Jesus Christ, seriously? The amount of political ads we were bombarded with for 6 months leading up to November, and people didn’t realize Biden wasn’t running?

Functionally, what’s the difference between “healing” a Pokemon vs. using their genetic makeup and organic matter to biologically 3d print a fully healthy clone?

What I don’t get is the inaction from the democratic party on changing the voting system between elections.

1. The Democrats didn’t secure a large enough majority in previous elections to overcome Republican resistance to changing things like FPTP voting or the electoral college.

2. There is a lot of contention within the Democratic party (at the federal level at least) as it shifts further towards the right in an effort to remain in power. Getting rid of FPTP voting would make it harder for centrist/right leaning Democrats to remain in power.

Several states have switched to RCV for some of their elections, and progress has been slow, but it’s being made. If you want to see more, elect people that prioritize implementing better voting systems.

Fruit-filled pierogi, checkmate

Wait really? Man I knew those games were my favorites for a reason

Ok but what about instead of an explosive release canopy, the crew just sorta loosen some of the bolts holding the top of the plane on, then the pilot flies upside-down to gently tip everyone out of their seats

He coulda just slipped the word “sentient” in to the monologue where he explains his plan. I don’t think that would have impacted pacing at all.

Thanos’ snap wouldn’t kill 50% of each survivors’ gut microbiome, it would kill 50% of all the lil buggies that compromise all gut microbiomes, and if the snap effects individuals randomly, you’d see a normal distribution (I think, I haven’t taken stats in a decade). So some survivors would retain 100% of their microbiome, some would lose it all, with a bell curve in between, probably with the peak around 50%.

I watched it on an international flight after a couple whiskey and cokes and had a great time

Anhubris

They also like women’s underwear because of the pheromones.

You really just casually slipped that in there huh

Some of us don’t have LIDAR-eyes, cut us some slack

I know you didn’t ask, but you don’t need a weird fork of emacs to run a Clojure REPL, that just works in regular emacs

Guys, you’re thinking about this way too hard. Pictures like this have been floating around the Internet for decades. It’s not fancy ai downscaling or any sort of fingers, they’ve just been JPEGed into oblivion

I’m leaning towards real, there’s signs in the background that have coherent text on them, instead of weird, unintelligible, almost-letters.

Can confirm, as someone who spent multiple study halls trying to program a top down shooter on his calculator

ChatGPT is famously bad at the things you’d use a calculator for though

My local place does a seasonal latte with fall spices and ginger syrup, and it’s my favorite thing on the menu. It’s a good combo of flavors, no shame in that

All good! I had no idea that distinction was made in other languages, thanks for teaching me something new!

Oh Jesus God