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It's a shame it didn't start during primary season imagine how funny the debates would have been.
"Let's all take a moment of silence for the 2 candidates we lost this week before we begin with opening statements."
We've definitively found the world's least bad neoliberal
I was either first introduced to that character through a crossover in I think Phantasy Star Portable. Maybe it was a special outfit in one of the monster hunter PSP entries.
In short, Phantasy Star, Monster Hunter, and Miku, and the PSP rock.
Trump in his 50 cent era
LinkedIn is the absolute last place I would go to get insight on data processing tools/frameworks/libraries.
At best you'll get an MBA saying "The data project I led at xyz paid too much for its spark cluster! We switched to pandas and saved xxxxx%"
When the totality of their structured data was < 1tb before greenlighting the processing project
I liked the new Thrawn books a good bit, but I'm at the point now where my curiosity is with the Chiss Ascendancy itself and I want a story about it directly instead of Thrawn's navigation of his relationship to it and pacifying the Empire to its existence.
Star Wars needs new societies to explore and I think both Mandalore and the Chiss Ascendancy are great places to do that in interesting, novel ways.
Exactly. I haven't read enough of old Legends content to know about the Chiss Ascendancy in any real level of detail, but my tiny hope for new canon is that it provides more interesting storytelling foundation like Andor (and to a much lesser degree Ahsoka) than the other Disney content.
The further away they get from Lucas' work the more experimental the writing groups get (Dr. Aphra comics are a good time and The High Republic era has at least been novel albeit I feel it's dipping in quality currently).
I recognize Star Wars is slop, but I just hope they feel more empowered to try things rather than tell/re-tell "safe" stories.
This is why the dating system should have been based off of the most recent time a palpatine clone was killed. That way every 3 years the galaxy is resetting its calendar
Andor is the single best piece of Star Wars media ever created and it isn't especially close
In canon the original trilogy starfighters are substantially better than prequel trilogy technology but it's largely because the imperial war machine kicked up and prioritized weapon's research and capital class fighter development/production over basically everything else (even lying to and then forcibly working research groups regarsing energy research that was really only meant to ever power the death star). This is the father of Rogue One's protagonist's plight if you'd forgotten. The empire also used tons of slavery and various dealings with regional feudal lords for mass raw resource extraction and the expanding colonization and resource extraction is what was fueling the entire war economy.
The core imperial worlds (and only really the aristocracy within them) were really the only beneficiaries of technological advances. The further you got from the imperial core the more explicit the relationship became "You and your planet exist to fuel our colonial war machine. Get in line or die."
In both new and old canon it's explained the Emperor basically backed the wrong camp (Grand Moff Tarkin) who decided having a superweapons and slow, large battleships, the Death Star and Star Destroyers/Super Star Destroyers respectively, were more important than a much, much greater quantity of better equipped and defended fighter group (the tie defender project).
I apologize to anyone reading this for me knowing it but I'm also glad to answer more questions if anyone is curious.
I get a call from a relative about their firestick being stuck at the Amazon logo so I start looking into it. This person is relatively decent when it comes to not bricking their devices (they won't just shut the power off during an update for example) so I start operating off of the expectation that this is probably a reasonable problem.
The usual unplug it, wait a bit, plug it back in fails. Try using a different power brick to power the devices fails. Try using the USB power on the back of the TV instead of a powerbrick fails. Stuck on boot logo still- ok, time to start considering researching software-related solutions on my end. I initially go to "let's just factory reset this thing" because it seems like a reasonable step at this point and should solve the problems (or definitively tell me that the unit is broken).
In attempting to fulfill the quest of factory resetting I find out:
- Firesticks have no physical reset button the devices. The only possible input is a microusb power port (more on this in a bit)
- Because of this design choice, the factory reset process is dependent upon a button combination on the remote from within a functional device
- When stuck in the boot sequence, the remote isn't paired so the ability to send that button combination isn't possible
I had no idea prior to today how absurdly irritating the combination of poor hardware design choice (no physical reset button) and downstream terrible software design (needing the signal for reset requiring a failing device to not be failing) could ever be seen as a reasonable product spec.
I'm already irritated by this combination, but fuck it, let's continue on and see if, like with the Kindle products, there's some tomfuckery where if you know certain arcane sequences of settings, menus, and inputs you can get into a vendor mode/debug/etc type mode to operate further.
Turns out, the firestick can be sent a signal using alt +prntscrn + i from a keyboard during boot. Awesome, now if only the physical hardware had a place for a USB plug for this! I know the device has to be powered, so some adapter daisy-chain is going to have to be used in order to provide that as well as enable me to plug in a usb device.
This wonderful abomination is used by pirates (one of hellworld's few remaining heroes) to load USB media off of flash drives to play through apps on the device. They're ~7 imperial war bucks and useless beyond this narrow case, but hey at least it helps me help this working-class person who is probably gonna use it to watch someone on MSNBC say "The walls are finally closing in on Trump and maybe we shouldn't be so pessimistic about the capitalist hellscape that is destroying the planet in new and exciting ways via climate change but also no one should do anything because that would be violence which is bad."
Don't go down that line of thought right now- stay focused on the goal.
Device arrives, plugged into the microusb slot, keyboard plugged into the adapter that provides the functionality amazon probably intentionally didn't include to either make the average "sane" person say:
"This device is irreparably broken; I should buy a new one." or "This probably isn't worth going through the trouble of fixing; I should buy a new one."
Since I've already been driven to a spite-capitalism-in-all-ways-filled existence by living in this world, I fortunately don't have the capability to allow planned obsolescence device get the best of me and hold down alt, prntscrn, and spam i during the sequence... nothing.
Second attempt, alt + prntscrn + i, startup boot sequence is interrupted and I make it into profile selection. The device works again.
It infuriates me that this device exists in a way where this is the route that has to be taken to even get a chance to factory reset it. The idea that locking this standard (and often necessary procedure to prevent e-waste) device option behind remote control functionality that is beyond the point of failure (and fairly common per searches) was what someone decided to be a reasonable and shippable choice when that route is used as a last resort to fix broken functionality is beyond comprehension. It's a decision that can only be reasonably made in hellworld where disposable commodities are a society's pinnacle of innovation.
What irritates me the most is knowing that some shithead team of McKinsey ghouls were probably paid an absurd amount of money to create a slideshow with a chart (exclusively featured in the executive summary) with a little star at the forecasted profit-maximizing point showing that removing repair functionality will increase electronic waste, and profits, to maximally-desired levels.
Because who gives a fuck if we destroy the world, profit has a direct positive correlation with Misery Index, this strategy was/is economically sound and we're all the worse for it.
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Death to Amazon
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Death to the Fire Stick product line
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Death to McKinsey first and foremost and all the other management consulting firms after it
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Death to America
I cheered for Germany against the USA in the FIBA semifinals today and it was great. Final score 113-111 Germany.
Serbia-Germany finals incoming.
vs 
for the 3rd-place game and the second straight FIBA in a row where the US might miss a spot on the podium.
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It opens with a video playing the song "In the arms of the angels" but only Vivek's slide is him burning in hell