It’s https://www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1

Imagine calling a Christian prayer a “curse”. And then having the mayor back you up. People would riot.

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I’ve never washed beans or rice before cooking, but every source I can find says, yes, you should. Besides potential rocks (which I have never seen) there are also “anti-nutrients” that get washed off and it’s supposed to taste better, too.

There’s an app you can run that cracks the firmware for you, but it doesn’t permanently change anything, so there’s no chance it’ll brick your PSP. It’s super easy to turn the crack on and off, too. With the firmware cracked, you can just plug in an SD card and run any native game, any PS1 (as an eboot), and homebrew software which includes games and emulators for GB, GBA, NES, GG, SMS, Genesis, SNES, TG-16, etc. etc. Just a mindbogglingly huge library.

I don’t remember the name of it right now, but do a web search for PSP CFWs (Cracked FirmWare) and you should be able to find something.

Biting is acceptable. So is licking. As long as you don’t slobber on me or draw blood, we’re good.

“Authoritarianism works, as long as the authorities are competent.”

Why’re you being a cunt and pretending that’s what you said?

That IS what I said. Why don’t you slow down and edit your responses before you hit “Reply”?

Your opinion is you wanna lick boots and don’t really know why, okay, just be honest.

Nowhere did I say that authoritarianism is good or even that I desired it. I just said it worked. I noticed you didn’t answer my question, and I think I know why.

Democracy, like all systems of government, is a tradeoff. Nobody’s found a perfect system yet, and one probably doesn’t exist. This is because it’s hard to get people to agree. You may have noticed this.

So, people argue, and it’s harder to get things done, and it’s slow…but on the upside, you have more freedom and it’s more egalitarian. When life is good, it’s pretty easy to maintain democracy. You might get frustrated at the slowness of government, but it isn’t a big deal, because, again…life is good.

What about when life is bad, though? That’s when the slowness of democracy becomes really frustrating, and authoritarianism begins to look more and more attractive. Authoritarianism offers speed. It offers decisiveness. It offers easy answers. The democracies have all been bought off by big corporations, anyway, so why not go with authoritarianism? At least you know that they’re on your side. For now…

So, that’s why the right wing has become so popular in the last 10 years. I’m hopeful that democracy can rally, but things are really touch-and-go right now. It does bother me that I won’t live long enough to see how this turns out, but maybe you will. Sometimes things reach a breaking point and big changes happen very quickly, too, so who knows? Maybe I can at least help, in some small way, to keep things on a sane and stable path. I try to remain optimistic.

I know that I’m talking to somebody who’s maxxing out on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and you probably didn’t even bother to read this far, but maybe you found somebody who could read this and explain it to you. Again, I try to remain optimistic.

You’re the leader of a country. Is it easier for you to get what you want if the country is A) a democracy or B) a dictatorship.

Don’t answer right away. Take all the time you need.

Shows that don’t have a fixed endpoint have this issue where the quality of an episode can vary quite a lot depending upon who the writer is. Doctor Who has this problem worse than most, and I think it’s because their showrunners themselves suck. I think this particular showrunner (Chibnall?) had an obsession with faces, because there were several episodes during his time where something weird was done with a face, like sticking it on sheet like they do here. (I don’t have a problem with a face on a sheet. I do have a problem with that face talking without a throat or lungs!)

Doctor Who does go balls-to-the-wall with the Rule of Cool, and sometimes they can pull it off, but often not IMO (e.g. the face on the sheet). I think the old Doctor Who is much better, but the pacing on it was much slower because they usually didn’t try to cram the entire story into one or two episodes. It’s so slow, though, it would bore modern audiences to death. I like it because there is a lot more dialog and the story is allowed to grow over the course of 4-6 episodes. There was much more suspense because they had an incredibly low budget for special effects. It could just be nostalgia, but I think the stories were much better, too. In a cheesy sci-fi B-movie kind of way, at least.

Yeah, right after I finished writing that, I thought “Am I crazy, because that actually sounds like a good idea.”

What you’re describing is an automat.

A source…on my opinion?

Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t.

I was talking to my roommate about a ramen restaurant, and he scoffed and said “Ramen restaurant? Who the fuck had that bright idea?!”

It turns out he thought that all ramen was instant. Like you walk into the restaurant, sit down, and they serve you some noodles in a cup.

I used to have a “starving student” cookbook which was just different things you could add to instant ramen.

For the same reason that somebody can accidentally cut themselves with a knife.

That’s a relief! It’s a good thing that antibiotic resistance isn’t a problem.

Authoritarianism works, as long as the authorities are competent. US & Europe are getting the worst of both worlds: authoritarianism without the competence.

Amygdala? I hardly know 'er!

Belief that heirarchies are natural and desirable because some people are better than others is the worldview required to be vulnerable to the lie of fascism, it’s the precursor to all supremacist thinking.

It isn’t because “some people are better than others”, it’s because some people are better than others at leading. Leadership is a skill, and it can be learned and practiced just like any other skill. You could say, “Hey, Mary is good at fixing things, let’s put her in charge of repairs. Margaret is good at planning projects and organizing people, let’s put her in leadership.”

And no, it doesn’t imply that the person leading should have total control over everything or that they can’t be held accountable.

If you look at opinion polling across countries, die-hard support for supremacist candidates hovers around 25-40%.

You said “humans who want hierarchies” and you’re equating that with “support for supremacist candidates”. Does that mean that if I support a centrist or a left-wing candidate, then I don’t want hierarchies? I can tell you, there are certainly not that many anarchists in the world. 60-75% of the population?

You aren’t concerned about losing potato chips or French fries? I’m confiscating your American card.