Uh, I have some notes. First, lead is toxic-can it be a giant blender instead?

Okay, that was my only note, actually.

Close hexagonal packing. Rigid cylinders will approximate this as well.

Not a joke. I suspect the creation of pet rent contributed to the dilution of the concept of service animals (people insisting that Rex the psychotic chihuahua is an emotional support animal).

No, that’s frayed. Fraud is an amphibian known for hopping.

It would probably be “1000s”.

Smaller roman numerals before larger are subtracted from the nearest larger numeral.

So, IX (1 10) is (10-1)=9. “LLM” would be (50 50 1000) which would probably be (1000-(50-50))=1000. It could be (1000-(50+50))=900 but that would more correctly be written “CM.”

“I was thinking about that phrase ‘free as the air’ and thought ‘what if it wasn’t?’”

That headline doesn’t narrow things down much.

That’s fair, I may have been traumatized by spending 3 hours trying to get through the first section in Sekiro before calling it 😅

There’s a second factor at work, which is that the institutions targeted by more “extreme” actions also don’t want those actions publicized.

Consider an action like the one depicted in “How to Blow Up a Pipeline.” If they don’t have a perpetrator in cuffs, the oil company and the cops would not want to admit the action happened at all, because it makes them look vulnerable.

Sekiro? I guess it’s less of a difficulty “spike” if it’s just a difficulty cliff from the jump.

I loved BG3 but there are serious difficulty spikes. I couldn’t make it to the third act because the second act boss kept wiping the floor with me and I couldn’t adjust my party to make the fight winnable.

Guarantee this guy pays a statuesque blonde to beat the shit out of him, or wishes he could afford to.

A good friend of mine from high school got his physics PhD at University of Texas and went on to work in the high energy plasma physics lab there with the Texas Petawatt laser, and a lot of the experiments it was used for involved plasma turbulence and determining what path energetic particles would take in a hypothetical fusion reactor.

Look up Jaime Loftus’ excellent podcast “My Year in MENSA” for an in-depth look at the organization.

I miss the old Onion where they had an occasional column written by “Christopher Walken” called “Walken in LA.”

This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.

Who used those triangular pastel buttons? I remember seeing them on some friends’ computers but not on any Dells or Gateway 2000 machines. Maybe Compaq? Or Packard Bell?

I saw Slackware running on a similar config, although it was probably a 486/50 or 486/66.

I remember my dad’s friend upgrading our PC clone to 640K. He used a soldering iron.

“Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!”