You don’t have [it] beaten out.

I agree and disagree. Pattern recognition is a trained skill, for you have learn to recognize each pattern. Pattern recognition is not, however, a trained skill in the way that you have to learn to recognize patterns at all.

However, during school most people have their ability to recognize patterns at all severely diminished due to “gotcha” questions on tests, questions that specifically are designed to catch you out using pattern recognition. This trains the person to not trust their pattern recognition, and in some cases people will actually learn to go against their pattern recognition because they assume things are trying to catch that

I think the actual worst part about this is that pattern recognition isn’t supposed to be a neurodivergent thing. Pattern recognition is like a built in feature in humans, but most people have it beat out of them in school

To be perfectly honest, the odds of me buying a game are significantly higher if I see reviews about “toxic femininity” or “woke politics”

Not in Illinois, so thankfully not my kitty escaping. Would be strange too if they did, my cats were born stray and are now deathly afraid of going outside haha.

Best of luck in finding your visitors caretaker

A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying

No they didn’t. In fact, the more or less said the opposite. They corrected American to usian, and said not to lump them in with them.

This implies that they are American (from one of the continents North or South America) but not from the United States (usian).

Gotta wiggle more aggressively. If you wiggle right for like 10 seconds it’ll be the size of your whole monitor. Hard to miss at that point

Took me a while to spot #3 lmao

They got back together and got up the first time they died, why not do it again the second time?

Gizmo looks just like Minion!

Honestly just memorize the fundamental ones and google everything else you need on the fly. You’ll naturally memorize the ones you use often.

I’ve used VIM for nearly 5 years and the only keybinds I have memorized are ‘a’ (append right here) ‘A’ (append to end of line) ‘i’ (insert right here) and I use the arrows to navigate instead of the letters. The only incantation I have memorized is %s/text to replace/text to replace with/g (find and replace through entire file. Remove the /g to find and replace only the next instance).

Once you have those, you can basically do anything that you’re capable of in a normal editor. If you need to do something beyond that, search “how to x in vim” and click the first stack overflow link that comes up, hasn’t failed me yet

Call them Union Members, it’s what their founding fathers called them

With the advancements in wine and proton, I’ve found a lot of games do well with adding -dx11 or -dx12 in the launch options.

Maybe a ticket could be made about considering changing the default for one of those programs

Yeah my kittens took about a week before they would actually come out and be visible while we were in the same room. For that first week, they would only come out to eat when we stepped out or were asleep and they’d hide all day if we were in the room with them

Considered “friendly” by Israel

Not by Israel, by the system in place for nuclear warheads.

The good system will magically discern…

The system doesn’t have to, the people do. And they’re quite good at it.

If you’re willing to spend the money…

You are absolutely right that resources would have to be moved around. This system, however, is not owned or controlled by a single country. How those resources would get moved around would be way above my pay grade

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1. The tightest missile defense system in the world in public knowledge
2. The actual system that is used for ICBMs wasn’t activated because these were considered “friendly” missiles by that system.

ETA: 3. Those missiles didn’t have nuclear warheads on them, so the good system wouldn’t have really cared even if they weren’t friendly

I think @DesertCreosote@piefed.blahaj.zone gave you a great breakdown, and I’ll add a little more.

I’ve worked with military technologies before. Unfortunately, I can’t give away many details for relatively obvious reasons. However, I can tell you with absolute confidence that in the case of a ICBM with a nuclear warhead being launched, there is a close to 0 chance it will ever land on Earth. In fact, ICBMs are almost entirely useless technology nowadays.

A nuclear warhead may also be delivered via plane, a la WWII. This too, is largely a nonissue. The odds of a plane getting deep enough into a country while carrying a weapon like that while under the level of surveillance that is currently going on are again, close to 0.

There’s a reason nobody has dropped any Nukes yet. It’s not because anyone is afraid of the consequences. It’s because it’s so close to impossible for it be an actual threat.

I have an undue sense of guilt when hearing about some particular war crimes.

I believe in a past life I spoke German. I think I was reincarnated in this way at this point in history to show me the other side of what was done. I’ll do better this time

Random update: my kitties did not grow up to look like yours as much as I thought! Just about fully grown as they cross their one year mark now, but they’ve hardly changed at all haha