I've always understood the punchline of the DOGE "joke" to be exactly this- "whatever one you choose has exactly as much substance as the one created as a joke." The absurd flood of crypto headlines about newly or soon to be minted coins at the time of DOGE's conception is what drove its creation as a joke crypto.

I've gotten quite a bit of mileage out of my steam library on a 50gb bootcamp partition using a lowly 2018 macbook air that I picked up at launch. I use a desktop for the latest and greatest, of course, but my air serves me well for both work and leisure. I'll probably just move to a PC laptop and run linux with a windows partition next work laptop purchase.

I think what you're saying is that, like most science "news", it's an empty summary of a scientific finding written by a shitty clickbait journalist who makes a living on tickling the cockles of political bias for clicks. Once upon a time, there was a chance the slashdot editors might catch or even care about stuff like this, but those days seem behind us. In this example, the clickbaiter manages to sneak the actual finding paraphrased from the study's author into the final sentence of his article that almost no one will read because the misleading headline already told them everything they needed to know so that they could log into slashdot and post snarky and acerbic political rants.

Yea, I agree with you. I just don't see how it's "on the other hand"... What we've done and what I said that we are "trying" to do are not even in the same ballpark. Incidentally, stuff the OP said is also on a different plane of existence.

"Reasonable" means that it hits the sweet spot where a sufficient cross section of the populace doesn't react with the kind of revulsion you're correctly expecting from "rugged individuals" while still remaining effective. The point is that, if that sweet spot exists, it's somewhere between OP's basement and the rugged folks flocking in groups to protest lockdowns as unconstitutional as soon as everything started spiking.

Yea, if only... What's your point?

True, but instantaneously zeroing out the infection rate is not a realistic goal. We're trying to bring the infection rate down with reasonable measures so that 1) hospitals will not be overwhelmed and 2) realistic and reasonable safety measures will prevent another mass outbreak. We've seen some evidence (e.g. Japan) that suggests reasonable measures are enough to continually bring the infection rate down, so if your plan is to lock yourself in the basement and shame anyone who isn't below ground with you, then you can fly a kite.

It's the least interesting thing ever, and it should require almost no mental effort at all to understand how cultural habits ingrained over thousands of years make it unlikely for society at large to rapidly come to your realization, much less act on it. Keep fighting the good fight, but for the sake of your movement's credibility, please pull your head out of your ass.

What the fuck?

First, the distinction I was making is between layperson language compared to technical language...not a hypothetical phrasing used by some random idiot compared to an expert in the field. Even still, why be so selective about the basic facts supporting the hypothetical phrasing from the random idiot? It's a stellar black hole that's twice as large as the predicted maximum and 3x as large as the vast majority of such black holes. In its category, that's a monster.

Your comment is misleading. Monster is not a technical term. Super-massive is the technical term. Monster is just a generic layperson's way of saying it's bigger than others in its particular vicinity or circumstances.

Vaping random mixtures of whatever some hack drug peddler decides to mix into their product is a really bad idea. We've seen enough safe vaping over a long enough period of time to know that the premise is sound, though.

Let's get a handle on this stupid fungus, please... I like bananas.

Everyone keep that in mind while preparing to bleat your socialism vs capitalism trope.

Single use or not, the endocrine disruptors still end up seeping out of the landfill and into our water table, eventually...or worse directly into the food chain through rivers, lakes, and seas.