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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Derek Smart unveils ACE Platform, a multi-blockchain ‘virtual town hall of engagement opportunities’ | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not so much mixed metaphors as throwing the ingredients in a bowl and calling it a cake.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Because they make all the cheap ethernet chips that go on motherboards.

Other than that, can’t think of a good reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The onion writers crying⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lucille Bluth says she’s friends with her Hispanic servant, “even though she’s an illegal”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The onion writers crying⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Going a bit meta: has the right wing poisoned this well, too? The way they Capitalize Random Words is bad, but title case in OP is valid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They’re working on defunding the library already.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Also, “problems” that are things capitalism created for itself, and then sells you a solution. Such as services that scrub your old subscriptions that you don’t use, or ones that get you out of timeshares.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Things are getting really crazy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
They’ve been doing a surprisingly good job. Like “Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society”. We can debate if the prison in El Salvador counts as a concentration camp (IMO it very clearly is) or a death camp (IMO it is not, but we’re probably headed there), but the fact that we’re even having that debate is a very bad sign.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Not sure if you’re serious. Splitting the loaves and fishes was an adult Jesus story. There’s not a lot about Jesus’ childhood in the canonical gospels, and the non canonical ones are a bit wild.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
One of the founders is a hardcore Trump guy, but he’s not part of the company anymore. The company itself splits its donations between Democrats and Republicans. (That’s one of the tricks of a two party system. You can split your donation in half and win either way.)

They’re not overly Christian the way Jimmy Johns or Chick-fil-A are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tender moments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Eh, doubt that would be better. Among the Ethically Non-Monogmous, couples looking for a third are considered the worst. They’re invariably looking for a woman to play out the guy’s MFF fantasy. She might be OK with it as a birthday present for him or whatever, but it’s not something she’d choose to do otherwise. If they do manage to find someone, it often doesn’t go well.

I think these couples need to put some cash aside and find an escort.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolf Reboot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
PETA is still against it. Adding to the evidence that PETA is not a serious organization.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
As someone in a polycule, that could very soon not be true.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
This would have come from a time when ancient Judaism was evolving out of its polytheistic roots. The early sections of the Hebrew scriptures tended to treat other gods as existing, but you’re only supposed to worship YHWH.

Likely, there was some specific ritual that had been used in local polytheistic practices, and it’s specifically telling you not to do that.

This is an issue for the sort of fundamentalists who insist that absolutely everything in the bible is useful for modern times. You say that, but then what’s this goat milk thing about? How about all the idolatry prohibitions when many modern Christians won’t regularly encounter religions that use idols? Why is there a whole book devoted to Solomon’s horny poetry?

You can kinda come up with answers to those, but they will invariably involve some kind of “reading between the lines”. That is, reading assumptions into the text that aren’t explicitly stated. Which fundamentalists also say you’re not supposed to do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a technicality. Jesus didn’t require any of the old law to be followed unless expressly said otherwise. The only two things that were expressly said otherwise was “love God” and “love your neighbor”. Therefore, baby goat milk boiling is fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Might not need anything except economies of scale. But getting that is the problem.

Tablet sized eink displays found a niche that couldn’t quite be displaced by smartphones and regular tablets. That let them have a market for getting costs down.

There would need to be a similarly wide use case to get the price down on larger eink displays.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comparison between graphics modes in Space Quest III⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
CGA has some complexities. I haven’t gone over everything, but I think the pictures are correct.

Check the wiki section on color palettes: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter

And as another poster said, VGA conversion is a problem all its own. See the 8-bit Guy’s video: youtu.be/niKblgZupOc
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found Lily and Mitch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I require extraordinary evidence to believe that checks thread again a five year old had a tantrum about a dress in Target.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The Free Market (holy be thy name) gives you the choice between $1/bottle for milk with chalk and bleach, or $10/bottle for one with less chalk and bleach. If you want one without chalk and bleach, you’ll need to find your own cow.

Also, the cows all have birth defects and need uranium-powered antibiotics to stay alive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data hoarding is more important than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Be glad you don’t have VR. Those porn vids get big.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data hoarding is more important than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Instructions unclear, setup personal Project Gutenberg mirror.

(Started months ago, actually. Their main archive server isn’t very fast.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Split into a hundred pieces. It’s long been a country with tons of internal divisions who hate whomever happens to be ruling in Moscow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
When it comes to attacks on the Internet, doing simple things to get rid of the stupid bots means kicking 90% of attacks out. No, it won’t work against a determined foe, but it does something useful.

Same goes for setting SSH to a random port. Logs are so much cleaner after doing that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Credit card companies are. USPS doesn’t have data entry people who would open the package.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
People don’t take those jobs as a choice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’d just be annoying some data entry employee.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
This wouldn’t work, anyway. They only prepay envelope postage, not a box.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To whom it may concern⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’d just be traumatizing some low level data entry employee.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Energy Demand Can Keep Fossil Fuels Alive, Tech Backers Promise World’s Two Biggest Oil Producers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Large corporations are allergic to capital expenditures. That is, they don’t like investing in new things to make the business run. They want their previous investment to run as long as possible. On occasion, the workers will arrange things to be covered as “maintenance” rather than capital expenditures.

Oil companies have invested in oil pumps and refineries. They could invest in all sorts of other things, but that’s less money in the hands of shareholders. That’s all there is to it. Money spent on new investments isn’t making them richer right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
New DnD artifact dropped.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Put him on the cart.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, they did. Telling if someone was really dead was difficult until modern medicine figured it out in the last century or so. People got buried alive by unwitting village elders all the time.