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Eh, Minneapolis gets cold, but it doesn't quite get that cold. The record low was -34 degrees F (-37C). We do regularly hit -20F, but we haven't hit -30 since 1996.

Nitpicking aside, I agree that the winters can get brutal.

Personally, I think you just proved their point. Anything they know from talking to people who know things is immediately dismissed with "oh, it's anecdotal at best".

Hmm....a troll domain.

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I clicked on this post to say something about Factorio. Great community. Super helpful.

The list of people so dangerous they can't be allowed to fly, but too innocent to arrest.

Probably Civ 3. I've been playing off and on for over 20 years. I've played hundreds of hours of several other games, but civ 3 has to be the peak

IIRC that was because the Predator video feeds were intended to be viewed in-theatre by officers right there on the front, and military protocol around encryption keys would have made it so no one at the front would have been able to decrypt the feed.

Considering they were designed in the early 90s, i.e. before public-key cryptography took off with SSL, that explanation always seemed plausible to me.

In the United States? They certainly can, and "fired for lying about credentials" gives the employer a reason to contest unemployment. But apparently there are enough employers that don't cross-check that it can work as a strategy.

I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I value honesty and want to see dishonesty deterred. OTOH...if you can do the job, what's the point of having the degree as a checkbox on the job application? Bullshit metrics should be removed.

I stopped reading at "the Internet got going in 1995". FFS, even the web dates back to 1991!

True. Nothing wrong with changing hobbies. I guess I feel slightly protective of my own hobby here.

En Taro Adun!

This seems sad to me. I never "grew out" of playing video games. My tastes have changed a bit, but I still enjoy playing to this day. To not play anything anymore would feel like losing something.