well there’s some good context

wow hard disagree, it’s right there in the opening statement of the show:

to seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where noone had gone before

that’s just, exciting!

Slackware took like 40 3.5" double sided double density disks, and woe betide the poor soul who didn’t label them because the stack was a foot high and you damn well would get them mixed up.

When doing it from home I would frequently run into issues that required me to completely reinstall dos and Telemate to go back to usenet and get help, print the help and then take another stab.

Dos and Linux had different opinions about SCSI chain termination so this usually involved full cover off to move jumpers on the hard drives and sometimes irq jumpers on the motherboard to get the modem AND sound card working right.

Then the fact that to get online once you had slackware installed required you to write your own SLIP/PPP dialup scripts because every ISP was doing their own thing.

Honestly it was a fucking wonderful time. Many happy memories.

with no other context I would assume a reference to the biblical depiction of death.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth.

the OG one would be the Doomsday Clock

The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making. It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.

When the Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, the greatest danger to humanity came from nuclear weapons, in particular from the prospect that the United States and the Soviet Union were headed for a nuclear arms race. The *Bulletin *considered possible catastrophic disruptions from climate change in its hand-setting deliberations for the first time in 2007.

I just love songs! Don’t you?

It was all fun and games until your thrustmaster and your soundblaster and your modem hit an IRQ conflict.

Plug-and-play was a godsend for gamers.

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my first thought was ‘that damage doesn’t seem like enough if these fellas are supposed to be deaths backup squad’ then i got to

A marut commanded an array of magic, replicating the spells air walk, dimension door, fear, greater command, greater dispel magic, mass inflict light wounds, locate creature, and true seeing as often as it willed; chain lightning, circle of death, mark of justice, wall of force each once a day; and earthquake, geas/quest, and plane shift each once a week.[3][4]

ooh thats a spicy boi

interesting! probably water molecules collecting inside through micro cracks over the years, it’s the h2o molecules in food that act as the microwave susceptors

cold food hot bowl is a direct sign of not having good microwaveable dishes.

My in laws have this white corelle stuff that swears it’s microwave safe on the bottom but it gets hot as fuck when you reheat food. i don’t think it’s just because it’s thin either if you try to melt butter in it the dishes get very hot.

The glass bentgo containers i use for storing food seem to be completely invisible to the microwaves. You can get food bubbling hot and still grab the glass container to pull it out and it’s completely cool.

you should check out what the british do to peas 🤮 it’s not far off

aimed at Bedford, NY you can see the Chevy Blazar