… Servo appears to be missing a huge opportunity by not having an ansgty gumball machine mascot.

“Corpos”.

Or, to use William Gibson’s more current vernacular:

“Klepts”.

In the mean time, while we wait for IP law to fix itself over the course of decades, or probably just never: I have physical copies of most of my games.

… on an SD card, that I bought, formatted, and moved files onto.

Steam lets you make game backups, GOG releases are basically portable… make a backup, compress it, put it on a backup drive.

… and thats all without my pirate hat and pegleg on.

… wha… what temperature would the inside of that bread loaf have to be, to actually be emmitting light?

Like… ~1000 degrees Farenheit?

Banking on it, you say?

Meat and dairy prices are only gonna go up and up, pizza is gonna become a luxury food item in not too long.

https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/shoe-fitting-fluoroscope/index.html

The Shoe Fitting Fluoroscope.

Stick your feet in, do a real time x ray, see how … well your shoes fit.

According to Williams (1949), the machines generally employed a 50 kv X-ray tube operating at 3 to 8 milliamps. When you put your feet in a shoe fitting fluoroscope, you were effectively standing on top of the X-ray tube. The only “shielding” between your feet and the tube was a one mm thick aluminum filter.

Yeah… eventually phased or regulated out, due to … a bit much direct X Ray exposure.

I have actually seen one of these in person, at a museum.

It’d been deactivated, of course, partially gutted.

For a kind of related anecdote:

Multiple victims of either the Hiroshima/Nagasaki nuclear detonations, as well as US military personnel at various nuclear tests…

Described that, even with their eyes closed, in some cases, even with protective eye equipment on…

When the detonation occurs, people held their hands in front of their faces, with their eyes closed, and basically could see xrays of their own arms and hands.

… It basically doesn’t seem to have mattered what direction you are facing, if you are close enough to the detonation, for this effect to have been described.

I mean, they’re saying they think you are the same gender as them, and that they aren’t interested, in a not very polite way.

I don’t see how thats … even implying anything.

‘Sorry, I’m straight’ is a pretty direct statement of assuming or asserting your gender, and also saying they’re not sexually/romantically interested in you.

I’m basically a bi dude, trans inclusive, but I’m not gonna lie, I don’t tend to find myself attracted to many… agender/ambigender/genderfluid folks. I’m not like, against dating or fooling around with such people on principle or anything like that, its just that I rarely find people who identify as such, that I consider attractive.

That being said, I wouldn’t turn someone down, or accept a flirt, via assuming their gender. I’d use a bit less discriminatory/categorizing phrasing, probably involving the phrase ‘my type’, which is gloriously vague.

But… I’ve been to a good deal of bars, including gay bars, lesbian bars, bars with mostly straight folks, bars with mostly not, bars with a decent mix.

I have, many times, seen people that I know are gay, or lesbian, or bi, just lie to people they’re not attracted to, and say ‘Sorry, I’m straight.’

They know they aren’t straight.

They’re just lying, perhaps plausibly lying to that person who doesn’t know them, to get that person to go away.

In both your case and my example cases… there’s really no need to infer or guess that the person using this phrase is being fairly rude, and a lot of that is intentional.

I’ve even seen straight people say ‘Sorry, I’m gay/lesbian’ to get out of a heterosexual flirt from someone they’re not attracted to.

He has LOD order precedence/scaling set in a manner that makes sense for his use case.

I would imagine possibly also oclusion face culling as well, given that the tree is practically unobservable from many angles, for users with uh, other rendering configurations… so long as they obey the laws of physics.

A core component of the original pitch of Bitcoin was that it would enable anonymous transactions, thus circumventing discriminatory practices from banks, things like being debanked.

But… turns out, you can fairly easily and fairly anonymously deanonymize a bitcoin wallet, in many situations.

You didn’t specifically mention anonymity, but I was reading ‘the white paper’ within days of it being published by Satoshi.

That intended design element has functionally failed, unless you wanna move over to Monero, basically, but Monero has other problems, from a currency standpoint.

… smell-o-vision.

… You… don’t think they already locked in at least an initial tranch of component supply, retooled their factory and warehousing spaces, and have been churning some number of these things out… for some weeks or months already?

You normally don’t uh, instantly assemble tens or hundreds of thousands of computers, the week before product launch… you work out an entire time line of prep for sourcing, assembly and storage, you do that quarters before hand, and then start doing assembly, and then release when you think you have enough to sate initial demand.

And you’ll even do parts of that before the design spec itself is totally finalzed in all ways, often times.

Also…the Steam Machine uses LPDDR5 RAM, as the Steam Deck does.

Its already, literally physically soldered onto the mainboard.

It’s pretty bougie to know how to spell bourgeoisie, ngl.

Fennec has been working well for me on Android, I I’ve been using Waterfox on Bazzite via flatpak for almost a year, good stuff, and I think the other fork you’re forgetting is maybe… IronFox?

Waterfox.

Uh, in lieu of a mascot that I do not think they officially have:

(Author unknown, someone on Pinterest somewhere?)

Beyond a functionality/usability focus, check out that built in Oblivious DNS, DoH solution.

Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

One of the very few M rated GameCube games… and, as far as I know, has a unique core sanity mechanic that fairly routinely breaks the fourth wall, aimed at driving you, the player, at losing your own sanity, not merely depicting this happening to your character.

Also, IIRC, the first iteration of Pikmin, a genuienly novel kind of game. Luigi’s Mansion, also a pretty unique kind of game.

Oh, and they remade Metal Gear Solid on it, with better graphics than the PS1.

Yeah ok so you’re levered up, think everyone else doing the same thing are ‘fucking stupid’ ‘idiots’, dumber than you, because you have the secret sauce to doing it slightly differently.

I will now quote my original comment:

… you’ve got the day traders, and they almost always get their clocks cleaned, they just develop a neurotic-obsessive personality based on ‘no, I’m the one guy that can outsmart the market’.

I didn’t expect one to actually appear, but, well hey there ya go.

I guess I should also amend ‘grandiose narcissist’ to my psych profile of the kind of person that does what you’re doing.

Here, lemme throw the ZeroHedge motto at you:

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”

Good luck with your dance.

… I don’t know what half those words mean.

I know loli is basically drawn, prepubescent girls.

I don’t know what a lolishota is.

And I am afraid to look it up, lol.

I also do not know what an … ‘anit’ … is?

… right.

At no point did you deny that you’re using leverage.

Which means that if your understanding of ‘how it all works’ is… wrong… in any significant way…

Well then your personal situation unwinds in a micro version of how the rest of the economy currently is.

Your strategy relies on never making a significant mistake.

Statistically, you will.

Oh right, also this:

A few million is nothing.

Maybe enough to confidently own a pretty nice home.

Assuming the starving mob doesn’t visit you.

In terms of fixing society?

That’s roughly on the scale of helping hundreds or thousands in your local community, on an ongoing basis.

Nothing, in the grand scheme of things.

… A couple million?

Jeff Bezos makes ~3 million dollars in a single hour.

An hour.

Try and square that, really try and think about that.

That house you wanna get, that non profit you wanna set up?

That you took huge risks for, for multiple years, some how lucky enough to never fuck up?

That’s an hour of Jeff sleeping.

He could see your house, or envision that non profit in a dream, and then on a whim, just buy 8 of them when he wakes up.

The solution to this, to trying to fix society, is not trying to beat them at their own game.

The solution is breaking the rules of the game.

After all… that’s how they got to be where they are.

… did you ever get the Mew out of the back of the truck, lol?