JillyB

A friend gave me this book because they heard I liked sci Fi. I started it. I guess I'm glad I bounced off it.

I'm colorblind and the images are nearly identical. Good thing I'm not in tiger habitats very often.

1. Even if they are, China's military buildup seems squarely aimed at an invasion of Taiwan. China would just need to ramp up it's missile defenses to counter that deterrent.

2. Nation leaders often miscalculate the risk/reward of going to war. Look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine for an obvious example. Even if Taiwanese missiles would heavily impact China, that doesn't mean they'll understand that. They may also figure that China will be able to deal with it and still come out on top (and they might be right).

3. Almost every war game and analyst predicts the invasion starting with a huge barrage of missiles from China. The first strikes would be designed to cripple Taiwan's ability to defend itself/retaliate. Many of the missiles aimed at China would be destroyed before being launched.

4. In war games, it's assumed that the US will be at war with China along with a coalition of Pacific nations assisting. Even with all this support, Taiwan is defended, but only barely. The current administration is focused inward to the point of being much less likely to assist Taiwan or, at least assist much less than war games assume. China may feel pressured to strike during the current administration so Taiwan doesn't have has much help.

Well whatever was the most important part was also bad. He didn't need to look just like OJ. But part of OJ is this enormous cocky presence that CGJr just can't have.

There was a miniseries about OJ Simpson and the trial and everything. They cast Cuba Gooding Jr as OJ Simpson. OJ Simpson has a square jaw, broad shoulders, tall athletic. CGJr is small, round, narrow, high pitched, etc. CGJr doesn't even look like he could be OJ's little brother. No idea how he got that part.

I marathoned Her Story last night. It's barely even a game. You're just searching through a database watching interrogation clips from this one woman trying to piece together what happened. Really cool experience though with lots of twists and turns

Look up bone conduction headphones. I think Shox is the main brand. I bought them since I ride a bike a lot so earbuds would mess with my situational awareness. You hear everything around you which is the best and worst part about them.

One of my best friends did that in high school. While his parents were out of town he threw a house party and everyone smoked weed in the attic. While up there, he stepped through the ceiling. The parents came home, found out everything and had to get a contractor to come fix it. Right after the contractor left, he went up there and was surprised by how well done the work was. While testing its strength, he put his foot through again. The contractor had to turn around and redo the work.

Personally, I don't think switching your OS "as a protest" is a good idea. Bill Gates is so obscenely wealthy that your protest will have literally zero impact. Not "very small" impact; actually zero. As in, the whole world could abandon all Microsoft products and Bill Gates would still be able to live exactly as he did before. It's not worth your mental health to let his actions have that level of control over you.

All that said, you should switch to Linux because it's a better OS (as long as it does what you need).

Disclaimer: I have no qualifications or really any business talking about this...

I think games aren't the best kind of projects for open source. Some games are made open source after development ends which is cool because it opens up forks and modding (pixel dungeon did this). Most games require a single, unified, creative vision which is hard to get from an "anyone can help" contribution style. Most open source software are tools for doing specific things. It's almost objective what needs to be done to improve the software while games are much more opinionated and fuzzy. So many times I've seen a game's community rally behind a suggestion to address a problem and the developer ignores them and implements a better idea to more elegantly solve it. Most people aren't game designers but they feel like they could be.

An exception to this are certain, rules-based puzzly games. Bit-Burner is an open source hacking game with relatively simple mechanics and it works well.