We are not slow, we are just "bubble-aware".

> USENET was never this bad

Um, not sure I concur. I encountered nasty trolls and doxing there.

If we start losing a war we will resemble them.

...paid off. Our Bribeocracy in action.

Liquid Glass.

I jest. Liquid Glass is precisely the reason I'm still running iOS 18, and it's also the case that Microsoft Windows Vista (I think it was) had something similar. But at least Microsoft allowed you to turn it entirely off.

Pokemon cards are fun, but the real money is in healthcare. Imagine if I could buy up all the knee surgeries and sell them to millennials in 20 years. (Sorry, I don't accept Pokemon cards as payment)

Criticism of capitalism is communism, and communism is treason.

We're no longer allowed to discuss gender identity or systemic inequality in US schools, so there are worse offenses when it comes to free speech rights. (A right that very few countries recognize)

Take a number, in whatever representation form you wish, let's say it's a typical binary (base-2) representation of a positive integer. Add any value to it infinitely, 1 or billions, I don't care. Every state transition from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0 takes a finite amount of energy. And every state takes physical space to store and represent (such as as an electric charge). You now need an infinite amount of energy and infinite amount of space. But don't worry, your machine won't survive that long as it will quickly take more energy to flip the bits than you can concentrate in an area of space. Your counting register turns into plasma even before that.
 

Which means I'd have a million dollars and therefore I would in fact be a 'millionaire'. Duh.

I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that. Oh. Nvm. The Pokemon card thing is quite literally the same thing as the baseball card thing, no matter how much you try and "yes, but" it.

There is basically zero intrinsic value in either of them. None. Zero. Zilch. The value is in the intentional rarity. And if Topps (or Pokemon) were to re-print a vintage card because it got popular, that's entirely there prerogative. There are entire industries built around answering the "is this a 19xx Micky Mantle Original or a 20xx Micky Mantle re-print".

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"A gyre is a large system of rotating ocean currents, typically driven by wind and the Earth's rotation. These currents play a crucial role in the movement of heat, nutrients, and marine life in the ocean." Wikipedia

I think it might even be more errors in Excel than 1/5th, but I'll go with your cite.

I like a nice spreadsheet - I use them for design applications in electronics. But some of the stuff I've seen bean counters and a few others always evoke the "Hold on a second, something's not right here!" response.

But many people believe that if it is in Excel, it is correct.

I plan on cashing in on my cache of pogues any day now.