CentipedeFarrier

Birds, mostly males, get all flashy and showy to attract a mate, and bees all answer to the matriarch of the family, so it’s just like life. Obviously.

Maybe the saying came from the mirror universe…

Oh man if I found out my manager had that mentality I’d be second-guessing literally everything they say forever. I would much rather someone say “I don’t know, but that’s a good question. I’ll find out for you” than give me the wrong information confidently.

I already struggle with respecting authority figures who clearly don’t know what they are doing and thus have no actual basis for their authority, so yeah that’d be a ticking time bomb.

Please try to move away from doing that. It’s genuinely not great for your reports, only for you to put in less effort.

Bad science reporting as usual. I read the study and it doesn’t even hint at collision as a possible outcome of the binary system. It’s a potentially special system for study, but not because we are going to see stars collide or anything.

Also “solved” is wrong. They presented a potential answer that needs more study.

That’s fair, I really haven’t looked to see the breakdown, I also watch the scan. But I’ve dealt with the public, and most people genuinely don’t seem to be paying that much attention… to anything… :)

Considering sales tax isn’t included, so your total always rings up different than your math, and it’s really hard to accurately math out because some products aren’t taxed, yeah, I could see people not realizing that’s what happened. Especially if the things that went up were low priced items.

She could have at least asked him to stop before destroying property.

We don’t actually know that she didn’t, unless you’ve got another article with more detail. This article is sparse in details, but it’s only his word in it that she didn’t talk to him. That nobody was bothered by it. That it went from 0-100 in the span of a look.

And idk about you, but that doesn’t sound all that likely to me, when everyone laughs at him for the consequences (seen in video). The whole thing screams this guy is an unreliable narrator. The whole thing to me reads like he knew he was pissing people off, like a YouTube prank channel sort of bother, and expected to walk away from it consequence free.

This article has a bit more detail and it does make him sound like a shitty prank channel sort that relies on annoying other people going about their lives. But again has no info about the encounter except his own words.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/imagine-being-based-guy-says-143000399.html

Technically my device does that, but I found out that if I open videos in a defunct old browser (probably not a necessary component, just the one I use) that randomizes fingerprint information, if you long-press the video name and open in a new private tab (so new randomized fingerprint) it treats you for that one video as a new user.

So just have to open each video I want to watch in a new private tab, and good to go, no ads ever. Yes this is a lot of work, but I’m not aware of other options on iOS. On my desktop I use freetube.

I’m sure they will change this soon, but I’ll just stop using YouTube then. I’ve been full-on blocking sites through pihole that have started self-hosting their ad content, or where blocking the ad content breaks the page like IMDb. idgaf. I won’t use your site.

Confidently incorrect.

That’s the preferred order. It’s much harder to throw a community at a cop.

I leave my carriers out, open, and as part of their tunnel system (I sometimes put the ends of crinkly tubes into the carriers to make an end play point).

So my cats actually enjoy their carriers. I don’t even have to shove them in, just put in a couple treats and since they are used to being in it, zip it peacefully behind them.

Another comment gave probable context for that :)

https://slrpnk.net/comment/19387527

Oh! I bet that’s where the name of the thing comes from! If you go back into the link, Lena is at the top of the page, and the original draft shared the name.

Thanks for that added context!

No idea on the naming, I haven’t really looked into the author or their writing beyond this tbh. However if you click on the links at the top, it takes you through more of their work and author info, it might be buried there somewhere.

And the spoiler request is just because it’s really not that long and those are the juicy bits ;) I think it’s way more impactful inside the greater context, but I mean maybe I’m wrong on that, and have weird preferences.

You should put that in a spoiler tag :)

I’ve not read it; any good?

It is. If you like the concept though, the animated show Pantheon starts similarly, but goes an entirely different depressing direction :)

Whenever I see this post, I think of this short story. I don’t see it linked here yet, so here ya go.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

(Wrong copy linked, updated)

Mine refuses to enable multiplayer, despite co-op technically existing, because PvP is horrible but default in the current release.

Yeah, so like… those are mostly pretty big problems for me -and likely a whole lot of people who might want to get off Plex- that I don’t have a clue what to do with without dedicating probably weeks of time to learning properly, so… hard pass until the whole process is significantly safer or more streamlined.

This whole thing feels like this :p

If you do that, great! Genuinely good for you. You probably know the risks and how to mitigate them, or fix them if they become problems. Or don’t care, that’s a valid option too.

I absolutely do not know the risks or how to mitigate them. I don’t want to fuck myself over doing something stupid against the consensus advice of basically everyone who ever talks about it. I don’t even fully understand how to make it accessible in the first place, despite having spent a few days looking into it on and off (same issue with sharing my calibre library, as it seems to be the same process). It’s way beyond my experience level, it’s intimidating, and frankly I’m not super interested in doing something that far out of my understanding comfort zone if it has any significant risks.