That I cut a bit of slack for, because prior to the minicomputer let alone the microcomputer, the CPU would likely have been a large component like the whole system is for a desktop PC.

Played a good bit of this last night. Not bad.

Reminds me of Terra Nil, which honestly I prefer— but this is good in its own way.

Not true. Grocery pickup means I give zero shits about the layout.

a racist stereotype of a white person

They did, he is clearly identifiable as Trump.

…Oh, you didn’t say “a stereotype of a racist white person”

It’s the same thing… that “sinister Arab” is the foreign government buying influence, at least in the context of this plane.

It’s not really complicated, it’s just that companies want to find (or make!) loopholes to shirk their responsibilities.

Yep. Or maybe closer to the top 10-25% based on this articles like this:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02325-x

Go go gadget defeatism.

We should do nothing because we’re doomed. Better waste everything we can to accelerate it!

I don’t disagree with that.

My opinion is that the top consumers need to cut down and likely more importantly this insane push for “the economy” to be wasting resources churning away and accomplishing nothing of substance. That’s the part that needs to end.

Along with the obsession with having more and more and more babies which will grow to consume even more resources.

Guess we all die then. :shrug:

Not really. Eternal growth is a dumb idea until and unless we can go interplanetary.

Need to find a stable equilibrium for the long haul.

Yes. You could use vlc or even as an iso file just open them as a virtual drive.

They generally don’t meet safety requirements.

It’s been disruptive to my enjoyment of trick-taking card games. Any recommendations?

CTRL-tilde or CTRL-backtick?

Only office is basically the same interface again, all cloning MS-office 2007-2010.

Bleach.

you subscribe to a belief wholeheartedly, even a crazy one, to the point where youd rather die than question it.

That’s what I said too, which is to say that the point is not the killing but the unquestioning nature of it.

It’d be so much better if that authoritarian fifth would drink the flavor-aid in the sense of killing themselves.

It actually works, without a bunch of insane weird behavior.

The sports team names make sense, but what the heck is ”transfer portal”?

That’s not the point of the phrase — the statement refers to the true believers drinking poison unquestioningly, without entertaining the thought that it will kill them.