Next one that comes to the door, I’m telling him he can have $20 if he humanely escorts the Latrodectus Hesperus living in our cupboard out. Let’s see if he has any tricks up his sleeve other than poison.

What about Mouser?

I think 2049 is the 100th anniversary of the current PRC, so a reasonable target for ceremonial goals.

No different than saying an American leader said he wanted a Mars landing for the tricentennial in 2076. It’s good symbolism, not necessarily a technical merric.

Yes, although I personally prefer “central planning enthusiast”.

I think we’re approaching the point where the word gets taken back by the community it was used to malign, if not there already. "

If I’ve learned anything from GTA… just drive the news van around and hit pedestrians until you make budget.

One Piece. The worldbuilding has yet to crash down on itself after 25 years.

Genshin Impact. Yes, it’s gacha, but there’s mountains of content you can play without spending a dime, and they continously expand both content and quality-of-life factors.

Yeah, it’s surreal. Back when the Oregon Trail Generation got their first 486 class PCs with 14.4 dialup, all the safety guides were about “never use your real name.”

The fear of some theoretical elite AOL pedophile corps and being able to age out of an embarrassing “ponygirl1987” account actually made good prep for the idea of “you have multiple identities for different contexts” and “keep personal and work stuff isolated.”

When they call you “queer” and “a CCP stooge” on Reddit, it’s a flame. On the Fediverse, it’s a sign of love and camaraderie, if not an outright cost of admission.

It almost seems like Israel demonstrates the “tyranny of the majority” problem often attributed to democracies.

To service a majority audience, it was all too easy to do stuff like expanding settlements, violently overreact to low-level protest, refuse to negotiate towards a two-state solution, and bottleneck a free-standing Palestinian economy. Of course this marginalizes and radicalizes the minority until it blows up.

Historians can analyze if there was animosity and an occupier mindset immediately from 1948 onwards, when and how much, but it’s academic. The situation today is not conducive to constructive resolutions, plus a significant part of the electorate that LIKES it that way.

They probably needed some stronger constitutional guardrails to present this sort of abuse. But again, door open, cows escaped already.

Maybe they saw it as an acqui-hire moment to get their staff, or at least keep them from going ro a conpetitor.

Of course, that assumes social media owners have clues and strategy; it seems like a lot of them were “we stumbled into vsast success, now what.”

I’m more concerned that they reanimated a 30-years-dead Rear Admiral, a founding mother of computer science, and assigned her to help your job search.

B-movie premise: the dead rise and the capitalists realize that they’re cheaper labour than the current precariat.

Sometimes the publisher changes the logo in ways that break the look too.

Really old Tokyopop releases had a small logo, and newer printings have a big red bar at the top-- even within the same series.

Sort of a pivot, but The Orville did a great bit about replicators and how if you dropped them into a society like 21st century Earth, they’d just end up coopted by the rich and further strain society.

We can’t even have future nice things thanks to capitalism.

Sovereign citizens are to civil lawyers as alchemists are to chemists.

They both invented their own lore to try to make the universe do what they want, except the alchemists actually strived to move towards more reliable and accurate science.

Because Wayland is a hot mess.

My porn works differently. All the male characters turned into catboys.

Three skulls is hardly “full of skulls”, unless he lives in a 90-square-foot Manhattan closet.

This is just like those liars at Keebler with “full of chocolate chips” all over again.

For some reason they tend to describe the flash capacity of phones as ROM (i. e. 4Gb RAM/128Gb ROM); a typo or bad cut-paste seems plausible.

But Xiangling seems like a weird choice of featured unit. I guess she’s one of the more memorable four-stars, but slap Raiden Shogun on a freaking Nokia G20 and fanboys would buy it.

– sent from my G20 with a $2 Genshin-themed case on it.

Exception: some places explicitly put it on the kids’ menu as something that even finicky eaters will find familiar.

I wonder if there’s some government-backed amelioration they’re teasing.

As an identified dangerous site, maybe you can get subsidies to tear it down in the name of “removing contamination”, making it net cheaper than any other similar shack if your endgame is teardown-and-rebuild.