The fall of which Rome?

I still contend that this isn’t equivalent to the fall of the Empire. It’s equivalent to the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire.

The US isn’t dealing with Astragoths and Huns pillaging their cites. They’re dealing with an exceptionally stupid version of Caesar trying to usurp power and proclaim an empire.

Buckle up, America. If you don’t take care of this now, your in for about 437 more years of this shit.

Bitwarden. Second place isn’t even close.

Honestly never asked. I presumed she just boiled off the flesh and then left the bones out in the sun to dry.

For a bit of maybe context, she was a paleontologist…but

Friend of mine from university was always ready to scoop up roadkill into her trunk when she passed it by so that she could render it down to the bones so she would have a skeleton to study/draw.

Oh look. It’s a walking beer belly that is for some ironic reason wearing an Under Armor Hat like a choad. What a fucking surprise. At this point it seems like it’s right up there with Ed Hardy and Tap Out.

Seriously, what is the line between the loss of focus due to depression, and the inability to focus due to ADHD.

Because I got diagnosed with depression late in life (far too late, quite frankly…long after it had already messed up my life/future/etc…)

But yet, my symptoms are constantly showing up in ADHD memes.

I’m very very confused.

I feel embarassed to say this as someone who is fairly techy, but I’m a little confused by the whole brouhaha.

Is Google making changes to Android, or to AOSP?

If Google is making changes to the Android fork they put on their own phones, then fuck 'em. Use Graphene. Use e/OS/, use Lineage…use something that forks their own branch of AOSP and Google can pound sand because those forks are in no way obligated to make the same changes as Google. AOSP is open source for that very reason.

If Google is making those changes to AOSP itself, which means that anyone who uses AOSP as a base have those changes by default, then isn’t Google obligated to keep those changes as Open Source, in which case anyone else who uses AOSP can just remove them from their own fork?

Someone explain like I’m a particularly dim five-year-old, please.

I like how Stellaris does hyperdrive; certain systems are connected by hyperplanes. Presumably something “man-made” in those systems generates the field and “throws” the ship to the next system.

Similar to Mass Effect except that whereas in Mass Effect, one generator can connect to any other, in Stellaris each one only goes between two points, like a subway.

SGU was a good show. But a terrible Stargate show.

My go to happy thought is this:

Wild dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc… don’t have eyebrows. That is to say that they never evolved the muscles necessary to move their eyebrows in an expressive way.

Moveable eyebrows were a trait that domesticated dogs specifically evolved in order to mimic their humans and invoke more empathy (and let’s face it…likely manipulate us for more treats)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/domestication-made-dogs-facial-anatomy-more-fetching-to-humans/

gotta eat somethin’…

they are usually always the enemy

Why did someone create a “shit on everybody’s fun” lemmybot?

No sir, that there’s just a sign. A protest requires humans.

Linux by design gives the user enough rope to hang themselves with.

And that’s certainly not a problem when dealing with tech enthusiasts who know what, when and where to touch to avoid messing things up. But when you’re dealing with getting a phone into the hands of ordinary people, that isn’t going to fly because all of those people will at some point start mucking around inside and then expect tech support when they mess up.

For mainstream adoption, the linux kernel must and the desktop environment must be at least somewhat locked down.

Just because it’s a libre phone, doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a linux phone. Or at least any more so than Android is a linux phone because it uses a heavily modified (almost unrecognizable) linux kernel.

There’s nothing in the article that says they’re just going to use a mainline linux kernel and throw a touch optimized version of some existing desktop on it (ubuntu touch, etc…)

Heck, they could be meaning that they’re planning on making their own heavily modified kernel for their very own OS so as to skip all of the trouble that trying to make mainline linux into a handheld device has been so far. (similar to I believe how SailfishOS is doing it)

If I remember my highschool biology correctly (which I probably don’t, so take this with all the grains of salt), natural sources like berries, fruits, etc… create natural glucose which is what every living organism (including us…use for energy). Meaning when we eat berries and fruit, that natural glucose doesn’t need to be converted or processed in order for our body to make use of it. That also gives it a more stable effect in our system.

Refined sugars, on the other hand, need to be processed into glucose before it can bind to (oxygen? I think?) and pass into our bloodstream. That process leaves a lot of junk leftover which can have detrimental effects.

Again…I’m trying to remember a 35 year old highschool biology course, so correct me if I’m wrong.

Easy answer would be the Galactica remake. The entire show is essentially watching humanity break down because of the collective weight of what it lost as a society.

They could have at least made up a story about a heroin overdose. Take her out with something memorable.

Furbies. Just to see if we end up with a furby based religion.