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The FAA wants to recruit children as ATC because most people who have been alive for longer have seen how quickly the FAA will fuck them over and try to get them to work for free while striking is illegal. I wouldn’t even consider working ATC before like $150k/yr based on all the “work without pay during the shutdown” fuckery I’ve seen from the FAA during my lifetime

Just wait until ai figures out that the conditions in the core of the sun are perfect for maintaining stable qubits…

(Not true, but this comic gave me a bit of inspiration to run a ttrpg based on that premise)

Imo the cigarette is just there to imply nonchalance towards the column of fire in the last panel, and outside context (watching people cook in Chinese takeout places) suggests to me that she’s using a gas burner with significantly higher output than what’s common in western kitchens. You need some serious heat to get that wok hei reaction

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If these games were cars you could register them as classics in California. If you played any of them on release, you should probably stand up and stretch after you read this comment

Same, kinda. I eventually realized weed was making my mental health worse after I started seeing a therapist and taking an antidepressant that works for me, but I don’t think I’d still be here today if I didn’t start smoking when I did. I am glad to be sober from it now though, and have no desire to start again

I actually haven’t played D:OS 2 yet. I haven’t really had the free time for that kind of game since it came out, until now. I’m excited to try it after replaying DOS1 and remembering how phenomenal that game is/was. What is different about the armor system in the second one that you thought wasn’t as good?

I’ve been replaying “Divinity, Original Sin” for the past few weeks and I’ve been having a blast with it

I guess I was a bit overdue for my annual week of listening to Weightless on repeat. Thanks for the reminder!

A scientist and a fascist with grant funding walk into a bar. Two fascists walk out

I remember back when I had my moto razor flip phone and I could t9 type with it hidden in my pocket still, I felt so cool and tech savvy. Now people emoji react to my text messages and I can feel my hair turning grey in real time. I’ll never give up my typo fixing *s or my ascii :)

Guns n’ Posers

Big agree on the ubisoft and assasins creed points. I’m also “playing through the second one” right now, though I’ve been on the Junon area for a month or two now, and I also haven’t opened up the game in a month or two. I just don’t think I’m ever finishing that game, which feels wild to me given the absurd amount of time I’ve spent playing and replaying the ps1 original. I’m just about as much of a simp for that story/those characters as a person can be

I thought ff7re (the second part of the remake) sucked ass compared to ff7r (the first part.) The first one felt like a cool modernization of ff7 that still felt like the same game at its core, but the second one felt like complete focus-grouped buzzword filled nonsense. And the most annoying fucking element ive ever seen in a video game, birds that would constantly fly around your screen squawking and generally just being a nuisance until you went and completed their little meaningless side objective. Even the combat aspect felt like a bad monster hunter clone rather than a final fantasy game

What? No, that sound I’m making is laughter, not crying. Definitely laughing

I mean, the woman was MTG. More accurately, woman who believes in Jewish space lasers that control the weather makes common sense statement! Bombshell news!

Quantum computing is trying to be ai, in the sense that it does have niche scientific uses it excels at but tech bro types want it to be the next general computer so they can make their empire on it. The only use case I’ve seen it excel at so far is generating precisely tailored probability distributions, which end up mostly being useful for simulating different models for quantum field theory. Even then I’ve only seen that in looped fiber implementations, which imo are a stretch on the definition of quantum computer.

Russian tanks have excellent ergonomics, provided you happen to be a Chimpanzee. If you don’t have really short legs, really long arms, and absurd upper body strength to operate the various manually cranked parts though, you’re gonna have a bad time in a Russian tank.