Rather than a threat I'd say it moreso would fall under "conspiracy to commit murder".

Discussing plans to commit a crime is a crime (eg, conspiracy).

Now, I'd wager she didn't really intend to go through with this, and in the end there's a good chance the charges get dropped, but seriously - don't be talking about shit like that. I can't even see where someone would joke, vent, or otherwise say - even in private - that they plan on committing a mass murder.

"That police department is a bunch of assholes!" - sure I get that. I might say that. I might say they're crooked, lazy, incompetent, or any other set of negative adjectives, but talking about killing people is not a good way to be venting.

Probably put her in solitary because she kept insisting she was innocent.

Back in the day, many were so enamored with the how and why of things that their insatiable curiosity often led to pursuing tech-oriented hobbies and careers. Not just "doing IT", but embracing problem-solving, taking on new challenges, constantly deep-diving into new areas of study, etc.

People have instant access to all kinds of knowledge literally in the palm of their hands, spoon-fed to them with little need to face the mental challenge of working to get information, synthesize it, and understand it. It's the cycle of look it up, read it, move on, rinse, repeat. No depth. No retention. No real understanding.

Curiosity is seemingly no longer encouraged or desired. How do we get this back?

That's why I hate most subscription services. Gyms, AAA - hell even insurance to some degree. They're all built around the idea that the customers should be paying but they're the enemy.

With a straight up transactional or metered service, the more the customer uses something, the more they get paid. They're incentivized to make the service or product good. With a subscription, the more the customer uses a service, the LESS money they get paid. They want to balance the scales between making the service good enough to keep the customer from unsubscribing but not so good that they use it.

Your timetable is way too aggressive. Yes, plant life will eventually die from lack of CO2 - but that's expected to be no earlier than around 400 million years from now - and possibly as far as 1 billion.

Yep. Honestly native builds are what I really need to switch. I appreciate Wine and think its nice, but everything has enough little quirks and workarounds and such that I don't like using it for gaming.

And if I'm being honest, a big enough amount of my gaming is just hearthstone as a side diversion these days that if Blizzard released it for Linux, I'd switch for my main desktop tomorrow.

As it is I just keep 2 machines on a KVM. Windows when I'm gaming, Linux when I'm not.

At first, I was going to question why environmentalists don't go batshit crazy over these launches. But then, I did some quick research and found that, in comparison, automobile emissions dominate global transport emissions by orders of magnitude. It turns out that despite the impressive exhaust volume from these launches, the global spaceflight industry accounts for only a tiny fraction of global combustion emissions. Obviously, there are many factors, but I've questioned this for decades, and the reality surprised me.

I'm surprised there are physical cell phone stores anyways. I have had a cell phone for 23-24 years and I've never set foot in one.

I have to agree. Now, I really wish they'd make an actual brand name for themselves and label the products that way, but half the time those "SEGBDGEDC" brand items for things like screwdrivers, drills, etc actually work plenty good enough for home DIY type stuff. I wouldn't use them if I was using a tool every day for work but for around the house its fine.

To some degree "VEVOR" has started doing that though. A lot of the "cheap but ok" stuff has been started to be branded VEVOR pretty frequently.

Sort of, but many of them have language that makes it ever more the same thing as a surcharge. Particularly in gun shops/shows, its VERY common to see "All listed prices include a 3% cash discount. This discount cannot be earned via credit card.".

What's crazy is when that put that verbiage on AUCTIONS. The auction price that I bid myself somehow is supposed to include a "3% cash discount".

Sort of. The "rewards" are also there to make people spend using the credit card and carry a balance. They know if people think they're "making money" while charging purchases that they're more likely to rack up that total. They know they'll make more via the interest charges in the long run. Sure some particularly responsible card users may be able to game it for some rewards, but they'll be so much in the minority that it won't matter.

Debit cards don't carry that potential, so you won't find any debit cards offering rewards anywhere close to what the credit cards offer.

Cultures influence each other. Being in South Carolina (where individuals of both the black and the bubba variety are very common), I've seen plenty cases of a 4x4 pickup with a lift kit . . . and those tiny sidewall tires on giant rims.

At this point it'd be a flip of the coin to figure out which of the two is driving it.

With the way memory prices have gone with this latest generation, I want the next gen of CPU's to have a memory interface that can support mulitple different types of memory.

EG, the boat doesn't have memory slots - it has a connector that allows you to connect memory slots of whatever type you want (DDR6, DDR5, DDR4, etc).

These damned memory sticks have gotten too expensive to replace every time I upgrade my CPU.

I wouldn't mind seeing GPU's with socketed VRAM either. Given how much of the price is tied to that it would be good to be able to reuse those components.

Yeah that's the winning move. I already use a pair of those (one on a Rasperry Pi that I use for Streaming and one on my actual gaming PC).

The benefit of this mostly being a PC is that you aren't locked to just using the "official" hardware.