Star Trek: The Next Generation season 5 episode 18 “Cause and Effect”

Chance he runs for vice president and wins, with the presidential candidate promising to resign promptly, and is betrayed: 10%

For this one, it also depends on how the Supreme Court rules on the 12th amendment. That amendment states that anyone who is unqualified to be president is likewise unqualified to be vice president, but there is some uncertainty as to whether or not it only applies to people unqualified to be president or if it includes people unqualified to run as president.

I’d say 90% chance the conservative-stacked Supreme Court side with Trump because the conservative justices are originalists and the 12th’s interaction with the 22nd was not intended when the 12th was written, but 10% chance they decide he’s unqualified to be Vice President so as to keep the door closed for Dems who might try the same thing.

Sadly I think this is the new normal. You could buy a decent GPU, or you could buy an entire game console. Unless you have some other reason to need a strong PC, it just doesn’t seem worth the investment.

At least Intel are trying to keep their prices low. Until they either catch on, in which case they’ll raise prices to match, or they fade out and leave everyone with unsupported hardware.

I would do some shameful things to that dish, before it would do some equally shameful things to me.

Unfortunately there’s no easy answer, and it depends on what kind and how well you do with it

I work in IT as a sysadmin for a nonprofit, and there’s a lot of variety which makes it difficult to predict what a normal day will be like, but it keeps the days from feeling too repetitive. But I know that sort of unpredictability is not for everyone, and a lot of folks prefer a more routine experience.

Similarly, there are some IT jobs which require you to work on site, and others that allow you to be fully remote. Whichever is preferable will likewise vary from person to person.

Be open to new challenges, but also don’t feel like you need to compromise your priorities just for the income. And most importantly, be good at whatever you want to do, or else every day can be like sitting under the sword of Damocles.

I’m not going to say the game will look good, knowing how Legends Arceus turned out, but maybe wait for them to release a single screenshot of the game before making assumptions about what it will look like?

I have to wonder what their suicide rate is like, though.

From a Terry Pratchett book:

Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying “Got rocks in your head?” to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren’t careful.

Looking at that one, they have it labeled as “showcase” so they’ll probably do a limited collection of content in the game to demonstrate particular tricks and strategies but not the whole thing.

What ways have you used to bypass YouTube’s echo chamber format?

Easy, I barely use YouTube at all anymore.

When I do use it, it’s for specific videos. I never use it for content discovery.

Like others have said, budgetary restrictions and limited imagination is the honest answer, but there are a couple somewhat interesting “handwavey” explanations a sci-fi universe can use. Off the top of my head:

1. Directed Panspermia: Life on Earth (and other planets) was seeded by an intelligent higher order. Evolution occurred mostly naturally, but all following the same starting blueprints with variations to account for environmental differences. Eventually this leads to intelligent, humanoid life. Basically, sci-fi intelligent design theory.

2. Convergent Evolution: Two unrelated organisms can evolve similar traits because they happen to be best suited to certain tasks. For example, the number of times crabs have evolved independently, because crab-like traits work universally well for their shared niche. So in theory, if humans are distinctly advantaged for our evolutionary niche, it stands to reason that other forms of intelligent life might resemble humanoids as well.

Linux is the most secure among all OS given that it is an open- source operating system which gives users the ability to customize and implement security patches.

Imagine trusting folks to keep their stuff up-to-date, though. People get very hostile at the mere suggestion that they need to update when “everything works fine right now, why should I?”

The worst part is all the paperwork you have to fill out to get your residence changed after you had to sell your house to pay for the surgery, too.

I’ve seen it from time to time, and after the initial “…Why…?” it had me wondering if it was trying to be some sort of Lemmy counterculture. Parody makes more sense, but if it’s sincere I just sort of feel bad.

Of course, there must always be tribalism.

A bit early for New Year’s, but I wanted to try a recipe for yi mein that I think came out pretty good.

Of the names you listed, only Washington was ever an ex-president. Lincoln and FDR died in office.

Agreed. Hell, I know there are divisions of government military branches specifically designed for nuclear treaty monitoring, with satellites and terrestrial monitors purpose-built to detect if anyone on Earth ever detonates a nuke.

With the number of eyes on Israel and Syria, I doubt such a thing could be done secretly, even if half of the world is trying to cover for Israel right now.

Agreed. And even if there are devices plugged in and always running and (miraculously) always functional, what do you do in a disaster situation where all infrastructure is knocked out? That is the exact time you’d want to make sure there are no impediments to foreign support being able to enter the country. But with nothing physical to fall back on for identification, what would you do?

I’m all for digitizing currency and the like, I really never carry cash anymore. But ID documents are still crucial to have physical copies of, and the passport remains the only internationally recognized standard.

From the article, it sounds more like they’re using shared databases and facial recognition more than smartphones or similar. So they’d presumably have the requisite devices at customs.

AAA game development has gotten significantly more costly and time consuming, to the point where it is now basically unsustainable and headed for imminent collapse.

For the Dark Souls example, though, I think it’s important to note that FromSoft still produced Sekiro in between Dark Souls 3 and Elden Ring, leaving only a 3-year gap for Elden Ring to come out. Not to mention that the time between Demon Souls to Elden Ring is still less than the time gap between Skyrim and Elder Scrolls 6, so it’s also orders of magnitude of difference.