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Guardians 3 was good.

Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.

On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.

Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…

Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.

They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.

The thing is, the exclusion zone isn’t uniformly radioactive. The hottest spots are not areas that wild life would normally spend a lot of time near.

Then there’s the fact that the way we’re all taught about radiation and cancer is just flat out wrong. The Linear No Threshold model that most people know was actually created by the Rockefeller Foundation in an attempt to slow the adoption of nuclear power.

Combine those two factors, and you get stories like this, where researchers are shocked that higher than average radiation exposure doesn’t equate to a simple linear increase in cancer rate.

Not that these wolves haven’t developed an increased resistance to radiation. But it’s not a new thing. Every living creature on this planet has mechanisms to repair DNA from radiation exposure. These wolves are simply better at it now than generations past.

I actually say the cheapest option is buying a good quality Safety Razor, and then packs of blades for pennies each.

It’s how I’ve shaved for years, and I’m never going back to the multi blade bullshit disposables.

Adli’s beer is usually locally sourced. I lived in Columbus OH for a time, and the selection was actually pretty good (depending on season).

I’ve also seen Aldi stock horrible beer, both in Columbus and elsewhere.

I see most of the people in the comments here have older model heat pumps.

Newer model heat pumps are quite a bit better than even ones made 10 years ago.

My dad had one put in two years ago for his garage kitchen, and it’s worked quite well, even in fairly cold temperatures. Most importantly, that heat pump doesn’t have an auxiliary mode, and yet it still works in sub freezing temperatures.

It would work even better if it were ground source, but those are both expensive and require digging up the yard.

That wouldn’t work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

Daily Driver

Here’s someone using the term in 2011.

https://xdaforums.com/t/what-os-are-you-using-as-your-daily-driver.919218/

And I’m sure there are plenty of older examples.

But some others are here from 2015

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34990

2017

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222919

2014 (ish?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2njaz3/what_are_you_using_as_your_daily_driver/

All that from a simple google search.

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it’s an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env… But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It’s just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

Fun fact time, -40F is -40C.

And 575F is 575K

Yeah, that’s not happening. I only whitelist sites I trust, and that little pop-up doesn’t engender trust.

They ditched the “don’t be evil” years ago. Now it’s “As many ads as possible”.

I hear that they can cover up to 80% of a user’s visual field without inducing seizures.

I think I still have disks for Slackware 11 and 13 floating around somewhere. I even ran 13 for almost 2 years as a daily driver… And then got pissed off trying to update packages.

I’ll admit that these days I just run Ubuntu, because it’s easy, and it works without hours of googling how to fix some random dependency that I can’t actually find for some reason.

That’s a fairly major power. The question was about a small thing as a power.

Like the ability to know what judges and politicians are corrupt… From reading the newspaper and their court filings, because they already tell everyone that they’re corrupt, like all the time. It’s not hidden, it’s just next to impossible to get people to care about it. Or to get the right people to care about it.

Like, look at Clarence Thomas, the fucker is corrupt as all hell, and since the Republicans don’t care, nothing can really be done. Because it’s technically not illegal, and Republicans are blocking any form of Ethics reform.

I’d take things a bit further than just communism. I’d imagine a world where farm and factory are all largely automated and publicly owned.

Anyone who wants a role has one, but no one is punished for not. Housing and food are guaranteed to all, as are most small luxuries.

Want to make the world a better place? Do it. Science and Tech would be fully funded. Want to sit around and just sort of live? Sure, you get UBI.

The only work places not owned by the workers would be the ones owned by government. If it’s an essential service, it’s government owned and government operated. If it’s for fun, then sure, let some people get together and work toward making something fun.

Another change; copyright and patent law would be maxed at 14 years. That number has actually been shown to be when 97% of the profit is made on most copyrighted work. This one change would open up so much potential for public domain creativity.

I’d allow for continuing trademark of character, if they were in continuing use. i.e. a sort of serialization exemption to the copyright limits. If the author keeps putting out new material, they get to keep a form of control over their works, but if they stop, then it’s all public domain.

I may have put a lot of thought into this over the years, and parts would still likely need to be adjusted during implementation.

Not yet, Several are in active development.

This is the one I’m waiting for. @ArtemisApp

American cheese is just normal, cheddar style cheese but with the addition of some sodium citrate.

Sodium citrate is a fun little food chemical that give the cheese a slight citrus bite, but more importantly acts as an emulsifier. It keeps the oil and water inside the cheese bonded together. This means the cheese melts and then never becomes greasy.

You can abuse this. You can make a super creamy cheese sauce for a higher brow mac and cheese by using some shredded cheese, a couple slices of American, and a few splashes of the pasta water.

RCV is the single winner version of STV.

Every single fault of RCV is present in STV, but because it’s a multi-winner format, the complexity and lack of transparency in the counting process are far worse.

If you really want proportional or multi-winner elections, then a better option is this.

It’s based off of Score the same way that STAR is, but tweaked to be multi-winner.

Approval is super easy and can be used at small scale, and at large scale too.

But here it is in less than 2 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orybDrUj4vA

Doing it at large scale, is just scaling it up. And the great thing is, it easily handles as many options as you throw at it.

Do you have 3 hours?

This live stream explains it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-dzK3YIAf8

The TLDR, or TLDW here;

The difference between RCV (also called IRV) and STAR is the difference between an Ordinal system and a Cardinal system.

An Ordinal system is a ranked system. Chose one or the other, but never both. A vote for A means you cannot also support B. This lead to some math shit that actually gives preferential treatment to two party systems.

RCV claims to support third parties and solve the spoiler effect. The truth is the opposite in every way. It eliminates fringe parties that would spoil elections, but also falls prey to spoiler effects when you have very similar candidates. It’s actually a mess.

STAR on the other hand is a Cardinal voting system. A vote for A is a vote for A and a Vote for B has no impact on A. A good example is saying that I give Chocolate Milkshakes 5 out of 5 stars and New Coke 1 out of 5. But here’s the main difference to an Ordinal system, I can also give a Banana Smoothies 5 out of 5 stars. Because I’m rating them as individuals, not in comparison to each other.

STAR is literally a 5-star review of the candidates, and the two with the highest average (or just highest scores) are then put head to head. Each ballot is then looked at, if Chocolate Milkshakes are rated higher on any given ballot than Banana Smoothies, Milkshakes get the vote of that person. If they’re the same, a vote of No Preference is logged, and the No Preference votes are also made public at the end.

Absolute best would be STAR.

https://www.starvoting.org/

A good runner-up would be Approval.

https://electionscience.org/