When you met someone in America, you used to be able to assume that they shared a similar background as you, of having talked and interacted and, honestly, learned how to deal with actual living people. You knew this person, as an adult, had been exposed to the concept of differing ideas enough times that they, as an adult, can interact with other people without throwing a tantrum. Those days are vanishing. How do you know now that this person doesn't live 99% of their life online? Believing very niche things from their online bubble that they've been raised in since before they can remember? How do you know you aren't this person's ONE human face to face interaction they'll have all year? Can we begin to start talking about "internet addiction" again? Like we did in the 90s for a little while... before everyone became addicted and we stopped talking about it?

We need LAN play to become popular again. Not only does it eliminate lag, but you get to hear the other guys across the room when they get pwned.

And then, in a surprise move, Jupiter aligns with Mars, peace guides the planets, and love steers the stars.

As I replied to you above, it's always hot in Texas in the summer. I haven't even left the borders of the state in almost 20 years. There was a pretty bad year about a decade ago, but recently it's been about average.

So how about those low-sulfur ship fuels mandated a couple of years ago to reduce sulfur dioxide levels in the atmosphere? Seems all that SO2 had a cooling effect on the climate, and acted as cloud condensation nuclei. The reduced levels are now causing temperatures to go up. Hmm...

So where the hell are you from that you think you know so much about what's going on in Texas?

It gets hot every summer in Texas. Duh. The past few years have been merely normal. We had one summer about ten years ago where the high was 100F+ for like four months straight. That was bad. I'm actually more worried about having had a day of hard freeze every winter so far since that big freeze a few years ago. I have a lemon tree that's been getting screwed over every year since then.

And if the sea level is such a problem, why did Obama buy an oceanfront house in Massachusetts? What does he know that you don't?

I've left my front passenger seat buckled for years, and it even helps keep cargo items in the seat restrained.

But yeah, this is another case of bureaucrats trying to justify their existence by inconveniencing millions to save a few fools. ("We must do something! This is something!") I'm still sore about the backup cameras thing, mine (from 2013) has a horrible camera such that it shows mostly blobs of light or dark, and it also means you're stuck with the factory radio because of the screen. But at least it was from before the current plague of cramming every control into a touch screen.

That works for fission reactors, which is a mature technology. This is fusion. We still don't have any power-positive fusion reactors yet at all, of any size. They've constantly been ten or more years away.

The delay is because SpaceX needs to build a new capsule. A new capsule would not be necessary if Starliner was doing the missions that it was supposed to be doing. But SpaceX is doing twice the missions, because someone has to fly them up if Boing isn't. So yes, this is still Boing's fault.

This.

Pretty sure modern LED wall signs are mostly made from 6-12 inch modules that are bolted and wired together, and a few control modules to run the show, often taking input from VGA or HDMI. Look up HUB75, which is apparently the most popular system. It's not custom at all.

You need two drives from different lots to avoid the curse of sibling failure. I have an old little Drobo array with two 8G and two 6G, and I went out of my way to acquire them from Fry's (that's how long ago it was) in different weeks, specifically for that reason.

I still don't understand how the federal government can ban tiktok when the government is restricted by the First Amendment

Who is going to stop them? And what's all this about the First Amendment "restricting" anyone?

DMCA's anti-circumvention provision wasn't ever struck down. That's a law which prohibits certain acts of writing computer programs. Nobody (except nerds) cared, and the nerds were split on if it was good or bad.

FUCK THE FIRST AMENDMENT. Know why I said that? Because the First Amendment isn't the law. Why isn't it the law? Because Americans don't agree with it, and we refuse to support it. We The People, at least on average, think it's a bad idea and we would prefer a country without it. If you asked us to ratify it today, we would vote NO, just like most of the rest of the Bill of Rights. Freedom of the press and freedom of religion are not among America's values.

There's no magic where words on a page matter. The only thing which matters, is what we do. And what we do is piss on 1A. If we disagree with the founders, then we can blow them off. They're just corpse dust. They never resist.

"I'm an influencer!"

"No. You're raw meat for the AI machine. Now keep dancing and monologuing and being generally human-like. Eventually we'll be able to copy what you're doing PERFECTLY, and you won't be needed."

Is that how everyone else reads it as well? This stupid world. Its in layers.

Unfortunately only registered an actual account quite some time later, otherwise my UID would be way lower.

Funny how it was the link about Steve Ballmer being fat and bald that won me over to look at that strange site they were parodying.