I think nitpicking the inconsistencies in a work of fiction is like going to a magic show and pointing out that it’s not real. No one cares that the balrog had wings, or was divine or whatever contrivance people need to chew on until the story is tasteless. Suspend some disbelief, and just let the thing fall.

Apparently it’s real for a lot of people judging by the number of down votes I got. They’re upvoting this though, which I don’t get. Perhaps they don’t know that this meme is making fun of nerds who treat fiction like it’s reality.

I think you mean fictitious beings.

Use infinite monkeys.

I know this post is old, but I recently found an unexpected consequence. I used to install the Netflix program on my computer because it had surround sound support that isn’t available when you access Netflix through a browser. I stupidly installed the program was through the Microsoft Store, which updates programs without asking. Netflix changed the program to just be a front end to Edge, so one day it just wouldn’t open and it took be a fair while to sort out the reason.

Since the only reason I had the program installed was to get surround sound support, and that’s not available in the browser, I uninstalled the no-longer-useful shell of a program, and kept Edge uninstalled. Now I don’t have surround sound, giving one more reason to cancel my Netflix subscription.

Why are they being coy and calling whatever they found “devices” instead of using a meaningful word?

Volts are not a unit of power. Watts are a unit of power.

I think the only thing worse than living in Phoenix would be living in a city inside of Phoenix.

Never heard of Android I guess?

It also ignores that many of the the non-core policies of both major parties move toward the policies of the winning party. If Trump wins, support for Gaza in both parties will decrease. Not that there’s never a reason to vote third party, but nothing about third party voting is advantageous for this particular issue.

A black and white view of the world gets you nowhere. There is a huge difference in the way that this administration has handled this war and the way that Trump says he plans to handle it. To say that there is no difference in the degree of support these people would provide to Israel or Gazans is incredibly naive. Your choices are grass flavored ice cream, or shit flavored ice cream. Vanilla isn’t on the menu, and you have to pick one. “I don’t like either”, as if the two choices are the same, is living in a fantasy world.

People who deliberately misquote people are not worth talking with. There is a choice and if you think pretending like there isn’t one gets you somewhere, prepare for a very different approach to this war when Trump takes office.

There was a game called Mind Trap that asked about this. It said the right answer was that running didn’t get you less wet, and that it made no difference how fast you walk. The explanation said to imagine the rain was stationary in the air. Then as you walk at any speed you’d walk into the same number of rain drops. Such a bonkers stupid explanation.

Require all LLMs to provide answers in the form of haikus.

I don’t at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans? Trump has said he would wholeheartedly take Israel’s side and provide more support than the current administration. There isn’t a choice between what you have and what you want. It’s between what you have and something worse than what you have.

Trump winning doesn’t force Democrats to support Gazans. It forces them to side with Israel in order to appeal to the electorate.

I can’t figure out what you mean. The subtitle in the lemmy post goes to the same place. Within the article I dont see a link elsewhere.

Humorous, but also stupid.

I don’t know what I’m missing here, but I don’t see numbers for the race at the link provided. I just see national polling numbers.

Although there is a common adjective order, it’s not always clear which category a word belongs in. People insisting that the words “modular” and “versatile” fit into whatever category they chose are presenting a lot more certainty than is warranted. I am a native speaker, and either order sounds fine in this case.

There are two bills mentioned in the article. One in Arizona is to make the subminimum wage even lower. One in Massachusetts is to raise the sub minimum wage to match minimum wage, effectively eliminating subminimum wage.