I think your wife’s case was actually significantly different from “flat earthers”, as a community. There’s ignorance, which can be corrected with knowledge and information and reasoning, and there’s willful defiance, which cannot. The very fact that she was freaked out and had a crisis, which enabled facts to enter her head, demonstrates that.

I hate it enough I can’t return from being an expat because of it. I guess you could say that if I hated it more I’d do more to actively fight it, but I kinda feel powerless there. I’m not really a leader. I don’t feel like my inability to fight it more makes me hate it less.

Flat earthers don’t believe in a flat earth. What they actually believe is that Satan is fighting a war for the minds of people, and education is a tool of satan to lead you away from god. All other nonsense they spew stems from that— they don’t believe the earth is flat because evidence shows it, they find evidence to support the earth being flat because the education system, which they believe to be from Satan, tells you it’s spherical.

And most (but not all) flat earthers have moved on to the next conspiracy that supports their central belief (Satan is fighting a war for your mind) and don’t care much about flat earth anymore. Flat earth was never the point, not being swayed by Satan is always the center.

You’re being downvoted because there is contemporaneous historical evidence for their existence as people who existed and had a large following at the time, and in fact, as much or more evidence exists for them as exists for a lot of other historical figures. You can disbelieve claims about them, but it isn’t particularly rational to disbelieve they were actual people that attracted crowds. Likewise, it would be irrational to call Uri Geller a fictional character, even if its rational to disbelieve he had psychic powers.

Can’t you swap out DMEM for sports drinks anyway (with the Japanese brand Green Dakara being the best replacement)? That implies DMEM is basically a sports drink itself, if you think about it.

Because “mafia wars” makes consistent money, and the games people actually might want to play don’t. Slapping a new coat of paint on the same mechanics over and over again means getting the money maker out there to more people, just gotta lure em in with the promise of a game they might actually want to play, then swap in the game they don’t and hope you snag em with the psychological tricks before they leave.

It works just often enough to make it profitable and easy.

I think I’ve heard a Roman version before, but I’ve been utterly unable to find it again— everywhere has the Greek that I can find. I don’t care that it’s not the original, the Roman version is interesting in its own right.

The version I heard (but cannot find again! Argh!) had Medusa discovering the secrets of what amounts to shampoo, and being cursed by a goddess of beauty for daring to become as beautiful as said goddess, who was petty. So her beautiful (ie, washed) hair became snakes, and she was changed to be so ugly you turn to stone to look at her.

I’d love a tip to where I could find this version of the story again, or if the version I heard somewhere was even historical to begin with.

Yep, but he needed to push through legal and investor complaints, so rush rush rush, damn the risk. They’re “captains of industry”, they couldn’t possibly fail!

Makes me mildly wonder— when was the last time the best way to sell a product was to make a speech and demonstration in a physical third-space location? It used to be super common, yet now is nigh unheard of.

You just don’t get Edisons electrocuting elephants in town square anymore.

100 sounds low, they tended to be 300-600 per CD, and all shareware not pirated, so perfectly legal and encouraged. I had multiple such disks as a kid… the jank in how to get the games working (dos and win3.1, mostly) was what got me to learn to use computers back in the day.

To each their own, but I’m perfectly happy with romhacks and emulation for that. I like the original pixel art/animation, hacks can get me orchestral sound tracks, bug fixes, and rebalancing.

To clarify, pencils are a terrible idea in space due to graphite and shavings getting into electronics. Grease pencils were okay, but an independent businessman took his own initiative and funds to develop a zero g pen that was superior, which he sold to nasa at reasonable cost.

I still remember a night when I was in elementary school, in a panic because I had homework due that morning which I had not done and was unable to do for some reason I can’t recall, begging and pleading with myself to remember that if time travel was ever invented, I should come back to that moment to help myself.

I’m 42 years old and have not forgotten the moment, though it would be of little help if time travel was invented because I have no idea what the date was. I’d totally do it if I could though.

(Pity that it wouldn’t be till I was a teen that I established a consistent time travel password in my head to prove my identity)

They didn’t intend to murder, just to steal. When caught in the act it ended in unintentional felony murder, spooking the thief into running and hiding, leaving the loot behind. Or maybe he only got to grab one or two of the favorite things… no raindrops on roses can be seen here, after all.

A third of the “top 100” were in that 1/5th total. Most websites I personally wanted were down, including lemmy for me.

Sony objectively did not win that generation. The Nintendo wii did— some gamers don’t want to include the Wii in the running at all, but it was there and it won approximately 101 million to maybe 88 million.

Now, the ps3 made a remarkable comeback and eventually caught back up with the Xbox 360, tying or slightly exceeding it in sales in the very end, but that’s not winning. That’s especially not winning compared to the PS2 generation, where there was absolutely no contest that it won— there wasn’t even a serious rival to the ps2 at the time. It dominated. The ps3 barely squeaking out a second place trophy against a CLOSE third place, when it trailed far behind at first, is not winning the generation. It’s just not.

Sony lost the absolute monolithic dominance they had in the ps2 era. That’s the situation I’m comparing now. Maybe this windows 11 situation won’t echo the past, but it’s a question I’m musing on in the shower.

I would follow the guide laid out by Lockhart’s Lament. Basically, teach math as an art.

That dream aside, I wouldn’t mind aiming at statistics as a target, instead of calc… specifically to lessen the impact of people who lie using statistics, and also demonstrate that not ALL statistics are lies.

You gotta be more specific than “gamers”, cause I am one, and AC has always stood for “Armor Class”.

Reinserted US propaganda? Like the ability to talk about Tianamen Square? Man, Chinese propaganda is the worst. Fuck off back to .ml with that.

42 and counting… I actually have some small hope of trying to buy a house next year though. Not in my home of America though, it’ll be as an expat, and contingent on a foreign bank extending me credit. Not a sure thing at all, but… I’m hoping? There might actually be a path forward? Maybe?