This is me, too. Furthermore, even if I enjoy the trip itself, “having a trip planned” but not being on the trip yet is the most stressful time of the whole ordeal, and the stress only increases the nearer to the day of the trip it gets.

When you get an image with the mouth open and it’s alarmingly detailed, that’s when you can be absolutely sure.

IDK, WDYM?

Video game travel always has that weird feel to it, too. For instance, in the Morrowind / Oblivion / Skyrim, you can run from one city to another in roughly a minute. Even if we very generously assume you’re running at ~15 MPH (which would be crazy fast for any distance), that would put them about a quarter mile apart. At more realistic speeds, 1/8 or so.

Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.

I’m not sure where you got the impression that that was at all what I was saying, but just to restate, the complaint was that the above points never even make it into the conversation when this comes up. The discourse is always ‘Robots are taking away our jobs’, and it completely misses the ‘…and that would be okay if we took steps to ensure everyone’s prosperity’ followup.

I’m not saying we should stop opposing this stuff because an alternative exists where it’s okay, I’m saying that we should be actively talking about that alternative every time this comes up, because the vast majority of people [in the US] are not used to even hearing it.

I agree with you, I just hate that it rarely ever even makes it into the conversation. “We need to regulate this new technology until we pass this other legislation that we are actively working towards which I will now outline” would be far more productive than just “This is bad and we need to ban it.”

The reasons related to them occupying sidewalks and whatnot are totally reasonable, but I really hate when something like this is opposed because it will take jobs from delivery drivers. That’s such a backwards way of thinking. “Humans need to work because working is how we make money and we need money to live” Sure, but like… what if we didn’t need money to live? What if the increased ‘free’ labor that things like this provide was just… shared equitably among everyone in the community? What if we had UBI so people didn’t need to work gig economy jobs that could be done by robots?

But no, that’s crazy talk. The orphan crushing machine must keep running at all costs.

Seriously, my first thought was, “Why isn’t this a thing?”

An even better option is Ventoy - You just drop the raw .isos onto the drive and it gives you all of them as options in a bootloader. Can put all of your distros on one drive (and even windows isos if you really need to for some reason).

Wow, I’m very below average for my age bracket; I feel much better about my weight now! Thanks, Gemini!

I loved Beakman’s World. It was a more wacky version of Bill Nye.

And here I expected that link to lead to a certain highly controversial Penny Arcade comic.

It’s great because A) his parents presumably named him that knowing full well what they were doing and B) He could have chosen to go by Will, William, or Bill, but actively chose to use Willie professionally.

Yeah, that’s a lot less fun to imagine. :(

Now I’m imagining a room full of people swallowing battery after battery to test this product.

Until you open the door and decapitate him.

On the other hand, the platform isn’t large enough to support the body with B so there’s danger of it falling off or hurting people or whathaveyou. With A, you risk the head and neck falling down and hurting someone but the body, at least, is in a stable position.

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There’s literally no way any of us could possibly know the answer to that question.

Yes.