Not everyone makes a high salary working from home, or lives where real estate is cheap.

Maybe those people need a permanent cube then. I don't. I only have a guest office at my workplace, and I am there only very rarely. It's quite liberating because I don't have yet another physical space that I need to take care of, keep tidy, etc. And when I do go to the office, the focus is more on talking with people than actually sitting down and working on a computer.

I would argue the opposite.

China has issues with persecuting political dissidents, silencing members of the press, committing genocide against people who want to practice their religion and ethnic groups. They are making territorial expansions in Tibet, Hong Kong, and manmade islands in the sea. They are influencing Hollywood to not make movies that would make China look bad or go against what they want. Nazi German did literally all of these things.

North Korea also has issues with persecuting political dissidents. But, they don't have religious genocide because there is nobody practicing or trying to practice a religion. They don't have different ethnic groups, they aren't practicing or seriously attempting territorial expansion, they don't influence other country's cultural works, and they certainly don't push any other country around using economic policies or leverage. North Korea is painted the villain because they hold absolutely no power over foreign press. They are smaller fry than the cat sitting on the villian's lap.

I remember when Steam first came out and all the outrage about this. I boycotted them for a couple of years in the beginning. But losing dedicated servers and LAN modes was probably going to happen anyway, Steam or not. Computers audiences have broadened from the very technically-inclined people that played computer games in the 1990s. I may be out of the target age group, but I haven't heard of anyone I know having a physical 'bring your own desktop' LAN party in over a decade. When my kids go to other people's houses to play, they are mixing different devices (Android, ipad, Nintendo Switch) and getting some of those to work without a server somewhere else is probably more challenging than most people would bother with, not to mention some of these devices don't have the horsepower to run a server and a game at the same time. Cloud saves are very convenient, the tradeoffs are well worth it for the majority of people.

Steam has proven to be a benevolent dictator, and the Source engines are fairly open as far as engines go- otherwise we wouldn't have Gmod and all the crazy things people do there. There are tons of custom maps for TF2 If they should ever stop being customer friendly, well, good relations with the pirates I have.

I don't know about the other person but TD Ameritrade is putting up a lot of restrictions on Blackberry [BB] in addition to GME. They also raised margin requirements on BB which is trading a little hot but not nearly to the extent of GME. BB has had quite a bit of good news in regards to their future, it seems a bit arbitrary. It is setting a bad precedent that any stock that pops will be shackled down.

There was a ton of confusion about that proposition. Anecdotally, a large number of people who wrote comments online were wrong on which choice (yes/no) they should vote in order to enact their opinion on the matter. I don't think that was an accident.

It is almost certainly coming from a low cycle fatigue calculation.

I know a person who became a big advocate of DMT. He has gone completely off the deep end- a nasty divorce from his wife of 15 years, erratic behavior, irreparably pissing off all of his friends, some of whom he had known for 10 years. He has become a christian fanatic and is currently in Israel for some reason.

A little too much of anything can be bad for you, but DMT should not to be taken lightly or frequently.

Wow. I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but after reading this I'm pretty sure I don't have bipolar disorder.

Yes. Mushrooms are fungi which grow from spores that are extremely small. The patient would almost certainly die of toxicity before the fungus grew large enough to start blocking blood vessels, but that could be a possibility. I didn't check but it is safe to assume there is little or no research on the topic.

It still doesn't make sense though. The 1080Ti and other cards of that series were released almost 5 years ago. They've barely depreciated at all. Some of them are actually worth more now than they were at release. Most GPU's aren't worthwhile for mining so the gaming market must be expanding faster than manufacturers can keep up.

Not everyone. In my opinion it fell off too easily. And like most Apple products of the time, the cable had no strain relief whatsoever so the cable would split and break next to the connector.

It's a neat solution but I can't recall ever tripping on a laptop power cable. Spinning hard drives are rare to find in laptops now, so there is much less chance of breakage even if a device does fall off a desk.

Nope. The PAX planner used Flash, and only Flash, until very recently. I used it in late 2019 and it refused to do anything but insist that I enable Flash. It seems they do have an updated version now.

I just checked Bing Streetside, which is the first time I ever used it. Bing maps has my entire street, taken in 2015, but it's there. Google street view has never gone down my cul-de-sac, despite being an ungated 30 year old neighborhood in a major metro area.

Tokyo Narita airport has both the Narita Express and Skyliner express trains, on different routes departing from several of the busiest train stations in Tokyo and Yokohama. Both of these trains have very limited stops and reach reasonably high speeds. This is in addition to numerous bus services, also from busy and important transit hubs in the city. Regardless, it's still a 40+ minute journey no matter what method is chosen. It's still preferred for most people to fly to Haneda airport, which is much closer to downtown.