You mean people wouldn't just give away unbelievable amounts of GPU compute for nothing? This is my shocked face: (°o°)

Check out some trailers for Falling Frontier, it looks like it has a lot of potential at least.

Also, Star Sector: https://fractalsoftworks.com

Can you elaborate on how and why Israel is such an important ally? It's got to be more than just a foothold in the region, surely?

Well yeah, doxxing is irresponsible and can get people killed. Don't do it, not even when someone is being a massive suppurating arsehole about things.

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It's a wonder our species has survived this long.

Bone is actually far more conductive than you might think! Our main protection from current comes from that very outer layer of skin; once that's breached resistance drops relatively dramatically.

And bone itself, being a non-homogeneous material, exhibits variable conductivity throughout with the marrow for example being more conductive than calcium (well, mostly hydroxyapatite I think, to be perfectly accurate) with a relatively low average resistance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26836-0

So (roughly speaking) the idea is that this device puts multiple paired contact points on the scalp and drops skin resistance with some gel or something, like an EKG or EEG, in such a way that the path of least resistance goes through the bits they want to stimulate.

An interesting guess, but your premise is flawed. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation does use electrodes on the scalp, with very little voltage or current needed to effectively alter brain function through the skull non-invasively:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5702643/

Doesn't matter where they're from, or what language they speak, or even particularly what the laws are in your country: The far right are criminals, every single fucking one of them.

Edit: bloody hell, I hadn't looked into Brave that deeply yet, fuck Brendan Eich and fuck Peter Thiel.

Jesus. A day without bad news from Mozilla would be nice. I am beginning to feel a distinct need to switch browsers. and Brave is currently looking like the best balance between compatibility and privacy. I've only been resistant to Brave because it's based on Chromium and I want to support non-Chrome browser engines, but the Firefox forks I've tried like Waterfox and Pale Moon just aren't there yet in terms of usability for me (primarily, wide protocol support for web video playback).

Anyone got any better suggestions, by any chance?

That voice is like Mary Poppins' shadow: unmistakable.

I mean if they don't submit the votes on time, proceedings must proceed without them. That is not disenfranchisement by the proceeders, but by the election officials who cannot submit their jurisdiction's ballots on time. Next time the residents of the county can ensure sane and competent people get those roles, if they want their votes counted. Simples.

A thousand dollars for a motherboard? Is it because of all the VRMs and micro fusion reactor it needs to run nVidia's 5000 series? Whatever. At that price, it had better have support for bringing my actual mother back from the grave...

What do you call a medical student who graduates bottom of their class?

Also, Cs get degrees!

Oh 'allo mon-see-er, I couldn't 'elp but notice England isn't on that list 🇬🇧

But then they'd have to spend money on shoes to send to Russia, instead of not paying their lawyers!

If we don't win this November, Guatemalan immigrants are gonna come for your birds. And they're gonna set them on fire.

That whole thing was fucking amazing. I envy the composure to stay in character and on point the whole time. The attendees who kept laughing were the cherry on top.

If anyone needs a starter library of sci-fi and fantasy, this can be unzipped and loaded into Calibre, to be transferred onto pretty much any ereader device you like: https://drive.proton.me/urls/3HJF0BRV68#6Nnqj0dGbDSs

I have not read Fairy Tale, but I have read The Talisman which someone else recommended you and I will second that recommendation! I hope you enjoy whichever books you end up picking up 😊

Like the custom endocrine systems of combat sleeves in Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon edit: I think I was thinking of Iain M Banks' "Culture" series actually, but both are worth a read! Need to be strong or fast? Just give yourself a little squirt of adrenaline! Time for slow heart rate and low energy use? Slow-release a skoche of acetylcholine.

You make a good point about subscriptions. The repo when you stop paying would be pretty grim.