Alex Steele is bloody awesome

Nothing more gay than sister/sister stuff.

Which has to be fake right?

Eh, ubuntu does okay. Canonical is what people dislike, as the choices made in what is and isn’t going to be part of Ubuntu comes from that entity.

That may seem like splitting hairs, but consider that a lot of people really enjoy Ubuntu once somebody else strips the unpleasant stuff away and replaces it with something else. Get rid of snaps alone, and you’d bump a lot of the haters into neutral or supportive.

But it really is like any company or organisational entity. You do enough shitty stuff that alienates your “customers”, and those customers will go elsewhere if they have a choice.

Imagine a world where Microsoft had their version of Windows, but there were ten other companies, and a half dozen non profits making their version that eliminated one or more of Microsoft’s bad decisions. Mint Windows might be very popular even though Microsoft Windows is hated as much as they currently are. It’s still Windows under the hood, though with different tires and braking systems. The analogy isn’t perfect and anyone wanting to nitpick it will be ridiculed in a humorous, but vigorous manner; it holds up for casual use like this.

Ubuntu is Debian with some adjustments, so there’s only so much Canonical can fuck up if they don’t want to vastly expand the amount of work they do. Not that they don’t try lol.

Good for them, regarding their willingness to stand strong. No idea if they have a chance, but fuck rolling over.

I first that joke in person in elementary school, in the eighties. I had read it in a book a few years before that. Maybe the third grade? Coulda been fourth.

I haven’t held a phone to my ear since before smartphones were a thing. Headsets existed for land lines. Speakerphone functions existed on land lines as well as early regular cell phones (as opposed to dumb phones which tend to have more functions than the ultra basic phones did back in the nineties).

I’m fairly confident that the last time I held a phone to my ear was before the turn of the century. I know it’s been that long at least since I would have while driving and/or at work. The cell I had at the time worked better by headset, and there were plenty of cheap and decent ones available

Hope that there’s a modded version that doesn’t need play services. They exist for a fairly decent range of games. The less the game relies on an external server, the better the chance it’s out there.

For stuff that doesn’t have any need to check for play services, or verify anything, you can just copy off the apk file and do what you like with those.

Data is harder. Most games rely on Google backup. The ones that don’t, you may not be able to access to back up yourself. I dunno what the current options are, but it used to be that titanium backup on a rooted device could make a full backup to install on a different device. There was one that didn’t require root, I think it was called helium? But I never used it.

It really does require non scientific information to address.

Consciousness is not fully understood. Without that, anything regarding consciousness is still at least a little unanswerable. You can’t point to when and where consciousness ends if you don’t know what it is, what defines it in the first place. Death isn’t exactly at consensus either.

That means NDEs can’t be pinned down with 100% accuracy yet.

Here’s what I know. Nobody that has had the cells of their brain break down, as in begin decomposition, has ever come back.

So, based on that, I think the NDE experience is going to be based in some kind of brain activity. If the neurons are “melting”, they can’t function if enough of them aren’t melting and you can jump start things again, they weren’t dead at all. That, to me, is the definition of death that matters: if you can come back, it ain’t death.

Considering the general amount of precise experimentation in measuring the brain and body during the process of dying is extremely thin and limited by the very process, I don’t think we have the right tools to measure anything that would “prove” anything about NDEs, only indicate some probabilities.

But those probabilities lean much harder to it being a chemical and/or electrical event.

Now, if you want to bring souls into it, you aren’t dealing with science in the first place because it is currently impossible to even detect whether or not souls exist, it is a matter of faith. It’s essentially impossible to prove they don’t exist, but there’s absolutely nothing ever measured that points to anything resembling credible proof that they do. So souls just don’t matter for NDE discussions in a framework of science. You might as well factor in what granfaloon a person is mixed up with as a soul.

I’m not saying you can’t believe in souls and still attempt science regarding death, just that souls aren’t studyable with science.

Since nothing in any NDE has ever been unique to NDEs, it does make it harder to put faith in them as something other than a physical process. Everything anyone has ever described (at least in any useful setting) as happening has also happened with the influence of drugs, magnetic fields, meditation, or spiritual practices. Probably others my brain isn’t pulling up as well that aren’t under one of those headings, but I think it shows what I mean well enough.

And that point is that if the experiences aren’t different from things you can experience while alive, why would they be useful for determining if the person had died?

I have nothing useful to contribute, but holy crap I wish I had the household to do this because I’d love to try it.

But if I tried this, either the teenager or the old man (well, other old man) would fiddle with it every time they opened the fridge and I suspect that would interfere with the process.

Aren’t all anons?

Of course. Comes with a free skin though

I’m not seeing the problem here…

Yup, you’re misguided.

Be yourself, all the time, unless you’re a bigot.

No, the usual cycle most people run is changing their sheets weekly, assuming nothing makes it necessary sooner. It does vary some, I’ve seen households that change sheets monthly or less often, but damn.

Making the bed is a daily task, and that’s the assumption I was working on in the comment

It’s harder than it was before I needed bifocals, but yeah.

Once you learn the trick of it, it gets easier to do.

I wanna say I was late teens/early twenties when they first started showing up in my area, and I stood in the store I first saw one for like a half hour trying to see the image. My vision was kinda bad across the board, even then. But I got the first one, which was a boat, and then flipped through the rest of the selection they had, maybe five or six different ones?

But any time I got new glasses, it would take a few minutes to adjust when I’d run across one again. Same if I needed new ones.

They really are fun

See, that’s why you build a therapist in a box inside your head, so it can mediate between the other aspects of your inner processes

Dude, everyone at the company owes you head at that point. 10k hours = head, that’s just the way it is.

With a title like that, anyone that doesn’t like it is probably yuppie scum, and needs composting

Horse shit, there’s a few regular commentors that do their best with every question they can, and even more that contribute irregularly but in good faith, even if they fall short of accuracy.

I feel that!

I roll armed everywhere, and I would be all “yo, you got this! Ima nap, we cool?” And be snoring before they could even swivel my way.

Napping under unusual circumstances is my special power.