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Kbin does that sometimes

If I have to have microplastics in my balls, then the fish do too dammit!

It’s something people don’t realize. We may be a scourge on the Earth, but we’re still nowhere even near the top of the list of worst things to happen to this planet.

As the other reply brought up, Theia crashing into Earth. Flood basalt events. The Chicxulub impact.

We may be able to cause some real awful shit, but we still are nothing compared to what the forces of nature can produce. And just to clarify, I’m not saying this to in any way downplay the seriousness of climate change, or that we should do nothing about it.

The answer to the ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians is not more ruthless indiscriminate killing of civilians

Stares at most PDX games having increasing player counts

How much of this is the lack of people wanting to play strategy games vs the lack of good strategy games

They’re solid generic blockbuster action-ish movies. They’re not amazing, but they’re fun enough that I think they’re worth a watch if you can’t decide what to watch one night.

I think survivorship bias plays into it as well. Yeah, most the stuff on the radio today is kinda meh. Most the stuff on the radio in those days was kinda meh too. All the meh songs got forgotten, and you only remember the bangers. You’ve already seen it happen to 00s music and we’re watching it happen with the 10s.

But yeah, it’s wild how many people look at how accessible different types of music are now and just… don’t go looking.

In a pretty short span of time no less.

I’ve definitely had 16 drinks in a day before, just spread out over, yknow, most that day.

Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she’d get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that’s the general gist.

EDIT:
So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

Russia could’ve, y’know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

It’s a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…

You don’t know even know my real name, I’m the fucking Lizard King

There’s plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn’t find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.

Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you’re not gonna notice it much. And I’m not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren’t you. They’re the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.

Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.

Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.

It being ugly has absolutely fuckall to do with the structural integrity

I like keeping tabs on it, as they’re really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.

The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.