qyron

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qyron,

You could put giant billboards warning for the risk and it would still become a recurring event. Even if it said “warning: this is capable of grinding a human being to pulp”.

qyron,

That would meam a lot of derivatives would never come to be.

It’s like saying you would like to eclipse the Sex Pistols or Black Sabbath.

qyron,

Oh, for f sake!

Have an upvote and get out! Go to horny jail!

qyron,

Americans: demand from your government the responsibility to handle your taxes directly.

I’m in the EU, from a small country, and all tax forms have to be filed through government tax authority servers, running state designed programs.

I can hire a legion of accountants, a lawyer firm and third party to represent me and still everything will still go through the same channels.

Or I can simply use that same program, through the same website, with my secure credentials, and file my own taxes for free, calling the tax department whenever I have doubts on what I’m doing.

demand that your taxes supply you with the government services it supports

qyron, (edited )

“But the audiences, the opinion panels, the surveys”

It was a Starwars movie, it was a guaranteed success at the box. The viewers can handle a little disappointment for a better story.

I could handle a non sensical character for a long stretch if at the peak of my rage that character became a such pivotal one, with a twist so unexpected and deep applied to it, it forced me to go back and review the entire story with new eyes.

qyron,

Isn’t there a team doing an effort to “remaster” the originals and remove all the added digital garbage?

qyron,

Wholesome.

I think everybody was in need of it.

qyron,

Have someone noticed all parts in the picture are happy with situation? The imp is smilling and woman seems delighted.

qyron, (edited )

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there are no risen raised vans or with 4x4 traction, which I often require to reach some remote locations, especially with rainy weather.

But I would gladly trade it in for a small van.

Either that or a 1990’s 4x4 FIAT Panda, with a roof rack.

qyron,

I’ve run MATE for nearly a decade and am now running XFCE, preparing to jump into a window manager as soon as I get a machine for my exclusive use.

What does that make me?

qyron, (edited )

I get that on those lazy weekend mornings where I wake up at my regular and just keep my lazy ass in bed reading.

After some time, I eventually nap a bit. Waking from that usually means I get drowsy. But don’t care: lazy weekend!

qyron,

New knowledge acquired! Thank you. Wasn’t aware of that detail.

qyron,

That is technically correct, regardless the scale you opt for.

qyron, (edited )

Scratch costs with transportation. No need for any means of transportation.

Also a lot more free time. No commuting, no early leave to get somewhere on time. Just blink and you’re there.

qyron,

Brass knuckles… with a jesus figure… and side bars… with an embossed “have a taco”…

so… BDSM “furniture” tool? Perhaps maid?

Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages" (z-library.se)

Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For...

qyron,

You can’t even imagine the amount of problems a simple grunt can cause in any given process, without going against orders.

Following due process is often enough to bog down processes to a point whatever is being done is rendered useless when finally achieved.

qyron,

There are precisely two instruments on this world I would try to learn:

  • the bag pipes

Because, to my knowledge, it it the most annoying instrument known to humanity. It’s loud, it’s screechy, it’s haunting, it’s everything hateful in a music instrument and yet it is so damn epic sounding.

  • the hurdy gurdy

Silly sounding name for an instrument capable of sending shivers down your spine.

It is also ridiculously cumbersome and unless you know what it is, the basic reaction to it is wondering if a piano, an accordion and a jack-in-the-box had a threesome and nature decided to create the musical instrument equivalent of the platypus.

I like this instrument so much I created a character for a story that is a necromancer bard, that conveys spells through the music of the hurdy gurdy.

qyron, (edited )

Can we get a geneticist here?

Last time I was taught about biology, selective breeding was a process through which, over a long period of time, individuals with favorable traits were multiplied in order to increase the prevalence of such traits.

The genes were already introduced, hence, no modification. Already existing characteristics were allowed to further express and refine.

Genetic modification, to my understanding, implies introducing genetic information into the genome of an organism to produce another with traits previously completely absent in the species.

Selection vs manipulation.

I’ll concede there are a few cases where the lines blurr, like the golden rice, where a gene that codified the production of vitamin A in the grain was/is already inactive or so receassive, in order to have it express again would require gene manipulation but I think a selective production program was put forward in an attempt to bring out that gene again.

qyron,

I can’t agree with that.

The basic notion of genetically modifying an organism implies changes enacted at the genetic level, through artificial means, not biological.

This fast food order kiosk accepts cash (mander.xyz)

All the McD*nalds in my area have been upgraded with order kiosks. Regardless of all the controversy around self-checkout, and minimum wage, and automation taking our jobs, I personally love them. I can take my sweet time composing my order, I can see the full selection (such as it is), I can see pictures and prices clearly...

qyron,

I’ve known these for about… 4 or 5 years? I guess. Not much of a fast food client.

But these work. These really work. Less hands on the front, less confusion to deal with, the order goes from the customer hands to the kitchen: if something goes wrong with it, you fumbled it. And with less hands on the front, more hands can be in the back, preparing the cholesterol bombs.

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