Rhaedas

“Sitting on top” is a brilliant way to display that.

1 in 6000 chance for an American nickel, which has a thicker side than most. Just for others sake. I felt it was far less than just <1% and had to find out.

Having grown up along with the computer industry, sometimes I have that surreal sense of awe when I remember where we came from and what I used to consider cutting edge. Just upgraded my computer with a few SSDs, one an M.2, and before I put it in I was looking at it and trying to come to grasp with the scale of things (size and speed) vs. my first C-64 computer and Datasette. I know the numbers…they don’t convey the difference in the head.

Clearly not, since we’re still at this point. I was hypothesizing an improvement.

Individual creatures do have their own traits that make them differ from the rest. They aren’t robots following the exact same instruction for every stimulus. That being said, personality implies a sense of agency or self-awareness, and I don’t think they have that. Humans have a built in desire to anthropomorphize anything that begins to resemble something human-like, it’s in our brain.

Sure. After removing yourself from the conditions. My guess is that either this meme’s suggestion is exactly what’s happening, or rather she is barely aware of things and the paramedic is asking if she can find a number on her phone for them to call a loved one. Had to do that at work once with someone who had a seizure and couldn’t stay conscious long enough to call themselves.

As bad as the smartphone is for other reasons, it’s wonderful for being there as a contact tool when you need it.

An excuse I’ve heard is that it is society’s way of passing the final judgement to God. Hence the “may God have mercy on your soul” line. Not only does that assume the existence of said judgement and entity to do it, by said deity’s clock that judgement doesn’t have to be so rushed, it can wait until a natural death. The reason reason is to satisfy the desire of revenge, but even that doesn’t work, as killing the killer doesn’t bring back anyone.

Death penalty in a modern society is insane. Addressing the problems that lead to such behaviors is the long term fix, not killing who does it.

Been with several companies that have the first part in their policy. It makes sense to avoid, or at best minimize an external influencing factor in company activities. Basically they don’t want to mess with lawsuits. That’s what company policy is for, protect the company.

The rest is owner greed. He doesn’t want the gifts to stop, he wants them all without doing anything to get them. Either enforce a ‘no gifts, period’ policy or let people do what they will.

There were a few moments in the Marvel Universe. Spider-Man even had his first movie based off the common man and results of super hero actions to create new baddies. But the one that stands out to me is in Iron Man 3, where Tony is going to fire on one of the bad guys in the compound and the guy throws down his gun and says, “Honestly, I hate working here. They are so weird.”

Time Traveling Me who has been to the farther future: “Neither of you realize how good you both have it.”

Why wouldn’t they give an example of what they are talking about?

My spirit animal. I’d rather be blamed for disrupting things than deal with the drama.

“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” - Fred Rogers (mother)

It’s not propaganda if anyone can try things out for themselves, and even use them both if they want. Stop trying to keep your MS stock high.

That isn’t the reason to yeet Windows. If you were talking years ago about 7 or XP, things were different. 10 is not that great comparably, and 11 is a mess. But keep your Windows, if it’s what works for you. Until it doesn’t.

Dual boot for the best of both worlds (although I’m finding myself more and more on the Linux side because it’s better for me.)

For military stuff, I go to RadarBox.

Thankfully, there hasn’t been any reason recently to look up military activity. 🙄

That’s the reference I was looking for.

Gandalf’s line is probably my favorite from the book. You can only control what you can control. Do what you can, and know at the end of the day that you did your best, regardless of the outcome.

for what it’s worth, Mbin can see and interact with both Lemmy type communities as well as the Mastodon type of broadcasts. They are still two different parts, but within a single interface. Often I see things on the sidebar from them, usually dropped into “Random” as the algorithm doesn’t know what to put it in, and have the same thoughts as you. That it seems like it’s shouting out into nothingness. But…I could respond to the commentary, and it would bounce back to them. It’s just a different way to communicate, not as “permanent” as a discussion board format.

May be little and cute, but the look on that face is full honey badger. I’d turn and run.