I’m not trying to be mean or angry when I say this, but this is kinda an “all lives matter” type of comment.

“You have to admit” is a very common figure of speech.

I’m sorry that made you think I was going to come to your house and beat you up if you disagreed with me.

The situation presented in the comic is true, but you have to admit that this is the millennial equivalent of a boomer comic.

Thanks for the cannibalism tips.

once a country of mystery and spices

That comes across as a bit orientalist, friend

Would a nuclear exchange between these two countries drag the rest of the nuclear powers into the conflict?

As part of the constitution that was imposed on them when the US rebooted their government following WWII, Japan can’t activate its military except in self defense.

Their politicians have been complaining about that and trying to get rid of it for decades now, but in my opinion every country should have such a provision. Any sane politician claims they wouldn’t use the military unless someone else attacked first, so why give them the option at all?

Its kind of hilarious to me that in this movie the main character beats a healthcare insurance executive to within an inch of his life, probably crushing his windpipe and breaking every bone in his body.

And this is treated by the film as a more-or-less morally justified act (neither Mr Incredible nor the audience are meant to suffer any compunction over the act itself, merely the consequences the blowback causes for his family) and moreover society at large determined that this is wholesome enough to be in a kids movie.

Like, imagine describing a plot point like that in any other piece of media: “in this movie a Superman-expy loses his temper and throws a non-superpowered person through a wall, putting him in a hospital bed for months”. You’d be like “wow that must be some edgy deconstruction of the superhero genre like The Boys or Invincible”, but nope, its a PG rated Pixar film.

Which draws a pretty stark contrast between that and the faux bewilderment and outrage at the reaction to a certain shooting involving a CEO. Like, you can’t be that surprised at what is clearly a pretty mainstream view, right?

He’s not crying, but this is what immediately comes to my mind:

This painting is by John Kilduff, the same guy that’s in this video (warning: he takes a lot of unscreened calls from the public and a lot of people just call in to shout slurs or otherwise be rude).

It occurs to me that in that video, John is fulfilling most of his human needs all at once. He’s getting food and water from the mixed drinks, he is exercising with the treadmill, he is socializing via the phone, and self actualizing by painting.

For awhile now I’ve been thinking about how nice it would be to have a something like a modern version of the Poqet PC.

The Poqet PC had a much nicer keyboard than the laptop in the article, and between the simplicity of its software and a very aggressive power management strategy (it actually paused the CPU between keystrokes) it could last for weeks to months on two AA batteries.

Imagine a modern device with the same design sensibilities. Instead of an LCD screen you could use e-ink. For both power efficiency, and because the e-ink wouldn’t be well suited to full motion video, the user interface could be text/keyboard based (though you could still have it display static images). Instead of the 8088 CPU you could use something like an ARM Cortex M0+, which would give you roughly the same amount of power as a 486 for less than 1/100th the wattage of the 8088. Instead of the AAs you could use sodium ion or lithium titanate cells for their wide temperature range and high cycle life (and although these chemistries have a lower energy density than lithium ion, they’d probably still give you more capacity than the AAs, especially if you used prismatic cells). With such a miniscule power consumption you could keep a device like that charged with a solar panel built into the case.

Such a device would have very little computing power compared to even a smartphone, but it could still be useful for a lot of things. Besides things like text editors or spreadsheets, you could replicate the functionality of the Wiki Reader and the Cybiko (imagine something like the Cybiko with LoRaWAN). You could maybe even keep a copy of Open Street Map on there, though I don’t know how computationally expensive parsing its data format and displaying a map segment is.

The monsters in REPO are worse somehow.

Not sure if its because its relatively easier to stun/kill/hide from them or if its because their mechanics are lacking in some way compared to lethal company’s, but I feel as if they don’t have the same sauce.

If you think about how your pp feels, you’re thinking about pp when kissing and it feels good and whoops now you’re gay or if you’re being sensitive and emotional yup, gay

There are people that unironically believe this.

Does a larger MRI produce more data than a smaller one (same data density over a larger volume), or is it the same resolution spread out over a larger space?

Crysis is roughly as old now as Super Mario Bros 3 was when Crysis first released.

I think his general style was really good, how his buildings could look futuristic and naturalistic at the same time, but FLW kinda didn’t give a shit about structural integrity or insulation.

Annihilation rule.

It is from 2018, but how do you imagine that this was written by AI given that LLMs barely existed at the time and weren’t accessible by the general public?

I’m surprised that the difference is apparently that low considering the efficiency of photosynthesis vs the photovoltaic effect, the fact that not all of the plant gets turned into ethanol, and the efficiency of the combustion process.