It depends on what kind of IC you need. If you need an authentic part that has been tracked and verified through every step of distribution, you pay a premium.

For hobby products, sure. Spend 30 cents on that 5 dollar part.

However, a bad batch of fake ICs could potentially cost a company millions of dollars in returns, or worst case, liability lawsuits. (It has personally only cost me a few bucks and some wasted time.)

My personal trust in any Chinese sourced electronics is zero. It’s less than zero if I attempt to buy a proper name brand IC. I ain’t salty about it since I know my odds of getting defective or improperly labeled (or relabeled) parts: Expect about a 30% failure rate or parts that are way out of spec.

Simply put, QA is generally poor and the supply chain is sketchy. If that doesn’t matter to you, so be it.

What happens is it chips do come from the same Chinese manufacturer, you can get spectacularly different grades of parts depending on how you bought them.

You almost wrote a song or a poem.

Everybody move left,

they’re trying to flank.

Bart! Where you going?

Get in that tank!

Not the Apache,

you wank.

You ask the people on the call if they can hear you. If not, adjust volume. Repeat as needed.

Sign language and video only is an option as well.

You probably want to go in several different directions.

It’s usually only stocked in stores around the holidays and I am too lazy to make it on a whim.

So, because of that, yes. It is only a holiday drink for me. It’s unfortunate, because I love the stuff. (Even when I drank, I didn’t care for it with alcohol.)

NSFW filter works for me.

What are we going to use for “no” then?

Religion is seriously fucked up, actually.

If you can get people to believe in magic they have never seen because of stories that never happened to explain an afterlife that nobody knows about, you can easily get them to also fork over a considerable amount of their income to avoid a fate that will never happen.

Nevermind that you can also produce some fearless soldiers who will gladly hand over their life for no real reason.

Eesh. Humans are weird.

My guess is that you are visualizing the event horizon as a gradient when it should be viewed as a hard-line barrier.

As anything approaches the event horizon, it still has a chance to escape. Once an object crosses that line, it’s game over: All arrows point in.

Now, I have also heard that of you wait long enough for the black hole to completely evaporate and are able to collect every bit of the black hole as it does, you should be able to reassemble the data you desire. It would probably take a supercomputer more massive than the original black hole, but it’s worth a shot. As a bonus, I believe you have to solve for an information duplication paradox that is tucked in there somewhere as well.

Well, it will train it’s AI on everyone else’s posts. Just not your posts.

It’s possible, but unlikely because there needs to be proof and it needs to be extremely serious. That is the reason I mentioned death threats, actually.

The biggest problem is that even though harassment is clearly defined in my state, “harassment” is still likely subjective.

Well, you can and it’s called harassment. This likely varies on the state or country, but in my state it’s illegal. As usual, if a person gets arrested for this likely depends on the mood of the officer that might have witnessed it, the length of time it’s been going on and if death threats are involved.

In reality, it’s just magnitudes easier to see if someone got punched in the eye.

B. No illegal content.

While this particular community probably would not have an issue with “illegal content”, it still remains an extremely vague depending on where in the world you live. Are we talking about international law or laws in some random community in Texas?

Those were words, yes.

How the fuck you were able to mash them together like that is beyond me.

I know that is abused for lots of crap autogenerated YouTube videos.

I just ignored all the ads and any news, so you are likely correct. I did think that most of the games were mobile, but I must have been mistaken in thinking it was playable on Netflix clients on your TV or something.

I used to play Pac-Man on my old FireTV with the controller while I was killing time in the mornings before work, so I thought it was similar in that regard.

It should have been a AAAAA studio. That is where they fucked up.

Or, they fucked up thinking that people wanting to watch movies wanted to play games…

Not unless a random search takes me there for a non-answer to my obscure question.

A hypothesis is absolutely fair game. I am not going to spend the time to prove it right or wrong in this case, but it’s still 100% legit in my book.

(Just don’t go telling your child spawn that space pot… err… space teapots are definitely the reason that time travel could be possible.)

I hate myths, even ones with good intentions. Things like “Santa” are just teaching kids to be disappointed and that their parents are full of shit.

As a side comment, what in the actual fuck is the tooth fairy?

None of this stuff makes any sense to me, whatsoever.