Carl

when she stepped behind it that microwave turned out to be way bigger than I thought it was.

Clearly you don't know much about it, that's why I'm trying to teach you.

Fun fact: massive parking lots also cause problems for those with mobility issues. So do really wide roads. Dense and therefore walkable city infrastructure is also the most disability-friendly city infrastructure, full stop.

I've wiped out a bunch of times on my motorcycle, never broke anything. I wiped out on my bike, broken arm.

The solution is clear: mandate motorcycle jackets and helmets for bicyclists.

Here's one example that took place a year before the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact

The Munich Agreement was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy. The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived.

Neville Chamberlain and Édouard Daladier made a pact with Hitler to just give him their former ally, Czechoslovakia.

it's not really subtext. Alien is a movie that is explicitly about rape and unwanted pregnancy, and seeing that imagery deployed flippantly on a cartoon child is squicky.

not sure I like the cartoon with the rape alien attached to a little girl.

I don't want to get political literally talking about a political campaign

cost effective

I'm not so sure. A used Thinkpad comes with everything you need, whereas a PS3 or PS4 also needs a screen and a controller at bare minimum. The Thinkpad also has access to a game library of (checks notes) almost every single game ever made excluding mainly AAA titles from the 2010s onward. The PS3/4 is only the better value proposition if you specifically want to play those kinds of games, or if you highly value plug-and-play ease of use.

you can buy a piece of crap laptop for $250 but it won’t be able to play ANYTHING

a thinkpad t490 can't play anything new but it can play quite a bit. I play emulators on mine.

Electricity definitely spent a generation or two in the "requires technical knowledge from the user" zone before all the standardization and safety requirements got figured out.

I think people got mad at something she said about Avatar on twitter (the cartoon not the movie), and her anti-fandom reached a critical mass spreading around every single thing she'd ever said that could be interpreted uncharitably, and with her book out and her presence on Nebula secured she decided that being on YouTube was more trouble than its worth.