Hyperreality

Just to add that the BBC has done good audio dramatisations of several of Pratchet's works.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mz1wb/episodes/guide

Small Gods and Mort for example, are excellent. Currently not available on bbc iplayer / sounds, although they do regularly rebroadcast them and make them available online, but should be floating around on the torrent or archive sites.

BBC sounds/radio is free to listen outside the UK, unlike the tv content.

I look forward to Mr Muskovy reacting with a sense of humour about it all, rather than doubling down and acting like a thirteen year old boy who's father doesn't love him.

Pop it all on one harddrive/server, then it's just one click or key to be free of it all.

The things you own, end up owning you.

Delete it all and accept the transitory nature of existence.

Given climate change increases the likelihood and severity of similar extreme weather events, here's a related article:

As the global climate crisis worsens, an increasing number of people are being forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters, droughts, and other weather events. These people are sometimes called “climate refugees”. ... The Ecosystem Threat Register (ETR) released in September 2018 by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an Australian international think tank, points out that at least 1.2 billion people could be displaced by these threats by 2050.

Twenty thousand years of this. Seven more to go.

People are people. People like to feel good about themselves. Vanity is still the Devil's favourite sin.

Ad hominem.

It's unexpected for nvidia users, who have grown used to games being optimised for them rather than AMD users.

A graphics card company ensuring software performs better on their GPU?

Time to switch to nvidia. They would never do such a thing.

LOL

I have always found it a bit bizarre how some Americans will proudly advertise the fact they have loads of very expensive things in their house.

If I had a gun collection, and I live in a rural area with a lot of hunters so I assume plenty of my (European) neighbours do, I'd keep it quiet.

The whole Syria thing already caused us lots of issues in Europe. Arguably the civil war was caused in part by climate change exacerbating a drought. The surge in refugees helped the far right and populists across Europe and was a factor in brexit.

I can only imagine what'll happen if it gets worse. Children of Men is likely to be eerily prophetic.