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Very cool, very 70s

33 years ago sorry

You're totally right to call me out on that! Yes, I can see now that the pod bay door are indeed still locked.

Well that just sounds like pure abuse

Flashback of my dad teaching me chess when I was like 5.

Yeah and a bit part of that design is to get you to have an emotional connection with them so that you use them more

Yes. Straight up murdering the guy.

The genetic condition is the better analogy than cancer. Cancer develops you're not born with it.

You're getting on for European prices. UK here is about £2 per litre. After conversion from £ to USD and litres to US Gallon that's about $10 / us gallon

Might be an issue with the sump if it's dripping into the floor.

Not from your article but from one of the links someone else posted.

When students self-report classroom computer use, higher daily screen exposure consistently corresponds to lower scores in reading, mathematics, and science. The relationship is monotonic: more screen time, lower performance

So it's not about the generation getting dumber as the headline would suggest, it's screens rotting our brains. So it's very likely that all generations intelligence has dropped.

The media did so well with putting the millennials against the boomers that they're desperate for another version of the same fight. Their rich pay lords also probably won't let them out a more honest headline which would be:

"it's official: increased screen time reduces intelligence"

A venomous snake produces venom, a mosquito is just a host for the virus. It gets nothing from killing you. Arguably it's failed if it kills you as you're no longer producing blood for it.