Contrary to our stereotype, the vast majority of Americans don’t resort to gun violence or the threat of gun violence to get what they want.

The gravy seals you see on TV are just cos playing and would turn tail and run if they ever really had to put it all on the line. Or even if the local police simply didn’t enable them.

We have a major airport that has been here for ~100 years. But that doesn’t stop the residences under the flight path from attempting to sue, and pushing for it to move to someone else’s neighborhood.

People are selfish and shitty.

Do you want your housing to be on the line every election? Just look at what Trump is saying today about removing immigrants and liberals from jobs and country.

No imagine he’s your new landlord too.

She died 2 years later. Assuming she was old and/or in poor health, I can absolutely understand not wanting to move. It’s especially stressful for the elderly who may have lived there for decades. And it’s not like she could take the money into the afterlife anyway.

I don’t know how, but my mom could open jars better than me when I was a foot taller and much stronger than her. She’d make me move furniture around, and I’d hand her pickle jars.

I wish more people paid attention to snakeoil history. So many people today reject modern medicine in favor of holistic medicine that hasn’t gone through double blind studies.

Instead, you have soccer moms shoving things in their prison wallet because Gwyneth Paltrow tells them to. Or whatever the fuck Alex Jones and Joe Rogan pedal peddle to toxic masculinity cucks.

Also, there’s a strong possibility of bugs in non kiln dried wood.

Great job infesting your property with borer beetles because you couldn’t spend $10 on a proper board.

I mean, it kind of follows Marvel’s own historic struggle with continuing stories past their natural conclusion.

The cinematic MCU had parallel stories of all these different hero plot lines that would intersect in interesting ways. That takes a lot of planning and building, all leading to a single nexus point where it all came together.

And it felt impactful. All the build up led to an epic intergalactic showdown. Twice.

Then afterwards, what are you left with? From an MCU standpoint, everyone goes back to their small little slice of the world/galaxy to do their thing, with some cameos of other heroes they befriended along the way.

To try to bring some level of stakes back, they spiraled down the multiverse paradigm. Just like the comics kind of struggled to make things interesting after the heroes finished their primary arc.

Add on top of that the real world issues of actor burnout on characters they’ve played for over a decade, and you’re going to have trouble keeping up with expectations.

There are still things to do. But they’ve burned through the primary material like origin stories and top villian arcs, and the original actors have probably fulfilled their contracts and are probably not that interested in renewing.

We can defederate them now. Content will move as it reaches fewer eyes.

Yes, hence the reluctant acceptance that it was something urgent I needed to fix, and why I fought so hard to get a QA on my team in the first place. They think so much differently than devs, and dream up conditions I couldn’t begin to imagine.

That’s awesome. Reminds me of programming UIs.

I wrote the UI for a media player once. Our QA found a way to crash the player.

“OH hey! I think I found a bad bug. Here, watch. You start a video, immediately hit stop, then start, then rewind, all before the video is done buffering. See? Crashed.”

Me: “I… who would… all before playback begins? Uh… OK yeah, I think I know why it’s… is anyone actually going to… FUCK. Guess I’m staying late tonight”

Rule number 1 for engineering. No matter what, there IS someone stupid enough to get themselves into that edge case if it exists.

I haven’t played a GT in a very long time. That’s not what they are anymore? I have up on the genre when each car part had like 20 options and I had no clue what was good for a given track

That’s because it set the mould, and dozens of copy cats followed the formula thereafter.

I’m not well versed on the details surrounding this, but it sounds like Pi pivoted to supply businesses during the chip shortage, instead of direct to consumer in the more hobbyist space.

That seems like a win win, well within moral business practice.

Yes, Pi was founded (afaik) as a cheap minimalist PC. No thrills or bullshit, with a strong moral stance on making a barebones PC available to all.

Pivoting to help keep a global chip shortage from causing a global collapse of anything needing simple circuit boards isn’t evil. It’s helping everyone get through potentially a lot worse than not having access to a mostly hobbyist device. And it probably meant they could use their own impacted supply line in the most efficient way possible.

Hopefully the consumer Pi isn’t lost for good, but this seems far from corporate greed, but a necessary concession during a global disaster.