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The Prime Directive wouldn't even apply. The Tau'ri have been properly FTL capable ever since they started producing the F-302 in what, the year 2000? As much as Starfleet would hate it, SG1 represents a humanity that is wearing the big boy pants just like they are.

As one of the perpetrators players I have to issue a correction:

The supernatural STD was actually fully contained by pure accident. Patient zero ended up in medical care, the party (all of whom caught it) somehow ended up having intercourse with very few people despite their best efforts, and the one other person that did get infected ended up joining the party.

I'd also point out that the STD had to be invented to explain an absurdly improbable string of crit successes and fails on skill checks that led to a party member getting seduced by someone with so many negative charisma modifiers stacked up that he was less attractive than the ground he was standing on. And then it happened again right afterwards.

And that wasn't the only bizarre string of extreme die rolls: The combat-inept party member turning into One Punch Man involved a series of 17 rolls, 14 of which were either crit fails or crit successes. At one point dfyx threw up his arms and said that the punch (a crit, naturally) did an absurd 5d6 damage, which of course came up as all sixes. Then two party members crit failed trying to administer first aid.

Oh, and dfyx forgot to mention that one other party member one-critted a raging bull with a rapier but that was so mundane compared to the rest of this pile-up of improbability that it's easy to overlook.

That one-shot was cursed.

You need to keep in mind that 2023 COVID is a different beast than 2020 COVID. The currently most common strains tend to be less hard on the body as the virus has started to adapt to human hosts.

I still wouldn't recommend people to go unvaccinated but it's not quite as suicidally irresponsible as it used to be. Still irresponsible, though.

I'm on a friend's mail server with my own domain pointing at it.

That plus a catchall address means I can give out different email addresses to every website, app, and service provider without having to rely on things like Gmail's plus addresses being accepted. That makes it really easy to tell who leaked my address to spammers – and to filter out the resulting spam.

Add to that Thunderbird's built-in address spoofing functionality and I can even do that for outgoing mail.

So whether you go self-hosted or have a provider that allows custom domains, I can really recommend setting one up. They're not too expensive (unless you go with some of the more exotic gTLDs) and I consider hassle-free per-service email addresses to be a game changer.

Well, this doesn't restrict the actions of evil pirates so I guess it checks out.

Ah yes, the megabyte myth. Certainly haven't anything like that before...

She just got the car back last week so very recently.

A 2007 Opel Agila that might've been a decent car four owners ago. But seriously, her price limit was 2500 € and she got the car for a bit over 2000; it's hardly a surprise that she didn't exactly get premium quality.

Well, once all repairs are factored in the total cost is closer to 4500, which could've bought her a much nicer car. Or at least a much healthier one.

You already violated confidentiality by announcing that every muffin is now encrypted and now you try to keep mum about how it happened. Do you know what that makes you?

A tease.

Treatment of persistent nightmares as part of psychotherapy? If they can get this thing certified as a medical device they can jack up the price by 500% no problem.

Cleric: We believe you sold your soul.

Celestial warlock: Well, yes. To your god.

Cleric: That's unethical! You should be ashamed of yourself!

Celestial warlock: So does that mean you worship someone inherently unethical or was he just unethical when he bought my soul?

Cleric: ...

Celestial warlock: You're just jealous because he doesn't let you shoot energy beams at will, right?

Cleric: Damn straight I am!

Mind you, other religions can sustain genocide as well. As can atheism. In the end it's just plain old tribalism with a different coat of paint.

Yeah, my girlfriend recently needed a new car since her ancient Ford Fiesta finally kicked the bucket. She decided to limit her budget solidly to shitbox territory because she'd just had some major expenses and didn't want to owe someone money.

I offered to lend her some money to help her get better offers. She refused – and ended up buying a car that immediately needed a transmission rebuild that cost as much as the car itself. For which I lent her some of the money.

By Grabthar's hammer, what a savings!

You don't need to; the Brussels effect has you covered.

It's cheaper to sell phones with replaceable batteries worldwide than to design the same phone twice for different markets. So most major manufacturers will probably just sell EU-friendly phones everywhere just like when the EU required USB charging ports.

Wait until 2027 and buy a Sony then, I guess. They're the only manufacturer who consistently includes a headphone jack and starting in 2027 all phones sold in the EU have to have removable batteries. Yeah, it's pretty sad that that's the only option...

Iirc Basic was the first, non-scientist friendly programming language.

COBOL predates it, having first been introduced in 1959. BASIC came about in 1963.

Even if we take it to be a modern TV: How the hell did they manage to put a VCR on that thing?

And requirements like that are why my password strengths are completely out of whack:

• Random websites get 24 randomly generated printable characters stored in my password manager. This is essentially unbreakable with conventional methods and can easily be adapted to fit whichever counterproductive rules the website enforces.
• My password manager and my home computers get memorable but long phrases. A particular favorite is to start in the middle of a line from a song and continue from there. Nobody's going to guess "make you swear and curse when you′re chewing on" but it's easy to memorize of you already know the song. Even a dictionary attack is going to have trouble with that many words.
• My work accounts get the bare minimum that complies with whichever rules the admins came up with. Numbers, special characters and mixed capitalization? No thirty letter phrase for you, then; you'll get the minimum eight characters so I have a chance of memorizing the thing. Regular password changes? Great, now the last two chargers are going to be incrementing digits, just like for everyone else.

There's a reason why experts these days argue against anything but minimum length restrictions.

That's why I brush my teeth first, then shower, then have breakfast. The time I need to shower and prepare breakfast is enough for my mouth to return to normal.

Don't look at it as a failure. Look at it as an any% speedrun.