That’s the French version of this.

“tHe AlTeRnAtIvE cUrReNt SyStEm”

How the fuck do you get that wrong?

They could remove that competition by making a better product, but that is somehow always the last thing they’d ever think about. It never stops being so fucking weird with all these business people who go to great lengths to do shitty stuff and always end up making it worse for everyone except a quick buck for themselves, even though they could easily make a lot more for a longer time by simply doing a good job. But no, that would require anything other than immediate greed. Absolutely vile people.

I actually don’t know, it’s been my favorite/lucky number since I was a kid. I’ve really thought about it and tried to remember, I’ve asked my parents etc. but no one knows. It’s a really cool number though, some random things:

The golden angle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_angle

Age of the universe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

The periodic table should end at 137 elements. Here’s a good blog post about it: https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/where-the-periodic-table-ends/

And here’s just about the number itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/137_(number)

Here’s a great video about 1/137: https://youtu.be/RCSSgxV9qNw

And an article (there are many more about it): https://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/physics-terms/why-is-137-most-magical-number.htm

There’s a lot more where 137 pops up, but please don’t take this as me thinking it’s some deeper thing and that 137 is the truth of the universe or whatever else conspiracy mumbojumbo. I’m a science nerd and just think it’s fun to have it pop up in so many places of importance, and I know most of those are via our own completely subjective measurement scales (a circle being 360°, measuring the age of the universe in earth years etc.) Some have asked if it has anything to do with 1337, and it has no connection to that.
I have a fantasy (as in it only exists in my head, so far) sci-fi universe that I’ve been developing for most of my life where 137 is important that I hope to do something with in the future. Like writing a book, making a game etc. all I can say is that blade runner and 2001 are major inspirations for it. I gotta head to bed but can post more fun things about it tomorrow.

137 is my favorite and lucky number, so I’m gonna decide this is the one that we find life on.

The Oblivion remaster is a lot more than just modern graphics though… There are a ton of completely changed mechanics, new ones and others that are just tweaked. It’s very much not just a graphical refresh.

How is this a TIL? There are hundreds of games released every day, obviously just about any word combination with one word being different will exist.

Nah, time travel and transrace!

Quite*

0.0001% of spiders are cute, and even those only in some photos/videos. The rest make my bones itch and my soul pucker.

Saying just “decades” for 80 years is willfully undermining it. You could easily say “closer to a century than 25 years” and it wouldn’t be click bait.

It’s not true at all though… John is one name, the ones written here are just other (similar) names. Same as some people being named Alex and others Alexander. In Swedish John and Johan are both very common and never used interchangeably, and I’m very sure it’s the same everywhere else. This whole post is just dumb.

This was posted just yesterday without the random reply which adds absolutely nothing. It’s the same as spamming emojis on a border around the image.

Herbivores*

How has no one said this yet? All this talk about what defines they eat and not one person who said the most obvious thing, something that everyone should know.

My younger half brother, 13yo, just bought a PC with his own money that he’d saved for years. He gave me a link to one and I told him he can easily get much better specs than that for the same price, and told him I’ll help him get the parts and build it. He told me he would and then about a week ago he told me he’d just bought the one he found at first… I just feel like saying “that was dumb, now you’ll have to spend more sooner to upgrade because it can barely handle the games you wanted it for.” but I won’t, not that harshly at least. Still think he should have just given the money to our mom or his dad so they could have stopped this from happening.

Both.

Calibration: Engaged

And the wonky face/eyes could be a filter too. It’s definitely edited in some way, but nothing that screams AI specifically.

Imagine if it did and the only reason it was censored was because they did a search and find > TRUMP > Make selected text background black.

It’s been a thing for several years on some phone brand android versions (ones I definitely know are Huawei, Samsung and Xiaomi)