Ah, that makes more sense. $225 is minimal for a “bonus” payout. Thanks for finding a better source.

Funny, it really is easier to get the gist of what someone is saying in a foreign language that one has some familiarity with, but constructing a sentence with the correct words and grammar is a completely different game.

August Weismann figured this out quite a while ago.

(And Mendel, but he didn’t do “body mods.”)

Quick read of the article and it only shows “$” and not ₩. So I assume that means USD.

That’s a big payout, and it shows how much we’re getting gouged for memory prices.

Yeah, car batteries have gotten crazy expensive, too.

Inspections, licensing, insurance, maintenance, and maybe even parking, all need to be factored into the cost of the car and not just the direct operating costs of the energy required for the mode of transportation.

A £600 battery is not a huge expense when compared to a car that might need brake and rotor replacements ~£900, or a radiator replacement ~£500, etc. Heck, even a wheel and tire damaged by a pothole, if replaced to OEM, can be £400.

To survive long term in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization you need to already be surviving in a manner that acts like the apocalypse has already happened.

In other words, if you don‘t currently have all the skills and community to live in a pre-industrial era, like farming (all the seeds and tools, cleared land), smithing (do you have a forge? Know how to make charcoal? Raw materials and skill?), animal husbandry (do you know the first thing about draft animals? Have all the tack and harnesses to put them to work?), a mill, textile making, etc… you are going to die. You cannot learn these things when it‘s too late, this way of life cannot be picked up as things are falling apart. These skills are why communities existed that could specialize skills and trades to make life livable and make it survivable as possible.

In a full nuclear apocalypse scenario there will be a nuclear winter that will kill the overwhelming majority of the population due to starvation. Radiation related illnesses will wipe out most survivors.

One cannot solo garden their way through a true collapse. Pests will destroy gardens, food preservation will be an issue, injury could be lethal.

Or Bester. Koenig did a great job of making that character hateable.

That logic works just fine if you have all the money and lawyers.

A couple of those were directly profit motivated vs the government choosing to do some f’d up stuff on their own. Yeah, government stepped in, but who started the problem isn’t the same. Either way, wealthy people pushing the government to crush the peasantry for them isn’t much difference.

Seconded. Bautista did dumb-funny well in Guardians, serious in 2049, and just plain old acting in something like Glass Onion. He does a lot better than some top billed actors IMO, but then he has some mediocre characters too. Win some, lose some.

Stone Age, or some form of Scavenger-age in not much better shape than stone age.

Almost all of the accessible surface minerals have been mined. That means if the production chain collapses everything goes to shit. We cannot mine and refine the materials we need without heavy and specialized machinery. No reboot. The minerals are inaccessible. That machinery’s production relies on a huge amount of materials, from energy to electronics, and the logistical network to put it all together.

Our production chain is very discrete in a lot of ways. Electronics made one place, smelting another, fuel by ships, food over here, lithium someplace, copper somewhere else, iron from far away, medication over there, clothing someplace else. If the global network fails, that’s it. People starve. The specialized knowledge is lost to make things. Systems fail rapidly. The manufacturing of electronics quits, along with the rest of the supply chain. People probably eat all the seeds for crops. Lack of pesticide and fertilizer, plus climate change, wipes out yields for many. No way to harvest enough or transport it anywhere. Small pockets of humans might survive, but it’s gonna be hand-to-mouth or subsistence farming at best.

You’d go back in time quite a ways pretty quickly. People living tribally in the more remote parts of the world would maybe survive depending on how nasty climate change gets.

Of course the military is using it as a spy plane to shoot at “drug boats”.

Computing itself is fine. I can still do most everything I used to do on my PC pre-popular internet. I have essentially no cloud services on my PC.

However, the internet itself is a dumpster fire. It always was, except you had to deliberately looking for those places and they tended to be isolated back in the day.

Of course monetization destroyed the internet with corporations doing everything possible to carve it up and shove their ads and billionaire-controlled media slant in front of you, and their engagement-bait feeding of lies and giving a platform to controversy and stupidity on social media.

Most all of the good spaces are gone. Very few exist in anything remotely close to their original form, they’ve been corporatized, disappeared, or swallowed up by places like Reddit.

The only benefit to being Gen X is we were shut out by the Boomers maintaining their grip on everything for so long. Oh, don’t get me wrong. There’s plenty of Gen X idiots, too. We were the biggest trump voting group, for instance. (Seriously, my people? The anti-authoritarians whose anthems were Breakfast Club, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or even Total Recall? Hate the system, hate the Nazis, hate the rich corporate overlords?)

Wash them if you can. I find most poly filled pillows get lumpy if washed. But, you can toss your pillows in the dryer on high heat for about 20 minutes. That helps kill some smells, bacteria, etc.

Omg what difficult to mine and impossible to recycle material is this breakthrough gonna take?

The idea that people drank beer because it was safer than water is a myth. They drank for the exact same reason we do today…you get a buzz. A side benefit was that beer had calories in a drinkable form. The safety of the drink, as in not full of harmful microbes, was an indirect but not primary benefit.

Seconded. It’s like waiting for the old-fashioned newspaper to show up so you can see the next one vs binging on a netflix series.

I have never bought Bambu filament. There’s a far wider array of types and colors available to print with online, cheaper, than Bambu’s offerings. It only takes a few minutes to calibrate and save the settings for a 3rd party filament. The only thing it should be necessary to buy from Bambu is replacement parts.