I have the same question. I game, write code, browse the internet and all sorts on Bazzite. (I actually moved from Pop to Bazzite because I couldn’t get my storage hdd to mount and stay that way on Pop (I am a Linux n00b, in case that wasn’t obvious. ))

A man.

No to self defence. You learning self defence will only provoke a stronger response from the guys who will go up to and beyond killing you, and may call in actual military support if required.

Civil disobedience feels like a better approach. Forming human walls, information networks and rapid support responses slow and mitigate attacks on your community.

Applying pressure to your representatives also can help.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

The friend who introduced me to the series does!

Ok, maybe a warm take, but Jordan’s books are not great. The first 2-3 are great. But then it fucking drags. Sanderson does a decent job wrapping things up, but there is so much fucking fluff that was just unnecessary.

I will, however, protest having Padin Fain be a Forsaken. That was a definite misstep imo. Fain is supposed to be a chaotic 3rd party who can use the tools of the Forsaken but is explicitly not aligned with them.

Otherwise, season 2 was a big step up from s1. Haven’t gotten around to s3, since it got canned.

I found the first episode so tropey and…. predictable isn’t the right word, but you knew who was about to get bit even through it didn’t make sense. Rote? Clumsy? Something something. I also didn’t make it past ep1

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210813-the-reasons-humans-started-kissing

I was looking for something about sharing antibodies or something to do with disease resistance, but it’s not listed in the article

Neat!

Blender and FreeCAD.

Blender for organic, sculpted shapes.

FreeCAD for parametric, accurate parts.

Waow, look at all the money we saved with layoffs. Buy our stock!

Waow, look at all the growth we’re experiencing, we have to hire more developers. Buy our stock!

I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not, but it has happened before. The article references it.

I managed to make the jump to 7-up free from Coke. I do quite enjoy it now.

You can also try those dilute drinks, to liven up water.

Amazing to me that a glance told me the franchise this was from.

Of course, not all the companies survive and now there’s decreased competition, so we can shove prices up a little bit further

This has happened before. Back when I used to browse the armpit of the internet there were classified military docs that had the same technique used.

CEOs are obliged to act in the best interests of the company (as opposed to shareholders, which I stated previously). 99.99% of the time, that means increase market share, revenue and margins while cutting costs as close to the bone as possible.

True, but honor and loyalty are worthless to a corp.

They are legally obliged to.

It’s not a dig against Nvidia, imo. All companies do this if they can. AMD siphoned off chips for enterprise from both cpu and gpu, because the premiums you can charge are so much higher.