Contextual_Idiot

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[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clicks…m formwlr fxtec the Brand that sctewed US all

What did you just call me?

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently finished playing through Itorah, a side scrolling action platformer. It's been on my list for a while. The game is beautiful, the story and art are influenced by Aztec, Incan and Mayan art and culture. There's no voice acting, but each NPC feels different. There's little backtracking, and in the areas you do travel a lot there's usually a new path you can take through it.

I enjoyed my time with the game. The mechanics are fun and varied, and the boss fights are all different and challenging. My playtime was about 20 hours and I didn't rush it. There are achievements for speed running the game too. I didn't get all the achievements on my first play through, so there would be more to do for achievement hunters.

Not a scientist, but I'll try to answer.

Gale Crater is huge. It is 154km (96 miles) in diameter. The meteor that created it would have been massive, and the impact was so big that it caused the surface of Mars to rebound from the hit, causing the mountain in the middle to form. That mountain is called Mount Sharp. The Curiosity rover has been exploring this mountain, and that's where these samples were taken.

The meteor could have brought water with it, but the impact would have been so violent that it all would likely have blasted away from the crater, and any remaining would have been boiled away by the heat of the impact. That water could have flowed back to the crater eventually, through streams or rivers and possibly precipitation.

The fact that these samples are from high up the side of the mountain do bring the question of if this is a sign of water, how did it get there? I believe this is where the researchers are suggesting that Mars could have been very wet.

But as always, these are only theories. The Rovers can only do so much, and until we can get samples back, or boots on the ground, the researchers are left saying "This is probably why, but we could be wrong."

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Clover Pit fits this perfectly, because you aren't actually gambling, but in game you are totally gambling.

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

An opinion that everyone agrees with.

Agree on the quit, disagree on the insta.

Use the time to apply and interview for a new job. Once you've secured a new position, then you quit. Don't hurt your own finances while you hurt your old company.

And it's up to you how much notice you give. Worth considering whether to preserve the professional relationships, or torch that bridge.

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A Tribble.

Oh no.

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look at this youngin, turning 18 in 2016. Enjoy your knees and shoulders while you can.

2009-2010, you hear about this "Bitcoin" thing for the first time. You remember some old fart telling you about it years ago, but you had no idea what they were talking about and assumed they had mental problems. You decide to download it and start mining it, it doesn't hurt anything. It just uses your CPU to mine them. You let it run and quickly forget about it. Eventually, you get tired of it slowing your computer down. You have a few thousand coins by now, so you shut the miner down and put your wallet somewhere safe. Then you forget all about it, until about 2021...

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 62 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Mine Bitcoin. Hold.

[–] Contextual_Idiot@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I wonder why you left out these parts of the article...

“Mark Carney is being elevated much the way Justin Trudeau was… What I am most shocked about is that everybody seems to think that this is some kind of radical departure and that Trump’s belligerents is driving Canada reluctantly into the arms of Beijing. Is there anyone who can explain to me, or tell me, that if Kamala Harris had been elected a year and a bit ago in the American election, do we really think that Mark Carney would have done anything different? This is bread in the bone with these people. It is what they do and what they have always done. Whatever you make of any of this, could you please leave off with this business that Trump is driving us into the arms of China. This is where the Trudeau Liberals unfortunately feel most comfortable. It goes back to Justin Trudeau’s dad. What is happening here is the revival and reconstitution of a lot of protocols and MOUs that were in place during the Justin Trudeau period, the Dominic Barton period, before the Chinese pushed the envelope a bit by kidnapping Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, and before the public revelations about the degree to which the Chinese were influencing and monkey-wrenching our federal election system.”

“Mélanie Joly musing about Canada and China building EVs together – this is just the same old story of the Liberal Party of Canada elites turning a blind eye to Trojan horses for Chinese intelligence infiltration, stealing of Canada’s world-leading technology like the Nortel case… Why is Mark Carney moving ahead with these absurd deals? My theory is… Scott Bessett at the White House is saying, ‘Who’s Carney working for?’ Look, he is trying to thread the needle between his patrons, the industrialists in Montreal that I’ve reported have been in bed with the Chinese communist elite, along with Jean Chrétien for decades. He is working with and for them. He is working for a majority. His elbows up rhetoric is still winning, anti-US, anti-Donald Trump. They’ve got a ticket to be a majority government for a long time unless Canadians smarten up. Here is the key: Mark Carney knows that if we don’t get an American trade deal, China doesn’t even care about us anymore – we matter because of our trade integration with the U.S. and the world.”

Gee, I wonder who's viewpoint this article is trying to push.

Plus quoting The Epoch Times? Yikes.

Honestly, this could be a good thing. It may look like more misconduct is happening, but it also could be the same amount as always. Only now it's coming to light and being dealt with.

ACAB, but maybe, just maybe, there's a little bit of light on the horizon?

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