I would recommend playing a mediocre game you don’t intend to replay. If you’re anything like me, I associate movies and games with the feeling of sickness I felt watching it. So Shadow of the Colossus, for some reason, is strongly associated with the feeling I had being home sick playing it as a teenager. I still replay it but have that kind of aftertaste of the memory lol. I similarly associate the movie Dark City with having chicken pox!

My Chevy Volt 2013, which still runs great, no longer has OnStar because they never planned for a way to upgrade the connectivity when 3G networks were retired. So I am concretely less safe when driving and lose other useful features like remote start, milage tracking, etc.

One day, literally every Gsuite product immediately and incessantly started nagging us to use Gemini. Fortunately our tech staff quickly switched it all off. We have slowly been re-enabling features that are useful like meeting transcriptions. I just wish these corporations could have more restraint. In previous waves of improvement in tech, usage dictated investment in new products. These days, they seem to feel the need to coerce us to use their products as they insist we should. I think users are getting fatigued by this dynamic. I used to be the first to install every update and try new apps and products. These days, I’m excited when I can stop using a product, and I don’t think it’s just due to age. It means I can stop having to be vigilant about some company I know is searching for ways to exploit me.

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Popular doesn’t mean just.

Oh that’s good news! I really only use it for myself, so that sounds like I can stream my music without worrying

The first one, yes. That’s what I do. But IIRC hosting media via cloudflare tunnels goes against the TOC and they reserve the right to ban users over it

Real life katamari

Idk if it’s rare, but my wife thinks it’s weird that I can smell on the breeze if we are near a winery. It’s kind of an astringent smell

I think it would make a great biopic showing his tragic story, but also his impact and legacy

Yeah I found that odd

Interesting! As a malacologist and biogeochemist, I edit some Wiki articles in my research field, but because of Wikipedia’s rules on avoiding original research and preferring secondary sources, I don’t think I would ever “pull rank” and argue from authority there, because I don’t have an inherent knowledge advantage.

For that purpose it seems fine! The issue is that companies and the government make actually important decisions based on this stuff

It is awkward for a prof to be in world news for romantically chasing after a mentee, asking for advice from someone he knew was a convicted sex predator. Then he is expected to lead a lecture. Maybe you’ve never led a college lecture, but I can assure you from experience that would be a very difficult situation. Maintaining an environment of respect between professor and students is already difficult in normal circumstances

Ah yeah, Lawrence Krauss, very few are surprised about that one

all the better to tuck into a hair follicle

So funny, so real, and still far too unique. We need more movies like this

Beat me to it

Reality tends to make them upset. Information and knowledge are their enemies