Tech workers keep the modern planet running.

Do I regret the modern world frequently? Yes. But that’s like blaming the mechanic for a drunk driving accident.

I don’t have proof, naturally, but I got the sense the friends they were losing were friends made on the platform. With the account being lost suddenly, there’s a good chance they didn’t have backup contact info for them.

I do assume things based on performance based on the engine, but that’s more for moments like "new game is coming this fall, using some engine ", before tech specs are out. I find a lot of games that care to announce an engine in any way tend to be the heavier resource hogs, because they’re advertising the high fidelity of something-or-other.

But that’s not really a condemnation on any games. I do often avoid the high resource games, but that’s because I have an older PC, not because of any actual prejudice against an engine itself.

You’ve never had dehydrated bananas?

I’ve put them in oatmeal before.

I think they sorta reasonably might have thought kamala would be another Bernie, who was pulling republicans from trump during the primaries against Hilary. They thought kamala had that sort of appeal.

It’s not sound logic, but I think someone in politics who doesn’t understand what drew people to Bernie could see the parallels and conclude if they focus on it, they can draw those Republicans in.

Right? Makes that other comment under this seem more valid.

I’m not fully convinced the conspiracy is that deep, but also if hard evidence came out saying so, I wouldn’t be surprised.

See people aren’t exclusively machines.

I know people who felt that both sides at least tacitly supporting the genocide was so depressing that for their mental health they basically checked out of politics.

No, that response isn’t helpful, but it’s a very real thing that happens to real people. They needed a candidate that cared that people’s lives were ending across the sea, and neither side offered that.

That hurt Kamala’s chances in a very real way, and might even be the deciding factor for Trump’s second term.

While you and I can look at this and go “Wow, that’s not logical, she’s way better than Trump”, the Democratic campaign should have had political scientists and psychologists that knew about this well-documented phenomenon. I imagine they did, and ignored it, because siding against Israel would’ve cost money.

So while it’s true that the choice was still objectively obvious, it’s also completely true that the Democratic campaign absolutely mishandled it, because this isn’t some new phenomenon, and group human psychology isn’t unpredictable. It’s also not the fault of those who didn’t vote because of that.

Hey I’ll never forget the kool aid burst caps. I always used to imagine they were the giant mechanical sea guardian from Atlantis.

Seems likely, I agree, what with the bottle clearly indicating it is.

Didn’t know what forced rhubarb is, though, that’s very neat.

Right? They specifically set out to make sure it wouldn’t be scalped to hell and back after repeated complaints.

They did that, and now the product is real, and market predictions on existing products are much more reliable. The initial production wasn’t sustainable but wasn’t meant to be sustained, either.

In the beginning I build personal production for gears and green chips and just build from those and plates.

I dont build a proper mall until I can build a botmall, so what ends up happening is the assemblers that build the bots and repair packs are just next to the mall’s roboport. So I also get the repair packs from the mall, it’s just the same source.

ReactOS is windows. Here’s their front page blurb:

“Imagine running your favorite Windows applications and drivers in an open-source environment you can trust. That’s the mission of ReactOS!”

It’s not Linux, specifically. Its not Linux under the hood, it’s written to be windows without microsoft.

Haven’t tried it myself, but its definitely worth a try if you’ve been using Linux that long and its just not for you.

Yes.

Yeah it’s a stopped payment. Checks or bank accounts.

I feel like the flavor text being from a handbook indicates the frogs do in fact grant visions. It’s very specific.

The flavor of gaining life is everyone who ETB can lick a frog and gain a vision, which would be card draw if it wasn’t triggering so often, so lifegain is what we get.

Nah there’s legitimate reasons to do that. Banks don’t charge the fees that credit card companies do.

Also, you can have your bank refuse payment, anyway.

I always wire the final inserter to the roboport and set it to only function when the amount of available bots in the network is 0.

Same effect, but doesn’t add in excessive bots.

I do the same for construction bots and repair packs, although repair pack logic is local, not network-based.

Here I gotchu.

funny meme

That’s good to know, actually. Thank you.

Now it will take much less effort to make quick prank QR codes.