I am project 2501. I seek political asylum.

You can get whatever you want, but you have a $37,849.45 bill because you used the wrong door.

See, that door you used was operated by Attenya Healathus, not the Hospital, which is operated by Wellmeat (formerly Agape Plalauthis) so your care was not covered. If you had entered through the door (as outlined in your EOB) to the right, it would’ve only been an $800 copay for your splinter removal.

Semi related, recently I was referred to what I thought was a “specialist” from my doctor for a thing but I couldn’t myself determine if they were in-network with my insurance. Turns out what was implied to be a specialist was actually just a company that determines where to send people for this specific service, so we’re at the point that a primary care provider is working with a 4th party to deal with the 1st party and the 5th party is running services at the 2nd party and I am 1) the person responsible to figure out this insanity and 2) will likely be billed an obscene amount of money for something that should’ve been a 1:1 convo with a doctor and a hospital because one or five of the likely 30 people across 8 companies missed an email. (And you know all those people are they themselves dealing with the same nightmare and probably being paid a paltry $15/hr.

not sure if that’s a hot take…

Nah, seems like a good person tbh. Dude should be elected mayor and then eventually rebuild all of reality or whatever Arrow did.

Wtf are you talking about?

The Obi Wan show should’ve had more seasons and every single finale should’ve been him beating the shit out of Darth Vader every single time.

Glad it worked! Happy computering.

It will be fine. I have a weird daisy-chain of devices hooked up to my monitors so that my personal computer, work computer, and Nintendo switch are all capable of running through my speakers (and monitors).

As far as I understand, “Line” output signals are usually un-amplified, so that is likely better for plugging into an amplifier than a “headphone” output—but honestly, a computer monitor is not a purpose-built audio device, so its likely just a standard 1/8 inch phono jack amplified audio output regardless of labelling, amplified by both the computer running it and the monitor itself.

This is not digital data you’re working with but a literal fluctuation with electrical energy to mimic a sound wave-form so anything with a phono plug is compatible with anything else—it’s pretty simple technology.

The worst case scenario (assuming this stuff is all properly made) is a buzz coming from the amp when no other sound should be heard.

I am also curious about the broken front panel head phone jack and failure of the rear panel audio out.

In the case of the front panel, is it physically damaged so it no longer works or did it just stop working after the computer toppled. If it’s the latter, you may wanna open up the case and see if your front panel connectors on the motherboard came undone (you’ll need to consult your motherboard diagram to find where those are but since you said you built the computer I assume you know that).

As for the rear panel—standard check for driver updates or system sound settings being incorrectly prioritized. I have an asus motherboard that I selected specifically for optical audio output because I didn’t want electrical interference from a simple phono plug (and I was being precious at the time) but the optical output will occasionally stop working and I’ve never been able to fix the issue—likely just a software glitch because a restart usually fixes the issue. I now have my Klipsch powered speakers connected both via optical out and USB as a backup, which brings me to my final piece of advice:

If all else fails, just get a USB Digital Audio Converter and use that as your system sound output if you want to continue using your amp and speaker setup, OR, just get a pair of actual computer speakers with USB connection—dealer’s choice.

its a freakin’ superhero movie. You may as well be asking why Luffy could stretch his arms out so far without breaking bones.

Here’s a real question: How could Superman?

I know

He’s super

but

I can think of one or two but thankfully I’m doing Friendsgiving this year.

Star Wars Outlaws was a lot of fun. Nothing ground breaking but, it was a decent game.

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Why would they say such a thing??

Maybe yall non-us-residents should create some content then eh?

Because fascists need a ~scary other~ to scapegoat to erode everyone’s rights.

Not recently but the Witcher audio books are really well produced.

Also the lord of the rings as read by Rob Inglis are, I think, the best way to experience that tale.

I will never consider voting for a 3rd party candidate until their parties get someone elected to a local school board, a city council, a state legislative body, or the US congress. This is the foundational necessity of how our body politic functions. Running random asshole foreign assets for the Presidency on occasion is not how you operate a political party in this country and not how you affect any change (except making things worse, so… uh, good job Russia).

3rd party candidates literally only ever run for the Presidency in the US. (source: I live here)

They also generally purport to be far left leaning candidates (although this year’s crop leaves much to question). But really, they just take people’s money, complain about the status quo, and do literally nothing to help move things toward their (supposedly desired end) the political left.

Instead they (at best) steal some votes from young morons that would’ve likely gone to more liberal tickets (Democrats) and (at worst) enable the centrist and right wing machine to further dismantle any validity of the notion of “people should be allowed to not be taken advantage of by billionaires.”

Please tell me where any effort by the green or socialist parties successfully got a down ballot candidate elected in the past 10, 15, 20 years. Please tell me.

They are charlatans.

Yes, rich people will continue to win down ballot elections, because everyone ignores off year and local elections, because running a campaign is an expensive affair beyond the basic need of being a fucking extroverted lunatic in the first place.

I enjoy all the games I bought from GOG (3?)—in case you are wondering they are DRM free so you can keep using them forever (in theory).

But honestly I don’t get people who have a big hang-up about digital stores. Regardless of ownership/ license-ship—these are all pieces of software designed to run on specific software and WILL eventually be unplayable regardless of how they were acquired.

Unless you’re going back to platforms from the 90s or early 2000s, everything needs updates from the internet / downloads to work so even if you have a physical copy of a lot of games on a console, they’re gonna stop working eventually.

Just pay the marginal fee and enjoy. Its a low amount of money to pay for hours of entertainment in like 99% of the cases.

I don’t know what the true answer is but if you are indeed an American, and vote, never vote for a republican candidate, EVER. I am not saying democratic candidates are always better but Republicans are 100% of the time out to fuck over the young, the old, the different and poor. Unless you’re a deranged scumbag hell bent on making the world a worse place for the dispossessed, you have nothing to gain by electing a republican candidate. Also, unless it’s a local election, do not vote for 3rd party candidates in federal elections until their political machines show they are capable of fielding a coherent campaign and message.

As for working—find something with your local state government. It pays less but it is steady most of the time and the basic jobs do not require much of an education or knowledge-base.

But to the main point—keep going. Keep living your life as best you can. These ghouls who have all the wealth will die at some point, and fun fact… money really isn’t anything but an agreed upon hallucination so we could just kill and eat all those fuckers.