Stovetop

Show me Final Fantasy 9 Remake dammit!

Glad to see more people leave it, but at this point it's almost more embarrassing to have taken so long.

I wouldn't say the Switch was laughably underpowered, it was a very solid step up from its actual predecessor, the 3DS.

I'd like to stay optimistic and hope they did as well, though if my own experience is any indicator, there's equal chance they fell into the pit of "Maybe climate change is real, but it's not that bad/it's better for me."

"If you had just picked a better water bucket, we wouldn't be in this mess. It's your fault if the house burns down."

Humans (and most other animals) see better side-to-side than up-down. Your eyes are spaced horizontally, giving us a wider horizontal field of vision. People generally prefer putting things side-to-side in work environments, maybe also reflecting how much easier it is to move and work within a horizontal plane than a vertical one. So the upper threshold for monitor width would be longer than the upper threshold for monitor height.

That being said, I know reading is best done in narrower columns, to reduce the amount of left-right movement your eyes need to do which can cause you to lose your place when skimming lines. Three columns of text on a 16:9 monitor is way more readable than one column of text that spans the entire monitor.

And then why do we make an exception for phones which are predominantly used in portrait mode? I guess maybe just for easier 1-handed use? Maybe also to give us more peripheral vision of potential hazards and other things happening in the background when using them, since they're mobile devices.

Ending it as quickly and painlessly as possible then, I guess. I stick by the opinion that a life without agency and with no means to obtain it isn't really living at all.

It wouldn't surprise me either if the main thing the PIs turned up was that a larger insurance company already beat them to the blackmail.

Are there no Canadian financial institutions capable of launching their own cards and payment processors? That seems like a pretty big issue if the US is still skimming money off of each Buy Canadian purchase made by any medium other than cash.

I did not get pictures, but I did see a Cybertruck just this morning with a whole discolored section of it on just one side towards the front. On closer look, I realized that they were plastic sheets in place of the metal plating which otherwise covered the rest of the car, presumably replacing metal sheets that had fallen off.

What a joke of a vehicle.

It sounds like you have no agency either way, then, which still sounds like a bad deal to me. I'd rather die at 40 living a life of my choosing than live to 400 with essentially no free will.

I'm not sure I understand the question. If the premise is that you become physically incapable of doing any action that introduces greater risk than some alternative, which isn't even a guarantee of "immortality" as described, then it's basically a life not lived at all. The safest option would always be to go nowhere, do nothing, speak to no one.

Imagine living life as if everything was covered in California Prop 65 labels saying "This action can expose you to risks which are known to future you to cause premature demise or other bodily harm." It sounds awful, I'd never take that bet.