benignintervention

As if Elden Ring didn't already use a variety of their older assets?

Let's please not take this opportunity to make the populace complicit in corporate greed

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Well, poop

I read the book once a decade ago and again last week. It's supposed to be jarring and to drop you into an alien seeming world. But it does all come together in the end.

If you're having trouble imagining the world, I recommend playing Cyberpunk 2077. It's fuuuuull of references to the Sprawl Trilogy and honestly some things are close enough to almost be copyright violations

The military promised to give me a job related to my degree, proceeded to then not do that, then denied me a higher degree both in my assigned job field and in my educational background because I lacked the background for the former and the job didn't require the latter. And now I'm struggling to get back into my original background

I'm on Voyager and it's just a still image. It's been doing this for a couple weeks

About a decade ago there was a huge Chinese hack into one of the security clearance contractors, who then lost the contract, so the final remaining contractor has been playing catch up ever since.

I had a top secret clearance in my old job. The whole process usually takes less than 9 months and anything outside a year usually means there's something fishy with your background. It boggles my mind that members of Congress aren't required to have security clearances and waiving background checks is completely insane. They're clearly hiding a lot of nefarious and dodgy crap that would otherwise disqualify them from office

Looks like a Master Lock 141D, a 4-pin with loose tolerance. Picking the third or fourth pin with a little torque usually pops it. Sometimes you have to set two pins, but not very difficult. Shake, torque, rake, open