I think it’s pretty obvious that the nutjob was trying to provoke exactly that sort of response out of Aldrin, and that’s the primary reason why I think Aldrin should get a free pass. He had a film crew there and he wanted to get good footage for his documentary or whatever.
Yeah, the joke doesn’t really work, does it? Any decent programmer will have a better shot at fixing a printer, because any decent programmer is good at finding information on the internet and then following the instructions.
Programmers complain about this situation because once people know that we use the computers, they expect us to fix everything for them for free. So, it’s just annoying. But I wouldn’t sacrifice my life to avoid a minor annoyance, so the joke doesn’t really work.
If you’re a programmer that doesn’t generally know how to find instructions to fix things like printers on the internet and then follow them, then I’m on the side of the guy who wants to shoot them.
Pirro is of Middle Eastern descent, and she’s a woman. Trump, on the other hand, has a history of racism and sexism. Something tells me that if he had to tell the difference between a photo of Jeanine Pirro and one of Kamala Harris, he wouldn’t immediately be able to say who is who.
It’s possible you’d get on a “no fly” list, which could be a problem for some people.
There are probably all sorts of ways that a corrupt government like ours can find ways to punish even perfectly innocent people.
I loved the live action drama of Liar Game, but I don’t remember it precisely since it came out something like 20 or more years ago.
I looked up the currency conversion, and in today’s money, 100,000,000 yen is about 625,000 USD.
As for this first episode, maybe it’s because my expectations were higher, but I didn’t like it at all. My memory of the drama is that it’s a lot of psychological trickery and puzzle solving, but this episode had very little of it, and felt very cringey how easily Nao was fooled.
Now that I think about it, the first episode of the drama was probably the same. Like I said, maybe my expectations were too high. Or maybe my tastes have changed in 20 years…
Anyways, I think they probably should have released the first two episodes at the same time. I want to know whether this is just the way the show is, or whether it’s more puzzley like my memory suggests.
If we don’t hurry up and put him in prison, he might not even understand why he’s there.
I got one a few years ago that had a setting to automatically go to a specified input when the TV started (similar to how normal TVs used to work).
My only mistake was leaving the TV connected to the network, as it updated and caused some hassle recently.
Wait, you can learn about something just by searching for that thing on Wikipedia?
WW3 is between evangelical christians and everyone else who just want to survive.
I respectfully disagree. Humans are a part of the universe, and they care about themselves.
I guess if you tend to look at things scientifically, you are more likely to see it as a responsibility. Humans are something that came about in the universe, and we are trying to learn about the universe. Another way of saying that is that we are the universe trying to learn about itself.
Of course, otherwise, even if you didn’t ask to exist, it’s quite presumptuous of you to make that decision for everybody else. If you’re going to judge civilization for bringing about your situation, it seems hypocritical for you to think it’s okay to make a different decision unilaterally.
The premise is only true if people, or even animals, never get hit by trolleys unless they are tied to the tracks. But we know this not to be the case.
Without civilization, there would be nobody to judge civilization, either.
I recently heard a science popularizer like Neil deGrasse Tyson or maybe Brian Cox talking about tangents to the Fermi Paradox. Essentially, even if intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, it’s possible that we’re the only scientifically advanced intelligent civilization in the Milky Way galaxy. As long as we don’t know otherwise, it’s not a terrible assumption.
But anyways, if we do happen to be the only intelligent civilization in the Milky Way, it’s quite a responsibility. It’s a shame that we seem to be racing towards our own doom. We should be doing whatever we can to save our civilization. Of course, it may be that most civilizations that reach this point destroy themselves.
When I first watched the anime that had come out so far, I didn’t originally classify it as top-tier. Only after reading the LNs did I get really excited about it. Going back and watching the anime again, I was surprised at how good they were at choosing the parts to animate without changing the story very much.
One thing they changed compared to the anime is that Myne is somewhat more weak and sickly in the books. So, it’s more natural if she collapses with Cornelius and then with Wilfried. By the way, I think those two scenes are months apart.
Also, in this episode, it sort of looks like she fainted with Cornelius because she was walking too much, but in the book, it’s clear that she mostly got overexcited about the book room. They kind of showed this in the episode by showing how happy her face was after she collapsed and was in bed, presumably dreaming about the book room.
So, we know from the previous season that Eckhart investigated Myne with Justus before she entered the temple. So he knows all about her past as a commoner, but she doesn’t recognize him. Knowing this, it’s interesting how he talks to her as her older brother. He specifically says he accepts her because of her relationship with Ferdinand.
As a fan of the LNs, if I could choose one anime to have it become popular so that it is guaranteed to finish the entire main story, it would be Ascendance of a Bookworm.
So, I’m hoping this season does it. So far, so good.
Of course, it’s also hard for me to tell how this episode would play to a person who doesn’t already know the entire story. But some scenes in this episode hit harder for me, I think.
They even gave dialogue to Hartmut.
Your response is nonsensical. First, if they are killed, that doesn’t count. The terms we used were “going broke” and “going bankrupt”. Nobody uses those terms in their normal sense and means “gets killed”. So, your claim that a person getting killed is a counterexample is nonsense.
Lawsuits don’t generally count, either. First, if those lawsuits are big, they are usually about who owns the lottery winnings in the first place. It means the person’s winnings were not as big because they were trying to keep winnings from other rightful winners, not that they lose money. If the lawsuits are big decisions against them for other reasons, then the person was already screwed with or without winning the lottery, they just weren’t worth being sued before. If the lawsuits are worthless, then a lottery winner can afford to hire a lawyer. If they inexplicably don’t hire a lawyer and just pay out settlements, that’s just a stupider example of what I was talking about where they don’t control their spending.
Your. examples. do. not. make. sense.
And on top of that, just go do the tiniest bit of research. I can tell that you didn’t even do a search because when I did, the search results were all about people spending too much. Some of them even appeared to have legitimate statistics. What you’ve done is pull your entire comment out of your ass. If you continue trying to defend these points without linking any proof, I will simply block and report you for trolling.
This was Esquire Singapore, by the way, for those who mostly just read titles.
In other news, Pope Leo releases an official press release stating that he is, in fact, Catholic.