Yeah, I suspect that the universe may expand and contract, so likely all the matter in the big bang came from it all being compressed from the previous cycle.

I also think all total matter gets distributed the same way each cycle, so I guess I think all matter that exists now is the same matter that has existed always.

I also think each cycle, everything happens the same way deterministically, even though it would be exciting to see if maybe events happen differently each cycle.

I was going to say that yeah, you can actually get even motels and some hotels at hourly rates, usually in high crime areas with rampant prostitution.

They’re inventing a technical reason to require online to make the game functional. This is insane.

I absolutely loved Civilization: Beyond Earth tbh. Nowhere near as bad as people said and I wish it had been successful so there was more content to expand the game than what we got.

Sanctioning a legal body because they call you out is crazy, trying to put pressure and sieze their assets is insane. US is the villains.

Isn’t that more like “you can’t ask an elm tree for pears?”

And even more literally “don’t ask for pears to the elm?”

That’s the only realistic outcome of this whole thing, eventually that territory will either be all of Ukraine, or the strategically important parts.

I usually find that ballpoint pens work poorly if paper has gotten wet, if it dries though you’ll probably be able to keep writing in it, best to throw it out though tbf

I thought of the same. I assumed this anachronism was meant to imply he was incredibly old and around for the initial rollout of the telephone.

Maybe they’re secretly just that popular

You can poke a tiny hole into a piece of paper for the same effect

How to junction magic

I’ve recently fallen in love with the PSWii60 generation of gaming and playing a lot of PS3 games. It might be the best console ever made.

Obviously Ukraine is going to lose. I’ve called this since the beginning, and trust me, I’m not prescient.

I didn’t read the article because I’m the worst, I just wanted to agree with the title.

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Exactly, JIT as a philosophy doesn’t tolerate interruptions. Logistics are not resilient to supply chain shortages.

So it’s really, really worth understanding that only OS and applications created to use RISC-V arch is going to work on this.

Okay, I feel like anyone that thought that they had a chance of winning was drinking the Kool aid anyway, it’s obvious they can’t win, not even a war of attrition.

I’m someone who loves history, and global politics, and although not literally recognized as an expert or anything, it’s super obvious that without the constant flow of aid Ukraine would’ve fallen in less than 8 months.

What we have now is a proxy war where the EU and US are propping up a losing nation, but soon they will either surrender or be conquered unless the US or Europe directly intervene.

I agree actually. It really would signal the end of Western cultural dominance and hail in Russian and Chinese cultural export and soft power.