*x = dereference or “point to”. Treats the variable x as containing a pointer value. Evaluates to a variable existing at the address in x.

&x = reference or “get address of”. Evaluates to the address of x.

They’re complimentary operators, so *(&x) cancels out and is equvalent to just x.

I’m watching Hell’s Paradise right now. It’s clearly done on a decent budget, but the animators are pretty good at knowing where they need to focus that cash. Meanwhile, the story is actually pretty good. For something like a Shonen-style power-system story, there’s a lot more going on than just flashy martial arts. I’m enjoying this one, and am surprised I haven’t heard of it before last month.

FWIW, its getting the TFS abridged treatment, so maybe that’ll boost its popularity a little bit.

Yes. To be clear, all this makes them even stranger (and deeper in the closet?) than I previously knew.

Or a Moclan one.

All I know is that the thumbnail looks like a Portal map.

These ‘zipper merge’ vs ‘early merge’ arguments are really the worst. At the same time, the lack of consensus fully explains why merge zones like that are such a mess.

I doubt anyone is driving slow just to fuck with me. A stranger in another car. You know?

I’ll add to this that a lot of people are walking around with this fiction in their head about ‘good drivers’. In reality, driving is a skill and not everyone can be good at it. We really don’t want people like that driving fast, and maybe not as fast as everyone else at that.

So, I see someone driving slow and I honestly think “maybe this is the best they can do knowing that it would be dangerous to go faster, beyond what their reflexes can handle.”

Weather?

Oh! You mean outside.

Yeah, we don’t do that here.

This has created a dilemma for many of them since they want mercenaries and servants to support them in their apocalypse bunkers, but don’t want to be at their mercy when suddenly the billionaire, himself, is no longer useful to the killers that he’s hired.

Robots. The answer here is AI and robots.

As long as it’s their autocrat, yes.

Yup. Gotta lock in and strike while the iron’s hot. That means you shop, buy, cook, prep, freeze, package, whatever, all in one go. If it’s not done in 4 hours wall-to-wall on a Sunday, it ain’t happening; one of those steps will get derailed.

This is why I had a problem with “phonics” as a teaching philosophy.

You have “ph” sometimes teaming up to cosplay as a freaking “f”. And that’s one of the easier rules. It’s all broken from the get-go.

Good lord. At what point do we require a CDL to drive these things?

was a yoga teacher for 3 years earning $25 a week and no man wanted me […] in Northern Virginia & Washington DC […] And I didn’t have a car.

TL;DR: even with treating your body like a temple, having a low income and low transportation mobility makes one unattractive in the DC metro.

In that region, single-income setups have low viability due to the egregious cost of living in the area, so people actively seek to partner up with high-income earners. Plus, the whole suburban sprawl is designed, and ultimately requires, cars in order to get around. You’d think that location would matter - and it does for schools and employment - but nobody lives near anyone else they want to date, and not being hyper mobile by driving all the time is practically a social death sentence. It can be a brutal environment that is hostile to most activities outside of earning an office-job income.

For example, the NoVA subreddit had recurring threads started by young professionals looking to move to the area. Every time, they’d ask where the nightlife is and what rent is like in those neighborhoods. Cue the entire subreddit throwing buckets of cold water on OP, as they’d get a reality check that as a post-grad, they’d be able to afford rent anywhere from 40-60 minutes (by car) from any such hot-spot. Oh, and the same would go for their commute too, and work might be just as far from said nightlife as it is from home.

Yup. You can’t say “the one leaning to the left” because, and trust me on this, there’s a number of ways a person can screw that up.

FWIW, this used to work better when “cascade windows” was a standard thing.

Page up, down, space, home, and end are WAY more responsive and faster.

Problem is, some pages do funky things with keyboard inputs and/or focus odd elements. This basically shoots a 30-year-old page navigation standard in the head.

Also, don’t get me started on apps crippling back-navigation.

Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.

Disclaimer: this is not an endorsement for using street drugs. I am not a doctor.

Dopamine is why. All prescription ADHD meds increase ambient dopamine levels so that executive control is easier. Recreational drugs tend to feel good, and elevated dopamine levels are usually in the mix when it comes to sensations like that.