I have a theoretical degree in physics

I think number 2 the next day would be a more harrowing experience.

No TempleOS? The Lord shall smite you for this wicked heresey.

It’s honestly impressive how many unattractive “features” they’re apparently packing into this.

Unfortunately, these are the only bright sides to this new OS. Microsoft’s Copilot, the AI assistant the company has been aggressively injecting across the ecosystem, will now be a core part of the next Windows iteration rather than a supplementary feature.

11 is bad enough, but it seems like 12 will be infected with copilot at every level of the OS rather than just shoehorned into every single app.

These AI features won’t come cheaply, with Windows 12 set to debut a new hardware requirement just as its predecessor did with the TPM 2.0 requirement. This time around, a dedicated NPU would be required, a specialized processor designed to handle AI tasks.

Oh, great. Yet another new hardware requirement, this time for unwanted AI, in a marketplace with runaway hardware prices caused by AI. On the plus side, this will make it easier for most people to not switch.

Some features of Windows 11 might also be locked away behind a subscription model that are expected to be “advanced AI services”, but the core OS will be a one-time purchase only.

Ok, so not only are you charging money for the OS, you’re also taking away existing features and making people pay a subscription?

The modular aspect of the OS is Microsoft’s CorePC architecture project that they’ve been working on for years. It will redefine the Windows experience by allowing the addition and removal of components. This will help customise the OS for each build, whether it’s a lighter-weight system, a gaming-prioritized build, etc.

Can we remove copilot, the subscription model, advertisements, and spyware?

Best I can do is a cult that worships and makes sacrifices to the only surviving Zoltar animatronic fortune teller after the nuclear apocalypse.

Fiber? Why not try 800% of your daily sodium intake in each serving?

Beans beans the musical fruit

“But I’m straight”

“So is spaghetti… Until it gets wet.”

“Okay but that’s a bad analogy because I just turn ten stories tall when I get wet.”

He had a minor role in Home Alone 2, then I think he spent a bunch of time visiting some other putz’s private island.

My life now but just enough more money to feel secure and also I’d be a girl

The Dope Fiend Lean

I like the part where they figured out the previously undiscovered secret in the race was to drive backwards. I tried that shit in Mario Kart when I was 8, you’re telling me NOBODY had tried it in that game before?

It’s definitely incel erotica. Saw a video once demonstrating that Reacher never actually needs to initiate anything with a woman, show any interest whatsoever, flirt, etc. He just sorta exists in proximity to women and they just sort of “give” him the sex that they apparently owe him for being the main character.

If you’re wanting to save for future education costs, a 529 would be the best tax advantaged option. For more general purpose investing, a UGMA account would probably be what you want. Do keep in mind that kids assume ownership of UGMAs when they turn 18 though.

As for funds, just invest in any mutual fund or ETF that tracks the S&P500 if that’s what you want. VOO is a popular vanguard ETF.

I love that, despite being a comedy, they actually address problems that 99% of apocalypse media ignores such as gasoline going bad, reactors melting down, etc.

Especially if it’s using that annoyingly upbeat robot voice.

If you pay me $1,000,000 I will consume an entire pineapple, skin and all. This is my final offer.

You’ve already admitted that you have absolutely no plan for the consequences of your action. At best you’d doom us to a decades-long civil war like the Troubles in Ireland, at worst you’d doom us to live under an authoritarian regime led by an ultra violent strongman. Neither of those scenarios guarantee or even improve our odds of reaching solutions to the problems you’re trying to murder your way out of.

Your entire plan boils down to “kill a bunch of people now and we’ll maybe figure out how to deal with the fallout along the way” and yet it’s somehow everyone else who can’t see the forest past the trees.

To be clear, when you say people who have a conscience you’re talking about people who would slaughter those whose politics you personally, as judge jury and executioner, have deemed unacceptable?

You’re absolutely deranged, my guy.

If Pam won’t be coming to the bus for any reason, she now leaves a sign informing you and you can drive yourself to the desert.

Praise be