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What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?
  • The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.

    The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

    You will soon have your God - and you will make it with your own hands.

    • Morpheus from Deus Ex
  • Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car?
  • I've driven a diesel Renault for 12 years (loke 300k km) and didn't need to replace any of those. The only big unplanned cost I had was a faulty EGR valve, which happened at 600km and wasn't warranty for some reason.

    That said regular oil change for clutch and brakes were mildly expensive, but I guess even for EV you'd want the brake hydraulics replaced the same way.

    Edit : just spotted filters. Yeah I replaced every filter every service, but with how grimy they look, even in EV I'd argue for replacing them.

  • What comics (including webcomics) have the most distinctive art?
  • Transmetropolitan, though I have a hard time deciding whether is it the style or the characters. Probably both.

    Knights of Sidonia was drawn by an architect. Definitely shows - thel background / landscape shots are quite ridiculously good and give you the scope a lot of comics tend to miss.

  • Russia’s Central Bank reports record staffing shortage.
  • Eh, it's not to say it's a worthy endeavour for them. But Putin doesn't care about the dead, and there are very few signs that even the russian society at large does.

    Russia may well go through another collapse after this, but that doesn't mean they won't cling on long enough to cripple Ukraine and/or annex parts of it. That is my concern.

    Remember: Karelia still belongs to Russia, and the winter war wasn't any less bloody for them.

  • Russia’s Central Bank reports record staffing shortage.
  • Advances on land are definitely not a be-all/end-all kind of thing, but rather a metric in terms of current force ratio. If Ukraine had enough troops and supply of weapons, they wouldn't have to give up ground. The current supply they receive is insufficient so they have to yield ground though. It's a symptom.

    Unless russia starts running out of either manpower or war supplies before Ukraine does, they are not in danger of losing. And as unpopular this opinion might be, with the current level (=limited in number and scope of use) of support Ukraine is getting, it's far from decided that russian war effort collapses first.

  • The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being Over
  • Well yeah, that is true. Security and convenience are usually at odds... MFA has place, unless you don't mind some guy from russia access your online bank account ; but I definitely wouldn't use it on all my accounts.