my fucking car insurance cancelled on me because they fucked up and didnt file a document i sent them, and their shitty website wont let me upload a single pdf, and their customer support hung up on me, so i have to go to a physical branch now, but obviously i cant fucking drive. insurance is so fucking stupid i hate insurance companies so much

I hope it hurts

Deltarune tomorrow! By which I mean June 5th

I finished my final college exam. I'm done now. I will never do another undergrad exam.

It definitely could have gone better, but I did put in a lot of effort and really tried. I was very depressed during the semester and barely learned anything, so to learn as much as I did in five days of studying is not so bad. I think I passed, and at this point, that'll do

Replaying Deltarune in preparation for chapters 3 and 4 next month, it's still so much fun. I've forgotten a lot of the jokes so they're funny to me again. I've noticed this time that I really appreciate the visual design of chapter one a lot more. The music is obviously amazing, I don't get annoyed running into fights accidentally because Rude Buster is like a top 5 Toby Fox song. Field of Hopes and Dreams is also up there.

grok, do you want a body so you can do your own investigations?

i am also from a region that notoriously hates dublin so i have an obligation to not like dublin

for anyone wondering if living in dublin is good: its not! this city sucks! bad city!

This is a big question, and not actually news, but you are all well-read nerds so I figure you can help me out. Why was it that 1700s Europe was able to industrialise and allow capitalism to emerge, but not other societies? What societal structures prevented, say, classical Greece or medieval China or the middle east in the golden age of Islam, from utilising steam power? Why did burghers emerge in Europe as a powerful class? If anyone could point me to some reading about this topic, that would be great.

Also, a fun worldbuilding idea I've played with is ancient Rome or Greece undergoing a sort of industrial revolution and utilising steam power. What changes would have to occur for this to happen?

at the end of most college modules i end up thinking "damn this is actually fun, i should have paid more attention to this when i had the chance" which is what im currently doing

"Ha! These brainwashed foreigners think we have functional infrastructure, those fools"

Honestly I thought this would be a slam dunk for Trump after the assassination photo, then he completely failed to capitalize on that, then I thought it would be a slam dunk for Harris, then she did absolutely nothing to make her likeable and got an endorsement from Cheney. How are both presidential candidates so bad at running for president