I'm trying to enjoy that and not focus just on the fact that the act for removing short-barrelled rifles and shotguns from the NFA didn't make it in.
It's too bad the grammar nazis lost. The word you're looking for is "milquetoast".
If you want to read some 40k stuff without needing to know a lot of backstory and would like something considerably lighter than the "grimdarker than black" that the setting is known for, I recommend Ciaphas Cain. It's a comparatively lighthearted series about a cowardly commissar who by incredible luck and/or subconscious skill, against his own efforts, happens into situations where he becomes more and more of a hero of the Imperium.
Kind of vaguely Conan-ish setting, yeah, though I have to admit all of my knowledge of that setting comes just from the Schwarzenegger movie. There are two very important differences, though.
First, while the world of Gor is largely barbaric (in the sense that fighting is done by warriors using medieval weaponry, it's heavily caste-based with institutionalized slavery, etc.) it's not a magical setting like Conan but instead is established pretty early in the series to be a "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" setting. There are no wizards or warlocks, etc., there's instead just a group of beings who have sufficiently advanced technology and choose to keep the rest of Gor in a barbaric state.
Second, the main character is from Earth, not Gor, so there's a few "fish out of water" moments that I don't think would exist in Conan. Not too many, though, as there's a decent timeskip in the first book and the main character spends the rest of the book narrating as if he was basically born on Gor. They happen every now and again in later books as he interacts with different cultures in the setting.
If I were to make one principal complaint, it's that while it is definitely refreshing to finally read a "fantasy" series that doesn't insist on trying to force any sort of girlbossing (part of the tagline of the series is literally "where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire")...I actually get tired of how much narration is spent on the anti-girlbossing side. It's like the author 60 years ago foresaw the current state of popular culture and decided to spend large sections of every book going on about how women actually like being subservient, all they really want is to be abducted by a strong man and tied up until they submit, they need a good smack every now and again to learn right, etc.
It was refreshing in the first book, overplayed in the third book, and yet each and every single sequel afterward I have to read several paragraphs of the protagonist's inner monologue about the sexual dynamics of fantasy third-world cultures. I haven't stopped reading yet, but it's definitely worn thin.
I'm busy reading through the Gor series. It's funny, because I'm 8 books in (they're comparatively small to other fantasy novels) and I still can't tell whether or not I actually like them.
Before that I read Hard Magic by Larry Correia. I don't think the book was bad, per se. I don't regret the time I spent reading it (that dishonor falls only on the drivel that was House of Leaves), but I think it falls short of his Monster Hunter International series. The 1940's-ish setting felt tacked on, I don't think enough was done with it. And since I stopped reading MHI after only a few books, I don't think I'll be continuing to the sequels of Hard Magic any time soon.
Supposedly verified by the White House. I have a number of questions.
First is, I find it surprising that there's no "in-house" app for this kind of secure communication. Signal is perfectly fine as far as privacy, I suppose, but privacy != security, clearly.
Second, does it not notify people in a thread that a number has been added? Surely someone would have noticed that a new person joined the conversation, since this was supposed to be a very small number of people? There's no way for the OP/admin/thread creator to limit the ability to add new participants in the first place?
The operative part of what I said being as far as privacy, I believe their changes are mostly just configuration. There very well might be performance improvements (or hell, perhaps the performance gains are simply due to the altered configurations), but the privacy benefits are mostly just configuration changes that you can replicate on any Firefox build or fork.
Technically speaking, I think most (if not all) of what Librewolf and Waterfox do is configuration changes as far as privacy is concerned. These forks just have those changes defaulted.
You could get basically the exact same result by downloading the normal Firefox browser and using the Arkenfox configuration script (or any other configuration script you like) to "harden" your Firefox configuration settings.
The downside would be that for every new browser version release you'd have to double check your configs and maybe reapply the script after it gets updated to handle new "features" Mozilla throws in, while with a separate fork like Librewolf that team should, in theory, be configuring their browser updates to set those new configs automatically for you.
The fact that so many firebenders can now use lightning in Korra is in and of itself bullshit. There were a grand total of 2 (maybe 3) firebenders capable of using lightning in Aang's time because it was so difficult to use and required apparently superhuman levels of focus. It wasn't some new technique that once found could just be taught to everyone, it was a known quantity that was simply nearly impossible to pull off.
Now it's so common an ability that entire swathes of people make 9 to 5 careers out of it. Bullshit.
Sure. But who were they asking and what were they asking for? Biden's aides did not tell Facebook users to shut up, nor did they ask Facebook to tell their users to shut up. That would have been useless.
What they were asking was specifically for the removal and/or shadowbanning of posts and people. That would be what's targeted by this EO.
Your speech rights and your ability to exercise them are not at risk if someone just tells you to shut up.
I doubt it. Being told to shut up neither restricts nor limits your ability to keep responding. Even spamming you back with shut up messages wouldn't do that.
Ironically, you're probably better off importing the whole buffet. Curry hates kebabs, kebabs hate tacos, tacos hate fried chicken, and fried chicken hates every food. Better to have all the appetizers fight with each other rather than just have the single appetizer fight with the entree.
I read these Wikipedia talk pages where editors type verbal diarrhea to each other ad nauseum and I never fucking understand what's going on.
Is there a YouTube video somewhere that goes over all these stupid abbreviations and rules in a humorous way so I don't go cross-eyed trying to read this shit?
Shit. Beauty and the Beta has been my every fucking Monday morning show (I can never actually cstch it on Sunday so I always watch the day after) for what feels like forever now.
Fuck. That's a downer. I actually can't watch Blonde's channel, the interview format bores me to tears in general. Matt's channel I watch religiously but the main draw was always the Sunday show.
I wonder what the justification was. With Yuzu I know there was that issue with some versions being behind a paywall, but I don't think that was the case with Ryujinx.
It's hard to say. It is true that price gouging will, to an extent, be a form of rationing. You'll be more likely to buy only what you need and not as much as you're able. Logically, this makes sense. Further, if you sold it at a lower price and didn't ration the amount per customer, one of those customers would likely just buy out your stock and price gouge with it themselves.
Realistically? I do not trust anyone from another country to put American people's health and safety before their own wallet, especially not a member of a society that is specifically well-known for in-group preference and negative outgroup bias and has a caste system where many, if not all of them, inherently see themselves as "better people" than others. I guarantee you they're not thinking of the intricacies of this situation as much as you might like to think they are.
I looked at the thread on my desktop, and yeah, you're right, not censored. Then I looked at it on my phone browser, and it's not censored there either.
It's only on the scored app. Bizarre. There must be some app setting that automatically filters my own posts? I've got to hunt that down.
Semi-relatedly, I have often wondered what the media reaction would be to a Republican who said, "I'm pro-choice, because imagine how many more nigger Democrats there'd be if it was illegal."
Edit: I don't comment all that often, I was unaware that nigger is automatically censored. Is that sitewide or just here?
I think it partially depends on what kind of "Asian" we're talking about.
It's something to do with certain conditions in their boost code causing the CPU to request extra voltage it doesn't need.
Having seen how much chaos a 0.1 increase in voltage can do while trying to figure out overclocking, I can definitely believe that requesting X% too much voltage constantly would fuck up the CPU quickly.
Because they caught wind of it now. Some idiot on Twitter doesn't know how to keep their fucking mouth shut.
If Nintendo had heard about it a year ago, they'd have DMCA'd it a year ago.
That's a shame, I like Brandon. This is a lot closer than I thought he'd get, and fuck the RINO in there now.
I'd say that if there's any bright side to this the RINO might realize that his constituents hate his guts enough to have almost voted in a YouTuber in his place...but my belief in any amount of shame, self-reflection, or intelligence on the part of politicians was long ago beaten out of me.
I remember they removed headpatting from some FE game.
There's the infamous dialogue changes, e.g. an entire dialogue chain was removed and just filled with "..." between two characters in a support conversation, the "RAWR! That means I love you in dragon!" or some similar fucking nonsense.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/fire-emblem-fates-localization-controversy
Awakening also had some bullshit but that was 8-4.
I agree with basically everything you said but there was literally not one question in the entire post.