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That sounds like an expensive hobby. Have you thought of trying cocaine instead?

A walk-in microwave?

Maybe, but what I miss from shareware is that I would get a game (e.g. Quake, Duke Nukem) from someone and be able to play without restrictions the first chapter.

In fact, most shareware games had also multiplayer available so those were very common in school’s computer “labs”.

Freemium apps, in my experience, have too many ads and fiendish tactics to my taste (Though I know it’s not all of them).

I miss shareware.

It was the stairs rail that it made me think it was a ceiling.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

I’m gonna go get my head unborked.

What collage of madness I’m looking at here? This image is melting my brain.

The mothman cometh

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What’s knife monopoly?

Let’s put it this way: If in our lifetime we can simulate the intelligence of a vinegar fly as general intelligence, that would be a monumental landmark in AGI. And we’re far, far, far away from it.

As far as the iron age was from the metal alloys used in the Space Shuttle.

Talking about AGI simulating higher intelligence at the level of a dog or a cat, dear I say a pigeon or a crow is as far fetched as expecting ancient Egyptians to harness the power of the atom.

Last Place Comics is always equal parts entertaining and causing existential (or cosmic) dread (to me).

Japanese budhist monks use black for their clothes as it simbolizes purity, or as black being the most pure color. In very few instances, they may wear purple or gold, but that’s due status and a latter addition.

In a funeral, only the deceased would wear white, I don’t remember why though, but for a while wearing white was in bad taste.

Wearing all black is also common for the Catholic clergy, and for a long time most brides used black for their wedding dress: https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2014/12/13/history-of-the-black-wedding-dress/

That’s why the “hustling culture” is so important and prevalent in our society right now.
Everyone “knows” someone that made bank with either youtube, selling some pyramid-scheme product, bitcoins, some collectibles, craft beer, lottery… you name it.

Social media (and before that was TV) is selling us the idea that there’s a shortcut to becoming rich, you just need to find it, hustle, and you will become one of the rich persons.

That’s also why there’s so much cult of wealth and billionaires.

That said, a large portion of Millennials and after them have a rather negative view of billionaires and are rather skeptical of becoming rich, or even becoming home owners.

Not sure why you’ve got downvoted, but that’s the reason why all Baltic states had such a reaction when the invasion started.

That said, I would say that most of those states are highly socialistic despite having pretty much allergy to anything red and while preferring a capitalist system that doesn’t mean they want or support billionaires.

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Wake up, stand up, talk about your work vaguely enough there are no questions.

" Imagine what we could accomplish together… what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we’re both dead! Is that what you want? Think about it, hero!"

It’s the only cheap fruit that I can use to make cake if it ripens too much.

Do You Have the Slightest Idea How Little That Narrows It Down?

I also learned what “consummate” means… Or at least I think I do.