New Vegas, where you can take over as "benevolent" dictator, hand it all over to a capitalist that would make the monopoly man blush, "might makes right" historical cosplayer caesar, or the NCR which is effectively pre-trump america 2.0 spread way too thin (admittedly I'm not as familiar with all the issues of this group as people tend to accept them as the default "good guys" lol). It brought us the violently isolationist Boomers (the jokes write themselves) and the wonderful line "Degenerates like you belong on a cross".
That's all without going into the DLC.
Don't get me wrong, the game is great. But I can see a lot of people missing the criticisms and challenge to try and pick the least worst options who instead would see it as endorsement of their particular yuck.
It appears that it will work if you correct the example code in a minor way (include the standard c libraries), but as is, the literal example code from the readme does not compile.
If you truly think those "gifts" had no strings attached, no expectations of reciprocity, no complex social rules underpinning the whole practice enforced through threat and application of violence...
I have a bridge to sell gift you.
You can see all of this sort of thing reflected in all sorts of historical and mythological fiction and even in some non-fiction historical research. Most newer than bronzr age, sure, but I think it's irresponsible to pretend these were just straight gifts.
Lol yeah. I have a friend who started a movement to unionize a local botanical garden/performance venue years ago. They napkin mathed it out that roughly 1.5M has been spent on the union busters, as the execs have just kept them "on retainer" for like half a decade now, occasionally doing displays of force whenever murmurs start up again about unionizing.
Saved you a click: Author believes calling it a placebo is wrong because shamans are actual magic. Erm, I mean metaphysics. And a whole lot of waffling about what exactly the definition of placebo is.
The way that headline was written I was expecting some discussion about the pageantry, actual folk medicine in use, and perhaps some stuff about the role of shamans in their community.
There's apparently research that indicates that learning absurd sentences helps language learners to learn the component words and how they work together better, rather than them just memorizing entire common sentences whole.
This is apparently why Duolingo does this stuff with absurd sentences. I'm sure the free marketing from posts like this doesn't hurt either (no shade meant to you, just an observation).
More than 15 years ago I ended up with one of those in a C++ program.
I'm sure the real ssue was somewhere else in the code, but if I removed one specific comment (or maybe it was a print to console, it was forever ago) it would segfault, otherwise it ran fine.
The issue is that property damage usually just fucks over the community long term. Cool, you ransacked some corpo shit. Now who's going to be willing to move into that space?
And it never stops at just damage to government and corpo-shit. Go ahead and fuck up your local spaces, but don't be surprised if things don't magically build back better when people don't want to live in places where this sort of shit goes down.
Sounds like it's on its last legs, especially if one of the partitions locked up file explorer to that degree. Too much messing with it could kill it for good.
Your best bet would be to do a low level backup of the whole drive using something like dd. That's a Linux utility, but I believe there are open source equivalents that you can run on Windows. You might see them called sector level backup tools. Basically, they don't care how fucked a drive is, they won't try to make any sense of it, they'll just copy it exactly to a .ISO file. Corruption and all. That should be the last time you actually plug the physical drive in.
Then make a copy of the ISO file to tinker with without risking losing any data. You can always go back to the original ISO copy if you fuck something up.
There are a ton of different tools you could use to attempt to recover data from that ISO, but the first step is to make sure you aren't trying to build your workbench on top of a time bomb.
It already has the drain topper removed for easier log stomping. How considerate! Make sure to thank your host because that is some grade A hospitality.
Note to self: never move to the American Midwest. I get sinus migraines from changes in barometric pressure, and can usually tell when a rainstorm is coming from the sinus pressure.
This touches upon another fun bit of the trauma I think.
At least for me, growing up I got in a lot of trouble for taking certain tones with my parents that I wasn't aware I was projecting. In retrospect, at least some of that was only the adult justifying their anger. (Unrelated to abusive childhood, I also have an ex that just directly gaslit me as intentional manipulation, not as some sort of anger management issue)
So I have some trauma about whether or not I can trust my own interpretation of events. I know I don't have an amazing memory, and I can misread situations.
Which makes it that much harder when I am in fact certain about something.
New Vegas, where you can take over as "benevolent" dictator, hand it all over to a capitalist that would make the monopoly man blush, "might makes right" historical cosplayer caesar, or the NCR which is effectively pre-trump america 2.0 spread way too thin (admittedly I'm not as familiar with all the issues of this group as people tend to accept them as the default "good guys" lol). It brought us the violently isolationist Boomers (the jokes write themselves) and the wonderful line "Degenerates like you belong on a cross".
That's all without going into the DLC.
Don't get me wrong, the game is great. But I can see a lot of people missing the criticisms and challenge to try and pick the least worst options who instead would see it as endorsement of their particular yuck.