Yeah that sounds like a realistic, if a bit hyperbolic, portrayal of at least some people's experiences.
I haven't personally been in any conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but I've seen a few people slide into them. There are some people who are so far out there they generate much of the nonsense, but I think there are a lot more victims than crackpots. And I think most of them have a nugget of truth or legitimate grievance in there somewhere.
It can be worse than that sometimes. The crackpots see some nuggets of truth, and for whatever reason, they make some leap in interpreting them that leads them to nonsense. They keep finding things that are either true, and add them to their worldview, or made by people who took compatible leaps of logic away from reality. They propagate it to others.
Taking Kennedy's assassination as a classic example: it's true that a lot of people wanted him dead, some benefited from his death, the CIA has a history of assassinations, and Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist who had once lived in Minsk. I can see why someone with just enough information to feel confident can arrive at a belief that the CIA or USSR killed Kennedy, while missing critical information to realize there's no reason to believe either is true.
You only need 4-5k steps a day for it to be more money, which is pretty doable for most people. Of course, that would make getting your 10k steps in per day worth about $300k excess, which is a pretty compelling incentive
I'm similar, I have my gaming desktop running Win10, and my old gaming desktop which migrated from Win7 to Win10 acting as a media center PC. Everything else is using Linux, either Debian or Proxmox. When Win10 hits end of life, the media center PC is an easy upgrade to Debian, but proton only supports ~70% of the games I'd like to play well, so I either need to keep a Windows machine around, or do virtualization + hardware passthrough, both of which are a pain.
With the direction Windows is going, I don't think I'll really even want a VM in 2030.
I don't think there's a contradiction there, a term being gendered isn't all-or-nothing. Certainly, some men attracted to men identify as gay, as well as some lesbian women, and even some bisexual folks of any gender. In that way it isn't exclusively gendered.
But if I say "the gay community", I'm guessing the image that evokes in your mind leans heavily towards gay men, compared to a phrase like "the LGBTQ+ community". Even if the speaker means the same thing by those phrases, the listener likely interprets them differently.
I have a 60%, an 87 key, and a full keyboard, and play a fair amount of games, while also doing productive work. The full one is my favorite, and the 87 is close, add I rarely just the numpad, but it's really nice to have when I do.
There's some utility in a smaller keyboard, but I'd rather have the function keys than one row less. I barely use the 60% except as my spare keyboard when I need one that isn't attached to a machine.
Gamers seem to drive the market of people who don't buy the cheapest or most practical computer accessories, look at RGB lighting in cases. Nice, big mechanical keyboards are hard to find, but not impossible.
The rule I've heard is every 20 minutes, spend 20 seconds looking at something at least 20ft away. If your lectures aren't too intensive on visuals you may not even need to pause them to do this. Like I imagine it works better with math than chemistry demos.
pretty much! The commonwealth is what the British empire became, most former British colonies are members, and King Charles is its head, though most member states are republics now, and don't have him as their king. It's a mostly-cerrmonial political group that occasionally does things like promote trade or diplomacy
I suspect he picks them based on the size of their willingness to represent a work for a client famous for not paying people, who has a substantial amount of his assets supervised by courts because he lost a fraud suit, whose attorneys have a habit of pleading guilty to felonies they committed on his behalf or being disbarred, who seems largely incapable of listening to legal advice, or keeping his mouth shut in the name of self-preservation
The EU had a documented process for a member state to leave. It was untested and messy, but it existed.
There's no legal basis for a state to leave the US. Now it's possible we let it happen despite this, with or without armed conflict, but it's hard to imagine a hypothetical Texit not being messier than Brexit ever was
Either he knew, incompetently didn't know, or didn't care. (Or some combination of these.) I'm not sure which is worst for him.