On the one hand, I agree. But on the other hand, that leash has led to pretty bad places many times over the centuries. I’ve come to believe that there’s some truth to the “humans are kinda shit” premise of Christianity, just that sometimes it redirects that shittiness and other times it directs it (or individuals do in its name, since Christianity itself isn’t an entity).

I have no idea if humanity would be better off with or without religion. I don’t need it personally but others having it might make everyone’s lives better simply because they don’t think they can get away with some things so don’t try them.

I don’t get how so many people roll the dice even after seeing the horror stories of how facial surgery can go wrong. Celebrities especially, where they are already doing pretty well on the attractiveness scale. Jennifer Grey had her surgeries in the 90s, so for her I can maybe understand (understand not realizing the risk, her nose looked perfectly fine to me before that), but people still get that shit done today.

It’s always sad to see before and after pics of people getting cosmetic facial surgery because the list of ones that look better in the after pic is tiny compared to the ones that looked better in the before pic, even when the surgery isn’t botched.

Like with porn influencers, best cases I usually see are ones that are still attractive despite their cosmetic surgery, while the worst cases put them deep in the uncanny valley.

Obvious response to drone killing lasers is a convex mirror finish, then anyone looking at the drone when the defense system kicks in could be blinded.

Why would they need an excuse? Are you implying that “war crime” has any meaning to them (or anyone else with the power to do anything about them)?

Wait. Guys! You know what season is coming up? Halloween. And what does everyone buy during Halloween time? Candy and pumpkins. Those two things are about to blow up huge! Cash out your retirement fund to buy candy and pumpkin futures and you’ll be set for life!

Another version that can work is if you have two pans where the bases are both say 5mm, but one of them is all steel while the other is 3mm copper welded to 2mm steel, the copper one should heat up faster than the all steel one. No idea how well copper welds to steel though.

Based on what I understand about feminine hygiene, probably by wrecking the biome of anyone’s vagina that used it such that they were dependent on Lysol to prevent whatever else moved in from taking over after the Lysol killed the good along with the bad the first time, along with manipulative marketing to trick other women and girls into thinking they need to use it so they use it that one time to build the dependence.

Homoerotic vibes there. Prefers looking at men. Nothing wrong with that but he’d probably disagree as he protests a bit too much.

I wish there was a way to quantify the effect caused by my combination of serious posts and deadpan random shit for humour.

Oh and this is another reason that /s tag sucks, as it helps training LLMs determine when something is a joke. Or maybe we should start using it to mark serious posts. /s

Have at least one instance where one gets in the way of two characters having a conversation while trying to see each other around it.

Do they have any worth the effort?

It’s necessary information to solve the math problem.

Not the kind of housing market crash the people were hoping for.

Scale is right, too. Just need to fix the rotation.

Lol took a moment to parse that the “Dishonored” in the headline was talking about the game, not a reference to some scandal.

That horse has two front-facing eyes. If you see it, run. It is a predator.

I don’t get why people use that one version of solar where essentially the power company gets most of the benefit because they buy the generated power from you at wholesale and sell it by to you at retail and, as you said, you can’t even use it when the power goes out.

Though do you know if there’s automated systems that take both solar/battery and the grid as input and do load balancing such that it automatically uses the cheaper power when available and then falls back to the grid for whatever else it needs? Or even better, one that keeps a certain amount of battery power as backup in case the grid goes down?

Though what I’d really like to see are DC home circuits to avoid the energy loss from first converting DC to AC to match the grid, then converting it back to DC inside the power blocks of your device.

Some options I know of:

• The Forgotten City
• Deathloop
• Stuck in Time

Yeah, that’s the part I have trouble with. Leaves are green, the sky is blue. They are very different colours. It’s not ambiguous like whether teal or turquoise is green or blue (I could easily see either of those being labelled as either blue or green), or different shades of the same colour like fuscia or maroon. They are different primary colours of light.

It’s just weird to me that two very common every day colours that don’t look anything alike wouldn’t get distinct names. I understand that the blue photoreceptors we have are the newest ones and are less sensitive than the red and green ones, but I wouldn’t have figured that our evolution of it to the point where we see what we currently see (if you aren’t colour blind) would have been that recent. I expected hundreds of thousands of years, not tens of thousands or just thousands, which is what it would need to be to explain cultures that didn’t differentiate between the two until recently.

I meant the Sega CD’s performance and reception might have been a factor in Nintendo deciding they didn’t actually want to bring their project with Sony to market.

That said, I looked at the actual timeline and see that that speculation was incorrect as the Sega CD came out in December 1991 while Nintendo backed out of the deal in June of that year.

Hooooly fuck @ the story, too.

Sony had completed a prototype but were positioning themselves to gain control over licensing and distribution of the disc format they were using, which made Nintendo think they weren’t going for a partnership but full control.

So at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony did a tech demo of their prototype. The very next day, Nintendo announced their partnership–with Philips, not Sony. This was the CD-I, another console I forgot about in my last comment (that also failed because of its focus on FMV games, including the only Zelda games for a non-Nintendo console).

Kinda interesting that this one story seems to contain both companies’ full gaming arcs. Sony wanting control over their software ecosystem but being hated for it, and Nintendo wanting to keep control and pulling surprise dick moves to do so. There were no good guys in that story.

Though back to the original point, it wouldn’t surprise me if the reception of all those initial disc-based consoles helped Sony steer away from shitty FMV games and make sure they had the great games library the PSX did have. But again this is just speculation that could also be based on an incorrect understanding of timing.