🅸 🅰🅼 🆃🅷🅴 🅻🅰🆆.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 𝖋𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖍𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍
Same.
Also, about 2/3 of the population of the US wears some form of corrective vision prosthetic; this doesn’t include the number of people who wear reading glasses, although it does include Contact lens wearers. In any case, about half the population is seeing lens flare and chromatic aberration on the regular.
I agree, this may be the most important lore to get a canonical answer for.
Quick, someone go to Anne Rice’s crypt and hang around until sundown, and get an answer… either way.
Kirk beat up a Gorn. (Sort of). Vader’s combat armor is nothing.
But, seriously, I doubt there’s much armor there beyond his helmet; it looks mostly like padding. And what does he need armor for? He has the force, and it’s cannon that he can deflect blaster beams. Don’t know how well that’d work for phasers; it obviously has limits, or light sabers wouldn’t be of any use. And armor wouldn’t help against light sabers. So, I’m just not sure there’s much actual armor in his outfit.
The hoops providers have to jump through to get around our horrible healthcare and insurance systems; it’s astounding there hasn’t already been a revolt.
Honestly, it’s the worst of what’s bad about capitalism.
As far as you know. I suspect most Fox presenters are AI.
Man, what a missed opportunity for the networks. They could do Naked News, but with preferences set by each viewer. We could have weather reports given by a capybara in James Earl Jones’s voice! Sports presented by a koala with Ryan Reynolds’ as if he were huffing helium!
Damn. Now I want customized AI newscasters.
Kirk would karate-chop Vader, double-first slam the Storm Trooper, grab a blaster, and not miss.
Vader’s only advantage here is James Earl Jones’s voice.
But… it’s the smell.
Actually, really good point. Sorry, person-I-responded-to. I thought you (PIRT) were comparing Maria to Postgres, when you (PIRT) were referring to Maria vs MySQL.
Both PostgreSQL and MariaDB are OSS and free; MySQL is covered with cooties and boogers, and you don’t want to get any of it on you.
I can’t answer why you’re getting calls, but I’d be suspicious.
It’s where your primary care physician goes independent and stops accepting insurance. You pay them a flat fee a couple of times a year, and get their service for free. That is, you’re obviously paying them whether you use them or not, but you don’t pay them every time you see them.
You still need insurance, to cover things like specialists, and many tests the doctor performs - blood work, etc - can still be billed to insurance. But you go to a flat fee for your doctor.
My wife and I did it because our primary care physician, who we’ve been with for years and like, went concierge; we decided to stay with her despite it costing more than to switch to a different doctor.
Many things changed, mostly for the better.
There is really the only one downside: insurance does not cover concierge, and it is not cheap. It’s within reason for middle class, but it’d be utterly unaffordable for lower or lower-middle class. It’s totally entitled. OTOH, if we had a single payer universal healthcare system, or if every provider were concierge, healthcare would be cheaper all around and maybe it’d be affordable.
Anyway, we did it because we followed a doctor. I don’t know that I’d jump into it with a provider I didn’t know. In our doctor’s case, she only offered it to her existing patients and doesn’t take on new ones (or, not often), and keeps her work load more manageable; I’d expect this to be common.
If insurance is trying to get you to do this, there’s an angle and I’d be suspicious. Either because they have to pay less (because concierge fees aren’t paid by insurance); or some company has figured out a way to “give you insurance” where you pay them and they pay the concierge fee, in which case they’re just a middleman skimming money and you’re paying more.
We are extremely happy with our concierge service, but we love our doctor, we can afford it, and it’s been a massively better experience for us. But that’s us. YMMV.
Maria database is free and open source.
Why are you implying that PostgreSQL isn’t?
Haven’t seen The Matrix, huh?
Okay. I don’t think it’s a bad map; I think it would have helped to define what counts as “a coast,” is all.
People fervently believe what they desire, regardless of evidence to the contrary. It’s a really annoying fact of human nature sadly few people are able to resist.
She wants it to be normalized so that her situation will be validated, and so she naturally believes it will be. Not an unusual behavior at all. Even scientists who should know better (fusion power within the next 10 years! GAI within the next 5 years!) are susceptible.
Greeblings. Not ghosts, greeblings.
There are a couple of posts on Red-dit and Thre-eads, but I won’t link to those; here’s another description, although it’s wrong. It attributes Greebles to Red-dit, but the term predates not only that site, but the web entirely. I first heard about greeblings in 1983.
So, the definition is “a body of water from which one can navigate - even if by river or canal - to an ocean”? How big does the traversal have to be - if I can get there by canoe without portage, does that count? What about Lake Eirie? AFAIK, you can’t navigate without portage from Eirie to the Atlantic, but it connects to Lake Ontario via the Niagara River.
TBF, that’s a pretty rad looking thing she bought. I kinda want one, too.
“A” coast. This also makes a distinction between the Great Lakes and… every other lake in the US. It’s not salt water, because, well, the Great Lakes. So what determined whether a lake was big enough to qualify as having “a shore”? The Great Salt Lake in Utah is the 7th largest lake in the US (3 down from Lake Ontario, which is represented) and doesn’t appear to be be considered.
Are these “shores as US national borders, except for the shores of rivers?”
It absolutely implies confidence. And his horrified look on his face, well, fuck him. What an absolute shit reaction to your friend saying they’re better in some way than some artificial, professionally made-up fake persona.
No, your waifu isn’t prettier than your IRL friend, and if that were your reaction to your friend’s statement, kicking you to the curb is the least I’d expect from them.
Panel 4 is a dream. A couple of years ago my wife discovered this pregnancy pillow that’s basically a ginormous U anti-moat. She loves the damned thing; it’s a soft, defensive wall I have to cross to get to her. It gets ejected during sexy times, but we might as well have separate beds.
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There are. Several, in fact.
Hell, you can buy a laptop with Linux pre-installed from Amazon!
That’s mostly focusing on just laptops; there’s a dozen other companies selling desktop and mini-PCs with Linux, and some hardware manufacturers (Raspberry, ODroid?) don’t even have Windows as an option.
There is a wide variety of laptops, desktops, mini-PCs, and SBCs to buy with Linux pre-installed. I’m more surprised that there’s someone who thinks there isn’t, than by how many options there are.