And I’m confused about how you found anything in that comment dystopian. Though I’m assuming that name I didn’t recognize is a brand name for an actual chocolate producer. Hopefully it isn’t a brand name for something similar to chocolate but not lol.

Yeah, I think sucralose is the only one that doesn’t taste awful to me. Like I’ve always been skeptical of the defense of aspartame because it tastes like something I shouldn’t be eating. I was looking forward to stevia back when it got popular, but it also has that taste (I’m guessing from leftover solvent, since it’s not water soluable like sugar).

There’s plenty of ways to make things taste great without relying so heavily on sweetness. I hate the western food industry’s obsession with it along with the capitalist obsession with selling as much as possible, because it’s resulted in the less sugar I’ve wanted to see instead meaning the sugar is replaced with other chemicals that taste sweet (and “chemically”).

And I doubt safety studies looked at anything beyond “does it so obviously cause issues that we’ll be sued the moment we try to sell this?”

Knowing apple, at that price point, performance is going to suuuuuck.

Gonna need a bigger screen or a projector to draw a circle large enough for your mom.

Not to mention how much of it is made up on the spot. Ali G IMO is especially impressive, you’ve gotta be pretty quick and smart to so consistently find those funny misunderstandings. I don’t get how he can play that character and not constantly break character with laughter.

It’s like people who reply “rtfm”, except these people actually think they are helping, while the rtfm replier just thinks the question asker isn’t worthy of their knowledge (or wants to hide that they don’t know while maintaining their “I am wise” persona).

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A missile could carry something as light as nothing or as heavy as ISS modules. And anchors don’t even have to be that heavy, they just need to be denser than water and generate enough friction with the bottom to keep whatever is attached from moving too far.

Though they could even use catapults or trebechets mounted to the backs of trucks to mine it.

T’would be funny if this kind of demand drove the prices back up. Not to money laundering levels, but like to like $180 or something.

I’ll see your grand and say 950 is still too high.

Lol I grew up in rural areas and remember my mom being excited about the northern lights and watching them from our front porch, wondering what was so special about some lights in the night sky, which was already full of lights.

At least my daughter has been growing up in towns all her life so far and appreciated seeing them this past year, unlike the little shit I was.

Then fuck them all. The individuals involved, just “following orders” or giving them, should have all been charged with fraud.

Any ideas that can’t be challenged are just dogmas. And a mindset of “any opposition to any of my ideas for any reason means you’re an enemy” is just tribalism.

It’s just as stupid on the left as it is on the right. The world isn’t black and white.

Most of the danger is on the pulling out side, so it makes more sense to do the harder ones for the safer part. Plus, when you’re parking, it’s easier for others to predict what you’re doing, whereas pulling out gives more opportunity for someone walking by the line of cars to be surprised. If you’re pulling out forwards, it’s trivial to see someone about to walk in your path. If you’re backing out, you might not even be able to see someone who is 1s away from stepping in your path, especially if they are coming from your blind side.

And the AIs that generated the images won’t give a shit at being called out when they are right, but the artists affected when they are wrong makes me wonder if they really do give a shit about the artists.

And if you absolutely must play one of their games, buy used console games, with the added bonus of keeping their kernel anti cheat shit off your PC.

Though that’s not a property of phones, but of the media itself.

Lol strong “I don’t want buyer’s regret” energy from this guy. Or maybe “I am way out of my league when evaluating how good something is” with perhaps a dash of “boots are delicious”.

Like he literally mentions that he can hear water sloshing around in the frame somewhere but then immediately concludes that it’ll probably go away on its own sometime in the future. I had a period in my life when I was like that. I consider it my “I had no fucking idea how naive I was or how things worked or how to take care of them” phase, and I was the last person anyone should have taken advice about anything from.

Go back even farther and you’ll get to a point where entire games were written in assembly and assets might been written with a hex editor (and even that description might be higher level than what they actually did).

My dad had a computer class in high school that involved filling in ordered punch cards and then they’d send them off to a university to run them on their mainframe and they’d send the output punch cards back. That wouldn’t have even been assembly, it would have been machine code, though they probably marked the punch cards to be easier to remember what bits meant what. But it would take like a week to find out there was a mistake in the code.

Sounds crazy from where we are today, but that’s all they had at the time. If you wanted to do something awesome, you could either give up, invent a better way, or just buckle down and do it the hard way.

Can you give examples of things that were called genocide but actually weren’t and just watered the word down?