Yup. I imagine that’s the kind of reason why they started that myth in the first place. So they could avoid taking the blame by claiming they were more liberal when they were younger.

Unfortunately, those building 3D printers are mostly just a publicity stunt currently. Too impractical to use at any sort of scale.

Now, if we were to combine AI with the old Sears kit homes, we might be onto something. Given a standardized list of stuff like room dimensions and the materials required for their construction, AI could probably generate an endless number of variations of both houses and additions for them with an exact list of required construction materials and equipment. Entire series of standardized houses with all the materials prepped ahead of time, ready to just be delivered to a plot of land and constructed on site by a local construction companies, with only minor adjustments required to account for the specific peculiarities of the area. The IKEA of house construction.

WoW has historically worked on a daily limit to progression model for the endgame, so the 3 day early access is potentially a 3 day permanent boost for the people who buy it. I would imagine competitive raiders going for world first and “clearing hard difficulty versions of raids while they’re current content” achievements and their related rewards will be essentially mandated to buy it.

As for gamers obsessing over things at launch, I wish it were different, but I think of it like movies or TV shows. If you go and watch a movie a year after it came out, nobody is gonna be talking about it anymore. And for some people, that social buzz around a new piece of media is half the fun. Playing a game and talking about it with your friends, the sense of discovery finding things out before you can just look it up on some wiki site, etc.

Sometimes you just have to accept that the problem exists between the keyboard and chair and work around it.

Studies have apparently shown that the trend of people becoming more conservative as they grow older isn’t even true. The data says that the Boomers were just as conservative when they started voting as they are today. If anything, people consistently become more conservative as they get wealthier.

Me, smashing the Elden Beast over the head with a magic gavel: “The Unga knows where the Bunga is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the Unga from a position where it is to a position where it wasn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is.”

One step at a time.

Bold of you to assume those of us in our 30s now will make it beyond our 50s. /s

Jokes aside, I think there’s 2 kinds of people who relate to these memes: those who spent their 20s hunched over a keyboard and got no exercise after work, and those who worked manual labor for a company that worked them to the point of permanent injury.

You got me on that one, no clue. All I know is that Twitter is where basically all the crazies from Tumblr went after the “female presenting nipples” porn ban.

It took me until today to realize that Tumblr’s threading is the opposite of Reddit’s.

I guess that’s what happens, though, when you haven’t really updated your format in 20 years and have always had the reputation of being the social media site for people who hate social media.

Props to the original CEO, though, for making a site that did exactly what he wanted: not be Facebook in any way, and allow him to post photos that people who followed him could see and allow him to follow people so he could see photos that they posted. Mission accomplished on that end.

The Republicans attempted a coup in the US and have spent the years since revoking minority rights all over the country. It took 2 tries to get Hitler into office, too, and they came for the immigrants first as well.

It should be common sense. But it isn’t. The Republican party platform in the US 4 years ago consisted of a single point: banning gay marriage. That was their entire party-wide goal for the last presidential election. No policies on taxes or anything else, just removing rights from people they don’t like.

Similarly, pancakes don’t have syrup on them. They pour motor oil over them so it doesn’t absorb and looks better in the picture. They put the cardboard under them, too, to make them fluff up better.

There are two kinds of dog people. They are both in this thread.

You’d be surprised by the number of ads you see that were created by a dude who grabbed a bottle of whiskey, did some cocaine, and locked himself in his office for the night.

Actually, based on the quality of the ads out there, maybe you wouldn’t be surprised at how they come up with them…

They’re calling it “financially paired” now? Republicans really will do anything to avoid calling it gay marriage…

It’s also a very clever and awful propaganda strategy. They misuse words with important meanings until they become useless reactionary buzzwords. Like how woke, and politically correct before it, originally meant “to be aware of the unequal treatment of minorities in society” and “politicians should be aware of how the language they use affects people,” and now they both just mean “anything that I, as a conservative, don’t like.”

I’ve seen Christmas stuff for sale before Halloween stuff in stores before.

Hell cannot exist after death because we are already living in it.

I stopped finding this as funny when I learned that some of the “leaks” have been stuff like a person quoting a Wikipedia entry on a WW2 tank, or a recent one where somebody quoted an internationally available manual for a jet.

Still hilarious though that it’s such an issue that “Do you play War Thunder” is a question asked by the US military in job interviews.

A loaf of bread.

Bread often has stuff baked into it, so what’s the difference between a loaf of bread with cheese or nuts baked into it vs. a loaf with chicken, cheese, and marina sauce baked into it.