Your phone fell off the dashboard phone stand, you caught it and set it in your lap.

I would be shocked if it were worth it on anything short of an industrial scale. We're talking a very small amount of material, and a lot of fiberglass and ... I can't bring myself to say junk, but "delicate components made of basically sand".

Talk to a doctor: good. Taking random amphetamines because you're tired: less good.

But if you're going to ask for a med, go for modafinil. It's more like what people want amphetamines to be, if they're not looking for outright speed.

You're kinda being a dick for no reason.

Someone said it's a turnoff because they have no idea. The information is as prominent as the rest of the system requirements. If you don't want to Google it, don't: you can just look at the system requirements. Other websites often have more detailed information about what system configurations a game works with. That's true for gpus through operating systems.

I didn't skirt around any point. I just didn't talk about it because that's not what I was responding to. Being upset that you might need to read information presented on the page where you buy a game is ridiculous.

I corrected the <1% number. That's not making any claims about the 25% number beyond "this is the accurate number and not the made up one".

I don't care what OS you use, games you play, who you play them with or your tolerance for 3rd party kernel modules. I think it's ridiculous to think that looking at supported configurations on the product page is "having no idea". I also think being upset at the prospect of googling a game's name is... A stretch.

Feel free. There's nothing stopping you.

The reason it's not feasible is because most human activity happens during the daylight hours. As such, having the unit of a "day" cover what's typically a day makes things easier.
For example, banks , businesses and schools need to have a unified schedule across a jurisdiction. If the jurisdiction specifies a utc offset that defines the official business day you just have a less coordinated timezone system.
You also make knowing roughly what part of the waking cycle other parts of the world are in much harder. Right now it's 0100 in utc-5. So it's 0800 in utc+2, and people are eating breakfast, at work, getting kids to school and so on. If I want to know that without timezones I need to know where they are on the planet and what the relevant legal jurisdiction has mandated as coordinated business time. That's effectively just a worse version of timezones.

The human conception of time is intrinsically linked to spatial location. Fighting that is just making it hard for no reason. What we need to do is stop fiddling with the time. No more (major) clock adjustments. Daylight savings only sucks because of the switch , so we should just pick one and stay.

Not sure where you're getting that. It's in excess of 25% that work specifically on the steamdeck, which is the easiest metric to see.

In any case, if the person is saying it's an issue because you don't know when buying a game, then it seems pretty relevant that you can know by simply "looking where you buy the game". If you Google it, you can find out with an even greater chance of discovering the answer is "yes".

I mean, it's pretty easy to know. They have an icon directly next to the game that says what it works on.
You have just as much knowledge about if it'll work as you do based on hardware requirements. Which is to say "none, unless you look at the place where they tell you".

It happens every couple of decades with AI. Since it's a broader field than most people think, we have a pretty long cycle of a new development looking exciting, people getting way too excited and optimistic, the development being exactly what it was promised to be, and then people getting disappointed and avoiding anything with the AI label. Then we decide that because we're used to this new thing, it can be used in stuff as was originally appropriate but it no longer qualifies as AI, because "that's not AI, it's just ___".

Sure. But it fit his MO and other intelligence data, so there's no reason to doubt the claim.

Trying to replace a secret conspiracy with a different secret conspiracy that involves faking a secret conspiracy is just overly complicated for no reason, and only distracts from the actual issues around the cause of 9/11.

But no, it was definitely not the case that our intelligence services failed to evaluate a novel threat correctly, failed to properly prioritize it as a result which caused delayed responses, and that our air defense system was caught flat footed because the US is essentially isolated so readiness isn't a priority.
Definitely not. If anything, the whole thing is actually evidence that the US is so competent that the whole thing can be nearly flawlessly faked. Except for that one building they blew up over the open radio broadcast for no real reason.

I just pictured milking string cheese out of an udder, and so you have to suffer too.

Well, there's strong and weak atheism. Strong atheism being the position akin to "I know there is no god". Agnosticism would be the belief that you cannot draw a conclusion, that the evidence is inconclusive, or that knowledge is impossible. Weak atheism would be the position akin to "there's no reason to believe, so I don't".

To flog a well beaten analogy: the teapot in orbit around the sun directly opposite the earth.
The theist says there's definitely a teapot. The strong atheist says there definitely isn't. The agnostic withholds judgement because we cannot know. The weak atheist says there's no reason to believe there's a teapot.

"Lack of belief" is specifically an atheist trait. Agnosticism is lack of knowing on the matter.
Atheism and agnosticism are compatible, which is why there's often conflation between the two. I personally don't think we can know, but I see no reason to believe.
There are also agnostics who believe in a deity, even though they don't think we can really know.

Finally, for the last bit of pedantry: empirical evidence isn't the only type of knowledge. Math, for example, is not evidence based, nor is it empirical. We don't typically count algebra as a matter of faith however.
There are schools of atheism that would claim that you can know that God does not exist because said existence is logically contradictory in a way that can be deductively demonstrated, similar to how things can be disproven in mathematics.

To make the trade? Not actually that long. Planning and evaluating take longer, but he's inevitably not the one pushing the buttons or making the plan, which is also not something that needs to be done for each one.

It takes me longer to move money between my checking and savings accounts.

The concerning thing isn't the time investment, it's the active nature of financial involvement in a situation where there's a major conflict of interest.
Stock trading isn't automatically problematic for an elected official, but it's very easy to produce the appearance or actuality of improper conduct.
The safest route is to turn control over to a third party who doesn't know who they're managing.