Acknowledging that IBM is still around undermines your point about “competition”. The whole point of end-game capitalism is to escape competition, not overcome it.

Remember that time Amelia Bedelia…

It’s ironic that anyone who gate-keeps the definition of a word is fundamentally misunderstanding what language is and how it works. Words stand in for meaning, they don’t contain any meaning. The word word is not a word.

It’s easy to tell that words don’t contain meaning by noticing that foreign languages exist and can jettison all of your essential words without losing an iota of meaning. Neat trick.

This mentality makes sense in 1952, but with benefit of hindsight and all the consequences, is pretty obtuse to say today.

you have to play. There are chess websites where you play slow games, each player has like 3 days to make a move. The trick is to get about 20 of these games going. In this way you have a series of chess puzzles presented to you every day. And it can be really exciting to win a game that’s gone on for 3 months.

With competitive shitting, bowling, and darts, you could have a fat-man triathlon.

It’s sad to see a mod community impose the concept of IP on itself. But I can understand the frustration of seeing your project being shit on by slop holes.

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.