Sure, but it’s not like it’d weigh more than a desktop + 6 monitors, which would also each need their own constant supply of power.

Well, if you also want to bring 6 monitors with it. I think the point of this is to be highly portable and easy to store.

As a single mom, it’s hard for me to be proactive about my kids’ health, but I have to say that Cerave cream has been a GODSEND for treating the scratches and blisters they get at work.

The flag of the Chinook Nation is one I recall seeing and thinking it was very unique, memorable, and aesthetically pleasing.

I also like the trident on the flag of Barbados.

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There is something about the aesthetics of Greenland’s flag I just really like. It’s simple but pleasing on the eyes. Maybe the way that the circle is offset, rather than centered.

I think it should have just stopped with season 1. Season 2 is fine but you can tell when Terry Pratchett’s influence effectively vanished from the project.

That and Neil Gaiman now…yikes…

I remember during the initial console reveal, basically the only thing they had to say was that the sticks are larger and smoother (in motion, not the caps themselves).

I don’t know if they mentioned much else later, but they were very tacit about their durability/longevity. I don’t have much hope that things will be better, at any rate. I still bought a Switch 2, because I know it will still bring me joy to play, but as much as I enjoyed the comfort of playing with a Joycon in each hand, I’ve learned from the original Switch to avoid using the Joycons where possible and opt for a separate controller when playing docked (I’m just using the Pro Controllers I have left over from my original Switch).

Seems like the sort of thing that might be used to set up like a mobile command station or something. If a disaster occurs and some agency/organization needs to stand up operations at a new location immediately, things like that

Definitely highly situational, but I’m sure some organizations out there are willing to pay a pretty penny for convenience during those types of situations.

Yep, this is generations of slowly gutting public education at work.

The privileged kids get to go to fancy private schools, many of which are ironically now funded by the public (who don’t get to send their kids there). Everyone else goes to underfunded public schools, which have tragically underpaid teachers who run the risk of losing their jobs if they don’t give every student a passing grade. Teachers in struggling school districts are just shoving their students’ deficiencies onto the next grade up, which continues to snowball until you end up with a majority of high school seniors graduating with a 7th grade reading level at best.

In saying that, it’s not all doom and gloom, but it highlights a key disparity that affects some parts of the US more than others. Some US states actually have very good public school systems, up there with high performing countries in Europe and Asia. But when considering how bad the average is in the US, it means that there are a lot of states that are substantially worse than that, where things are just incredibly dire.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lowest performing states are mostly in the southern US.

I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter.

You’re spot on, to the extent that there is a concept describing exactly this: American Exceptionalism.

More gooners on PC than PlayStation I guess

Brigading, supposedly, but really they were just the most prominent alt-right sub on the site and banning them was more of a PR move than anything else. Meanwhile, the users (and bots/astroturfers) who participated in that sub just went elsewhere and kept doing the same heinous shit they were doing before, tacitly supported by the admins as the general politics of the site continued to skew further right.

I thought Night Country was decent enough TV, but the part that makes me feel just a bit icky about it was that it revolved so heavily around Native Alaskan identities and was basically made without any significant involvement from Native Alaskans.

Kali Reis, who played Navarro, one of the leads in Night Country, is at least indigenous American, but she’s Wampanoag from New England, which is very far from Alaska.

Without making any specific judgments on the quality of the Foundation TV series, for what it’s worth, I think it’s always best to view adaptations as disconnected products that are separate and incomparable to the source material they’re based on.

The Lord of the Rings movies had the same problems. Much of the book content was cut or altered to make it easier for a film series, characters were consolidated or changed based on plot relevance and screen presence, and the changes upset a lot of fans of the books. However, the end result worked much better as films than an attempt to directly adapt the source material would have, and I think that is fine.

I think it’s an exercise in futility to try to make something 100% faithful to a work in another medium, because the inherent differences between mediums means that there will always be something that doesn’t translate. If someone wants to make an adaptation in another medium, may as well try to do different things with it that play better to the medium’s strengths.

Now, after having said all that, I can’t help but find it a little bit funny (maybe not funny, but interesting, I guess) that the best parts of the Foundation TV series are the original-to-show story threads that are the furthest removed from anything to do with the books. I found all of the content involving the clones of Emperor Cleon to be interesting, and couldn’t care less about what was happening with the Foundation itself. Had me wondering why not just write an original series focusing on the genetic dynasty.

Could just go with Thrall for a Warcraft character. He wasn’t on the box for WoW 1.0, but he is basically the face of Warcraft as a franchise.

I feel like a WoW console release is destined to happen eventually, though, now that Microsoft owns them. We’ll have to see.

The kid who blew up a fertility clinic (and himself) in Palm Springs was a moderator of !antinatalism@lemmy.world, for what that’s worth. Not a war, and the only fatality ended up being himself, but definitely an act of violence with an intent to kill that was connected to a specific community on this platform.

I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy was great, if only because (at the time) it was an unconventional casting choice and made a statement that this Marvel movie was going to be tonally different from the rest.

Following Guardians of the Galaxy, every Marvel movie started to become like Guardians of the Galaxy, and Chris Pratt started to get typecast as “action hero” rather than “hopeless goofball,” which was his original purpose for being in Guardians of the Galaxy in the first place.

I think we’re having separate conversations, this is about a much needed people’s revolution by the citizens in Iran to course correct for the Western meddling that landed them in their current situation.

Sure, not saying Iran doesn’t have the right to defend itself.

Revolution is sort of a separate consideration, however. Governments often use war as an excuse to continue eroding the basic rights of citizens, and Iran is no stranger to theocratic fascism. Revolutions can begin during wars.

1940’s China paused its revolution in order to face the existential threat of Japan. On the other hand, 1910’s Russia began its revolution during the ongoing conflict of the Great War. The people will reach a breaking point whenever things become too intolerable. It’s different for each example.

Based on your other comment, I’m inclined to agree with the liberals.