

When we were kids in Nebraska, we could count on the first snow falling in November (or so times as early as October). The somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd week of December, there'd be the big snow, and then there would be full snow cover on the ground until late February. Sometimes a little warmer. ...

Trump recently said that to reduce crime, we need just one day when cops were allowed to really cut loose (because that's what's really wrong in our country: too many restrictions on the police). Just one really rough day, he says. After that, word will get around, and there won't be any more proble...

According to the most recent reporting: Iran just launched dozens of missiles into Israel. They reached as far as Tel Aviv. They were targeting three military bases. 80% of the missiles found their targets. No deaths are reported this far, but there are two people with minor shrapnel injuries. Iran ...

John Amos, 84.

He's the actor who played the dad on Good Times.

I have heard that same reference. The fact that they have a casual term for the occasional maintenance-slaughter of their oppressed peoples is horrifying.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXnY0nia0AAGsBe?format=jpg&name=900x900 Yeah, this one is definitely fake. The entire profile is inconsistent with what is known about the guy and about his political views. It seems specifically designed to feed into what a person who is a fervent MAGA supporter thi...

9% of Americans don't have proof of citizenship and for a good chunk of them, acquiring such proof would be a hardship due to cost, time/travel, and/or complexity of the process. And if you don't have a passport, then most people's proof of citizenship is their birth certificate, a document with no ...

Tahlvin wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:29 am And here is video of Trump and JD Vance's response.

Classic! Exactly what you would expect!

And let's be clear that the man has only been able to articulate three coherent policy positions, and he comes back to all three repeatedly: 1. He will use the power of his office to put everyone who has opposed him in prison with extremely long sentences 2. He will fix the economy by imposing heret...

Yes Trump wants to deport 20 million undocumented immigrants, even though the best estimates say there's only 10.5 million in the U.S. But guess who fills out the other half of those numbers: brown people. His plan is for ethnic cleansing. He has set the number, and project 2025 has the plans for ma...

Phoebe wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 7:33 pmI would do this.

We're planning to invite more people next year.

I think you definitely see less double cousins situations nowadays because of the increased range of accessible travel and this broader options. But also, in the last 60ish years we've gotten to the point where the vast majority of couples don't have 6+ kids. You simply have fewer available sibling ...

Mando wrote: ↑Mon Sep 09, 2024 3:41 pm I am not a full buy-in for any property except maybe just one, The Chosen, if it is able to make all 7 seasons.

Somebody already spoiled the ending for me.

At the Lincoln Children's Zoo last night, they held an adults only event. For a $50 ticket, you get dinner, after hours access to the zoo, 3 drinks from a wide selection of locally crafted beers, ales, ciders, etc, plus an outdoor concert with a band that played 80's hits all night. It was friggin a...

Cassandra in Reverse -- Holly Smale Oh dang! I forgot the best part! Everytime I listened, I'd see the book cover on my phone or see the title and author on my car screen. And even though I knew it was almost certainly wrong, I decided the author's name rhymed and pronounced it Holly Smolly every t...

Leech -- Hiron Ennis Kyle just reviewed this and was so compelling I had to make it my next read. He's right on the money too. It's a far future tale in a post-post-apocalyptic earth, and our protagonist is a hive mind collective, and it works incredibly well. This world is very well developed--a t...

Cassandra in Reverse -- Holly Smale Beautiful! Cassandra has lost her job and her home and her boyfriend all in one horrible day. And then she jumps backwards in time and does it again. And then, through careful study she figure out she can jump backwards and reset time to any point in the last fou...

Yes, double cousins are exactly as you describe. My wife's grandparents had siblings that also married (Grandpa's brother married Grandma's sister). One couple had seven kids. The other had eight. So my mother-in-law has a whole passel of double cousins. Genetically, double cousins are as closely re...

I'm slowly getting that way. I can definitely do a duology, and maybe a trilogy, but more than that feels like too much. Heck, in the last couple years I've read several books that turned out to be #1 in a series, and most of them were really good. But I still haven't read the sequels to any of them...

And West Virginia.

A) I have no evidence of how it was originally used, and

B) either way, I agree with you.

Would it make a difference if for the first decade or so every white person who said it only did so in an extremely racist imitation of a Chinese accent?

The most interesting thing about that article for me is that JFK Jr has a 36 year old daughter named Kick. Named, apparently, for her great aunt Kick Kennedy who married into British nobility and then died in a plane crash at 28. I can't believe that I never knew JFK had a sister named Kick. That's ...

The fact check on Walz and IVF is that technically they used IUI (intrauterine insemination), which is a related bit less invasive procedure. The problem is that if you tell people you used IUI, then you have to spend a couple minutes explaining and answering questions, because no one knows what IUI...

Cinder -- Marissa Meyer A dystopian sci-fi reimagining of Cinderella where our protagonist is a teenaged cyborg mechanic living under the thumb of her cruel stepmother. It's really good. It is aimed at teenage girls, and our heroine, Cinder, is a fully three dimensional badass living in a harsh wor...

Leviathan Wakes -- James S.A. Corey Looked interesting, so I picked it up. Great book! And I did not know this was actually book 1 of The Expanse until after I finished the story and the end credits told me. If you're not familiar, it's a hard sci-fi story in an extensively inhabited solar system i...

Electric Kingdom -- David Arnold Post apocalyptic time loop. Really well done. What we see in this book is mostly just a person living through one loop of events, so it's not a bunch of complicated repeating events and time knots.The characters are easy to get attached to. The relationships are wel...

I think Trump is the GOP's biggest liability in their effort to attack Harris. Yes, their lines of attack aren't the strongest: she's a leftist, she's not black enough, she has a bad laugh, she's a DEI hire, etc. But some of those could make headway with moderate/undecided voters if presented correc...

The enthusiasm is huge. The fundraising is unprecedented. Polling is a statistical tie.

Stay tuned.

A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher. A fun cozy horror novel! That sounds weird, but it really works. The plot is simple- a 30-something woman moves back in with her mother when she's between jobs. Weird stuff happens. The daughter and mother get along great. The little town they live in is som...

I've been listening to the Singing Hills series by Nghi Vo. They're ~3 hours each and very well written so a nice way to relax while driving. They're about about a monk who goes around collecting stories and getting into adventures. The first is the Hugo winning Empress of Salt and Fortune. I read ...

Roughly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli action so far in this conflict. That number is likely low, because the Palestinian Authority is only reporting confirmed dead and doesn't include the missing who are likely still buried in rubble. According to a study in the Lancet, historicall...

I've long believed that our culture does women a disservice by referring to male leaders most often by their last name and female leaders by their first name. A little misogynistic microaggression, as it were. And I still believe that as a general rule, but I just saw a woman who explained that this...

Noah just showed this to me, and I was debating whether or not to share it. Thank you, Kyle! Love this.

So... good move by the Dems? Bad move? I think Harris has a better chance against Trump in the election. She's very qualified. She's too conservative for my taste, but I will happily vote for her if she is the official candidate on that side. The biggest downside to this (and it will happen no matte...

Goddam Spotify! I'm looking at this whole list of audiobooks included with Premium, and they got TONS of stuff I've wanted to read. Included with Premium! I read the Dark Lord book, and then moved right into an Adrian Tchaikovsky joint I've been wanting to read forever, and it quits an hour in. Spot...

How to Become a Darklord and Die Trying -- Django Wexler What Kyle said! This book is great! You love fantasy roleplaying. You like fun. You'll like this. I love the structure and lore of this world. I want a tabletop RPG that captures all of this. I want to live in this game world. I had the same ...

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