Not sure if it's really a sliding scale. We still call the era of art from 1850 to 1950 "modern".
I assume they hide behind some bullshit about how they never explicitly say what the U stands for and they're not responsible for people assuming it stands for university.
This recent wave of strikes hints at a solution. What if the entire global working class had this level of solidarity? What if unions in several critical industries could leverage a nuclear option by threatening to strike simultaneously, showing that ultimately labor is what makes the world function and withdrawing that would be catastrophic? What if we built up mutual aid networks to help people out if we end up being forced to use that option? What if we used that leverage of figuratively putting a gun to the global economy's head to make demands - not petitions or requests, actual unignorable demands - of those in power to actually solve problems? Not just fighting for wages and better working conditions, if we have this kind of leverage we can go bigger. Demand privately owned companies relinquish ownership to their employees and restructure as a co-op, demand real estate parasites cease operations and give all their houses to people who need them, because all this shit is incredibly fragile, all it takes is the right people to stop working and it all crumbles very quickly.
The tricky part is that while we don't know what it is, we do know that it's not some specific part. It's an emergent property of some arrangement of non-conscious parts, independent of whether those parts are meat or sand. Can a GAN develop consciousness in any meaningful way? No, but the idea of consciousness emerging from a computer isn't entirely unthinkable, it's just unlikely.
Be careful, there are a lot of fake SD cards, even from supposedly reputable shops, that have their microcontroller reprogrammed to tell the OS it has an extremely large amount of storage, while in reality it's just repeatedly overwriting a much smaller amount of space. Sometimes the fakery is pretty sophisticated, complete with a spoofed file table that makes everything look like it's working fine until you actually try to retrieve any files from it. $99 is just on the edge of believability, 1TB usually goes for about twice that but it could be legit and steeply discounted.
CrossCode is a bit of an odd case because it was developed in order alongside early access, so the early-game sidequests are some of the first content developed for the game and it shows. This unintentionally trains the player to ignore sidequests, but the mid-late game sidequests were developed after feedback that the sidequests were boring, so nearly every sidequest from the third area onwards (after most people have just stopped doing them) has some sort of optional boss with unique mechanics, a mini-dungeon or some other type of setpiece/minigame. Great for people involved in the process, but the blind playthrough experience results in many people just missing a lot of content because of course you're going to assume the sidequests in the first area are more or less representative of the rest of the game.
Probably doubly mad because Style 1 is feminine instead of sticking to the old "male = default" chestnut.
I'm really looking forward to running a pf2e game, everything I've read looking through the books has gotten me excited to both play and GM it, lots of build options on the player side, interesting creature design with unique abilities, encounter building rules that actually work, guidance on how to use skill checks rather than just a vague "you figure it out", and support for the full level range instead of effectively starting at level 3 and ending at level 11. The learning curve from 5e to pf2e doesn't even seem to be a fraction of how steep people make it out to be.
I'm cautiously optimistic because combining the overworld of BotW with more enemy variety, proper dungeons and a bit more of a cohesive structure to the main quest, the game could be amazing. If it's just BotW but with 300 shrines and 2000 Korok seeds, meh.
Did the general public somehow not know it was based on a book written nearly 50 years prior to 9/11?
Yeah, that's classic false precision. 11,000 pounds has 2 significant figures, so if you convert, you can't pull all that extra precision out of your ass, you have to round to what the original measurement provided. Either 5000kg or 5 tonnes would be an acceptable conversion.
Of course Elmo probably has no idea how any of that works and isn't thinking past "metric = not murican = woke".