My favorite lib brain reasoning I ever heard was that evil CCP harvesting data through Tencent was helping them do the Xinjiang genocide. They were not specific on the details of how this worked.

Yeah it’s just this. We’re talking about gamers here, and American ones at that, there’s very little brain activity invested into this thought process.

You absolutely can predict things in quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics is not just “everything is unknowable, throw up your hands and go home”. Quantum mechanics does deal with probabilities though.

If I’m playing roulette, and I bet on 36, I can predict that I will lose, but not with absolute certainty. I can also predict that if I bet on 36 ten thousand times in a row, I will win 270 times. It’s possible that I win 0 times, and it’s possible that I win 10,000 times, but it’s much more likely that I win about 270 times.

“Completely unpredictable” is not the same as “not knowable with absolute certainty.” There’s a big range in between those two absolutes where human beings thrive, doing science and making decisions based on things that can never be known with absolute certainty.

Prevent Putler from invading Europe by removing any possible gains from invading Europe. That’s how you play 5D chess.

Albert Einstein never said that.

Workers and Meth: Soviet Republic

Ratchet & Meth

Pillars of Meth

Meth: Like a Dragon

Civilization IV: Beyond the Meth

Getting Over Meth with Bennett Foddy

I think you might be misunderstanding what this is. This isn’t Canonical holding back freely-available updates to charge you money. This is Canonical doing additional work backporting fixes themselves. On any other distro with old ass packages, you’d be in the same spot just without the option of the ESM updates at all. Also Pro is free for like 5 or 10 machines for non-enterprise users so tell your boss to stop being a cheap ass if they care about security.

Yeah this kind of seems like complaining that RHEL costs money. If you want the absolute latest packages there’s always rolling release. It’s Linux, so if you don’t trust Canonical you can always just assemble your very own system out of thousands of packages that are constantly updating and breaking each other.

I haven’t seen anything to convince me that China is pushing “increasingly conservative” values. The situation for LGBT people is improving in China. It’s not great, but from what I’ve seen it’s definitely trending towards improvement. Compare to the USA (or UK) where LGBT rights on paper and access to care are better for the moment (if you can afford it), but being queer is becoming increasingly dangerous and what rights we do have are on the chopping block. I also haven’t heard of anyone in China getting murdered in the street just for being trans, a regular occurrence in the USA.

At least one of the LGBT centers that closed, which they cite as a sign of oppression, I remember looking into it and the leaders of it and the center itself all had ties to the usual suspects in USA color revolution attempts. So it’s worth noting that in some cases LGBT rights activism in China is a front for groups like the NED and CIA to sneak their imperialist tendrils into the country.

The six pointed metal star decorations on the wall are a funny unintentional touch.

Weren’t the master servers shut down ages ago? How are you playing it multiplayer?

Lambda male is when you have a valve with a red knob in place of an eye.

There’s gamma males now too? Oh no I’m falling behind on the latest Greek alphabet male developments.

Skimming the home page, this author had some very interesting opinions about wokeness, vaccines, race, and other expected subjects, there’s a lot going on here.

The rise of SBMM was the fall of competitive multiplayer for me. There’s just not really any space for chilling out and having fun anymore. If you aren’t trying to turn the game into a full time job, then your teammates and even the game itself will make sure to punish you for your sub-optimal behavior.

100 billion dead gamers

This is over a year old.

Same. I used to do glasses, and getting to have my peripheral vision in focus too is really nice, although I guess contacts would give you that too. I was also just fed up with worrying about keeping glasses on my face doing physical activity and sports. I was a little concerned about my night vision getting compromised since I’ve heard of people having trouble with that post-laser but 3 years on I haven’t noticed any differences yet.

Yeah I haven’t watched them (her?) since they came out, and being out as a trans/gender non-conforming person (not sure how they identify) is a pretty radicalizing experience. I’ll have to watch some more recent videos.

She (they?) jumped on the “China bad” bandwagon really hard back when Blizzard banned blitzchung, I stopped watching her after a couple months of that.