Oh, I know the origins. I just thought it was funny that a band added it to their rider as a joke many decades later, and then was aghast when they realized they had contractually obligated someone to sit there and sort through their entire fish bowl. Like I said, every other venue they had been to simply ignored that line.

I used to work in a roadhouse, and I remember one band had this in their rider as a joke… But our producer actually took the time to pick out all of the brown ones from a giant fishbowl.

The band was equally amused and horrified when they realized. The lead singer was like “yeah we added that to our rider as a joke. We’ve never had anyone actually do it before. Now I feel kinda bad that she had to sit there and dig all of them out…”

Meanwhile, she had an entire bowl of brown M&Ms sitting on her desk to snack on.

But also, it doesn’t matter how soon or late they arrive and get set up… They’ll always wait until you’re mic’ing the kit and your head is riiiiiight next to their snare to start testing things.

Yeah. I had an automatic version. It was basically a pair of ultra-fine sandpaper wheels, and some buffing wheels for a finishing pass. The wheels would spin while the disc slowly rotated, using the ultra-fine sandpaper to remove the surface layer of plastic (where the scratches were) and then the buffing pads would smooth things over a little bit so the surface was smoother.

It definitely still left circular buff marks all over the surface of the disc. But it at least helped get rid of the random scratches that would cause discs to fail to read.

Mac users are using their machines purely for browsing, note taking, etc

That and battery life. Apple’s chips are amazingly power efficient. If I’m going to a long meeting for work and don’t expect to have easy access to a power outlet, I’m going to grab an iPad or Mac instead of my work laptop. I prefer Windows’ desktop environment, (Apple seems to design for “different” instead of “better” UI), but the battery life on Windows laptops tends to be like half of what a comparable Mac (or an iPad) will achieve.

Basically, there’s a reason Macs tend to be propped open for long periods of time. It’s because a Windows laptop would have already run out of battery 45 minutes ago.

You can 100% still buy them. They’re just prohibitively expensive for the average person. Business/commercial TV displays don’t require Internet connection. They’re often used for things like digital signage, corporate meeting rooms, etc… But they’re going to be like 2-3x the cost of a consumer-level TV. Because the price of modern consumer-level TVs is heavily subsidized by the fact that the company is planning on selling your data.

As a bonus, lots of commercial TVs have quality-of-life things like built-in WiFi casting and Bluetooth controls. The WiFi is just for casting, not for data collection and telemetry. Because no company in their right mind would sign a privacy policy to allow potential trade secrets to leak because a smart TV is using OCR to send screenshots back to the TV manufacturer. Because when you’re using them in a meeting room, you want any of the corporate people to be able to mirror their laptop to it without any hassle. So casting to them with your phone or laptop is usually straightforward.

It’s not just OSRS. RS3’s player base has a very vocal pool of extremely conservative incels. You can go to world 84 and drop a casual “Trump did [x]” comment to watch the entire community explode.

For windows, just use Dawn dish soap. That’s what professional window cleaners use. They’re not paying out the nose for special cleaner. They’re just squirting some Dawn into a bucket, filling it with hot water, and using that. It cuts grease like nothing else, so it doesn’t leave streaks when you squeegee it off.

Also, for things that are stuck, an old trick is to use steel wool. Glass is (or at least should be) harder than steel, so it shouldn’t scratch as long as you’re gentle. It’s nice for when things need to be scraped off.

For laundry, you may actually want to consider laundry sanitizer. It’s not a cure-all for pet smell, but it definitely eliminates the “this got pooped on, and will never smell clean again” problem. Laundry sanitizer goes in the rinse cycle (your machine’s “fabric softener” cup), and sanitizes the fabric after it has been cleaned by the detergent.

Laundry sanitizer is primarily used by healthcare workers, who regularly come home with piss, shit, vomit, communicable disease contaminants, etc all over their scrubs. Because regular laundry detergent cleans soils, but doesn’t actually kill biological contaminants. And pet smell is at least partially caused by mold, mildew, bacteria, etc built up over time.

I always thought my feet always smelled bad. No amount of scrubbing helped. My feet went in shoes, and immediately smelled bad. After I started using laundry sanitizer, I realized my socks simply weren’t getting sanitized in the washer, so they’d immediately start to stink whenever they got sweaty. Sanitizer fixed my foot funk basically overnight, and now I use it for anything that may be in contact with sweaty or damp areas regularly. Bed sheets in the summertime, socks, underwear, denim, dog beds, towels, undershirts, etc… You’d be surprised how long your clothes will stay fresh when they don’t immediately start smelling sweaty.

Yup. It’s the old “you don’t need to be a baker to enjoy eating bread” thing. The tricky part is that technology has been shoehorned into basically every aspect of life, so there are comparatively a lot of people who don’t know how to “bake” it. If someone doesn’t like bread, they simply won’t eat it. But that’s not really possible with modern technology, outside of near complete rejection of modernity like the Amish.

In fact, nudity was used to symbolize that Goku was young and innocent. In Japan, a lack of sexual knowledge and urges is seen as a sign of youth and innocence. And there are several scenes in the original Dragon Ball where Goku is clearly confused when he encounters women in various states of undress.

Probably a reference to Mozilla adding Brave’s adblocking system to Firefox.

They should be however much the company made by breaking the rules, with a hefty addition included, inversely multiplied by the chance that the company was going to get caught.

For a company, deciding whether or not to break the law is a purely mathematical equation. If you can make $1M a day by breaking the law, there’s only a 1% chance per day that you’ll get caught, and the fine is only $5M? That’s a no brainer. To the company, they see a project with $1M income per day, a 99% success rate, and a $5M failure cost. All you need to do is go undetected for five days, and you’ve already made your money on the “investment”. Everything after that is pure profit.

So the fines should be adjusted to fit that model. Using those same numbers, the fine would be the $1M per day that the scheme was going (meaning any profit made is now completely forfeit), plus the $5M, multiplied by 99 because they only had a 1% chance of getting caught.

For a scheme that ran for 100 days before getting caught, (meaning they made $100M in profit) that fine would be a grand total of $10.395B… Not million. Billion. Because in order to deter companies from breaking the law, the punishment needs to account for the fact that the company is going to do the math on whether or not they’ll get caught, and what the fine is going to be. And when the company runs the numbers and decides that they have a 1% chance of getting caught, that should be a fucking terrifying number instead of just a slap on the wrist.

Exactly. The tea was sitting in the harbor because it hadn’t been sold yet. The toilet paper warehouse fire was analogous to the Boston tea party, and they’re threatening the dude with the death penalty for it.

I mean, if you zoom in and actually read the text, it very quickly becomes noticeable as fake

Look at the numbers on the scale. Look at the “Downloaid” numbers. Look at the fact that “Syert” is apparently a data unit.

Or how about the fact that something apparently managed to “Uploaid” 97.70 Bytes? Not KB. Not MB. Bytes. You can’t upload .7 bytes, because a byte isn’t divisible by 10. A byte has 8 bits, so it is only measured in eighths. You could upload .625B, or .75B, but not .70B.

Denuvo has a 0-day bypass. It isn’t stopping pirates from playing the game. If you can follow a 5 minute YouTube tutorial, you can bypass Denuvo.

What if yucking yums is my yum? Stop yucking my yum-yucking yum!

The timing is… Odd. We know that Aang died somewhere in his 30’s. Maybe in his 40’s. And Korra was born when he died. TLOK starts when she is 18. So yeah, TLA’s cast definitely looks way too old for the timing.

God I hate when apps don’t have properly marked fields. You can mark your fields as username/password/street address/phone number/etc and browsers will automatically be able to detect them. So they can suggest autofill for the respective fields. But so many sites just… Refuse to properly mark their fields?

I know autofill hijacking was a problem for a while. For instance, a malicious ad could have off-screen autofill fields. So your browser would autofill them and the ad would capture the data. It was super scummy, and is why browsers moved towards prompting for autofill instead of just doing it automatically. But this is no excuse for sites to break paste on their own fields. It adds nothing to security, and only encourages weak passwords.

Nope, it takes place with the main cast from The Last Airbender in their 20’s. So ~10 years after the end of The Last Airbender, and probably 25-30 years before the start of The Legend of Korra.