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Depends on how much effort the average scammer puts into remembering the prospective victims that don't bite. My guess is that they don't waste too many brain cells on that.

I haven’t read the manga, but based on the show, the end is…alright.

The Trigun Maximum manga wasn't finished at the time the series aired, so their endings are unrelated. The last 4-5 episodes of the anime are complete originals. (There were two different manga series, and I think the original Trigun manga had more of the goofy-villain-of-the-week stuff, while Maximum, which picked up where the first series left off, was more serious.)

It almost gives off the vibes of a 20th-century Western-made Saturday morning cartoon (except that for some reason the MC's relationship with his mecha-ude reminds me of the one between the lead in Kill La Kill and her seifuku). I'm not quite sure why—maybe it's the lack of any real moral ambiguity? Anyway, many of those could not do cool or edgy to save their lives.

It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn't free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

If all we cared about was saving the lives of the already-addicted, all we'd have to do is prescribe medical-grade opioids of known dosage to anyone who says they're an addict, and the death rate would instantly plummet—not to zero, but to something around the much lower status quo from before the "epidemic" began, when prescription opioids were more easily available. Most of these people die because they're taking adulterated drugs, or drugs of unknown concentration that they can't dose properly. With a cheap, secure supply, they'd have more leeway to sort out other aspects of their lives, and some of them would eventually quit the drugs voluntarily.

Problem is, we're more worried about people not becoming addicted in the first place, and everyone seems to think that the best way to do that is to restrict the legal supply. The two pull in opposite directions.

If we can find a better way of fixing the second problem, maybe we can fix the first one too, but I'm not holding my breath. In the meanwhile, governments will insist on grasping at straws in order to deal with the unintended consequences they themselves have created, and some of the straws they clutch at are going to be downright evil, like this one.

My question at that point would be, "So, did you sell a house in Vancouver, win the lottery, are you related to Galen Weston or someone with similar assets, or is artisan-made soap just that profitable?" Or, more likely, is the show financing them in return for permission to film?

Moose are technically deer (taxonomic family Cervidae, which also contains reindeer, red deer, roe deer, etc). And a big bull can weigh almost a (US conventional) ton. I don't know whether that's enough to trash a modern semi (based on an old memory of an apparently undamaged semi and a dead moose on the shoulder of an Ontario highway in the 1990s, I'd guess probably not, or at least not always), but I wouldn't want to be the driver of the semi, either. Hitting them in an ordinary passenger vehicle—like any Tesla product—is something you really don't want to do.

Yup, that's exactly the one, thanks.

It's one of those things that needs careful handling and is unlikely to get it. I can see it having some value in therapy, but only if there is, y'know, an actual therapist involved who can make an informed call as to whether their patient will be helped or harmed by talking to a digital fake of a loved one. Instead, we're likely to see a ham-fisted "allow all" or "forbid all" call by regulators.

Aw, poor little Pierre is afraid he's going to have to come up with some new rhetoric. I am too lazy to even bother to dig up the tardigrade-with-violin pic in response to this.

Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely.

Geeky people, on the other hand, may either adopt a new OS while it's still half-baked, or jump through hoops to keep an old one running long past the point where a non-geeky person would have given up. Some of us do both, just for the lulz. Windows 11 on unsupported systems offers a new and exciting(?) way to scratch the same "can I make this work, just for the hell of it?" itch.

So, if, hypothetically, Trudeau were to bow out now, who would replace him? I'm not aware of any strong candidates, although that might be due to my ignorance rather than their absence.