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I don't think we talk enough about the potential unforseen consequences of taking drugs that fundamentally rewire the reward centers of our brains.

Great, it makes you skinny. What other decisions are different as a result of fiddling with brain chemistry? Could it make people less ambitious? Could it make people more accepting of bad actions by the rich and powerful? Could it make you choose more subtle decisions differently? If you take something that fundamentally changes something like that about you, are you really the same person? What if you go on to make a bunch of decisions that you would agree with on such drugs that you agree with at the time and aren't huge, but over the course of years you become someone who is alien to yourself when you're not on those drugs?

Freedom toons successfully funded their new animated series. That's nice to see. The more we support media from people who don't hate us, the better off the future will look.

In college, I called it the HUMAN DAY STAR because my classes were in the lab in the basement and the days were long, so for a good chunk of the year I didn't see the sun.

People who want to change the world need to change themselves first. How can they think they can change everyone if they can't even change themselves?

Any NGO that primarily gets its funding from governments should be renamed GO and be treated as such.

I was looking in the mirror going "Oh shit, really losing my hair now, it's over bros" then I looked over at my wedding picture and realized that's just always been my hairline.

For now, at least.

The idea that anyone invented shaving the sides of your head is kinda silly when you think about it.

I know the reference, and it's annoying how accurate it is.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Seems so.

EAT SAND

SHIT GLASS

Funny that such people often lie flagrantly, yet they don't allow themselves to be punished in the way they want others punished.

I'd like a similar law up here, and if you have been a US citizen and lived primarily in the US for more than 10 years, you're also barred from engaging in electioneering.

I'm looking at you, Mike Myers. Why are you commenting on the politics of a company you haven't lived in for generations? Don't you have interns to destroy for casting their gaze too long upon your visage?

And this isn't as bad as it can get -- Let's see a new batch of stimmie checks go out, and everyone will be wishing for 7% mortgages. Even a 50 year amortization isn't going to save you from huge payments.

Don't get me wrong, there's a seed of truth in the idea of cutting recurring costs so you have more money you can put away. The problems are obviously that a lot of people aren't able to go do expensive things. I'm sure I'm not the only one rocking a 7 year old phone from the last time when they used to give you a new phone for 'free' every 2 years.

He should try to immigrate. Then he can find out the truth about immigration in places other than America.

Nobody conquered a country by giving them Tylenol.

Snowblower was one of the great purchases of my life. It'd take an entire day to shovel my long driveway before and it'd be the only thing I get done that day. Now I get the driveway and even walkways around the yard done in an hour, good to go do anything else.

One of the biggest mind fucks that I had recently was realizing by the time you get out to the outer rim planets the sun is showing like 1% of the light that it did, so even in broad daylight the human eye can probably barely see anything.

You're telling me that one of the 2 million people imported per year into a nation with 35 million people was sick?

The idea that it should be legislated that people should be paid enough to work in one of the most expensive jurisdictions on Earth is just stupid.

If you can't afford to live there, don't live there. Not rocket science. Except in Canada, apparently.

The original PS3 could play PS3, PS2 and PS1 games. It played PS2 games by having PS2 hardware integrated into itself, but it played PS1 games using a built-in software emulator.

I think a lot of the discussion of backwards compatibility is related to business models.

If you have the console naturally support your game, then you can sell a console. If you don't, then you can sell an overpriced re-release effectively every time you put out a new console. The overpriced re-release is often just an emulator and rom packaged together.

The SNES Classic and Playstation Classic I have are both consoles running modernish hardware and a software emulator underneath.

Many games were sold on the Wii and Wii U from the NES, SNES, and N64, and people were able to extract the game roms to use on non-commercial emulators as I recall.