If that is your interpretation then maybe that is your purpose.

What is the purpose of a snail or a polar bear or a single blade of grass with their life?

That is my purpose.

From the 80s-90s, my guess would be some proprietary format of conferencing or intercom that has not existed for thirty years or more.

I think it is fair to assume that if you get electronics branded by a candy manufacturer, you will not get any sort of quality electronics.

Obviously they shouldn’t be a fire hazard but still.

Repo Man comes to mind.

It’s very useful for dog owners when you can’t give it a proper shower. Dry shampoo and then brush it out.

Pro tip; do it outside. It’s a mess to clean up indoors.

I think it sounds like something different. Lucid dreaming is being in a state between awake and asleep to stay in first person control with the brain in unrestrained creative mode, while this is about training the brain to make up desired interpretations after waking up from full sleep mode.

Oh this is interesting. I’ve recently come to terms with the amazing plasticity of the brain. So if the brain assembles a narrative only after the flood of random stimuli, it should be possible to train it to use certain baselines for what narratives to assemble.

Any neurologists and psychiatrists and other brain specialists in the house?

For nerdy nerds like us a torrent client isn’t anything complicated. Regulating up and downstream bandwidth to personal preference isn’t complicated. Managing torrents to seed and not isn’t complicated. For your Average Joe though…

I haven’t watched Mad Max one in twenty years, but I’m pretty sure the backdrop is rising international political tensions and the ending suggests a global nuclear war.

Not daydreams but I have scenarios that I explore in different narratives I make up to ease myself into sleep. Currently it’s a sci-fi one. They are not intended to be stories for anybody else and I have no ambition to write anything down.

And the traditional beverage of choice is the carbonated soft drink Julmust, despite a certain international soda company upping their efforts every year to be associated with Christmas. (Their Christmas ads are not very popular in Sweden because hey it’s once a year something is outselling your product, you greedy ghoul. Let us have our own traditions.)

Sweden. Some people are having decorations up already but normal is from advent. Christmas is celebrated the eve of the 24th with dinner and Santa visiting in person. Dinner is commonly a Christmas ham and other regional or family traditional dishes. 25th is a slow day when kids are playing with their new toys and the adults are relaxing after the build up until Christmas eve. The evening of the 25th is quite common for young adults that are visiting their family home in a town where they no longer live to go out to the local bars and get shitfaced with people they used to know, possibly air their teenage grudges or crushes and get in a fight or laid depending on the scenario and outcome.

Same here with ml and I got banned from subs and by mods because I am just a filthy leftist and not a full on totalitarian cultist. Signed up on some different other ones. Learned some time ago that it is possible to filter everything and everyone from ml and my Fediverse experience has improved bigly.

It’s not funny and sad, it’s hilarious and deeply depressing.

My understanding of space engineering is that getting rid of heat is a bigger problem. Makes me wonder how much of efficiency of Stirling engines are lost due to extra weight and complexity for heat exchangers and radiators.

I’ve decided long ago to not use libraries or other packages with any remotely sexually suggestive anime/furry mascots or graphics in the repo or docs or even developers avatars. I prefer we work with a less perfect fit and do what we must for our needs.

Fuck me if I’m in a business meeting and a higher up or client decides to look something in the spec up and lands on that GitHub page. No way I’m interested in explaining or justifying any of it because why would I.

There are plenty of dog breeds all over that have been bred for desired traits. Somebody tell the Brits that history didn’t begin with them sticking flags in the ground.

If this post is intended as discussion material; No, not as long that I have my stationary computer that fills my gaming needs.

I think that’s the same game I queued up for like 90 mins at a computer fair to have a few minutes of very confused playtime and that was it.