opening the door won’t improve that situation very much.

There are plenty of gamers who are going to pass on GTA6, sure. But Rockstar is absolutely going to dominate the kind of gamer who pays full price on launch. Rockstar is going to vacuum up everyone who enjoys this type of game as well as anyone susceptible to FOMO or hype.

Hamburger helper is bullshit. They give you some dry noodles and a “spice” pack of dubious powder, you have to provide the beef and milk. That’s not helping very much.

Technical Collage isn’t quite as good, but it’s free if you live in State.

Lots of cases, the throat is destroyed by a tumor, or the surgery to remove the tumor. These people may have to wear these for weeks for recovery or permanently. (permanent patients will likely have a similar port in their belly to pump Ensure into their stomach)

The most common cause is smoking of course. I’ve seen half a dozen people smoke through their trach.

Yea. Most cosmetic procedures would count. I don’t see how a woman getting breast implants is one iota different than a trans woman getting top surgery.

To be fair, Canada is looking to “join” the EU, Turkey is already a member. What is Europe anyway?

First, there is a school of thought that says that the planet is ultimately doomed, and if we want to survive as a species, we need to get off of it.

I’ve just never understood this mentality. Terraforming Mars to escape climate change is as dumb as a bag of hammers. As far as cosmic catastrophes go, most of the stuff that’d kill Earth will get Mars and the Moon too.

And if you’ve got ambitions outside the Solar system, then planetary engineering becomes a trivial problem by comparison.

I think that “we’ve got to leave Earth or we’re going to die!” tacitly admits that there are few good reasons to do it.

The worst part about Windows Update is when it functions as intended. They’re going to re-install Edge, turn OneDrive back on, and shove Copilot into Explorer, Notepad, and Paint.

This is all for your security.

He’s wearing the genocide equivalent of gang colors.

Even in my head, the name Bobby Kotick is spoken in the voice of Stephanie Sterling.

If you’re a good Linux user and keep your packages up to date; always say GuhNome; and trash M$ every chance you get, you’ll be given an .iso in the afterlife with the perfect distro. But not before.

YSK: If you have mobility problems, you can call ahead or just ask for assistance and the airline will provide a wheelchair and an escort to/ from the gate.

Edit: this is a free service AFAIK, but handing your escort a five or ten bucks is polite.

Simi-related fun fact.

The biggest contributor to TOR is the CIA. They funded it’s creation and are primarily responsible for maintaining it to this day.

The CIA maintains TOR as a way for spies to pass information over the internet. They make it public because if only spies used TOR it would be trivial to catch them. So it’s in their interest that it be public and secure. It’s open source and security experts agree you can trust it.

You just have to wait until they go away. Couple of weeks is what I was told and close to what I experienced.

Most of those wall-warts are reducing everything down to like 3volts. Compared to the suspicious extension chords/ power strips I’ve seen all energized with full 120v main power this is safe.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, elegant, easy to understand, and wrong.

Econ 101 doesn’t work in economics, how is it going to make us healthy?

I so look forward to the day when Boomers and Gen X lose their stranglehold on US politics and media so we can finally shut this performative bullshit down.

Just going to point out that your whole argument says that the people who shouldn’t be talking about 9/11 are the same people who lived through it.

And I don’t know what you have against GenX, we’ve never had a president, and we’re shockingly rare in Governor’s mansions or Congress. JD Vance is our highest-ranking member if you keep in mind that Vice President doesn’t have authority or influence, just a shot at promotion.