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I suppose it's just like most drug addicts, you don't really choose what you get addicted to or when, something just sort of gets its hooks into you at some point and that's it.

Plus if you factor in having essentially no boundaries on your life (ie infinite money and nobody to tell you no or stop you doing anything, being more-or-less above the law, access to high-quality drugs and world-class healthcare) you can probably go on doing stuff like that pretty much indefinitely. IIRC that's how Keith Richards said he was able to go on doing drugs for so long - he was loaded so he could always get the good stuff that wasn't mixed with anything.

Yeah I mean, water and oxygen can both kill you in high enough amounts.

Thinking about it, whoever Elon's dealer is probably has a pretty sweet gig as far as drug dealing goes. They've got someone on the hook who is the magical combination of being an addict, has infinite wealth, doesn't know the value of anything, and is a huge asshole so they probably don't even feel bad about exploiting them lol.

As someone who lives in Canada, I'm hoping we'll be hard to invade the same way Russia is hard to invade. As in, all these US troops who train in Texas and Florida probably won't be conditioned to handle doing stuff when it's -40C outside, so we can all just head north and hope they get stuck and give up lol.

Also, and Americans don't seem to like it when I say this so apologies in advance, but the US is historically not great at winning wars IMO. They're great at starting them, but it almost always seems to end up in a quagmire that just drags on for ages and then gets abandoned. So that's pretty much how I imagine this would go too.

Yeah same here, my Deck in its case easily fits into a backpack, I think it's portable enough. At a certain point you can only make things smaller by cutting essential stuff I think.

It's like a regular nuclear reactor, except it's run by people who don't know anything about nuclear reactors, the waste is dumped wherever without consequence, and the power output is only used to run an AI and mine cryptos.

I didn't think it was a bad movie at all, but definitely not Oscar-sweeping good.

I've seen one of those folding phones IRL, and it seemed to have a big visible crease running right down the middle of the screen, which I could also see in this video. It looked annoying enough for a phone, I can't imagine how bad it would be for a gaming device. Plus as others have said, that button layout is horrendous.

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The full moon does something to people's brains and makes them act weirder than usual.

There's been more than one time when I've been out and thought people were driving crazier than usual or people on the bus were being more psycho than they normally are, and I've looked it up and it's been within like 2 days of the full moon on either side.

People are ~70% water and the moon does move the entire ocean around, so maybe it's something to do with that?

It's the XCOM principle lol.

A shot with a 99% chance to hit will miss far more often than you think.

A shot with a 1% chance to hit will miss pretty much exactly as much as you think.

I think it's like... in terms of time we're kind of '2D'. Like if you picture a dot on a sheet of paper, it can only move around the directions on that flat plane. That's time and velocity for us. if you go further up the X axis, you go less far along the Y axis, which is why time slows down the faster you go.

If you were somehow '3D' in time, it's be like if you lifted the pen off the paper, you could hop around all over the place or maybe even to a different sheet of paper entirely.

I really feel for Zelenskyy, it's such a terrible position to be in.

On the one hand, it must be galling to have to play nice with Trump. You know his word is worthless and he's going to betray Ukraine the first chance he gets, which will probably cost a lot of Ukrainian lives.

On the other hand, if you hard-ball Trump and tell him to fuck off, the war continues and Ukraine probably loses, which also costs a lot of Ukrainian lives.

I really don't see any way this doesn't end badly, unless Europe can somehow step up and get Russia to back down. I don't really see that happening though. I think Ukraine's fate was sealed when Trump won the election TBH.

Yeah on my Linux desktop, it's plugged into the TV for watching shows, so I sometimes switch between the PC Line Out and HDMI audio. The Linux audio logic seems to be "I'll stay at whatever you last set me to, until you set me to something else", which makes perfect sense.

On Windows, it seems to be some combination of whatever device Windows thinks was last plugged in (which is very rarely what was actually plugged in last) whether it's an audio device or not, combined with the phase of the moon in whatever location Windows thinks it's in (which is also rarely correct.)

As a KDE person, the random potshot at KDE for absolutely no reason is what got me lol.

I recently had a spare machine sitting around doing nothing and was feeling a bit masochistic, so I decided to install Windows 11 on it just to see what it was like. I've used Windows 10 a tiny bit but essentially haven't touched Windows in years. A couple of the fun things I noticed:

• After installing, I was going to set a new wallpaper. I double-clicked on a jpeg file and instead of opening it, it popped up with a window asking me what I wanted to do with this apparently unknown file type. I literally said out loud, "what do you mean, it's a fucking jpeg." Then it did the same thing for a .zip.
• I also made a restore point once I had all the basics installed, so I could roll back when Windows inevitably fucked up doing an update. I then did the first big update and it fucked it up. "No worries" I thought, "I made a restore point!" I went to restore it, and discovered that for some unknown reason Windows only saves one restore point. This wouldn't have been a problem, except that Windows had decided to fuck itself up, and then automatically overwrite the manual save point with it's own save point from immediately after it fucked itself up, leaving that as the only thing to restore to.

I then quite sensibly formatted the drive and went back to using Linux.

Imagine if the future of your country and the lives of millions of people who live there all hinged on you having to fly half way around the world and be filmed trying to be polite to two gibbering morons, and not even in your first language.

Mad respect to Zelenskyy for keeping it together as well as he did TBH.

As a person from Europe living in Canada, I'd say it's not that we hate Americans, we know there are lots of nice people there and a good chunk of you hate Trump as much as we do. But unfortunately we just kind of have to treat America the country as a hostile nation right now. Given that the US government is directly threatening Canada and actively betraying Europe, there's not much choice. It just is what it is.

Disclaimer: I don't speak for all Canadians and Europeans obviously, there are some Trumpy people in Canada and Europe too for some fucking reason. But amongst the people I've spoken to about it, that seems to be the general vibe.

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Yeah that was my first thought too! I think Steven Moffat summed up the appeal pretty well:

It's hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero. But heroes ARE important: Heroes tell us something about ourselves. History tells us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now; but heroes tell us who we WANT to be. And a lot of our heroes depress me.

But when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun--they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter--they gave him a box from which you can call for help. And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat-ray--they gave him an extra HEART. They gave him two hearts! And that's an extraordinary thing.

There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor.