It’s hopped up on so much meth, even it doesn’t have any idea where it went.

And the distanceraptor that got tired of all the interplanetary travel and the tourists it brought and said “GO AWAY!”

And considering trade with China is because of the cheap prices, that $143.6 B represents a much larger number for how much gdp activity happens after it’s imported, once wholesalers resell it to retailers who resell it to customers.

At this point, I don’t think there is a way to prevent evil. Like maybe there’s a way to prevent this specific flavour of it but ultimately it (and most other flavours) are driven by core human qualities (that aren’t necessarily dominant in everyone). Lust for power and control, greed, jealousy, envy, pride, lust, hate, wrath. The desire for love, comfort, ensuring basic needs are met, laziness. Wanting to avoid being hurt, then wanting to change the rules to avoid being hurt again when hurt inevitably happens. Not wanting to spend the time or effort to understand or analyze things properly.

Have you noticed the pattern of toxic people doing something that gets described and named by others wanting to prevent it and take the power away from those doing it, only for that name and process to be weaponized by other toxic people (or sometimes the same ones) and it ends up just being another way they can manipulate others? And at the same time, others who seem to have good intentions start calling it out in places where it doesn’t apply, wanting to help or be a hero or something despite not understanding what they are trying to fight?

Power is a pendulum with many people pushing at it in various directions. The corrupt will always seek it and the uncorrupt that find it can be corrupted by it, sometimes with good intentions the whole way but just lacking perspective that shows the other side of the blade of their uses of that power.

Ultimately, I think any real attempt to stamp out evil ends up becoming a new evil itself and the best we can hope for is to be able to deal with specific instances of it or wait for it to fizzle or flare out. And also to remain willing to re-examine our own beliefs about what is evil and how it should be dealt with to avoid pushing that pendulum so far that it ends up coming back even harder.

Also be wary of anyone who claims they do have an answer to that.

Being combatitive with them, deserved or not, will result in them being combatitive right back. Being gracious when they admit they aren’t on the right track might mean they’ll be more open to listening next time around. And, more importantly, it might mean being able to solve this current issue.

You’re right that it’s bigger than the next 4 years. But it’s bigger than the GOP, too. It’s the latest iteration of a conflict that’s been going on probably since before recorded history: some people want to control and rule everyone else, some are OK with it (or even support it), some want to prevent those people from gaining control and seek that power to keep it out of their hands (and in many cases end up becoming what they wanted to avoid), and others just want to be left alone to do their own thing (which might not hurt anyone or might make life worse for anyone around them). I don’t see any end to this struggle, the only thing that changes is who has power right now and how hot is the conflict.

So you’d rather those who are changing their minds because they are feeling the pain driven back to supporting this shit?

What does a path out of this look like to you, considering about 1/3 of the US voted for this (or seems plausible that that amount voted for it)?

I wonder if there’s any footage of any of them shoving the women and children out of the way to get on a lifeboat.

Cut to Zeus, Loki, Krishna, a golden calf, Jupiter, and the Sun bitching about jury duty while the pope wishes he had just settled because this was going to hurt the bottom line.

Or just redid Tony’s lines to something like, “no, for the last time, your polygon car idea sounds fucking stupid. When we block your number, it means we aren’t interested, not that you need to get new numbers.”

Need to turn around or it’s the same tires getting worn in reverse.

Technically they all end up up someone’s ass when used properly.

We don’t absorb everything completely, so some passes through unabsorbed. Some are passed via bile or mucous production, like manganese, copper, and zinc. Others are passed via urine. Some are passed via sweat. Selenium, when experiencing selenium toxicity, will even pass through your breath.

Other than the last one, most of those eventually end up going down the drain, either in the toilet, down the shower drain, or when we do our laundry. Though some portion ends up as dust.

And to be thorough, there’s also bleeding as a pathway to losing nutrients, as well as injuries (or surgeries) involving losing flesh, tears, spit/boogers, hair loss, lactation, finger nail and skin loss, reproductive fluids, blistering, and mensturation. And corpse disposal, though the amount of nutrients we shed throughout our lives dwarfs what’s left at the end.

I think each one of those are ones that, due to our way of life and how it’s changed since our hunter gatherer days, less of it ends up back in the nutrient cycle.

But I was mistaken to put the emphasis on shit and it was an interesting dive to understand that better. Thanks for challenging that :)

I believe there were also files like “yoursong.mp3 .exe” (not sure how this will render, but lots of spaces before the .exe so it would be hidden by the UI even if extensions weren’t hidden).

Custom icons didn’t help either, since they could just use the default icon for the spoofed file type. Though using a different program that changed the icon would negate that and make any of them obvious.

Also helps to use a method other than double clicking the file to open it, like drag and drop. Which was my usual flow with mp3s anyways because I generally added them to my massive playlist and double clicking risked replacing my playlist (that might have not been saved in forever) with a playlist with just that single song.

I liked it when winamp added the media library. Took me forever to rate my songs, but eventually my “new song flow” was move the new album folder to the artist’s folder in my music folder then tell winamp to rescan for new files, and then import my 3+ star or unrated songs as my playlist, played on shuffle. And occasionally grab a new format plugin if the album was encoded as something new and rescan until the new songs show up. Then give any noise or gag tracks 1 or 2 stars so they don’t make it to my main list after the first listen.

Even if the soil is preserved, we’ve been mining the micronutrients from it and generally only replacing the 3 main macros for centuries. It’s one of the reasons why mass produced produce doesn’t taste as good as home grown or wild food. Nutritional value keeps going down because each time food is harvested and shipped away to be consumed and then shat out into a septic tank or waste processing facility, it doesn’t end up back in the soil as a part of nutrient cycles like it did when everything was wilder. Similar story for meat eating nutrients in a pasture.

Insects did contribute to the cycle, since they still shit and die everywhere, but their numbers are dropping rapidly, too.

At some point, I think we’re going to have to mine the sea floor for nutrients and ship that to farms for any food to be more nutritious than junk food. Salmon farms set up in ways that block wild salmon from making it back inland doesn’t help balance out all of the nutrients that get washed out to sea all the time, too.

It’s like humanity is specifically trying to speedrun extiction by ignoring and taking for granted how things work that we depend on.

Not to mention that even when some components do shrink, it’s not uniform for all components on the chip, so they can’t just do 1:1 layout shrinks like in the past, but pretty much need to start the physical design portion all over with a new layout and timings (which then cascade out into many other required changes).

Porting to a new process node (even at the same foundry company) isn’t quite as much work as a new project, but it’s close.

Same thing applies to changing to a new foundry company, for all of those wondering why chip designers don’t just switch some production from TSMC to Samsung or Intel since TSMC’s production is sold out. It’s almost as much work as just making a new chip, plus performance and efficiency would be very different depending in where the chip was made.

It’s a “you’re full of shit but I’ll be polite and just ask you to prove what you’re saying instead of jumping right to calling you out directly”.

This person’s inner monologue would be fascinating to listen in on. I wonder how much brain power is dedicated to confusion about why things are named so randomly.

Do you use an add-on to prevent that from wiping out all but one window’s worth of tabs when you close them? That’s what originally made me get a tab grouping addon, after losing a ton of tabs when I broke some out into their own window and then later closed the main tab window before the secondary one. Realized immediately what happened but it was already too late to save that entire generation of precious tabs. Who knows what articles I didn’t feel like reading at the time but was totally going to read later I lost forever.

Hermes voice:

If you’ll refer to form S-43.0 through 681, you will see that each sample was taken, registered, and filed. Scientists will then be able to request access to each sample using forms S-48 and B-2250 and can then perform analysis if they also provide forms A-6654.2 and D-12.8, though D-12.8 is only required if the analysis is destructive. If the analysis results in the destruction of the entire sample, you’ll also need to file a D-12.4 along with an S-40 request for a replacement sample, which might also require an E-36 expedition request.

Imagine standing there and then suddenly that slab under your feet shifts.