Betteridge’s law of headlines

Raspberry Pis and other microcomputers can be had for pretty cheap, and they can be put to a surprising variety of tasks. You need to be a bit of a jack of all trades to fully embrace that DIY element, but I’d bet that showing off a project that you mostly built yourself would be seen as futuristic by most people.

I’ve wanted one of these for decades but I thought they weren’t legal to purchase in my country anymore. I’m living vicariously through you.

That sounds ridiculous?? Ours are on the left…

Ha… you’re right of course, but it’s funny to consider this in the context of the exhaustingly long campaigns that are the status quo

You’d want to leave a little space in the containers so they don’t burst if they freeze. I think it’s still worth having at least some emergency water even if you might have to figure out thawing it.

it’s a good idea to keep some drinking water in your car as well if you don’t already.

Globally disabling autoplay in my browser brought me so much sanity. It’s worth the small fraction of sites that behave badly because of it

I was expecting this to be about some recent online game, but nope… PSP…

Elite:Dangerous is sad for its own reasons, too, and I have a similar count of hours logged. Glacial pace of development and a lack of strong game design / sense for balance. I’m still stunned by how much of a selling point the background simulation was, and how limited it actually is in practice (it did get some love over the years, but far too little too late IMO.)

Odd, I’ve never had that experience. Maybe you’re using a VPN or something that makes your IP look more suspicious.

Validation level is set by server owners, you are unlikely to need to verify a phone number except in the biggest (and therefore spammiest) servers

They’re replacing chain link fence, not installing it, you may have misread the OP

Of course it’s Nexon.

The defendant is CNN, not Discovery /s

John and his writers are a treasure

That’s the best part, you don’t need to explain the creation of the universe. It doesn’t need to make sense; we’re here regardless.

Morality is pretty self-evident and emerges from basic empathy. That’s one of the most worrisome things about religious people IMO, believing morality is imposed rather than inherent makes them come off as wanting to do a bunch of heinous things were it not for the idea of hell.

An omnipotent being choosing to let you do wrong so that it can punish you if you do, is sick and twisted through any lens. The usual response is “God can’t be understood by mortals” but that’s a thought-terminating cliche…

“Be free or be a slave” is a false dichotomy. It is very easy to imagine a being that has free will and a huge range of creative and artistic expression while also being limited from doing harm. No limitations could apply to an omnipotent creator, so the only reason for the status quo would be its choice. And frankly if there was intelligence behind this design they could have done a hell of a lot better.

God is a fiction humans created to personify the apathy of nature so that we could cope better with our existence.

If a god exists the way Christians describe it, it’s a sadist and will be getting a very stern talking-to from me.

It should be so easy.

“God created doctors. Therefore, abortion is also part of God’s plan.”

But you can’t logic someone out of a position they didn’t logic themselves into.