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Wtf kinda monument points down???
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"We the people will fuck Biden"
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most Steam games require the steam client in order to run? You can't necessarily just copy the files into a flash drive and deliver them to another computer.
(unless of course the game has DRM, in which case both suffer from the same problem)
That's GOG's whole schtick, none of the games they sell have DRM when purchased from their store. You can always copy the installer to another computer and run it.
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I remember him pretty often unfortunately
Some bells ring in my head whenever I remember that he's dead
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As an above average American, I can. I have eaten an entire pizza and then gone back for seconds multiple times. You're supposed to not feel hungry after you eat, but I lack that crucial sense.
I don't do that anymore, but that's only because I remind myself that it's not normal to finish an entire large pizza in one sitting and I'm weird if I do it
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Yup yup yup. I'll die before I buy a car with a touchscreen. I'll get my damn motorcycle license first.
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(I know it's 104 but I can't find a factually correct version of the meme)
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Yes, but also no. In a very literal sense, human beings are animals, and our modification of the world is technically the same kind of thing as, like, a bird building a nest. But I think there is some utility in distinguishing between human activities and non-human activities. We are uniquely capable of altering the environment in ways that no other creature can.
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The Nintendo way. If someone else is making money, make that your money instead
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That depends. Lyrabar, the port city with a seedy criminal underbelly is at the southernmost point of Impiltur, on the northern shore of the Sea of Fallen Stars.
The Flying City Lyrabar and its counterpart the Sunken City exist only in my campaign's Faerûn
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That's the thing, I don't know enough to know what to even ask. So far I've been able to follow step-by-step instructions for installing Mint and downloading software, but I don't know what I'm doing at all.
One example of something I spent hours on is adding Cura to the panel. I finally got that done while I was writing this comment by following AndyMH's answer here.
Now, I can read
I would move the appimage into a folder in PATH. If you create a folder /home/you/bin it is automatically added to PATH next time you boot.
And I can do that. I have no idea what PATH is or why I want to do that, but I can do it. And I can look it up, and I'm sure I'll eventually get to a point where all of this makes sense to me, but I feel kind of helpless when I have to look up multiple terms every time I want to do something as simple as adding an application to the panel
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Mint, judge me
PS anyone have any favorite resources for absolute tech illiterate noobs? I'm trying, but without a baseline understanding of the subject, it's hard to find the right guides
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Giving your enemies a decade worth of food and water to ensure they survive a dozen Venus flybies to drop their orbit into the sun
Actually, can I be your enemy? That sounds like the coolest way to die
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The Helios probes are still in orbit, they're just not functional
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You don't need to cancel the sideways motion at all. You just need to have the slighest motion toward the sun along with our orbital velocity which is being kept from being pulled awa by the suns gravity.
If you have the slightest motion towards the sun along with our orbital velocity, you will move closer to the Sun for one quarter of an orbit, before you start rising again. After half an orbit, you'll be higher than you were before. The difficulty in impacting the sun has little to do with the earth being here—even it it disappeared, the cost of getting to the sun would be basically the same
we don't care about a stable orbit or getting to the sun quickly at all.
The stability of the orbit is largely irrelevant. Anything near 1 AU is not likely to decay to the point where it impacts the Sun before the sun becomes a red giant and expands past the Earth's orbit. At that point, you can just leave your enemies on Earth and be assured that they will eventually fall into the sun in around 5 billion years
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Just strap em to the angry side of the rocket on earth and let the exhaust deal with em
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Edit: replaced a bad explanation with a very good explanation: Hitting the Sun is HARD
Related, The Most Confusing Things About Spacecraft Orbits is maybe the best primer for basic orbital mechanics for people who haven't played KSP
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A sextional
radishnt which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water? ——— mothman-misato y- you were putting it in cold water????? ——— boimgfrog Radish. Answer the question radish. ——— radishnt yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn't realize there was an actual reason ——— boimgfrog #u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ????? You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes??? ——— catsnraincoats [ID: Tags reading "u think i have the patience to boil water wtf?????" /End ID] why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it ——— boimgfrog Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove ——— catsnraincoats Its takes less than a minute ——— boimgfrog Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun ——— catsnraincoats How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove ——— boimgfrog Like seven minutes ——— catsnraincoats Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes... less than that is u use a saucepan... ——— boimgfrog Crying you're putting the whole mug on the stove ???? *On medium heat????* Ur stove is enchanted ——— pidoop Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic ——— silverjirachi Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief ——— wizardlyghost (Enter RADISHN'T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.) RADISHN'T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold? MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?! FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg. RADISHN'T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock? Without the guide of others I assumed That heat was merely added for the sake Of expediting this solution's brewing! Half a decade I have spent, or more, Not questioning this worldview I had made. In fact, I am myself a bit surprised That you might think that I, your dearest friend, Might have a patience of sufficient stock To wait until a pot of water boils. FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so? The microwave will beep when it is done! CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more! Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?! FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know That I have not the patience, like our Root, To boil upon the stove our favour'd drink? CATS'N: It takes less than a minute! FROG: On what plate? Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun? CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task Of boiling but a single cup alone? FROG: In minutes? CATS'N: Yes! FROG: I counted seven, once. CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked! If on a middle heat you place the cup You soon will have the scalding drink you crave. Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate Or even less, if you should have a pot. FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live? You place upon the iron stove a mug? A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold? How do these flames, though medium in height, Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing? Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched With magicks far beyond the mortal ken! (The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.) KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.
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