Probably halloween costumes.

I’m sure Norway is crying all the way to the bank. It’s hard work hauling all that oil and fertilizer money.

If the guy protests putting the condom on, I wouldn’t trust them to keep it on during the entire act. Stealthing is common enough that it has its own slang term.

However, it’s easy for me to recommend withdrawing consent, but in the moment when the guy has already been a bit scary during the condom conversation, it’s not always so easy.

Shame on him for completely fucking up the vibe.

Both can be true. He definitely let Cheney run foreign policy behind the scenes, but that doesn’t automatically mean Bush was an idiot.

George W. Bush was a lot smarter than he let on. He realized early in his career that the bumbling persona he put on made him more likeable among the rubes. That’s not to say that he was a genius or anything, but he was smarter than people thought.

Altman is a well known liar. He was even fired by the board of OpenAI for lying to them previously.

That helps against sparks jumping between the balloon and the ground, but things could still get zappy between the individual components of the balloon.

No worries, that only happens if there’s a spark, like for instance some static electricity. Shouldn’t be a problem here, surely this thing won’t generate any of that.

Probably more muscular than the stalks pictured, though? Those are the legs of a skinny man.

You seem to be suffering from imposter syndrome. Step 1 is to understand that we’re all just winging it.

Are you getting the job done? Plenty of people you perceive as smarter than you are not getting the job done.

It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.

You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.

I don’t know if we’re doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but

I’m not saying the US can’t recover from this, Germany came back from worse after all, but it would take a long time. And I imagine the US turnaround would be more like Japan (pretend everything was very legal and very cool) than the full reckoning Germany had.

Although the US does love flip-flopping between extremes, so who knows? Just like they went from assaulting soldiers returning from Vietnam to compulsively thanking everyone for their service, maybe they’ll be all woke and friendly next? Too bad it takes so little for them to flip-flop back again, so you can’t really trust it.

Let’s not pretend that the allies liked the US before either. The US has been side-eyed by all of the developed world since at least the W. Bush era. It’s been more of a “that dude is a bully, but smile and nod and he’ll hopefully steal someone else’s lunch money instead of ours, and maybe Russia will think we’re friends and not steal our lunch money either”. Now he’s teaming up with Russia and going after everyone’s lunch money.

That’s shitty. I’m sorry your parents (both real and step) were such terrible people. Hopefully you did okay despite their best efforts.

In my country it meant I was able to vote, buy alcohol and get a driver’s license. I was never interested in alcohol, but I did get a driver’s license a few months later. I didn’t feel that different, but my parents liked that I could ship stuff around for them. I indulged in some voting, too.

He was claiming that China would somehow ban hockey in Canada

Should be possible to make a compatibility layer. You can run android apps on PC now, according to constant banners on Play Store.

The biggest issue is hardware support. Mobile hardware still uses custom drivers for everything, so you wouldn’t be able to ramp up a new OS on existing hardware. You’d need to invest in making both a phone and an OS, and that’s a big risk considering only a small amount of turbo nerds will care.

I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?