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I copied the entire text initially, but also edited to add a non-paywalled link. I apologize, I've been using paywall blockers so long I keep forgetting others don't have them or don't turn off javascript for sites with paywalls.

Am I confusing him with one of the other dozen or two choices they floated, but wasn't he against aid to Ukraine previously? I can't keep all these christofascists straight, they're such cookie cutter clones of each other.

I'm in America and I love to push my car to its limits. I will take turns unnecessarily fast. Give me a relatively clear rural road and I will be punching that speed or greater if it's long and straight enough. Put me on a dry dirt road and I go crazy, nothing is quite like leaving a huge plume of dust behind me.

Finding out risk taking was a symptom explained soooo much about how I drive sometimes.

Edit to add: I've done about 160 kph(100 mph) in west Texas on the desolate straight interstate out there. That's kind of a limit for me in a regular car without more safety features.

"People don't like us and our death cult, so we're oppressed! Never mind that we make up the largest religion practiced around the world! It also doesn't matter that we still use our religion as an excuse to be hateful and cruel! We're the ones being oppressed here!"

Not worried. Being an Epic exclusive, I have zero interest in playing this game.

Lemmy.world is such a conservative tankie shithole.

Given how RICO works, every guilty plea increases the odds just by virtue of being a guilty plea.

Have you seen how much it costs to screen for diabetes? I think you can an A1c screen for like $20, but if you're strapped for cash, that can be a lot of money. And a blood glucose screen can easily run over $100. And it requires fasting and going to a lab unless your doctor's office is equipped to run the test. If this works, it reduces all that to just speaking into the microphone, wait a moment, and it spits the results out.

Just because we can do something easily now does not mean there isn't room for improvement to make it even easier and possibly cheaper. Especially when you take into consideration how hard it can be to get some patients to follow the rules(i.e. actually fast) and/or follow through.

Lol. This didn't age well even in the same day.

At the time it was exceedingly rare that email was used for anything other than text because the bandwidth just wasn't there. And especially to the masses. Hell, 10 base T, with it's 10 megabits per second, wasn't a thing till 1990 while people were still generally stuck at 9600 baud as the top end for their modems. The idea of having 10 base T speeds to the home wasn't even a pipe dream at that point.

Even email wasn't necessarily universal. You could be on one system, say CompuServe, but you couldn't email anyone on Prodigy or the internet or FIDOnet or any of the other different places people had email. And some were dependent on what computer you had. A fax machine though? Anyone could buy one, plug it in, and et voila, be able to get faxes from anyone else with a fax or fax other people. You could include pictures, something that email did not do at the time. The idea that email would include anything but ASCII was still in its infancy.

And this doesn't even touch on how hard it would be to know all this back in the day if you were not heavily into technology and read many of the monthly technology magazines. We're spoiled by the internet today, and I say this as someone who grew up in the 70s and 80s and is totally spoiled by the internet. It is hard for my kids to conceive of a time where you couldn't just hop on Google and look up everything there is to know about a topic and especially bleeding edge information about it. All that used to be the domain of the respective disciplines's top people or people who bothered to read the latest papers coming out.

To people of Gibson's time, myself included, the idea that fax would rule was not nearly as insane as the idea that people would be able to pull a nigh infinite amount of information from their computers. And doing something like watching a movie through your computer? That would have seemed far more futuristic than he was trying to convey. That was some straight up Star Trek stuff. And remember, he was trying to convey a world that wasn't that far in the future.

I think the biggest problem with these lists is that it lacks the context of the times they were made in. Alien with it's CRTs and big single unit terminal with attached chair to access the ship's AI did not seem out of place at all. The minidisc player in Strange Days? It happened right as we were transitioning to DVDs - when previously discs could only hold albums. It didn't seem far fetched that they'd increase data and decrease size continually. Indeed, these lists seem to require that you not have that context because the moment you do, you realize how silly they are. And when you consider these are movies, that have limited budgets to project the future, these lists really fall apart.

Hang the reborn upside down and get endless water because their lungs will never fill.

There absolutely should be no free speech is what he meant.