

Yeah I used to be super addicted to Overwatch 1, but I bailed as soon as 2 came out. I can honestly say I've never played it since.
I liked it! For a season opener I think you want a big, fun, bombastic kind of thing that doesn't get super heavy, so I think it worked very well in that regard. I also liked Belinda, especially her calling the Doctor out at the end.
It wasn't a perfect episode by any means, but the previous watermark for a season opener is Space Babies, so for me this represents an almost infinite degree of improvement.
For what it's worth, RTD was also saying the same thing 20-odd years ago when he was on about season 2-3 of his first run lol.
Back when the Queen was still alive, Stephen Fry described her role as being "as if Uncle Sam was a real person." Meaning, being a sort of personification of the country without actually holding any real power over it. I'm not a huge fan of the British monarchy, but if we have to have one I'm at least glad it's limited to being essentially a powerless tourist attraction.
Yeah my VPN (Mullvad) is super affordable and I just leave it on all the time so I never have to worry.
Also maybe a seedbox could work for this sort of situation? I'm not overly familiar with them but I assume that would also just be running no matter where OP is.
Case in point: Dick Cheney. And Henry Kissenger.
Thus opening the door for some sort of Clinton-Bush type of future scenario where a Democrat and Republican are buddies behind the scenes and just keep running for one term and alternating for 20-odd years.
Same here, I bought Strawberries for 50% off at H-Mart, they didn't even last the night lol.
My first thought was to set up a bunch of long-term investments, since you can reasonably assume that you'll live a long life. But then also, being rich might increase the odds of you being kidnapped or killed, so it might just tank whatever you choose to invest in.
Maybe you could somehow get a job testing roller coasters. Once you're in there you have no power to decide anything, so perhaps the universe will make the builders construct the safest possible roller coaster. OR, you could be a food taster for someone rich and powerful. The universe wouldn't let you eat anything that's poisoned, or it would just ensure that no food gets poisoned in the first place!
Here in Canada, the general sentiment among people I've talked to is definitely that the US has fucked up it's relationship with us in a very long-term way, if not permanently. Even if the tariffs went away tomorrow, there's still the issue that Trump threatened Canada's sovereignty, which people here are not taking lightly at all.
I've heard people say that even if Trump went away, there's no guarantee some other dickhead won't take over and start the same nonsense, or we'll just be back here again in 4 years. Even the new Prime Minister said that the relationship we used to have with the US is over now.
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It sucks that we all have to live through it, but I feel like the current times in the US are a really interesting test of the sort of limits of democracy. By that I mean, what happens if the majority of the population just willingly elects the worst person they can find, and at the same time every check, balance, rule and tradition that everyone assumed would keep things on the rails just... turn out to be kind of bullshit because nobody is willing to enforce them?
It raises all sorts of weird questions, like at a certain point is it okay to overrule democracy in some way to protect the country and the people, even if the majority seem to want to just run the bus off a cliff? And what about the people who didn't vote for this? Are they expected to just go down with ship or have to leave their home country altogether? An informed and engaged populace is vital to a healthy democracy, but what if enough people are uninformed/propagandized enough that they just willing take down the whole country? Does the rest of the world just let it implode?
I have no real answers to these questions, but I'd love to be studying this whole situation from like 100 years after it's all over.
"Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad."
Also even "Today" is not a happy song lol. From Wikipedia:
After the release and minor success of the band's debut album, Gish, the Smashing Pumpkins were being hyped as "the next Nirvana". However, the band was experiencing several difficulties at the time. Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was undergoing an increasingly severe addiction to heroin; James Iha and D'arcy Wretzky had recently broken up their romantic relationship; and Billy Corgan had become depressed to the point of contemplating suicide and plagued by writer's block. Corgan recalled that "after the first album, I became completely suicidal. It was an eight-month depression, give or take a month, and I was pretty suicidal for about two or three months."
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The dark, ironic lyrics of "Today", describing a day when Corgan was feeling depressed and suicidal, contrast with the instrumentation. Michael Snyder of the San Francisco Chronicle said that the song is "downright pretty as rock ballads go" but that "Corgan manages to convey the exhilaration and tragic release he seeks." Corgan told Rolling Stone that "I was really suicidal ... I just thought it was funny to write a song that said today is the greatest day of your life because it can't get any worse." Corgan later compared writing the lyrics of "Today" and "Disarm" to "ripping [his] guts out".
I remember an old interview with RTD from his first run where he said that by now the Doctor has become part of the national folklore like Robin Hood or Sherlock Holmes so it'll never truly go away which I think is true. Even if the TV show goes away again for a while, Big Finish will keep going, people will keep writing books, there'll be fan fiction etc.
And presumably it'll have to enter the Public Domain eventually too, although that's probably still a long way off.
Not the above poster, but for me: it's a slight concern but AFAIK the profiles are interchangeable so it's pretty trivial to just switch back to Thunderbird if anything does happen.
For me it's handy because I have multiple email accounts so I can just open Betterbird and check them all at once without having to log into several different pages.
There is not a force on Earth that could compel me to ever buy hardware from HP again. I'd rather not have a computer than have an HP computer.
Yeah that's honestly the main thing for me too. It's $120 Canadian for the Deluxe version. My price point is like... $30, especially since by all accounts it's not even finished.
I wonder if some sort of "Dead Man's Switch" might be an appropriate solution for something like this? IIRC there are services that will send out messages to certain people if you don't log in for a set amount of time, so maybe something like that could be set up to email friends/family/a lawyer/the consulate of your home country or whoever in case you get snatched?
It probably won't be able to tell them where you are or what exactly happened obviously, but it could at least let people know something's up.
I feel like the "getting into privacy" journey for a lot of people tends to look like a bell curve - you start off with a few apps and minor tweaks to protect you from the worst online privacy invasions, and then it gradually builds and builds until you become the sort of person that has all their cat pictures on an air-gapped encrypted server hidden in a cupboard somewhere while you use SearX to find the best mask that will confuse facial recognition cameras, and then after a while you break through and just go back to using a few apps and tweaks to protect from the worst of it again.
Doctor Who Christmas Special Trailer!
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Enabling Antenna Aggregation Might Make Big Difference If Your Laptop Has An Intel Wifi Card.
This is swiped from reddit but I thought it was really helpful so please don't judge me too harshly lol.
So it turns out that some Linux distros don't enable this by default for whatever reason but if you have an Intel wifi card that uses the iwlwifi driver (you can check this with lspci -k
and look for a section that says Network controller: Intel Corporation
and Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
under it), you can add a simple line to a config file that might make a huge difference to your wifi speeds.
Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
(if it doesn't exist just create it) and add the line: options iwlwifi 11n_disable=8
then reboot. I ran Speedtest before and after trying this on my laptop and it seems to have increased it by about 20% or so.
Your mileage may vary of course, but hopefully this helps someone!
Since Nobody Seems To Have Posted It Yet - New Trailer For The 60th Anniversary Special!
New Actor Announced For Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special
Altered the title to avoid spoilers - hopefully that's okay! But for those who don't want to click - Miriam Margolyes is voicing Beep The Meep.
On joining Doctor Who, Miriam Margolyes says: “I’m relieved I got to work on Doctor Who before I died."
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Lost episodes of the BBC sci-fi series exist in the collections of private owners, says archivist.