Evaporated inside the Death Star’s reactor -> Get Somehowed back into existence.

There’s no superpower that compares to bad writing.

Only if there’s a side plot involving a sovereign citizen

If Spider-man was invented today, people would call it copaganda.

Probably work on Château Picard. Like living in a hypothetical post-scarcity world, having all of your needs met is not an excuse not to do productive work, or to adopt selfish goals.

If you immediately know that the caldlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

“I copied this spell from an overflowing stack of tomes. I think it was originally meant to cleanse all living things from religious stonework, but I changed some of the constants now it works as disinfectant.”

A minor can’t consent, period. Even if they say all the right words. That’s what “statutory” means in statutory rape. It is the adult’s responsibility to avoid and disengage from that contact, at all times.

Considering the power dynamic between someone who is legally a child and is restricted in some liberties, and an adult who has far greater liberties, trust, and power, I certainly wouldn’t consider it ethical.

Not exactly. When you select a text and copy it, the two selections will end up containing the same text, but you can write to either selection without affecing the other by using an API, e.g. a website’s “copy to clipboard” button, or xclip/wl-copy.

Clipboard managers with a history feature are an altogether different layer on top of the standard selections. Plasma’s clipboard manager only cares about the clipboard selection, and even then, there are exceptions (e.g. copying a password for KeepassXC doesn’t save it in the history).

Yes. X11 replaced X10’s obsolete cut buffers (which can be modified by any process) with state-of-the-art selections. There are three selections in X11: a primary, a secondary, and a clipboard.

In modern desktops, the primary selection is overwritten every time you select some text (including in the terminal), which makes its content very ephemeral. You can paste it with the middle mouse button.

The secondary selection is generally not used, but it’s present in the specification, and you can use xclip -selection secondary to access it. Wayland doesn’t seem to have a secondary selection.

The clipboard selection is what most people understand to be THE clipboard. You have to write to it explicitly (through a keyboard shortcut, API, or CLI tool), and its content persists until it is overwritten, explicitly cleared, or the X server is killed. While the primary and secondary can only contain text, the clipboard can contain many kinds of data.

Gee, X11! How come your mom lets you have THREE clipboards?

It’s the “Cow Tools” of melee weapons. It might work to an extent, but we’ve had millenia to perfect bladed and spiked weapons, and somehow never arrived at anything close to the bat’leth.

“But hey, at least it’s not a bat’leth!” (entire classroom breaks out in laughter)

Because “willful, profit-oriented degradation of quasi-monopolistic services” just doesn’t sound nice, so a man who’s passionate about that sort of stuff came up with a better word for the concept, and other people who are passionate about that sort of stuff picked it up. Those same people ended up leaving Twitter and Reddit when they underwent that process and congregated around the fediverse.

Might be “exploitation” instead of “abuse”.

I’m not a fighter pilot, but when I think “ejection”, can’t imagine anything but a high-stress situation where the pilot doesn’t have time to figure out which is the ejection lever. Imagine a real emergency where the pilot grabs the wrong lever, gently slides back with the seat, and then fucking dies on impact.

Being able to see properly

immediately go blind

You’re immediately taking the argument to the extreme. You won’t immediately go blind, but it will damage your retina in ways you sometimes don’t notice because the brain compensates for it. It happened to my uncle when he was a welder, he had a second blind spot where he couldn’t see sharply, but it didn’t really affect his quality of life.

A guaranteed buff from sleeping (unless werewolf)

Can’t see the ad if it’s blocked by a tongue!

Anything apple is shit on.

Because Apple is a horrible company, not because of the technical knowledge of its users.

Listen to Final Fantasy XIV’s music, especially Shadowbringers and Endwalker. That game is a musical with audience participation. Some songs were also performed by a real band of the actual developers, The Primals, and later included in the game.

Mild spoilers (hide the video and you’ll be fine):

• Footfalls
• On blade’s edge
• Close in the distance
• Of countless stars
• Ultima (Primals version)
• In the balance
• Dedicated to moonligh
• Metal: Brute Justice Mode (both in-game and Primals)
• Locus
• eScape

Spoilers (major plot points in video or lyrics):

• Who brings shadow
• To the edge
• Athena, the tireless one
• Tomorrow and tomorrow (more a cutscene song, but it’s amazing)