It’s been a loooong time since I watched the original Fullmetal Alchemist, but I seem to remember there being a lot of tension between Hawkeye and Mustang.

I originally got it to rescue my Pokemon before the battery dies

This is probably the edible talking but… I’m enjoying this through the lens of the sci-fi trope of humanity trying to cheat death by digitizing the soul.

We haven’t figured out the technology for ourselves yet, but here we have a person at their workbench, driven by empathy for a digital pet, going apeshit with a soldering iron to try and transfer their little friend’s ghost before its shell fails. That’s cyberpunk as fuck.

So do.

I haven’t given Amazon money in a decade or more.

Options:

1. Local stores if you have any that haven’t been strangled by chains yet.
2. The manufacturer of whatever product you’re buying.
3. A non-Amazon retailer listed in the “where to buy” section of the manufacturer’s site.
4. In those rare cases where a manufacturer ONLY sells through Amazon, just buy from one of their competitors unless the product literally turns lead into gold.

I’m seeing a lot of “but I can get it the next day” in this thread. If my options are to wait a week for a product or to put money in the pocket of a billionaire who is actively contributing to the destruction of the free press, democracy, and the QoL of the working class, like… I’ll find something to do for a week?

I lived in a remote mountain town and could either travel 1,5 hours in either direction to see if a store happened to carry what I need for a reasonable price

Or call them?

Real easy fix here: stop giving Amazon money.

Because he’s part of the reason they’re not dischargeable in bankruptcy in the first place.

Alternate take: Switch 2 owners are an ideal demographic if you need someone that will pay money for the same game over and over again ad infinitum.

YouTube recommendations already seem to be 90% opposite to my interests so they seem to be way ahead of you there.

Please stop giving Amazon money.

Question for those of you who have read it:

I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it’s essential to read it in physical book form?

Better yet, just don’t give Amazon any fucking money.

Yep. https://github.com/latchset/clevis#pin-shamir-secret-sharing

If this is real, you could put together a guide on how others can most efficiently accomplish the same results. (Or link to such if it’s already floating around somewhere)

Let us not forget that both the Conways are complete shitheels.

Also possible that those people consider both Hacker News and Substack to be shithole sites.

Very true. Since it probably wasn’t clear, that wasn’t me trying to talk shit about the culinary skills of lunch ladies so much as situations like this. But in retrospect, this is probably not the thread for that discussion anyway.