Naz @ Naz @sh.itjust.works

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Obviously the right thing to do is to make the meter shorter. Or invent degrees Kelvin.

The Overview Effect is real, but there is a certain percentage of our species that is so brain damaged that it does not work.

I was watching the Blue Origin test launch and a teary eyed William Shatner was beyond words at seeing his planet from the outside for the first time, and was holding onto Jeff Bezos in gratitude for the opportunity to have done so (who was also on the same pod/shuttle) --

And Jeff Bezos just stared. Into the void. Past Shatner. Unaffected. I thought he was in shock at seeing the Earth as well as first but.. that's when it really sunk in. He wasn't in shock, he truly didn't feel anything.

Cognition is so vastly different, and sometimes it breaks - some people are fundamentally unaltered by such an experience and they operate on a lower level, like praying mantises, observing prey.

There used to be a word for it in the Diagnostic Service Manuals before they removed it: Psychopathy.

The overview effect is the purest litmus test for psychopathy.

Did they feed the tourists to the squid?

I cook a lot of borscht nowadays and I can second, Dave's Killer Bread is actually killer.

The origin's funny, also. He was a convicted murderer.

The mushroom kingdom's lack of affordable healthcare was the real villian all along!

Hemlo, inventor of PWN here.

It was a misspelling of "Owned" in a Warcraft 2 map that I made. People thought it was funny that it upset me when I noticed the typo and perpetuated the map version with the misspelling.

"Player 1 was pwned."

For more Internet history facts, stay tuned.

The answer was to disable FreeSync. FreeSync was causing the stuttering with SAM turned on.

My first Android was an HTC Hero, which was released in ~ October of 2009.

One of the first things I did was swap the location of the Maps and Store icons to make it easier to reach on the edge of the phone.

I recall people complaining that same year that the iPhone 1 couldn't copy or paste text.

:)

Well this explains why GNOME is so hard to use. It was designed explicitly by foot fetishists, so it's easy to use with your feet. That's why the taskbar is at the top of the screen instead of the bottom. Your feet would cover it when they're on the laptop keyboard otherwise.

Sorry can't be bothered, too busy looking at rocks in distant galaxies. I'm sure your species martyrdom complex is fascinating, but you're perfectly capable of destroying yourselves without our help. o7

That was my grandfather's advice as well and he survived the Soviet Union

It was some combination of both, the system would post, past the bootloader, attempt to initialize drivers and other standard starting packages and then immediately panic and drop into an emergency terminal (/TTS), with a failure to mount the root partition, from what I can recall. It tried it a couple times and then there was an error message that said: "Bailing out, you are on you own, good luck"

Full kernel corruption after a botched sudo full-upgrade.

I got the wonderful "bailing out you are on your own" shit as well.

Read a guide online about a hail mary ext file system journal recovery protocol, I ran it, like most things without reading too deeply.

Kernel was successfully repaired, Kubuntu kept on truckin'

This man economics

How does $3.50 sound?

It's that weird emotion you feel on your first full pack of saltines, not the 54th one

Okay. This fucking war ends today.

It's possible to be an anarchist while roleplaying a hardcore fascist in a tabletop RPG. It's fantasy. Fascism's best kept as a non-tenable, mockable idea for fiction.

Maybe Mark Anthony was into that slack-jawed gormless look - you never know what causes a career politician to abandon the empire!

Well shit, you make it sound like wiggling elementary particles on a lifeless iron-silicon based planet 12 billion light years away sound like a waste of time!

I mean, yeah. It's happened before. :)