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Trump recently met with the president of Liberia, and complimented him on his good English speaking skills. English is the national language of Liberia.

There’s a long tradition of sending candy in tech repair packages. It harkens back to Swedish Fish Theory. In big retail “GeekSquad” types of stores where many repairs are done off-site, some techs realized that repairs and RMAs were completed much faster when they included a bag of candy in the box. The idea is that if you treat the RMA receiver as a human instead of a faceless entity, you actually get prioritized service from them. They’ll expedite your shit even if you didn’t pay for it, simply because you were nice to them and they want to return the favor.

I mean… It’s a white power group. I’d be more surprised if they didn’t do racist things.

I own the same model of car, and it tells you the car will shut off after an hour. As soon as you open the door, you get a big “car will automatically shut off in one hour” warning and cabin chime. It even pings your phone if you have the app installed.

This guy either a) did something else to trigger the ban, b) bought a bootleg cart somehow, although that doesn't seem like it'd be particularly profitable to sell on Switch, or c) hit a seriously weird bug. Or, I guess d) is lying about it?

There’s also option E) bought a used cartridge that was ripped. Those pirated cart rips have to come from somewhere, and rippers have no incentive to hold onto the game carts after ripping them. If Nintendo sees multiple identical game carts online at the same time, it knows the cart is a pirate rip and could easily set up an auto-ban for it. Catching the occasional “I bought a used cartridge and suddenly got banned” complaint would be a drop in the bucket for Nintendo. For all we know, this dude was playing a BOTW cart that was previously owned by a person who uploaded it to thousands of users.

The reference, cuz it makes me laugh every single time.

Isn't that standard procedure though?

No. After the first 24 hours, the chances of live rescues plummet. After 72 hours, the chances are basically 0. SOP is to deploy ASAP to rescue as many people as possible.

Katrina hit August 29th, 2005. Bush signed the relief package 9/2, 4 days later. And that was just approving the money to be spent, not actually spending it.

You say this as if it’s supposed to be a good thing. I’m going to assume you’re either too young to remember it happening, or old enough that you were already in the conservative bubble. Katrina was one of the largest fuckups in Bush’s political career. He waited four days to deploy because he thought the death and damage reports were being exaggerated. He saw the official reports on his desk, and basically went “fake news! It can’t be that bad, can it?” His aides had to compile live aerial news footage for him to even begin to comprehend the level of damage that Katrina had caused. And they only had easy access to aerial footage because the 20’ deep floods prevented ground footage. Bush’s delayed response to Katrina is widely cited as one of the single worst emergency responses in American history. Basically second only to Trump digging his heels in and denying the pandemic.

I mean, if the area is actively being destroyed, how do you even get people in to help?

Logistics takes time, and that’s why rapid response is crucial. If it takes 8 hours to get boots on the ground, and rescue ops are most successful within the first 24, you can do the math on how rapidly the deployment would need to begin.

Slap a ferrite bead on the cable. It will likely solve the interference issue, and they’re super cheap. You can get a variety pack for like $10 on amazon. They’re handy to have on hand, because an unbelievable amount of consumer-grade electronics are just fucking rawdogging the EM spectrum with unshielded cables and hoping for the best.

You can also try a quick and dirty fix, by slapping a ferrite bead on the HDMI cable. That’s an old trick from the analog world. Depending on how it is picking up interference, this may easily fix it without needing to rebuild your entire setup. Worst case scenario, you’re only out like 10 cents for the bead.

Good ol’ rentry coming in clutch again.

Cloud saves are still broken for OneDrive users, eh? Seems like it would be a simple fix, (in fact, you can even work around it relatively easily with a simple symlink) but I guess it’s not a priority.

One of the hardest parts of a veterinarian’s job is the fact that your patients can’t tell you what’s wrong. They may try to communicate in their own way, but oftentimes they’ll actually go out of their way to mask discomfort or hide pain. This is especially true for pack animals (like dogs) where standing out too far from the norm can mean being excluded; From a natural selection standpoint, downplaying discomfort means you still fit in with the pack and can continue to benefit from them. Luckily, the vet immediately knew something was wrong in this case because the patient kept exploding into piles of gold rings.