Partially yes, but there’s an even more mundane reason; with nuclear weapons, if the other side has 5, you need 6: five to destroy their five, and one to destroy their capital. But when they discover that, they’ll decide that they need seven: 6 to destroy your 6, and one to destroy your capital. Add in some uncertainty to that feedback loop, and an arms race immediately becomes an exponential curve moderated only by the amount of time production takes and the amount of resources each nation is willing to commit at any given time.

There’s a very real way in which the proliferation of arms is, itself, an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.

This is the wrong community for a twist.

Whoops, I just assumed that since I used the web version on Windows, that was the only version available for windows. I had never even checked. Thanks!

Look, it’s not my thing, but I have it on pretty good authority that philately is pretty rad.

That’s a good point. I didn’t think about that.

That’s web, though. OP says they don’t want web.

I take it back.

Don’t listen to that guy. You’re in for a treat, my friend.

My bank’s website is a pretty boring one, though.

https://m.xkcd.com/1053/

The Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet combination cartridge. Mario, specifically.

The first one I owned (and thus the first one I played with any regularity) was Super Mario World on the SNES. I was 7.

I just installed Linux Mint on a 15-year-old desktop that has never been upgraded and was middle-of-the-road when I got it. It shipped with Windows 7, and I tried a couple of times to upgrade to 10 (it failed every time, either losing core hardware functionality, running so slowly as to be unusable, or just refusing to boot altogether). But it runs Linux like a dream. Seriously—it’s easily running the latest version of Mint better than it ran an 11-year-old service pack of Windows 7.

What’s even crazier is that I installed VirtualBox on it, and put Windows 10 on that, to use some work programs. And that runs Windows 10 a bit slowly, but otherwise more or less flawlessly!

That’s right: I’m having a better Windows experience in Linux than I’ve ever had on baremetal Windows on this box.

I can’t believe I didn’t do this…well, 15 years ago.

I don’t think that’s what the op was arguing with. I think they were just saying that weight is not the first thing that needs optimized here.

He has no actual plans beyond “stay out of prison by going to the White House.”

Project 2025 is the plan of all the people he’s going to appoint if he gets in.

I’m ok with co-signing this particular No True Scotsman fallacy.

Indeed. “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”—or, in this case, an unaudited automated process. Now, I’m sure the fact that it competes with one of their products meant that they were in no particular hurry to address the issue, but I’m sure the original failure was process related, not anti-competitive practices.

Does J.D. Vance think

He does not.

A musician. Like Cher, he’s known by only a single name (though his birth name is Steven).

WELP today I learned…all of those things as well.

I tend to agree, but I also am not a cosmologist.

All of the mass would still hit the sun, though.