I’m pretty sure the “4d chess genius” thing was satire to start that just got Poe’s lawed.

I just looked and it’s now over 185k. The goal was 30k.

I also had no idea. This is what I found.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel’s_nose

The camel’s nose is a metaphor for a situation where the permitting of a small, seemingly innocuous act will open the door for larger, clearly undesirable actions.

Isaac Asimov in 1980:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

This constitutional crisis is “looming” in the same way the saucers were “looming” over the Whitehouse in the movie independence day. While they were firing…

Are you thinking of veritas? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

5.56 is is the standard ammo used by most NATO nations. It’s what (for example) most AR platform rifles are chambered for.

It’s a specific bullet size to be very explicit.

When the initial allegations came out I was shocked. A week later I was having breakfast with a good friend of mine and his wife. The wife worked in the comic book industry and we’d talked about Gaiman before. I brought up the allegations and she told me that no one who rubbed elbowed with his circle were shocked. Apparently he already had something of a reputation.

Corrections falls under the sheriff’s department.

The first trillionaire ain’t gonna make themself.

Ah shit, serves me right for posting off the cuff…

Though that is also a thing.

They’re fully vertically integrated from the silicone through the compiler, os, and all software running.

“my spoon is too big”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7JyjZI3LUM

I started off really enjoying the series, but eventually had to abandon it as he kept adding increasingly over the strawmen who’s sole purpose was to be blown away by the might of Randian Objectivism.

Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.

GameStop bought them a couple of years ago. That was the deathknell.

I’d second all three.

Neil Gaiman is absolutely one of my favorite authors and from what I’ve seen, a pretty great human being as well.

I loved Orson Scott Card’s books when I was younger, even the later Ender books. Unfortunately he’s also a pretty terrible person much like Rowling.

It was pointed out to me today that if you put 710 into a calculator and turn it upside down, it spells oil.

(Do kids still do that kind of thing?)

I never even received an email. I haven’t touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn’t log in.

I tried to contact support and they told me that they had “widely communicated the migration through email and social media” and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I’m not on social media.