My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.
My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.
Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”
Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.
In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.
sometimes with a better PR team
Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.
Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.
Indeed he did! He had ten cats
You turned the frame of reference against me!
“DnD game that got out of hand” is redundant
I lay my shirts flat on a side table. Much quicker than hanging or folding, and still prevents wrinkles. Socks, underwear, and jeans I don’t fold, but I separate into different piles that go in drawers and shelves.
In my experience exhaustion makes the dread spiral worse
As Aladin put it “Got to eat to live, got to steal to eat”
Yep, the loggers want the forests to keep producing trees
I remember figuring out how to use math to draw boobs on my graphing calculator
Most of the Olympic shooters use fancy gear like special eyepieces and what not. This guy Yusef Dikec from Turkiye rolled up without all that, stuck one hand in his pocket, shot with both eyes open and took silver along with his partner Sevval Tarhan.