Seizure, maybe?

My kids both go to a Kansas school. One is lactose intolerant, so we often pack his lunch - yogurts and cheeses figure fairly heavily into the meal options. My other kid usually grabs whatever's being served, which includes hot options along with things similar to what you listed.

They have a school-issued card that they scan whenever they get the school lunch, which is linked to an account we top up online. I believe that qualifying families get either reduced pricing or funds for the account. Our kids actually keep assuming everything is free, because they just go through and get to pick so much from this station, so much from that station, etc.

I don't think this has been the state of society for millenia.

Tolkien had Frodo break down in front of Sam in Lord of the Rings. Sam literally carried him after. This was written not even a century ago, and wasn't seen as all that remarkable or groundbreaking. Hell, it wasn't unusual that they held hands, it was just a thing bros did.

The current level of toxic masculinity is a new phenomenon, it's not a feature of a stable society

I can go twice as high

That's just an obstacle, and not an insurmountable one

Was that apoemforyoursprog?

Out of curiosity, how do those stats look if you exclude white cis males?

Ugh, do you know where they've been??!

I like a good story, with interesting characters, multiple coherent worldviews, and interesting conflicts. The sci-to-fi spectrum certainly grabs my attention and holds it while I learn about the characters and world, but ultimately, it's about compelling people, from James Holden and Jean-Luc Picard through Cassian Andor to Taylor Hebert.

I do enjoy when the science is accurate, but it feels more like an impressive artistic flourish to me. I realized a while back that if I insist on accuracy in my media, I'll miss out on a lot of good, fun, even classic entertainment. It irks me when something isn't internally consistent, but a miss on scientific accuracy is more like spotting the boom mike in a shot - mildly annoying, but usually worth focusing on what they're trying to say.

This... strikes me more as self-aggrandizing than informative.

Yes, many technical folks are put off by certain marketing tricks. Good marketers just use different techniques when targeting people in this market, when they bother to at all.

We're not immune to manipulation; and thinking that we are makes us more susceptible to it.

there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed.

He hit a pedestrian. If you cannot react to a pedestrian entering the road unexpectedly, especially at a crosswalk, you are, by definition, driving recklessly.

Y'know what? I'll cheer anybody who risks a lucrative career and public vitriol to quietly, elegantly bring attention to systemic civil rights abuses.

Still glad you're doing it now!

As I recall the story, Rowling designed that feature of the game specifically to annoy her sport-loving husband. It's a feature of a fictional sport designed in spite. So really, it performs it's function admirably...

I hear tell that the claims are from people with low fiber diets, who suddenly have to deal with fiberful foods.

(I heard it on the Internet, and so now I repeat it on the Internet and let others handle the fact checking!)

Step away from hardware constraints for a moment, and consider the OS:

If the OS says a file is deleted, under no circumstances should the OS be able to recover it. Sure, certain tools may exist to pull it back; but it should be unavailable to the OS after that. And yet, apparently a software update was enough to recover these files. Thus, the concerns about data safety in an environment where the OS cannot be trusted to remove data when it says it has been removed.

Used to do IT for a small meat packing plant; would shoot the shit with the warehouse guys whenever they came in for a break. Bunch of 20-something guys slinging 20-60 pound boxes of meat all day.

Power went out one time, and we're all sitting around waiting to see if the power is going to come back quickly enough that we don't need to start unloading all the inventory; and one of them expressed a need to use the facilities. I told him the bathroom was right there; it didn't need power to flush.

There were no windows, and he didn't want to end up peeing all over the floor.

I pointed out that if he sat down, he wouldn't need to aim.

"I'm not gonna sit to pee!"

"Dude, it's not like it's gonna fall off."

"It might!"

And not only did he see for himself, he wrote up and published his results.

To be clear, Kolanaki is saying that that is not how an OS should behave.

Eh, or he decided to use his unique situation to illuminate how bonkers the situation has gotten.