Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was just me and gave up.

I like to think that Balatro is so popular it crashed the payment system, heh.

lmao that’s less creepy and more absurd it even made it into a “serious” film. Especially him using his thumb to make the hand move. I had never seen this. I’m dead.

EDIT: Also, Children of Men at least had the excuse that you can’t really film a live birth for a movie, you don’t really have a lot of options of how to show a realistic just-born baby. American Sniper has no such excuses this is hilarious.

I get a lot of hate for saying it, but this is how I feel about the creepy CGI baby from the otherwise top tier film Children of Men. It ruins an otherwise powerful scene for me.

but am I just a buzz kill

Nah, I’m a longtime fan of absurd shit like Tim and Eric that is rooted heavily in a public television vibe of “doing things wrong and cheaply.”

I was never sure if this was trying for a similar vibe or what, but I’m definitely one of the people who firmly never understood it.

Yet somehow the top comment is basically saying what I’m saying. Interesting.

Probably more accurate to say “Democrats fooled themselves with their social media echo chamber” and really only if you are referring to the national Democratic Party and groups like Correct the Record. Doesn’t really apply to the voters or state-level Dems.

The Clintons and using media to “massage” the message goes back to the '92 election and using satellite feeds back to the campaign headquarters in Arkansas to do things like communicate with their campaign team on the ground at events to say “Hey, can you pan the camera to the right just a little bit, then the protestors won’t be in the frame.” This is well documented by the 90’s documentary film Spin.

So Clinton signed up to use Correct the Record to massage the message on the internet, fooling themselves into thinking that was enough. It’s also why we’ve seen very little progress on making laws to force paid political operatives to have to state that they’re paid advertisements online, because both parties participate in this practice and don’t want to stop. Which is part of why its hard to stop other nation-state actors from doing it as well, because we won’t even criminalize it in our own political parties. It makes no sense that a political ad on television must disclose its funding and who endorses it, but when it’s a sockpuppet online it’s a fucking free-for-all.

I mean, that’s fair. I get it, I just don’t really find it very funny.

Literally all of these languages are rooted in English.

C: printf()

C++: cout

JavaScript: document.write() or window.print()

Java: system.out.println()

Python: print()

Rust: print()

Exactly zero of those reference a language other than English. I’m not even a linguist and this is just silly. It’s literally part of why English is becoming the dominant world language, because if you learn computer programming you basically have to learn English.

Apology accepted and appreciated. Misunderstandings can happen easily online. Have a good one.

Jesus christ I’m pro-assisted suicide, it was just a cheeky fucking joke.

According to the group that promotes its use, Exit International, this triggers first mild disorientation and euphoria, then unconsciousness, and in a few minutes death by asphyxiation.

“We know this because we’ve tested it thoroughly and have wonderful exit interviews with the test subjects, who assured us of its euphoric effects via ouija board.”

1. The media is talking about this announcement more than the embezzlement, so he has used his announcement successfully.

2. Parkinson’s has a dementia element that he is trying to use as an excuse for why his “judgment lapsed.” This is literally on its face bullshit simply because he can sit there and talk about it. If the dementia was that advanced, he would not be this coherent. He should have been torn to shreds in this hearing over exactly this.

3. The worst people literally have zero scruples, so they feel no remorse hiding behind something like Parksinson’s to justify and excuse their shitty behavior as somehow justified or not worth prosecuting. Always excuses, never able to take responsibility for anything at all ever. Trump really is their Id realized.

Don’t worry, I’m sure Merrick Garland will get right on that.

It’s also why the first thing that came to my mind was the “Do you want tribbles?”

Loosely related:

https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/video/zS2a7flzoQ4z_T_jkaJa_duNQ9jwDdW3/

H. Jon Benjamin starring in a Short Trek.

Do you do much uploading or want to host anything for friends to stream from you?

A DOCSIS 3.0 modem tops out at 100Mbps upload, while a DOCSIS 3.1 tops out at 2Gbps upload. I know Comcast/Xfinity sucks, but they’ve definitely rolled out 2Ghz download and 2Ghz upload symmetrical connection in some areas.

I agree that 1Ghz seems plenty, but I regularly feel more limited by upload speeds, personally. If upload doesn’t matter so much to you, then that’s the only thing that stood out to me as a difference.

With WiFi the bigger question is if where you live is so big that you need extenders of some type. Even with more modern “mesh” systems, you still often need hardwired Access Points.

If the only WiFi you use is your router, because you’re in a small house/apartment, then you don’t really need anything fancy and an AC wireless router will do you fine. If you need a large area covered and don’t want dead zones, you’ll need proper mapping and setting up of Access Points whether you are using a more modern mesh network or not.

Raul Julia as Voyager’s Doctor would have been amazing.

Reference: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

I’m just, you know… putting the idea out there.