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While I think that can be explained away with the idea that the magic is so OP they don't actually need to know science. To use the Rowlings own tidbit as an example, why bother with toilets when you can simply magic away your shit.

And that also leads to what IMO is the biggest plot point nobody really thinks about. That there's a secret society of magic users who almost exclusively use magic, and the "muggle" society has no idea of its existence.

Think about all the things we've discovered. Electromagnetism is pretty much magic, we figured that out. Atoms are pretty much magic, not only did we figure out atoms we figured out what atoms consist of. Einstein predicted black holes, something so out there that even Einstein doubted his prediction, we later discovered and modeled it. We can literally come up with absolutely insane ideas and then come up with ways to prove or disprove those ideas. There's no chance we wouldn't figure out the existence of magic and a secret society if we saw glimpses of something that makes us go "hmm, that's interesting".

You could argue that they use magic to hide magic from us, but they'd have to know about what we are doing to make sure we don't accidentally stumble into discovering magic. But Arthur Weasley makes it pretty clear wizards don't understand how our world works. They don't know what we're doing so their secret society is literally at the mercy of us not just noticing it.

So the secret of society pretty much exists on the premise that we're too stupid to figure out Magic, but smart enough to create the society we have.

It's not. It's the fault of their parents who have chosen to not integrate into society and create self-imposed ghettos. There's no segregation, they could've put their children into Estonian kindergarten or school. And most of the Russians actually do put their children into Estonian kindergartens or schools, because they want their children to learn Estonian because they get better education and better career options. There's a minority of a minority who refuses to integrate and their children are now the victims of something they could easily prevented if they just bothered to do it.

You never know when old games just don't work. For example I recently tried to play deus ex mankind divided. I have new hardware but I had to play on medium settings because anything higher would start killing performance despite the game being 5 years older than my hardware.

I wouldn't be surprised if some older games ran like shit on the 50 series cards whenever physx is concerned.

Javascript is fun. The video takes a few jabs at ruby and then gives a glimpse into the insanity that is Javascript.

I'm going to be a bit controversial but I think Harris getting elected wouldn't have solved people not being able to afford to rent let alone buy a house, it would've have solved the cost of living, the abhorrent state of health care, the laughably poor labor rights etc. Harris would've had a better impact on an international stage (for example not turning former allies against the US) but for America it would've a road down the significantly less steeper hill than what Trump brought, however downhill nonetheless. Americans are getting screwed regardless of who they vote for because the politicians work for the corporations not the American people.

EAC is one of the most popular anticheats and it has a Linux version. The hardest thing developers need to do is decide to allow Linux, the actual implementation takes less time than a coffee break.

What you're saying literally isn't true. For example you can play The Finals on Linux and that's a multiplayer only game.

Alternatively, sow chaos and step down. Everything Trump tears down is something he could use to keep people complacent. Since he's tearing down faster than he can rebuild we might even see an insurrection to topple the government and build something better. Holding out is just prolonging the decay and letting people accept the new norm of a dysfunctional government.

Dan da dan

How about we just speed up ourselves? Build a human sized LHC and leave it running for a few millenia.

I remember one time I had an informal work related sitting and my boss asked if I could come. I told him that I can't because it's my week to babysit the 2yo and he was "just bring him along, it'll be fine." So I took him along and then spent the rest of the night babysitting him because my child is a fucking force of nature. He doesn't tire, he will go wandering, he will touch everything and he will throw anything he can get his hands on. So when his nap time came and I had to take him home my boss said "I don't remember my children being that hard."

And that's when I understood that if you have no siblings you were a fucking menace as a child. Parents who have more children do so because they thought the first one wasn't that bad.

Soon you'll be wearing my sword like a shish kebab.