Karen demands to talk to the manager, while adding fuel to the fire.

It’s actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.

• Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
• Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
• Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
• Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
• Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
• Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!

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That makes much more sense now.

Linux isn’t derived from Unix, just originally based on it. The BSDs and Darwin (Mac) would be the unfortunate casualties, but at least most of the country won’t be stuck with Windows?

Edit: And, I guess, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4/5. The former “borrowed” the networking stack from OpenBSD, and the latter are based on some BSD variant if I recall correctly.

It’s not that everyone owns a gun, but that some people own a lot of guns. And it just so happens to be that those people support this kind of government tyranny.

It would be a very different story if the “tyranny” was punishing people for hate speech. That would be the wrong people being hurt, and that’s unacceptable.

We already have MMU for Memory Management Unit. Maybe Matrix Multiplication Accelerator instead?

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response

More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal. With that in mind, he’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses.

Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.

Yes. Only in fantasy land. As Logi above said, nuclear detonation is an extremely precise, controlled process that has very specific conditions to achieve successfully. Even an actual fission bomb only manages to consume a fraction of the radioactive material.

The only thing someone would achieve by denotating a conventional explosive near a reactor or nuclear stockpile is spreading highly radioactive dust around. That does not nor will ever look like uncontrolled nuclear fission, let alone a detonation from a thermonuclear warhead.

Not quite. The other 0.1% are the rich, and the remaining 27.9% are either just stupid or are delusional enough to think that they’ll ever become the rich.

What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees, and there’s no way he’s not demanding more overtime to rebuild after this fuck-up.

Yes.

I’m not at all surprised they did it, though. What’s yet another little law when their entire day job involves breaking them?

Those who work forces…

Corpos are skilled at wringing any and all interesting bits out of something and reducing it to harmless, overdone slop that still sells. They don’t take risks because that may make them $5 less. But indies do.

I’m still amazed at how Gearbox managed to royally fuck up Risk of Rain 2. They had a great game with solid foundations handed to them, and they somehow managed to both regress the game logic into being tied to framerate and release a buggy mess of a DLC in one fell swoop.

It’s not that they’re allergic to money but rather the inflated sense of self-importance and ego. To rightsholders and executives, it’s unthinkable that fans could come up with something better and profitable using the intellectual property that they earned (read: bought) fair and square. And if someone somehow did, it’s a threat to the bottom line, not something to embrace and encourage.

He doesn’t give a shit about women in heels, but he doesn’t mind women in heels. It’s so much harder to run away when wearing heels, you know?

The logic is abhorrent, but it makes sense. It’s the typical two-tiered hypocrisy often employed by politicians everywhere.

“As long as we the ruling class are exempt from personal sacrifice, we support this.”

You say that like they aren’t already trying that crap. The media has been pretty damn happy to take photos and videos of the damage caused by the riot gear-wearing faction and implying it’s caused by rioting protesters.

The part the most astonishing isn’t the fact that he said it, but the numerous ways his dumbfuck supporters have performed mental gymnastics to downplay concerns about it as dogwhistling.

I have heard stupid shit ranging from “he meant votes will be cast automatically” to “he’s just trolling” to “good, it’s leveling the playing field after Biden rigged 2020.”

Just maybe… the simplest answer is the correct one, and the guy who claimed he would be a dictator on day 1 and is sending an armed militia to provoke protesters in an attempt justify a violent response intended to crush dissent by making people fear for their safety is, in fact, a dictator that wants to eliminate the democratic process?

The magic cable typically goes into ISP-owned hardware sitting in a box somewhere down the street. From there, it’s either converted into fiber optic signals or repeated until it reaches an ISP-owned building where the data can be exchanged with the wider internet.

How does so much data go through a single-pin coax cable?

It uses multiple channels (frequency ranges) in parallel, bonding (combining) them to increase throughput.

A surprising amount of bandwidth can be achieved this way. DOCSIS 4.0 can do 10 gigabits per second in download and 6 gigabits per second in upload.