There were similar headlines for years before the 2008 thing, too. That’s the thing with bubbles - the signs are there forever. Good management and aggressive regulation could probably eliminate or buffer them, but everyone just keeps playing musical chairs because they can make tons of money right up until it all implodes. And there isn’t a clear sign of actual collapse until the pieces are on the floor.

They both got converted into energy, Thomas is just as much a copy as Will. Also, apparently your experience is constant across the process, as seen by Barclay grabbing someone out of the matter stream. Presumably someone would notice if it hurt…

Children’s Palace was my OG toy store

On Samsung phones, you can download Sound Assistant from the Samsung store and turn on Multi Sound. Prevents most of this.

My daily driver is a 2003, I had to buy an aftermarket stereo to get Bluetooth. Recently I borrowed a friend’s Tesla for a week, and that was a god damned hostile experience. Shift into reverse - from a touchscreen, mind - and suddenly the entire cabin comes alive with beeps and pings, the dashboard changes to 3 different cameras, none of which show me what’s happening to the sides of the car. The 3d overview diagram does almost a good enough job, but is that a trash can, a person, or a telephone pole? The computer isn’t sure. On top of that, the blind spots are huge and the back window is tiny and heavily tinted, so I have to use the screens to some extent. If I was my car, I’d have turned half that shit off.

P to P is potentially laggier, especially in farther-flung areas. It’s less secure, since the server is someone’s machine. So it’s easier for cheaters to do their thing. You also need to run a whole server alongside the client, so you need to leave a reasonable amount of perf overhead on your recommended machine that you could otherwise dedicate to just running the client.

That said, it’s cheaper to run and easier to maintain at EoL. So tradeoffs.

Picture quality on the One Pro is amazing. Crisp and clear. Sound is really good. Image is stable, but reacts weird in moving vehicles when using the body anchor mode since it can’t know about the motion of the vehicle. I wish the fov was a little wider, but it’s one of the best in the industry, so I’m nitpicking. My biggest complaint is that it gets a little warm, and has to rest on your forehead for the best view. But it’s effectively replaced my TV in most cases.

I also have a Viture One. Image quality on it kinda bad - it’s lower resolution and the chromatic aberration is pretty severe at the edges. Also, the way the screen prisms are set up also gets you a reflection of your shirt. But it feels sturdier and the proprietary cable is easier to attach in the dark so it’s nicer for travel.

Don’t go expecting religious folks to be logical about where they draw all the lines. “Mary-worshiping heathens” was the common line. Also all the saints were seen as idolatry, like Prole says.

I grew up Lutheran and we didn’t really consider Catholics Christian. So I assume most Christians don’t consider LDS folks Christian. Unless they’re trying to pad their stats.

Technically, the paper doesn’t need to have been punched, that’s why they’re pointy. You can just jam them through the paper and open the veins.

It was under a removable panel. If you didn’t have a Sega CD, you probably didn’t have a good reason to go looking for it.

Peanut butter goes directly on the bottom slice of bread, then the jelly (or jam, or honey) gets spread on top of the peanut butter. That way you can mix the two flavors together. Top is either a blank slice of bread, or you can spread a thin layer of PB or dairy butter on the slice to prevent it from soaking up the wetter spread if you won’t be eating the sandwich right away.

My mom used to spread peanut butter on the bottom slice and dairy butter on the top slice for the jelly proofing.

Xreal One Pro head-mounted display glasses. They’ve really changed how I watch TV shows and movies.

What do you use for self-hosting?

The new aircraft “are going to make the airspace far more interesting…"

I don’t want the airspace over my head “interesting,” I want it boring.

I have no opinion on if God is NB. But he’s very clearly in a same-sex union with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona’s drivers are much worse.

It doesn’t always taste like soap to me. But when it does, it literally tastes like the lather/residue from unscented bar soap. Like if you wash your hands but don’t thoroughly rinse them, then eat finger food. It’s a basic (as opposed to acidic) flavor, that really doesn’t taste like anything other than soap.

As far as I’m aware, the rule is “if it can easily be pronounced, it should be pronounced. If it can’t, fall back to spelling it.” For example, if it was the Federal Investigation Bureau, we would probably call it the Fib, barring some major marketing campaign to prevent that.