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- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 6 days ago:
I thought part of the legend was that his parents were killed but they had arranged for him to be cared for and educated, probably at a level that the average orphan can’t get anywhere near. Plus there’s all that physical training that he has to do all the time. Like in this story he (at one point) beats the crap out of Harry Potter even though Potter is an Auror with tons of magical combat tricks. I’m unfamiliar with Rorschach so can’t compare.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 6 days ago:
Batman has to be free from the need for a real job, plus be able to run the Batcave research infrastructure that developed the Batmobile and all that. Plus keep Alfred on staff and in on the secret, plus stay with his backstory of Thomas and Martha Wayne being murdered.
Spider-man isn’t rich. If you want a non-rich superhero, you might check him him out.
Or heck, I’m old enough to remember Reid Fleming, the World’s Toughest Milkman.
- Comment on Is 71° F (21° C) the ideal weather to wear shorts? 1 week ago:
It depends on you, of course. You won’t freeze though, especially if you are walking around.
- Comment on Whatever you feel about Bond Films, Do you think it wouldn't be best they just ended it with the last film. 1 week ago:
I’ve seen a few of them, don’t know what the last one was. The studios will keep milking the character as long as there’s money in it, so it doesn’t matter what we think. It can play out in any number of ways–use your own imagination. But there could be clones or reincarnations of Bond, or maybe some period pieces like Bond in WW2 (he was in the Navy before he was in the Secret Service), or whatever.
I read most of the Fleming novels and of the movies I saw, I liked the ones that stayed reasonably close to the books, plus the wacky 1967 Casino Royale with Peter Sellers. But I’m not a movie buff and haven’t seen the more recent ones.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 week ago:
It’s close to certain. We actually did a calculation in HS physics class, “how many atoms of Cleopatra are in each of us?”. This is similar but multiply by many thousands.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 1 week ago:
Not giving Trump any benefit it’s about someone (even a bad person) using the options they have available. People here love saying gotcha but in this instance it’s illogical.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 2 weeks ago:
Shrug, I’m not a fan of Trump but I still don’t see the issue there. If he got mail-in voting banned and then skirted around the ban himself somehow, that would be scammy. If he wants it banned for everyone including him, but as long as it’s available to everyone he’s gonna use it, then whatever. The thing about postmark not being good enough to authenticate voting date is just crazy though. Postmarks are used for all kinds of legal authentication and voting isn’t special that way.
- Comment on Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone is seriously opposed to absentee voting when the person doesn’t have a practical way to vote at the polls, due to being away from their district on election day, being medically unable to leave their home, or that sort of thing. They just want to curtail it to such necessary cases. Trump presumably voted from Washington DC for Florida election and that would qualify.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 2 weeks ago:
In my day the food was never good but it was usually reasonably edible and that’s all anyone expected from it. It’s probably worse now.
I still remember “Turkey 2-Hydroxy Tetrazzini”.
- Comment on Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots 2 weeks ago:
A ruling by the court’s conservative majority could invalidate state laws that allow ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive later. President Trump has called for restrictions on mail-in voting.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm ok, maybe you could write up a quick summary. Yes it’s possible that I mis-read it. I thought that LP had rejected the PR. Thanks.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah there was some back and forth. It got approved by someone from Microsoft then unapproved by Lennart Poettering. Basically temporary kerfluffle. There’s a writeup from yesterday, I think this: itsfoss.com/news/systemd-age-verification/
There’s now an unpopulated field to hold a birthdate but it’s not being used by anything. I guess that is sub-optimal though. This kind of thing if it’s to exist at all should be on individual user accounts, not anything system-wide.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Some random foolishly submitted a systemd patch and it got rejected after some back and forth. I think there’s not much more to it so far.
- Comment on How do you play Poker with just 2-person text messages or DMs? 2 weeks ago:
There’s a family of fancy cryptographic protocols for doing stuff like this. See:
- Comment on Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify 3 weeks ago:
Can anyone explain what this is about?
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 3 weeks ago:
You mean an internet venue? Hell no, absolutely not needed, we got by without it for thousands of years and it was fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
But getting it published is a very difficult proposition. Indie artists struggle like hell, even if they do their own site and distribution.
Getting retail distribution beyond your locale is difficult, making a profit is very difficult, but publishing in its own right is quite easy ;).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
We can’t find out whether a story is stupid til after it’s written. But wasn’t the Harry Potter series about a wealthy superhero who spent his early childhood in privation as a plot device?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Quit reddit, problem solved.
- Comment on Trouble Dating? Bill Ackman Is Here to Help. 4 weeks ago:
Uggggghhhh.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Add mustard.
- Comment on House Turns Back Bid to Restrict Trump’s War Powers in Iran 4 weeks ago:
Along with Mr. Massie, just one Republican, Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio, backed taking up the measure. Four Democrats — Representatives Henry Cuellar of Texas, Jared Golden of Maine, Greg Landsman of Ohio and Juan C. Vargas of California — broke with their party to oppose doing so.
- Comment on What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government? 5 weeks ago:
Supposedly this is what elections are for.
- Comment on For Americans, what do you really think of Latin Americans? 1 month ago:
They are smarter than I am. I could never properly conjugate “Romans go home”.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 1 month ago:
Rent a storage locker and get everything out of the house quickly. Throw out anything that you both feel ok letting go of, but don’t put much energy into decisions about stuff where you’re not sure. Just chuck it in storage immediately. Now you have an empty house and can move. You also have a monthly storage bill but that’s hopefully a lot less than the rent on the house, and you can take your time getting rid of stuff from storage, or even selling some of it on CL/ebay.
- Comment on New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin 1 month ago:
First Helen of Troy, now this. What is the world coming to.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Blokhin
Blokhin was selected for the position by Joseph Stalin in 1926 and led a company of executioners that performed and supervised numerous mass killings in the Soviet Union during Stalin’s reign, mostly during the Great Purge and Eastern Front of World War II.[1] Blokhin is recorded as having executed tens of thousands of prisoners by his own hand, including his killing of about 7,000 Polish prisoners of war during the Katyn massacre in spring 1940, making him the most prolific official executioner in recorded world history.[1][2][3] Blokhin was forced into retirement in 1953 after the death of Stalin and condemned during de-Stalinization shortly before his death in 1955.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Dunno what happened with your subculture but there is a recurring path that isn’t pretty:
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 2 months ago:
Hardcore nerds use TeX but if I understand your question, you probably want LibreOffice. I’m unfamiliar with OnlyOffice so ok, maybe that’s good too.
- Comment on Should I replace my laptop battery, and are third-party batteries safe? 2 months ago:
I haven’t had trouble with 3rd party batteries but there’s a combination of FUD and legitimate scare stories about them. For cylindrical cells, the really cheap ones are crap and this can be detect by X-ray:
hackaday.com/…/lumafield-shows-why-your-cheap-186…
IDK if there’s a similar deal with pouch cells.
Generally, replace your battery at below 50%. At 68% I’d keep using it. Maybe add a power bank if you want to keep going for longer. If 68% isn’t enough to get through your day, then 100% is at best sort of marginal.