“leave me to do my dark bidding in peace”.
“Oh, what are you bidding on?”.
“A table”

I think by the time we reach some future extreme of data density, it will be in a method of storage beyond our current understanding. It will be measured in coordinates or atoms or fractions of a dimension that we nullify.

Lucas famously make things up as he went, and retconned many things along the way.

Originally Luke’s sister was a yet to be introduced character, not Leia. The film titled “Star Wars” was retroactively changed to become Episode 4. Han Solo was frozen at the end of one of the films because he wasn’t sure if Harrison Ford would be back. They even changed the voice of Vader in post production, and the original actor found out when he watched the premiere. If you watch the prequels and original trilogy back to back there are glaring potholes. You can’t even officially get the original versions of the movies because Lucas doesn’t want them to be available.

After looking at the list, I get the feeling that most stories if historical intrigue are PT Barnum style hoaxes. Life is much more boring than we were led to believe.

I’ve got that. Very useful for looking unaffected by pressure changes, which is to say, not that useful.

I’d convert to induction straight away if it were easy and cheap, but you need to have an electrician run a separate mains voltage cable to the cooktop. Having single brick walls inside basically means you wait until you’re ready to remodel the whole kitchen.

Inside all of us there are two hippos…

Why isn’t it an exit? There could be a ladder or a tunnel or a portal.

I think a length of wire is more about being a vague measurement and to distinguish it from a wire coil, which is a separately useful thing in electronics.

Calling things a length isn’t indicative of being short. Terms like a length of rope and length of wire are fairly normal ways to talk about things without a strict measurement.

What’s the ffxiv reference here?

Anubis is from Egyptian mythology.

No such thing as a fish

Great game.

Did this exist before or after worms?

How many voted for something else?

Yea. I’m sure they will be humbled like the people of North Korea, who think their supernatural leader invented hamburgers and the electric guitar.

You’re talking bullshit.

You have voting weight proportional to how much stock you hold. You are the shareholder. There’s no legal obligations for companies to prioritise profits over anything else.

Stop with the fear mongering and hyperbole.

Theoretically someone with a lot of money could buy a large percentage of a company’s shares, become a major shareholder, and then vote on company resolutions. If anything, owning shares gives you power to change the company.

Step on the gas.
…O…O…O…X…

After his own offer to rescue the children was turned down

Windows started life as a window manager that you installed on top of MS-DOS. It has since grown to be much more, and I don’t think you can criticise it for that.

Also, changing the visual theme is their prerogative. They are not required to supply a “classic” theme, even though they did do that a bunch of times.

I get Lemmy is the bird around here, but if you’re going to bad mouth Windows, at least do it for the many legitimate problems it has.

Windows 8 was when MS were trying to break into the phone OS market to complete with Android and iOS. They wanted to have the “same OS” across phone, tablet, and desktop, which isn’t a terrible idea except for the fact you need to betray your entire desktop customer base to get there.