Don’t forget invasive anti-cheat components that can reduce performance, introduce security risks into your kernel, might be spying on everything else for all we know, and still fail to prevent people from cheating.

It wouldn’t surprise me if some of them still thought that the mission accomplished press release was a big win for W.

You mean my take that some abolitionists were motivated by hate or the take of the abolitionists that were motivated by hate?

Some abolitionists held their stance on slavery not so much because they believed everyone should be free but because they didn’t like minorities being present at all, slaves or not, and thought ending slavery would mean they’d get shipped back to Africa, despite many having no direct connection to Africa closer than they had a direct connection to Europe.

Not all abolitionists thought this way, but it wasn’t always in opposition to racism. Hell, segregation lasted into the 1900s and there’s still a problem with police racism that isn’t being properly addressed to this day, despite the anti-slavery side winning over 150 years ago.

Yeah, I agree. We knew what cool was but kids seem to have lost it somewhere along the way. Though not really same old, older generations were also weird.

Man I feel lucky to have grown up in the brief period where kids were cool, what are the odds?

Or maybe it will be remembered similarly to things like the Hitler youth in the future.

Rule 1 of being in the sun. The sun radiates everything.

At this point, if something upsets them, it might be safer to assume it’s either a good thing or a benign one that doesn’t really affect anyone (but their “solution” sure will) than it being an actual problem.

I was thinking about rabbits, too, that get very vocal when a predator catches them.

It gives me the impression that Elon Musk wanted to literally design one of their vehicles but doesn’t know how to draw smooth edges and rejected any attempts to improve his design because he wanted to see what he had made rather than someone with actual talent’s interpretation of it. But maybe that’s just me.

Just remember those things have cameras all over them so anyone who does this has a good chance of being caught. Unless they obscure all identifying features and keep other cameras that might be in the area in mind, of course.

Footpath makes it sound like it goes through the woods or a field or something.

Julian starts scalping TP, gets Cory and Trevor (or their more recent replacements) to break in and steal TP from homes to make people need to buy them.

Lahey and Randy oppose this at first, but Julian is able to neutralize Lahey when he reminds him how important having TP is for those mornings after nights of heavy drinking. Lahey agrees to leave them alone and run interference on law enforcement in return for 3 rolls of TP a day. “Are you sure that’s going to be enough, Mr Lahey?” Randy asks.

Bubbles wants to avoid getting involved, seeing how pissed off it will make folks with Julian gouging the fuck out of everyone, but eventually agrees to let Julian store his TP in his shed, which is quickly taken over by it.

Ricky says the whole thing is fucking stupid, you don’t even need TP. Ends up in horrible discomfort and pain due to using poison ivy to wipe his ass.

Julian had been dumping most of his significant profits into expanding his venture (and puts the rest into an expensive car and home entertainment equipment, which he showed off in a scene entirely devoid of TP, including a part where someone grabs a roll to wipe their face and Julian stops them with a, “Don’t use that, you don’t know where that nasty shit has been, here use this tissue”, then the scene cuts to Bubbles unable to enter his shed because it’s entirely full of TP and shot ends with him panicking about his kitties"

Ricky discovers that, after the poison ivy, wiping with stinging nettles feels great because it scratches the ivy rash.

Bubbles and Julian discover that his kitties are fine and looove the TP, to Julian’s dismay because they shred the shit out of a few rolls. He had been resisting Bubbles’ complaints and requests to move it up to that point, immediately decides to move them to shopping carts outside.

People start complaining about the TP getting softer because of the humidity. Most of them are stolen from homes, so they aren’t sealed. Julian has to lower prices.

Ricky is found feverish and delirious in a ditch while Julian, Bubbles, Cory, and Trevor are on their way to heist a TP delivery that will ruin Julian’s business. Julian finally decides to put his friendship before profit and they take Ricky to the ER.

While there, Julian also agrees it’s time to ramp down his business because they couldn’t stop the truck and know that more are coming even if they did.

Then, as they exit the ER, it starts to rain.

I think most of the general pop stopped paying attention by the time that was clear. Hopefully more idiots will try to scalp TP and stores will refuse their returns when the scalpers realize any shortages caused by runs (heh) are temporary.

IIRC, the shortage in 2020 was only in stores and warehouse storage didn’t even get fully tapped out before things stabilized.

I also remember going to the stores and being surprised there was still tons of pasta while people were scrambling for TP. I didn’t use a bidet at that time (do now though), but even then my thought was “even if we run out of TP entirely, you can just start taking a shower after shitting, but there isn’t an easy alternative if the food runs out”. The pasta runs came later, but I was already stocked up.

The drop-down text menu with dense options was good design. Adding the quick toolbar for more common tasks was also good design.

Moving everything from the text menu to the quick toolbar was bad design.

Just like the evolution of their search functionality. Started as an explorer feature (good), added to the start menu with a focus on program names (good), then they mixed web results from Bing and it’s unclear if a program I’m searching for is installed and it found that or if it exists and the result is a link to some website (bad, if I wanted to search the fucking internet, I’d launch a fucking browser), also insisting on using their browser (wtf, they should have been broken up 20 fucking years ago, instead the courts decided to just fucking ignore them doing the same shit they lost the lawsuit for only much worse now).

Yeah, his stance on Pence was pretty clear on jan 6 itself. His mob built gallows while he refused to approve security reinforcements for the Capitol.

Ah yes, the incredibly popular pro-AI pro-copyright stance. He’s going to get very far with that one.

They had metal working and also knew how to work clay. Plus finding water leaks isn’t difficult to know what specific points need attention, then you just add material until it stops leaking. The pipes might have been large enough to work from the inside if the flow was diverted.

They also wouldn’t need a perfect seal, just a good enough seal that the majority of the water makes it to the other side.

I’d bet that there were teams of people whose full-time job was to maintain each of the siphons rather than the more modern approach of “build it and then bury it under asphalt because it will probably be fine for years” plumbing takes today.

Out of curiosity, what was the origin of the debt/fee/urgency and how did that pass your sniff test?