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[the world has ended. Keith Richards walks the barren wasteland, surveying all that is left. In the distance he notices a lone figure carrying what can only be described as Excalibur] Keith: "Oi! Who goes there??" Betty White: "You knew it would come to this, Keith. Now, draw..."

The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognise as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it. The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.

It had 13 episodes that were all good. No-one ever got to see a bad episode per se, just a couple that weren't as great as the rest. The chemistry between the actors, the dialogue that Whedon wrote, it all clicked together as a great whole. It left a lot of people wanting more and wondering just what it could have delivered if Fox hadn't screwed it over. Edit: And don't get me wrong, I love Farscape, but it hit different Sci-Fi buttons for me than Firefly did. Sure, you had that over-arcing "Mixed crew becoming family as they exist on the fringes of space" idea, but they were exploring different things and going with some different themes. Farscape had the time to really develop the various characters in-depth and show their evolution, it showed them becoming family and changing their goals and what they were doing as it happened. Firefly was much more of a family protecting their "home" from the very beginning.

For a little call back, an interesting article on Kids and how it affected them in the two decades since.. Pocket Worthy - Legends Never Die ; Two decades after a low-budget film turned Washington Square skaters into celebrities, the kids from “Kids” struggle with lost lives and the fine art of growing up.

Well, 2nd season could be fun...

I've been having a few odd glitches throwing up these days, and as I was doing general computer health check I suddenly realised that half my pc is actually 7 years old now. Motherboard and CPU and a bunch of the core components were all put in back in 2013... So I casually wandered over to my local computer stores "build your own PC" tool, and it's like.... Growl. I've got that aging i5 - 3.4Ghz quad core, with 16 Gb DDR3 Corsair ram that handles most things, but having that general aging process kick in. Now I'm rubbing my hands and cackling like an evil genius as I consider on Gigabyt's Z390 Aorus Ultra Motherboard and the balance of 9th generation i5 3.7Ghz, or the push towards an i7 3.0 Ghz. Or what effect 32GB of DDR4 3600Mhz would have. I'm curious on how an M.2 solid state drive would be for boot and windows install. Of course, when playing around with that sort of "build your own" tool, it gets tempting to slap on the Corsair Hydro cooling system or other such silliness....

Buzzfeed - Judge ordered the Dakota Access Pipeline halted Apparently, the judge feels it can't continue without a full and proper environmental evaluation...

To be fair, there's usually a handful of cases of bubonic plague a year, and it is pretty much hammered by current medicine. It's just being considered newsworthy, well, because its 2020 and we constantly expect the other shoe to drop. With tentacles.

Ennio Morricone dies, aged 91, after fracturing his femur in a fall

If we're going to go there.. let's add in:

"When the jaws open wide and there’s more jaws inside, that’s a Moray"

"Sign outside the Chicago Bagel Authority on Belmont Avenue:"

I was walking past a farm and a sign said: "Duck, eggs!" I thought: "That's an unneccesary comma - then it hit me."

An epidemiologist, an ICU doctor, and a scientist all walk into a bar. I'm just kidding, they all know better.

Well to be fair, the original creatore of Wonder Woman was an .. interesting guy. He was involved in a polyamorous relationship, apparently did talk a lot of things around the nature of submission and domination, wanted to create a superhero who revolved around "love" rather than simple "destruction", and supposedly based a lot of WW on his domestic partner, the triad of him and his wife. On the random, he also created the systolic blood pressure test after his wife noted the correlation of emotions to blood pressure. And for that classic quote about his work and from him:

I think what's most bugging me about the issues with AC:Syndicate is that I got about 20-30 hours of gameplay without a single issue. Smooth play. Then this. suddenly no matter what I check, how I play around with the settings, it keeps suddenly ramping up to 100% cpu usage and having stutters that last 4-5 seconds ... and that can happen a dozen times in a single minute. Which fairly makes it unplayable. So half my afternoon has been spent chasing down what might potentially cause that, and doing all the extra health checks on my pc juuuust in case its some wildly weird random issue.

As I was sorting a few things out, I suddenly realised that large chunks of my desktop PC are actually 7 years old. So I randomly wandered onto my local Novatech store and started poking at stuff. Then I lost myself in their "Build your own PC" customisable thing. Damn it, now I'm all squinty-eyed wrestling with temptation and going "hmmm. they do offer 6 month interest free payment plans....I could be a little silly."

Had started up AC:Syndicate because I'd picked it up cheap in the sales the other month. Was getting into it..then it crashed. I rebooted, reloaded, got about two minutes further..and crash. Went through the process..got itno it, finished the mission got the rewards popup and the autosave starts... And it crashes. Now everytime I load it up it's full of stutters and pauses. Which is very weird, because AC:Odyssey runs as smooth as you like on the same settings. Still, uninstalled Syndicate, re-installed it, and still suffering those stutters and pauses. It's even happening when I'm in the menu's and not running around the game world. Trying to figure out what might be causing it.

Ah well. Tis the center of many memes. Or maybe I just know too many people that only share memes rather than talk about their families on FB....