Mint Cinnamon. All my hardware works, and it can do the few things I require my work PC to do. It even remembers things like my default audio device - something Ubuntu refused to do for years.

Also, there is a doctor in the show, and he is a brown bear, not a pig.

It goes way further back than that: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/controlling-the-virtual-world/history/rape.html

I used to frequent LambdaMOO. Things weren’t all that different back then than they are now.

Just shows how fucking low the bar was back then.

It’d be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.

“Xarelto”, or alternatively “cereal with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, crushed peanuts, raisins, dried cranberries, and Greek yogurt” if medicine doesn’t count.

It’s got real “Fra jee lay. Must be Italian” vibes.

Korea is facing a huge population crisis in the not-so-distant future. They already have ties to the U.S., too.

I would say read the middlin’ reviews to find the real opinions, but I imagine at this point the review selling places have figured out that strategy, too. Really now it’s best to find a third-party source you trust for anything you want to buy off Amazon.

I have the problem where I live in a country where I do not speak the language of the majority. Libraries aren’t much use to me, here. I do have a card, though. I should see if they do the epub lending thing in English.

I have a large phone and I make the text pretty tiny, but I agree. My eyes aren’t quite what they used to be, and I can tell I’ll probably be hitching the font size up sometime to the point where frequent page turns might get annoying.

Reading. Books are super easy to ahem find. OLED screens make reading really comfortable at night. Black background, dark orange text, and turn off all the lights and it’s like text is floating in the air in front of you. There are plenty of epub readers out there. Moonreader is my favorite. I paid $5 for it years and years ago now. Absolutely worth it.

Used to be 18 or 20, then I had a kid and 2 became the norm.

Well, that worked. Still, it seems off. If someone were actually writing or saying that, they would most likely use “said” or “wrote” for a at least a couple of those hads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_YAKZH3lw

I’ve tried quite a few times now, and I can’t parse this at all.

All of the faith that he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.

Yeah. Reacting? Not a problem! Waiting to react? Ohshitohshitohshit!

I dunno. I grew up on He-Man, Transformers and G.I. Joe, and I think I turned out OK. I suppose I also grew up on Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story, which may have been just as formative in my nerdiness and are leagues ahead of those first three in terms of quality.

I thought Rogue One wasn’t bad. It was pretty cool knowing the entire time exactly what it was leading up to and seeing how they got there. It was a smart choice to focus on characters we previously knew nothing about and not get bogged down in trying to appeal to nostalgia. Especially considering the whole premise really is hinged on nostalgia for the first film.