I assume there's some in universe reason why they can't / don't keep copies of the teleportation data, otherwise everyone would be effectively indestructible
"Oh no the captain got eaten by a space tiger"
"No problem, I'll teleport a backup from an hour ago, he'll be there in 5 minutes"
That's assuming you'll meet literally every person on earth
Let's say you will have a meaningful interaction with 1000 people ever, 1% of that leaves you with 10
If you're not bi make it 5 before you even start considering wether you also find those people attractive back, if they're single and in the right age range
So get that confidence back down. Statistics are a bitch
But we still check every time, just in case
Unpopular opinion: obvious stuff that 99% of the people here will agree with.
I was disgusted by the XML at first, but it's a readable query returning a sane JSON object.
Meanwhile, I'm mantaining Java code where the SQL is a perfectly square wall of text, and some insane mofo decided the way to read the resulting list of Object[] 🤮 is getting each column by index... so I'd switch to SQXMLL in a heartbeat.
I used to get myself into traps like that a lot, "I need to get that impossible achievement", "I need to play only at the highest difficulty", "I need to get 200% completion".
At the end of the day video games are just toys, play them as you like and if you're not enjoying it just do something else instead. After I realized that games are fun again.
This ghost achievement in particular is a very hard challenge run, the kind of thing you go for after you finished the game and want more with an extra twist, trying to force it on your first time playing is guaranteed to be frustrating
Meta has no interest in being part of the fediverse, it only wants to eliminate any posible competition.
The usual MO of buying the competitors isn't posible on the fediverse, so the way to do it is embrace, extend and extinguish
Defederating is important because is Metastasis is allowed in the fediverse it will consume the fediverse, and then we'll be right back at the corporate social media we're trying to break away from, with the surveillance, ads and nazis being welcome as long as it's profitable
Refusing to make a choice is still a choice.
The only options are: status quo that doesn't do the bare minimum against genocide, or an actual fascist who is literally promising to do more genocide.
Yes I know that both options are terrible and the system is fucking garbage, but if you refuse to vote for the lesser evil you're not taking some moral high road, you're just enabling the worst evil
"You only have another 2 or 3 months of unconditional support for your genocide before we start calling you out"
(But that's not mastodon's fault)
No, he didn't "let people die".
He actively contributed to those deaths.
Right wing media spent the entire pandemic fighting against distancing, masks, vaccines, against science. And pretending horse dewormer was a miracle solution for everything. But it turns out reality isn't a political opinion, and millions of people died because of those lies.
When humanity was fighting against covid, Republicans were fighting on the virus' side
Remember a few years ago when a teenager took an interstate trip to play cop and threaten black people with a gun?
And then he ended up killing some people and cried a lot in the trial ("I'm the victim" tears, not "I regret murdering those guys" tears)
And he became a conservative star.
Satire doesn't stand a chance against reality