Yeah, upvotes aren’t strongly correlated with accuracy. Could be informative. Or informative but false. Or just a joke. Or a troll that voters enjoyed. Or a plain old aggressive comment against someone they don’t like. Or positioned such that an unusual number of people accidentally tap upvote. Or brigaded from another more popular sub. Or the votes were botted or bought. Or randomly upvoted to camouflage a bot always upvoting its owner’s account. Or its visibility is better than an even better comment and thus got more total votes.

That’s why I think reddit is a shit source if you want an accurate bot, but might be pretty good if you want a propaganda tool because each of those things can play a role in effective propaganda.

Can confirm your realization. That hirogana’s romani is “ne” which is pronounced such that it rhymes with “fiancé” (which is close to “nay” but the y technically adds an “ee” sound at the very end which isn’t present in “ne”).

Functionally, it works just like the Canadian “eh” (when used correctly, not added to the end of all sentences like an American parody of a Canadian), to the point where I’ve been wondering if Japanese is the origin for the Canadian bit (or if they share a common origin that was brought over with one or more of the waves of natives crossing to Alaska).

I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.

Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.

My guess is they use the vote counts to classify the reliability of the data. They might even have vote identities to classify the data based on audience. That actually seems pretty likely, now that I think of it. It would be an important part of making them effective propaganda tools, which I believe is one of the end goals.

Qui Gon hard in denial, giving a confused and full of mixed feelings Vader secret force lessons. Palpatine, knowing his apprentice is fragile in that area, lets it slide when he notices, not wanting to deal with a whiney Anakin again after calming him down about the Padme thing.

Which was also part of the reason he didn’t say anything about Vader’s many apprentices; partially because he hoped Vader would train his own replacement, partially because if Vader didn’t think he had to keep it secret, he’d complain Palpatine’s ear off about it like he used to do as a Jedi. It was fun while he was manipulating him towards the dark side but just annoying now that the honeymoon phase was over.

Any specific issues though? Yeah, it’s a large change and I’d be more surprised if it didn’t have issues, but are there any specific issues with the updates that have been found so far?

It was a double penetration with his brother.

Skyrim came out closer to 9/11 than to today.

Who knows, maybe he decided to repent and is just still holding the sign because dropping it would be littering.

A fiscal responsibility to who?

Adding another suggestion for WinDirStat in a direct reply to you, in case you didn’t notice the reply to the reply. It makes finding the biggest diskspace hogs trivial, whether it’s a massive file sitting deep in the directory tree or a directory full of other directories that each have 500 3MB files that all add up to 100GB, or 3 installers’ temporary files that they never cleaned up, though you’ll only notice them if they take up a lot of space.

I’ll merge early but also try to go a bit slower than the person in front of me to open a gap which allows me to absorb some of the traffic wave (where flow alternatively speeds up and slows down from people trying to get up to speed only to have to slam on the brakes because some car ahead wasn’t going fast enough to maintain that), as well as leave space for others to merge at speed.

Though I sometimes close the gap if I notice people pulling into the right lane to try to skip the line.

There was an article about removing the modem (or other essential piece of that data path) from a specific model of car (prius I think?), hoping to see more of those.

They also create weak points along their edge since it needs to bend more to make up for the stiffness of the plastic part. It’ll start coming apart there before the neck frays.

And they need to subscribe to access and execute their troubleshooting options.

I am facing forward but am not sure what the next step is.

It’s a team effort.

It’s the lights that really make that picture.

I wish they’d take the test ones one step further and actually try to phish some information. I failed one of those tests but realized it right after clicking the link, but it didn’t matter because they assume that clicking the link means you’re going to provide everything else they are looking for.

Not sure what kind of links your regular urgent emails usually have, but if you’re regularly clicking strange links as part of your job, they should really take it to the next step and see if you were going to provide credentials or something before failing the test because otherwise it just means people are afraid to do their jobs because it might be another test.

That reminds me to add some lemon juice to my water.