Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn't using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.
Way too much, in fact.
Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.
In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.
Damn, I miss those good old times.
He did indeed spread himself out; Arda was Melkor's "ring" as much as the one ring was Sauron's.
That said, even at his weakest, it took all the forces of Valinor, plus the men and remaining elves of Middle Earth to finally defeat and banish him. He's by far the most powerful of the Valar (and probably the Ainur).
Even if diminished, Fingolfin standing his ground against him for as long as he did and permanently crippling him was still a pretty big deal.
(You also have elves standing their ground in single combat against balrogs, and even defeating them; some elves were pretty damn powerful.)
Ah, so that's where Old Man Henderson's wee men ended up...
Less sales but more expensive, so same income, less costs.
Also less regulations, so they can sell crappier and cheaper alternatives for the same price.
Also, lower taxes on big corporations.
And they'll probably be able to use the private prison system to turn shoplifters into very cheap slave labour, saving on wages.
Seems like a win-win situation for Walmart, though not so much for its customers.
YouTube would have to shut down
You say that like it'd be a bad thing... YouTube died (or rather was murdered by Google) a long time ago; what Google turned its bloated corpse into needs to be destroyed so that proper alternatives have space to grow.
Pomegranates are one of the oldest cultivated fruits, so they're somewhat plausible, but I'm fairly certain humans made oranges (and most other citruses, through selection and grafting... though I guess it could have been a mandarin, pomelo, or citron, which seem to be the three we started with) and bananas (through selection and cloning), so it couldn't have been those.
Apples, on the other hand, seem to have existed long before humans, so they're definitely a possibility.
It was probably some kind of nut, though.
I don't know Japanese at all, but the way my phone renders those characters I can't tell anything about stroke order, and can only tell them apart because they're next to each other...
I imagine there might be larger differences with Japanese specific fonts, but with whatever this one is the difference seems about the same as using italics with Latin characters...
also ん can he pronounced in way too many ways
If English speakers¹ can deal with oo being pronounced at least six different ways (moon, book, door, blood, cooperation, brooch) they should be able to deal with this...
1— Disclaimer: as a non native speaker, I not only can't deal with it, but at this point have absolutely no intention to.
I know Watashi ga kita!, Baaaka!, and Omae wa mou... shindeiru.
That seems like it should be enough to cover most conversations, according to my research.
The fucking problem is they stole my damn calculator and now they're trying to sell me an LLM as a replacement.
LLMs are an interesting if mostly useless toy (an excessively costly one, though; Eliza achieved mostly the same results at a fraction of the cost).
The massive scam bubble that's been built around them, however, and its absurd contribution to enshittification and global warming, is downright monstrous, and makes anyone defending commercial LLMs worthy of the utmost contempt, just like those who defended cryptocurrencies before LLMs became the latest fad.
Self-driving cars are safer, in general, overall
Self driving cars in general, maybe. Teslas in particular, probably not so much, especially with Musk refusing to use LIDAR...
Used to be asstr, these days I have to make do with literotica and storiesonline. 😞
They see the world as a zero sum game. They can't imagine being happy unless someone else is unhappy.
Regardless of how many sides there are, it is an undeniable fact that plenty of people (in the USA in particular, apparently, a majority of the voters) choose to be in (a) side(s) that want(s) to enslave, murder, and rape.
And many others choose to be in (a) side(s) that enable(s) the previous one(s).
No civilised society should accept any of those sides, or those that choose them.
Most people seem to want others not to have a good life, ignoring or disregarding the effects that might have on themselves.
Many if not most would sacrifice their own wellbeing if that guarantees that "the right people" will also suffer. They see the world as a zero sum game, and can't conceive the possibility of having a good life if others aren't having a bad one.
Most people suck, often to the point of being monstrous by any decent definition.
COVID showed us that when we close the borders it's already too late.
American avian flu will be global long before enough other governments take it seriously enough to react, because the people who should have raised the alarm (in the USA) will be too busy looking for a job, in jail, dead, or ignoring it and drinking raw milk.