That or the price of advancement has made things impossible to fix without swapping out entire components or just get a new one. Which has been taken advantage of by making things fail a lot sooner. So much easier to make it cheaper so it gets replaced, and it keeps the company in business and is more profitable.

We should do like in olden days, put Trump on a horse and let him lead the way (or a plane or boat, whatever). Remember that time when he claimed he would have run in to a shooting situation and saved everyone? Show us, dear leader, how it’s done.

I’m… good with this.

The rhetoric, absolutely. The difference is that this idiot has a big, loaded gun that works.

Totally not a threat on on the life of another country’s official. Nope.

Or you have the bit rate high enough so you only max it out at the inner song and just don’t need it at the start.

There’s a lot pumped into a single groove, based on video on how stereo works on vinyl.

I’ve seen a theory that even World War One had oil involved in part of the contribution to its cause and tensions.

Started (maybe) with the classic Roman Empire movies where they also spoke the Queen’s English. No Latin at all.

Doing other languages is tricky. You either have to just go with pretending it’s not a thing, use subtitles, or something in between. I’ve seen a lot of films start with them speaking the foreign language and then shift to them in English in some way. The original Shōgun did this where the first few exchanges went through a translator but then the translator part was skipped to increase the pace. Or you just don’t have a translation and let the actions dictate the meaning. The scenes in Andor of his childhood memories did this, no need to have subtitles.

No, the heat exchangers were fine, the design just sucked. I had seen aftermarket electric fan boosters to try and push more air through the vent pipes and help things. I mean, it had a long way to go! But even the squirrel cage fan in the blower assembly in the truck wasn’t all that big or strong, so the air it pushed up onto the window was far too little to do much. I loved my Beetle though, despite all its issues.

I loved the wing window on my first car, a VW Beetle. It really did great air movement, both for hot days and for helping defog the windshield (the blower for that was terribly underpowered).

I always called it a vent window, maybe it’s a regional thing like tyre/tire.

We need like a united nations organization to help push back on the aggressor. Like a league of nations or something.

Aka Helen Keller universe. That’s mind blowing to think about, I think you may be onto something. Maybe their perspective would be much more open, as they can feel their body and understand its reference points, so the stronger stimuli would shift their POV to the place receiving it briefly?

First one that came to mind was one I have an actual newspaper clipping of. Can’t find it online. It’s an image of the Iwo Jima Memorial, but they’re pushing up a gas gauge from Empty.

I like the premise that the series “11-22-63” set up. Where reality does not take kindly to time travel shenanigans, and the more significant something is, the more the actual environment works against you to keep the timeline the same.

If you’re playing a 1st person game and it’s very immersive, your “self” migrates to the screen point, i.e. right behind the character’s eyes location. So I think your statement is right. A good test would be to ask someone blind from birth (to avoid previous experience with sight) where their sense of being is. Maybe it’s a bit back, between the ears?

It’s sad that I read this and the first thought was not about how similar we can be but more, “well…I suppose if you were gentle…”

And also - yeah, it’s usually dumb. There are rabbit holes EVERYWHERE.

And while AI in various forms has been building up for a few years, 2025 was definitely when it became a thing. It parallels “(AI) slop” being voted word of the year. Which is a fascinating bending of the word, as the sloppiness of AI in writing and particularly images was obvious slop when it first began, but now can be far too convincing in short bursts now. It’s also been broadened to mean “I don’t believe, like, and/or care about this” as a short drive-by comment, even on real things.

Yes. Not sure on 2200. If for no other reason, the climate. By then things will either be exponentially worse, linearly worse, or somehow plateau to “just bad”. There’s no evidence in past heating events that there’s some magic wall where it stops that quickly, and we aren’t even doing much to slow down, much less try and undo what we’ve done. The numbers and graphs point to even 2050 as being pretty nasty, 2100 is really bad, so at 2200? Humans are very adaptation and resourceful, but there are physical limitations to everything.

What’s the philosophical term for thinking that “you” are not in the brain either, but rather riding along the electrochemical signals and formations throughout the brain, and this would include the rest of the body in the sense of feeling and control of it and its feedbacks (which is the point of OP). It’s not really duality or a soul, as its dependent on both body and mind to be functioning correctly and intermingled.