You say them acting serious while the silliness is happening like it’s a bad thing. This is an amazing way to make a comedy. The best example is probably Airplane! Leslie Nielsen (and everyone else, except for a few minor characters) play it completely straight without a hint of comedy, while all this absurd stuff is…

Have you ever seen Texas’ voting districts? They're so gerrymandered there's no chance of GOP ever being voted out, regardless of how bad they fuck up, unless they literally turn 100% of the population against them and that isn't happening. We're so polarized that people think even the worst member of their party is…

I completely missed the entire build up to this and didn’t even know there was a new He Man until I noticed it on Netflix. I watched it totally blind with no expectations. In episode 4 (or was it 5?) When the past champions told Adam to put down the burden and there’d be other champions, I was actually hoping Adam…

And this is why I don’t ever scan QR codes. Or have digital assistants turned on on my phone. Freaking everything tracks you anymore so I don’t use any of it unless I have to. I’m even thinking about going back to using paper maps so I can disable gps on my phone entirely. (By rooting my phone and ripping the gps code …

I don’t know what of idiot you’d have to be to get an implant like that. You know none of the “covid vaccine is mind control” crowd would consider it (and they’d actually be correct for once), no one who understands tech would go for it, everyone else would be put off of it by the first two groups because they're…

I’ve never heard of it either. It’d be funny if this causes a spike of viewership due to people actually hearing about it and they uncancel it or something.

Exactly. There damn well better be a number I can call and a person I can talk to. I was with Wells Fargo for a while (they bought out a bank I had an account with) and it was far better than Chime sounds, despite WF shittiness.

I have the same problem. My medical supply company robocalls as a reminder it’s time to order, but they come up as Spam Risk when they call. I mean, at least they leave a message, but still. It’s annoying because I have to call them back.

A year or two ago, I read that Windows 10 was the final desktop OS release Microsoft was ever going to have. Windows 10 was going to be updated forever with no end of support. I'm kind of annoyed to find out this apparently isn't true, as I thought that's how it worked until I read this article.

I don't think so, but there was a literal raccoon Green Lantern at one point, though.

Looks interesting, but I still only want the vanilla 3070, I think. I mean, I'm upgrading from a GTX 1070 so there'll be a decent performance boost no matter what.

Im not worried about this at all and that’s because we have absolutely zero idea of how to imbue an AI with a sense of self or even the ability to understand anything. All currently existing AIs are just doing extremely complex pattern matching. The AI doesn't "know" what it's doing. It's just following it's code like…

I have a feeling Disney will get away with this, just because of how aggressive their legal team is.

There’s an easy way to fix this. Stop following people you don’t like, stop reading what they say on social media. I have no idea what Trump says on twitter because I don’t follow him and won’t follow anyone who retweets him. You should do the same if it’s bothering you.

You never played 2e, did you? That was bloat. They had “Handbooks” for various races and classes (Handbook of Warriors, of Demihumans, of Clerics, of Dwarves, of Psionics, of Necromancers, etc) and they just kept coming. This was D&D’s first attempt to introduce something resembling subclasses, by creating tons of…

I feel like Nate Silver is probably the standard on this. He was issuing tweets days before the election warning there’s a good chance Trump will win. He was running 100 simulated elections daily, updating his models for any little thing that happened, and Trump was winning the majority. It was a slim majority, iirc,…

I don’t know about movies, but I’ve definitely seen TV shows where the old episodes have a different last name for actresses who have since got married or divorced and changed their name. ie, the credits don’t get updated.

I don’t see why he would have lost access to the scammed bitcoin. There’s no central authority that can shut down a bitcoin address. Even if there was, all he’d have to do is transfer it through a few accounts and they wouldn’t be able to trace it.

I’ve owned a rice cooker, I’ve made rice in my Instant Pot and I’ve made it on the stovetop in a cast iron pot. Honestly, the cast iron pot is as good, if not better, than the rice cooker. Then again, cast iron beats pretty much anything else out there because it’s amazing. The Instant Pot always burns rice so it’s…

This entire discussion is just mental masutrbation. antibodies fall too fast for a vaccine to ever be effective in any way. There will never be a vaccine for covid, so this entire line of thinking is a waste of time. Why argue over something that can literally never exist?