It’s just that they have no idea how to answer the question

Kill the p2w whales and you kill shit games

Yeah…wifi.

Good luck!

Because it appeals to furries.

There are soooooo many games.

If consciousness was supernatural (above or outside the natural world) then brain damage would not affect consciousness.

You’re doing a great job of consciously rationalizing this.

Consciousness fits most definitions of supernatural and it’s a profoundly human mistake to try to externalize it.

Same.

You mean I can get all this stuff for free and all you can do to stop me is try to scare high schoolers?

Don’t go to college.

Ah yeah, just withdraw all the liquidity that is most certainly there…

You have just demonstrated more faith in neolib pretendy dollaridos than I have or will never have.

I didn’t learn until I was in college about all the other cultures, and I should have learned that in the first grade. A first grader should understand that his or her culture isn’t a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work pretty well; that all cultures function on faith rather than truth; that there are lots of alternatives to our own society. Cultural relativity is defensible and attractive. It’s also a source of hope. It means we don’t have to continue this way if we don’t like it.

Kurt Vonnegut

I do not trust things in my phone to stay private.

How does pizza feel about me?

This is some hobbit-level shit.

It’s like having different email providers.

They will all send and receive email, although some might try to cut down on spam by blocking email from other specific providers.

Also, certain providers will host different email newsgroups (ie communities, ie “subreddits”)

I’ll be nice to have containers back.

One of Ubuntu’s strengths from an enterprise perspective is that it produces server and desktop solutions that require minimal cross-training to support both.

I’m sure other manufacturer’s would build iPhones if they could.

But they can’t so they have to compete against other manufacturer’s in the Android marketplace.

So…Are Android phones cheap because they’re unprofitable, or are they cheap because direct competition actually incentivizes those companies to control costs?

Maybe the question you should be asking is: “Are iPhones really worth the ballooning price?”

Tom represents the incomplete knowledge of mankind and our pre-modern inability to firmly grasp the natural world we live in (and to some extent our continued struggle).

The fantasy world of Middle-Earth is in most ways supernatural to our own. So how much more incomplete would our understanding and knowledge of it been?

Tolkien was a professor of language and mythology and steeped in the ancient epics of the Anglo-saxons and Norse cultures. His career was putting together what these people knew and how they saw the world, but also what they couldn’t understand and how they explained their ignorance.

Others here are hinting at what Tom is, but not why he is. He’s a manifestation of ignorance. That’s why pinning him down is so tricky. It’s like pointing at a shadow with a flashlight.