Naw I didn’t mean that, but hell yeah let’s be here anyway. To me, technically the joke is that none of us probably bother to put in our real birth month and date when Steam asks us to verify our age before viewing the next game suggestion in our discovery queue or wherever; just spin that wheel for the year lol. But the wording you pointed out is the only tipoff that it’s what I’m talking about, over-explaining would have made it boring, and if I go too subtle, then nobody gets it. I was genuinely thanking ye for the noticing the deliberate wording and I hope you got a chuckle :D

Glad you noticed that lol, it’s really the make or break part of the joke.

Don’t you dare go ruining my joke with your reality-ism.

Not true as I’ve often been born on January 1st in the early 1900’s.

I hate to say it, but regardless of one’s stance, on his back should be “Public perception of Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3-mile Island.”

I say regardless of one’s stance, because even if the public’s perceptions are off…when we remember those incidents but not how much time was in between them or the relative infrequency of disasters, they can have outsized effects on public attitude.

ping 1.1.1.1 -n 9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

And before someone gets up in arms about the research papers, the researchers don’t get paid by the journals for publishing with them. In fact, the researchers need to pay the journal to publish, and then the journal turns around and charges people to read it.

What you’re describing here is called predatory publishing and is not the norm. It’s the “fake news” of scientific journals. I’m not “up in arms” about the original topic of making info available to the public whatsoever, just wanted to correct this part.

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Potato colored in my case.

You can live your beans.

That’s a little over 3 per waking hour.

No information about Alpha Centauri 2? I posit an AC quote then:

“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.” -Commissioner Pravin Lal, ‘U.N. Declaration of Rights’

Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I’ve used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It’s always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons…which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.

Exactly. And the entire reason I like to kill stuff in video games is that I have zero desire to do it in real life.

Just a squirrel tryin to get a nut man, don’t hate.

That’s just cause AI can’t make it’s mouth into the shape of an O while it says "Feb-ROO-ary.

I use it to scream into the void and be completely uncivil because I’m civil and soft-spoken in the rest of life. In other words, I go to the dumpster when I feel like treating Trump supporters like trash :)

To do, or don’t to do…that is the question.

Right, but cynics like ourselves need to jump on the proof that we were right to spread our jadedness to the masses.

Seems like his job was to “manage” the community in the control sense.

The whole article was poorly written honestly, but yeah, that part really felt off. If the only thing they care about is money, then by nature our only real means of protest is to affect their money.