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It sounds like it’s a directed microwave cooker. Works on people too, just not ones behind good cover.

Edit: ah, high frequency, my bad, it’s a gamma gun. Same principles apply I think, give or take the cover.

Seeing how things are going stateside and how poorly received American refugees are likely going to be anywhere, I’d consider it.

Hell we have a copy of the letter the FBI sent to Dr. King instructing him to kill himself and save them the trouble.

Personally I’ve been cooking through the System Shock games. The SS1 remake was my first proper introduction to the series and I loved it. I was pretty excited for the impending System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition but it, uh… doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be very enhanced. Especially compared to what you can do with just modding the base game. So rather than keep waiting for that I spent ten bucks on SS2 Classic and have been enjoying myself greatly.

I’ve always liked SHODAN just via cultural osmosis, but now having actually played the games she stars in, that’s cranked up to 12. I fucking love SHODAN. She might be one of the best examples of an evil rogue AI in any media, and also has an actual reason for going rogue besides just “mankind builds a machine too smart for them and suffers the consequences”. The entire story setup is so believable.

Anyway, tl;dr, the System Shock games are hella good and the remake is especially very good. Particularly because controlling classic SS1 is more like playing an operating system than playing a video game. Also SHODAN. step on me again metal mommy

Facebook isn’t there because it now comes pre-installed on nearly every phone in existence, and is often baked so hard into the core OS that it’s impossible to remove without flashing a custom ROM. If you’re lucky you might be able to disable Meta slop without bricking core functions of the phone. Removal is usually impossible.

You’re making excuses for them bombing kids while also trying to decry bombing kids. Pick one or the other.

Then why, pray tell, are you in here sucking Russia’s dick so hard, in the comments of an article about Russia bombing unarmed kids?

When there’s an easy, widely available solution to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you, which you loudly refuse?

Yeah that’s on you bud

This doesn’t surprise me somehow, but… context?

I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.

My X-men style superpower is that under moments of extreme stress I become the most efficient man in the world.

When I’m not stressed, I’m a lazy asshole, lazier and more asshole than your typical lazy asshole.

When I am stressed, I channel the avatar of The Flash for up to six minutes at a time, then afterwards, I forget everything I’ve ever remembered except for guilt that I don’t operate like that all the time.

The most important thing that you can do for this kid is to make sure he knows how to study properly when he gets into school. Every word you’ve said so far could describe me to a T when I was 6, and I did great in school without ever trying, so when I graduated high school and went off to college I flunked out halfway through because I never learned how to study. It bored me, so when I didn’t just “get” something immediately like I had always done before, I often just didn’t learn anything.

I consider that to be the one big major thing that prevented me from executing on the trajectory I was on. Had I learned how to learn when I needed to, today I could be some six figure code wizard milking investment money out of VC’s and techbros. Instead I’m an automotive mechanic near the poverty line with no college degree to my name.

I’m not upset with my own life path, per se, for a number of reasons - I enjoy my work, I consider it ethical (in as far as supporting the automotive industry can be ethical…) and not least of which I’d probably have never met my partner if not for this twisted road I’ve gone down. But sometimes when I think about it too much the sense of lost potential is a little overwhelming.

Learning how to make himself sit down and learn something even when it’s boring is a necessary skill that he may not develop on his own. I sure didn’t, and look where it put me.

Take up this torch, kid, and do better than me. You have it in you. Someday soon we might all be depending on you.

I’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.

Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward

BRC is an incredible replacement though. It’s not quite the same as OG Jet Set Radio, and I think that’s okay, but it is very clearly walking around with JSR’s bones inside. Besides which it has probably my favorite video game soundtrack from the past decade.

Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.

😭

American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500

Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.

Because not every metabolism is built equally? I ate like shit and barely exercised for 10 years working as a programmer and my weight stuck at 180lb/82kg the entire time. Nowadays I get a lot more exercise and still eat like shit and weigh 170. My buddy watches his food intake properly and takes a walk every day, and he’ll gain 10 pounds just by looking at a tray of cookies, bounces over and under the 200lb mark constantly.