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And even if OP had said 10, the obvious thing is for it just not to work. Either teleportation fails or the rod is left behind.

It becomes my house. Now all I have to worry about is food, water and a few incidentals. To shower, I could probably exploit the geometry for endless water pressure instead of using a pump, then I'd just need a little heater and a filter of some kind.

The first thing I do, of course, is dick with the gravity dial. See how low I can get it before I lose my lunch, see how high I can turn it and still do everything I need. Maybe I stick something heavy to the side of the dial so it turns itself and so on.

Maybe to raise the rest of what I need, I'll start a moving company.

The weird geometry could also have some engineering uses that are pretty unique. For example, you could make a magnetic bottle for plasma that doesn't leak as it wouldn't need ends, or a laser in a frequency of light that's hard to reflect.

Anti-user features are a major thing. People are dumb enough with technology you can get away with openly screwing over your "customers". The antifeature in this case is "it's not actually the advertised game, it's a cheap pay to win thing".

Presumably, people download this thinking it's cool, and then end up playing it anyway and whaling for the "developers", who may literally be four people, one of which reskins existing games, while everyone else does sales and marketing.

Upvote because that sounds about right. I don't think we actually disagree.

You do know Hamas (and most other similar organisations) claims the Holocaust never happened, right? They're not above spreading lies they find convenient. As often happens in geopolitics, everyone sucks.

I don't know, maybe you think Palestine has had such a rough time they're justified, and they have had a very rough time, but it's still lies.

Oh, good. I was asking because otherwise it's the sort of thing that they'd try to shut down the first time it was misused.

I mean, that's a kind of stereotypical view of China's history. There absolutely was just as much dysfunction and disunity over there as in Europe. Feudal societies gonna feudal.

If you read the article, it's has more to do with Chinese people not understanding US politics for obvious reasons, and the Chinese government being somewhat okay with errors that make the US look bad.

I am beyond tired of this thoughtless take. “You can’t murder me, that’s illegal!” “You can’t harass me for being homosexual, that’s illegal!” “You can’t slam me into the ground and arrest me for nothing, that’s illegal!” Just. Fucking. Watch them. It was illegal the first time they did it too.

My #1 issue with the Democrats. I'm not sure how they talk about unprecedented times so much without actually acting on it.

Probably bad. There's no reports I've heard the guy isn't good at his job. It seems to be a political decision, maybe partly motivated by unrealistic ideas Zelensky has about where the conflict is now, which he's publicly contradicted.

Good, although I'd like to register my protest that this guy is relevant once again.

Entrepreneurial ones, I guess. They hear about a magic bottomless phone line and see an arbitrage opportunity.

If it's magically free, is it also magically permanent?

An audio-based SSH client, maybe. It could be used for good or evil, but at this point any open SSH connection is regularly targeted anyway. It'd be really neat to be able to do whatever computer task over an old landline or one of the remaining payphones.

I thought that was what's being implied.

Let's be real, both sides do. One just does it in English.

More like "someone small said something mean about China, now China wants to fuck shit up". This doesn't hurt China much, and isn't even legally binding by the sound of it. They just take 0 shit from anyone they regard as a 2-bit player.

Another example: They've pretty much fed their friends in Myanmar to pro-democracy rebels over some local organised crime thing on the border.

Knowing China, a phone call involving someone from the US as well as Zelensky would probably go a long way. I doubt Xi is particularly invested in Chinese companies helping Russia, but he would take issue with Ukraine not going through him about it.

So then I guess C is salamander. Also lays eggs and lives by a pool, but doesn't do anything extra, and is a necessary step before most of the other modern languages.

COBOL is a coelacanth. To everyone's surprise, they're still out there. We thought they were an old, very extinct example of a non-terrestrial lobe-finned fish, but they actually hung on in some odd environments. They cause massive indigestion to anyone that has to consume them.

If Node is a mosquito, Javascript itself is another hymenopteran: the yellow jacket wasp. Just as hated, and with a tendency to injure handlers, but widely successful and defended as filling an actual useful role in nature. They build delicate, arguably pretty nests.

Roaches don't spread nearly as much disease as 'squiters, and IIRC are actually important in some ecosystems.

Yep, that will fix the underlying weakness! /s

This and things like banning short sells are bad news on two fronts, in that they both reveal a problem and will be ineffective at solving it.

I wonder if this is actually an effective motivator for most people. It's just way too easy to look away.