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Agreed. A karma total is a negative part of Reddit, and caused people to seek bigger number even harder than they already do.

“How impressed everybody is” is the basis of money, law, self-worth and our models of reality

Money

Is it? I don’t try to impress anybody with money I do or don’t have. If you do, consider not doing so. You might find your finances in a better state.

self-worth

Don’t, I repeat, do not base your self worth on what other people think. Listen to their input and make yourself the best person you can be. But if you only have self-worth due to how impressed your neighbors are, you are going to have a very poor life as you make a continued bad decisions.

Law

There are vanishingly few laws that are centered around impressing anybody. The core theme to is to create laws that best allow for the functioning of society. For some easy examples, lack of criminalizing murder, lack of property rights, or lack of a tax code all fuck up modern society pretty quick.

our models of reality

I’m not sure how ‘impressing others’ is part of this at all? Our model of reality, ie physics, chemistry, math, have nothing to do with impressing others?

Since I do quite a bit of gaming, 2k/120hz by a far margin. The fewer pixels makes it easier to turn the graphics up more, and the extra frame-rate cap allows for games to be nice and smooth.

My main display is actually a 2k/144hz screen right now. :)

Your best bet is to pickup a new flash drive. Luckily, a quality 256 gb flash drive is like $25 now.

7zip also allows for higher compression levels than the built in Windows tool. Would check that out as well.

Why wouldn’t it cook a non-bread?

• You will almost certainly have to stick a fork down into the vertical style bread toaster to retrieve the hotdog, which is hella unsafe.
• It’s also almost impossible to clean the vertical style ones, which isn’t a problem for bread since the extra bits just burn off, but it is a problem for other foods like meats, as bits can easily rot in there.
• Meats can also drip grease onto the elements, which will cause a fire.

I’m not sure what cookware you have, but it sounds like you may be pretty limited on choices/space. I would highly recommend swapping the vertical toaster for a toaster oven. As they are basically little ovens that you can cook almost anything in, including toast and hotdogs.

If you are talking about the vertical style bread toaster, don’t cook anything that isn’t bread in those. If you are talking about a toaster oven, you can wrap it in foil and bake it.

A solid alternative, and what makes a hotdog’s flavor really pop, is cutting it up into 6-10 pieces and pan frying it.

Baldur’s Gate 3, good for up to four player coop.

Borderlands 1 & 2, too.

I’m not sure how much time you are given and how much ‘hands on’ is desired, but you could buy a bunch of cheap, old, used desktops (that all use the same parts) and teach the kids what the various parts do (CPU, GPU, motherboard, PSU, SSD, RAM). Then have them build the computers and install linux on them.

Maybe pre-wire the PSU to most of the parts to save time during the build day(s). You may also want to have the CPUs pre-installed so you don’t get bent pins galore.

This entire idea would be massively benefited by a TA that could assist working with groups.

Pain, absolute pain. Can we please not have another debate?

We can tie that in with shorter campaign seasons too.

One Time Pads are nice, as they are the only mathematically proven way to encrypt something in a way that it cannot be decrypted without owning the key.

Honestly, given how annoying the alternatives are, I would say just buy a USB drive and put the bios file on there. You can get very good ones for under $20 and almost free ones if you don’t mind having an old tiny one.

a 3rd partition formatted to FAT32

exFAT is also pretty solid for this purpose and doesn’t have the file size limitations that FAT32 has.

OC spray, aka ‘oleoresin capsicum spray’, aka pepper spray. People often get it for self defense against humans or bears. The bear version tends to be a much larger and stronger bottle.

I don’t normally open carry, though to do regularly concealed carry. Have been told by others a few times they were happy I was carrying, made them feel better when we happened to get into a seedy area. Luckily nothing came of it, and hopefully it stays that way forever.

But it’s getting so hard nowadays

It’s a sliding scale; it isn’t just ‘full privacy’ or ‘no privacy’. Everyone makes compromises somewhere based on their personal preferences. Most people would agree posting their credit card number on a public forum is too far into the ‘no privacy’ band, for example.

how does privacy improve the world

It’s up to you, but I don’t like trusting my personal info with untrustworthy companies.

It might be worth switching providers. Starlink and 4G ISPs (TMobile, Verison) are surprisingly good.