200y ago electricity was already a known thing, though not something you got home yet.

One thing you could do, however, is buy up “worthless” land around the Middle East for when oil starts being drilled

Table of Contents

1.    Find your bottleneck first
2.    Slow server response time (TTFB)
3.    Render-blocking JavaScript and CSS
4.    Large image and video files
5.    Third-party scripts
6.    Slow interactions and a blocked main thread
7.    Unoptimised JavaScript
8.    Unoptimised CSS
9.    Web fonts
10.    Plugins, themes, and page builders
11.    Aggressive bot and AI crawler traffic
12.    Make speed a team habit

So, first step is selling the product. Second step, check if the server is actually working fine.

Steps 3 - 11 -> fix your fucked up shit

The fix for 5 is REMOVE THAT FUCKING SHIT. Very similar fix for 10

You could start a game, open the lid, swap discs, reset, and play the second game (can confirm on PS1, not sure on PS2 or GC). Unlike swapping cartridges in a SNES or MegaDrive and resetting without powering down, doing this wouldn’t lead to a super weird game.

The PS1’s Monster Rancher games would give you different monsters depending on what disc you put for the game to read when it asked.

My conspiracy mind sometimes thinks that Apple has said backdoor and has given the keys, but plays a pretend game with the govt as if they didn’t

I’m still trying to find the asshole who prevented the 6th world^[1] from happening

I’ll be honest, the repetitive loops had enough of a variety that it caught me by the balls back in 2006. Felt like your effort would eventually pay off in a couple of days, which was infinitely faster than anything out of Korea by then - those grindfests were already fine tuned to hell to suck as much time as possible

Remember when games rewarded you with more game content by actually playing them? Pepperidge Farms remembers

Aabout tree fiddy

Thank you, I’ll check once I’m off work

Super Splatters seems interesting. I’ll take it.

The game isn’t sold on Steam anymore, will the key still work?

EDIT: What the fuck. This is from supersplatters.com - “Online casinos without a Swedish license are becoming more and more popular among the Swedes because it is a non-stop casino. This means that players do not face any restrictions on gaming sites with local licenses. Their gaming experience keeps getting better and more interesting.”

Or one of Satan’s worse bodily fluids

and how to skip bail and move to Venezuela

First lesson: don’t become president of Venezuela

The movie had an even worse cultural impact

Haven’t watched Avatar, but I think it at least shows the “real bad guys” instead of a monster that isn’t even a proper reference to the CEO of the corp

Also, oh my god there is a Ferngully 2!? WHY???

Very good read. As I’m taking some classes in the neuropsychology of learning, his first part on how knowledge changes you is spot on. Sometimes the change is tiny, sometimes the change is significant, but it is always on you that it happens.

The technopoly, as the author puts it, was a long way coming, first with patents ensuring that the patent owner got the benefits (which often wasn’t the actual discoverer) and later with near eternal copyright thanks mainly to Disney. When computer companies managed to make peeking at their code a crime, society as a whole lost.

If you have two economies of equal size and productivity, one has a massive financial sector and billionaires while the other does not, the financialised economy will have less left over to invest in research, education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Over time, it will inevitably fall behind the country with a smaller financial sector because it’s the other things that drive the economy and productivity, not stock market growth.

I can imagine the shareholders going feral, explaining how they create jobs.

Another thing, regarding the USA stranglehold on tech, Brazil was in a very peculiar situation in that regard in the 80s and up to '92. It had a suffocating protectionism, which fully prohibited people from importing computers and videogames, in order to incentivize the local industry. The computer tech was roughly 5 years behind USA and Europe of the time, the first local NES clones were built around '88, if I’m not mistaken. Of course, game cartridges and software diskettes and tapes had to be imported, usually as contraband and often as pirated copies. Come 1992, the recently elected government takes down all the protectionism in a single swoop. It went from full to zero in a day, there was no gradual relief of the protections. The following influx of much, much more advanced computers crashed the local computer economy. We still pirated nearly every software, tho.

Reminds me of a Veritasium video I saw last week about molecular polymorphism. They spent a good 6 minutes talking about the different forms of crystallization of chocolate and how to solidify it back into form V - the shiny one we usually see after unwrapping it.

Well, she is some 640-760 times thiccer than the Sun

KFC has certainly gone sideways

The sociopaths want everyone isolated, that’s better for control and their business