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You’re right…

For real? Damn, talk about an iconic art style! Do you happen to know which story this is from?

The artwork is giving off serious Asterix and Obeid vibes; do you know where it’s from?

I know the whole USB-A super-state thing is a meme at this point, but you can easily plug in cables first try with these two points:

1. USB cables tend to have a logo on the upwards facing part.
2. If you know/can visualise how the PCB is mounted, you can identify which was is up on the port.

That being said, USB-C is definitely more convenient overall - but I do wish the cables were male and ports female (think Lightning), so that the most fragile part of the connector was on the cable and not the device. Because when that breaks, it’s easier to get a new cable than re-solder a port.

Ideally, it would.

But there is also a perverse incentive in politics against permanent solutions - as once Dems pass a law increasing/indexing the minimum wage, it’ll eventually become normalised after a couple cycles and people will fall back into their old ways and switch back to voting against their interests (GOP) due to social issues.

Going by that argument though, then EVERYTHING is an indirect act of God.

Bullet wound? Clearly it was God’s will, for ordering the universe in such a way that an individual was armed at that point in time to cause you harm.

Cancer? God willed the carcinoma onto your skin.

Maybe it’s just Argumentum ad absurdum, but insurance companies are basically arguing against their own existence.

He did write it, after a bout of inspiration brought on by the first time he power-slammed Andre the Giant. Which just so happened to be in front of a sold out crowd at the Roman Colloseum in 600 CE, because he also invented time travel.

Barbaric, and needlessly cruel.

Every day just brings more and more evidence as to just how little Netanyahu and the IDF think of their Muslim neighbours.

It’s a way to reframe the argument from a vote FOR a milquetoast candidate, to one AGAINST a would-be Dictator.

Know that none of the 3 possible options for voters will immediately stop Israel’s current terror campaign on Palestinians and the Lebanese.

Instead, all it does is set up the future environment and Government whom you can influence the actions of. Only ONE option provides an opportunity which could reign Israel back in, and it sure as shit isn’t a possible 2nd Trump administration.

America has what I like to call ‘Monkey’s Paw Democracy’; almost as if someone wished for a representative Government from a cursed object.

Now instead of voting for policies they like, voters are forced to vote against policies they dislike or risk being punished my having their rights slowly chipped away.

I agree, was just pointing out that the GOP love playing these branding games - so it’s hard to pin them down through weaponised legislation unfortunately… they lack the morals and scruples required for them to feel shame or embarrassment.

Hell, one of their biggest talking points is to call it the Democrat Party (instead of the correct Democratic Party), and watch them put extra emphasis on the last 3 letters too.

The problem with this is that Republicans will just give the bill/law a different nickname to avoid using the one that makes them sound bad every time they oppose it: see Obamacare vs. Affordable Care Act.

It’s more mocking the rebranding from something terrible, to something more appealing.

Meanwhile, I have a black coffee for breakfast to help concentrate my hatred in order for me to get through the day…

Good riddance, mines are such a barbaric form of warfare… generations not yet born will likely fall victim to these insidious things.

In Australia, we could call that Carer’s Leave; Mental health days are a valid use case (at least at my work).

Edit: Mind you, we are also a country that needed to implement a Public Holiday ahead of the AFL Grand Final (similar to SuperBowl) because a significant portion of the population were taking ‘sick days’! 🤣

But they’re the wrong type of brown people, so they hardly count. Merely collateral damage in the search for more beachfront property hostages.

Missing:

Resident Evil (2002) $103m ($180m adjusted)

…of the rest of the movies on your list, I have only not seen Hitman and Five Nights at Freddy’s; but I would be pretty safe in betting that they would both be more enjoyable than Borderlands.

Unironically, living in Australia has conditioned me to be more fearful of smaller spiders (eg. redbacks), rather than the big ones.

Any huntsman spiders that find their way inside get an old white guy’s name (Harold, George etc), and are warmly greeted every time I see them.

This is the correct answer; after the whole USB 3.2 Gen 2 2x2 (hands of blue) bullshit, I wouldn’t trust that team to name a park bench in the middle of the desert. Let alone something important and universally used.