I cannot unsee the CD holder on the sunshield.

No, but you need it to show it to him on the way out.

Krasstorio 2 as well. Not as complex, but just as good and the sprites were better than the base game.

But they haven’t so far, and the question was why it’s popular at this moment.

Possible future enshittification disqualifies all software, unless you prevent it from going online - which you can also do with Unraid.

I genuinely thought it’s not limited, but yes, the trial.

Decent UI. Affordable lifetime pricing. Actually just-works. No retrospective enshittification. Free trial is actually free, not ad supported.

You get what you pay for, and you’re not the product.

And you have never been a western expat in China, Dubai, Russia, and a number of other countries with questionable human rights. These foreigners will most likely live in gates communities among themselves, and limited contact to locals.

There’s ample of evidence that a couple of decades to reeducate their children and grandchildren simply isn’t enough or doesn’t work.

We had a couple of decades to educate everyone about fascism,… and yet we’re here.

That’s actually quite easy to explain. Reddits entire monetary value (or at least a very large portion) depends on how relevant it is as platform to mine user interactions - to use as training material for AI.

Reddit getting references less is a sign that the models, or the owning companies, value reddit data less compared to before.

What about Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, even 4chan?

You know why. Because the CEOs of the first three bent the knee to the facists already, and the last one is a breeding ground for MAGA.

This is just the next round of CEOs to be intimidated into submission. Some of them won’t need intimidation of course, spez will be happy.

There’s a lot of movies I really like. But I believe these to be my all time favorites:

Master and Commander

Rogue One

Tron: Legacy

Arrival

Do we work for the same company? Exactly same story here. Also just botched the Oracle to Aurora migration.

Open two Chrome tabs at the same time.

Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.

Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it’s true.

BUT: a) what’s the alternative? Not having these shows at all? b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there’s an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there’s a very large part of the population who’d go out of their way to act against everyone’s best interest.

At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.

Just curious, why do you think a ring would predate the elevator?

(Not OP) Because simply from a construction-point-of-view it’s achievable now. Unlike a space elevator, a ring could actually be built and used with today’s materials.

Tenet

I’m as much intrigued by the concept as I am confused. It’s hard to put into words, really. At the very beginning they say something along the lines that he needs to “feel” it, pure intuition, because because he needs to have done it already. Chills me every time because it’s such a fantastic idea. Like is he writing it into existence the moment he/someone travels back (doing things they “did” already). Or was it actually in the timeline already, and he did do those things which he is about to do now. According to the “window in the time switching room” explanation it should be the second option, but the first one would still work imo. I’m absolutely positively confused, and I love it.

Btw the movie lacks a scene, where he absolutely fumbles it, because he’s thinking what to do, instead of using his instincts to reverse-do what he has done already. But then: Could he fumble it, considering he did it already?

Last thought: while traveling back do they get younger, or older? Even the oxigen cycle reverses (hence the masks)…

At the same time we stop believing everything we read on the internet. As told to us by the people who now happily believe every oh so absurd made up bullshit on the internet or TV.

No. It’s complicated. There are new scanners, which are supposed to detect and identify fluids, and we’re supposed to lead to a removal of the fluid restrictions. But now there’s claims they are not good as expected.

So yeah, new scanners, but sometimes with restrictions in place and sometimes not. And if the whole airport (or just the security check point you end up at) doesn’t have the new scanner… then of course the restriction is definitely in place.

Source: airport nearby has a mix of old and new scanners.

But I’m curious, why are Europeans so horrified by the idea of heating water in the microwave?

Not op. But I’m really curious about the whole “microwave water” thing.

For me it’s just a completely foreign idea. Maybe because electric kettles are so ubiquitous over here. Like everyone has one, including office kitchens and hotel rooms.

I’m also curious over the practicality. Doesn’t it spill over? What kind of container do you use to hold the water? For example if you want one cup of tea, do you just put a cup of water into the microwave? Depending on the container, do you watch it the whole time?

I understand why one may use the microwave to heat water, I also understand it works, but the idea of actually doing it is… mystifying.