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Tommy's Holiday Camp is a former dialup BBS (now telnet) online since 1987. Retrocomputing & counterculture; sex, weed, and video games. https://vintage.thcbbs.com

Gas prices in #yyj rocketing up again. Idiots gonna blame Carney. One overriding factor is impacting the petroleum market more than all others combined, and those same idiots don't wanna know what that factor is. Это идиотская война Трампа в Иране.

I just mentioned in a comment that "AI Enshittified the labour market" Then I ran this by AI... and... it agreed with me! AI knows what it is doing to your career.

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It's Tuesday but it's also summer vacation, so no biting, timely theme for this week's #C-64 #Russian class except there's no C-64 Russian Class. Still a bit of Russian to be learned today. See you next week!

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Happy TACO Tuesday! It's #C64 #Russian time! Today we keep it simple and look forward to a time when the American Nightmare is over, justice prevails, and we can sing once more of Joy to the World, «Радость миру!» We now return you to your regular scheduled Epstein War. видимся на следующей неделе!

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Happy Tuesday! Time for #C64 World History in #Russian class! Today we have a list of corrupt tyrants, and the date of the end of their tenure... on this earth. Is Amerika next? Polling suggests about 72% of Americans hope so. Thanks for attending! Stay safe and Увидимся на следующей неделе!

READY.
WORLD HISTORY IN RUSSIAN

Калигула, Рим, 41 г. н.э.
CALIGULA, ROME, 41 AD

Людовик XVI, Париж, 1793 г.
LOUIS XVI, PARIS, 1793

Николай II, Москва, 1918 г.
NICHOLAS II, MOSCOW, 1918

Муссолини, Италия, 1945 г.
MUSSOLINI, ITALY, 1945

Чаушеску, Румыния, 1989 г.
CEAUȘESCU, ROMANIA, 1989

Саддам, Ирак, 2006 г.
SADDAM, IRAQ, 2006

Каддафи, Ливия, 2011 г.
QADDAFI, LIBYA, 2011

Америка, 2026 г.?  AMERIKA, 2026?

Honestly, I'm hoping he claims he won every state in 2020 and 2024 in his speech tonight. He's said that before. Even MAGA, excepting the most rabid and brain damaged of all of them, doesn't buy that.

Fun fact: I was banned from the Virtual Railfan Youtube channel's chat when I called a passing train of empty coal cars "clean coal" Foamers are offended by Inconvenient Truth.

Happy Tuesday! Time again for #C64 #Russian Class! Today Vladi notices that Donald's senators are a vanishing breed, and this surprisingly concerns him. At first Donald thinks it's KGB dirty tricks but Vladi explains why Russia would never do this (as long as Donald is Prez, anyway) До свидания!

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Maybe economic geeenious Donald can explain how a 20 percent toll on traffic in the Strait of Hormuz is going to lower gas prices, lower transportation costs overall, and lower the cost of goods that require transportation? #trumpflation

How sick have we become that there is now a situation in which progressives could find themselves cheering on a brutal totalitarian theocracy? Get in line, Iran.

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OK it's time to deal with the THC BBS elephant that's been in the room for 30+ years. I'm talking about our flagship BBS door, Rancho Nevada. Hey, I was young and silly when I decided to make Proving Grounds for Porn! To my late-middle-age brain, Rancho's storyline is hard cringe. 1/?

All of this. Our model was freemium but a paid licence bought you every update within a major version (e.g. 1.x.x.x) and you only had to buy again if we put out a new major release and you wanted to run it. You could run the major release you bought up to the last update forever.

✫✫LVN✫✫@urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · last mo.

Fuck Microsoft, fuck Adobe, and fuck all the other companies that changed their software business models from “one-time purchase” to subscription-based! Bill Gates and John Adobe (idk who runs that), you will burn in Hell with Mitch McConnell!!!

Happy Tuesday and yes it's time for #C64 #Russian class #95! Just a quick one this week, a little joke they are telling in Europe. Probably in Moscow. Fun fact: "шутка" (shutka, meaning "joke") was one of the first words in Russian I learned outside of uni Russian 101!

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