Low precision excavator

For sure, it wasn’t super widely reported at the time. Nuclear weapons and foreign policy just happen to be “special interests” for me so I tend to follow things like that.

There was a sincere risk of Russia using nuclear weapons earlier in the conflict, around the winter of 2022/2023 when the first major Russian mobilization of 600k failed to achieve the desired outcomes and the North Western front started to collapse. The released intelligence info put it at about 50/50.

This is why, at the time, the Biden administration made several clearly coded messages/announcements that nuclear weapons usage in Ukraine would result in an overwhelming conventional retaliation that would remove Russian military capability from the board. It’s also part of the reason nations were so slow to provide advanced support capabilities. There was a fear (justified, imo) that immediately opening the floodgates and giving Ukraine tanks, jets, advanced missiles, and using those missiles to strike deep in Russian territory would result in usage of nuclear weapons. It still is a risk, honestly. If Ukraine started doing heavy damage to Moscow, there’s a real chance Putin might decide to flip the table over rather than lose the game.

Native slotting into server drive cages. No concerns about alignment with the front or back.

There was a jump between old early gen SATA SSDs and modern NVMe in my opinion, but it’s really only noticable if you’re running something like a game with a huge amount of data to load, and you’re actively comparing the two.

My old PC had several different hard drives of differing types and I’d periodically be too lazy to move a game from one drive to another so I’d play it off different drives over a period of time, and was able to compare the loading times.

So I’d say they’re faster, but it’s nowhere near the leap that HDD to SSD was.

The Internet becoming algorithm and bot driven was the point of no return I think.

This is just a modern iteration of the book HOLES, and it takes place in a landfill instead of a dry lakebed.

It is currently the beginning of Feb and our normal weather here is a few days of snow, usually a few inches, usually at least one large to shut everything down (like 10+"). Overcast. In the 20s and 30s (F).

I went skiing on Saturday and have never seen so much literally bare ground outside of the very early or very very late season.

I went to a protest today. Parked a distance away and walked. It was 68°. It feels like the end of April. We got almost no snow - only like a foot unseasonably early in the middle of November. The wildfire season this year is going to be rough, and the summer will be brutal.

Rhe important thing is that we elected a candidate with ideological purity. It’s just that that ideology is fascism.

Hey, they’re useful as a pithy response generator, especially to someone asking for something stupid in person, which is how I use mine. Also decent for moments of indecision lol.

Relatable. Cooking for others? Pulling out all the stops, all ingredients are the best I can find.

Cooking for me? Hot pockets, lol

It would be one thing if Trump was actually anti-trust…but he isn’t.

He’s anti companies which don’t prostrate themselves in front of him and bow to his whims. They’re bad, terrible, anti American companies. The ones that do are great, wonderful, beautiful companies. The bad ones need to be broken up and given to the big ones.

He’s so transparent it’s painful. If someone says good things about Trump or give him money, they’re good. If they don’t, they’re bad. It’s absurdly obvious.

I’m so mad about the time I had to spend learning about the fucking food pyramid

Lmao we’ll be playing it in full dive VR in 2045

It also fixes one of the number one switch components to break - the little plastic toggles that lock the joycons in.

I have it for fan/led management on my pc and it has so much potential, but overall is just so bad and has so little support.

I just want to skip from here to getting murdered by a Megan Fox sexbot maid

The air bud of killing

A few of my friends and myself ended up with the network admin password, so we had full administrative access to every computer. Ah, the good old days.

I’ve always suspected I might be susceptible to gambling addiction so I stay out of casinos.

Instead, I go to the arcade. Which is like a low stakes child casino. Win a bunch of tickets and then either buy something stupid with them, or, just straight give them to some kid.

My point being, we’ve specifically constructed casino-like facilities for children and it’s regularly accepted, so why should Balatro be different?