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I’m not sure if it’s done differently now, but historically, you’d use a bunch of gas centrifuges in series to separate the isotopes based on molecular weight. Each time you run it through the process, you end up with a higher concentration of the 235 isotope. The heavier 238 isotope then gets repurposed in armor piercing munitions.

I’m going to assume it’s the typical “Nobody ever get fired for buying from IBM” mindset

That’s pretty much it exactly. Yubico has the required features, are widely supported, and are widely used. They have a track record of reliability.

Other viable alternatives definitely exist, but they don’t have the same real-world penetration. The disadvantage with that is if you run into a platform-specific issue, finding someone who has had the same issue before and posted the solution somewhere becomes far less likely.

The part you remembered is the important part, you’re only missing the extra flourish. Overall that’s a much better outcome than the inverse

Yubico is industry standard for a reason. The current 5 model will have all the features you need and they are basically indestructible.

As a similarly old curmudgeon, my understanding is that it’s like Second Life, but with the ability for users to create whole-ass games. And (hopefully) less cybersex considering the primary audience is underage

No, it just means that you believe that the artist’s intentions are more important than your own interpretation of a given work. It’s the other side of a philosophical debate about the meaning of “art” as a whole.

Death of the author is a thing.

Whatever meaning you derive from a piece of art personally is just as valid as the intended meaning

I like the scene when he gets accosted by some low skill mages who give the line “prepare to defend yourself, wizard” and he just pulls out his gun.

my favorite example

This is pretty awful from all sides.

Marineland was a hellhole and I’m glad they’re dying, but those whales are caught in a battle between people and there isn’t a good way out.

Marineland doesn’t have the money to continue to take care of them and the government has refused to help.

Marineland tried to offload them to a center in China, but that would mean they are almost certainly misused as an attraction again, so the government said they can’t do that either.

Basically, these whales will either be euthanized, or live with increasingly neglectful care as Marineland continues to bleed money unless someone else with the capability of caring for captive whales is willing to take them.

Switching from a smartphone to a dumbphone is usually not about increasing privacy in the first place.

People tend to make the switch for mental health reasons, rather than privacy ones. When your phone goes back to being a direct communication tool rather than a passtime, you tend to realize just how much time you spend during a day doing basically nothing.

I know you chose these on purpose.

Photoshop, typically

Did you get the apple Busch because you thought it’d be a special treat or did you get it because it’s February and it’s was on sale for half price?

That’s like 0.8% of the US military budget for 2025. That’s basically a rounding error

You’re right, and I don’t want to criticize, but most museums do actually have rules banning photography.

Also pure speculation: this might be the user agent that any AI scraping bots are reporting to be.