Yes but he’s a symptom, not the cause. His 2016 victory was not a fluke.

https://www.xkcd.com/1185/

The contents are

https://yip.su/25X8U6

I’m not opening a random link on a Soviet Union domain.

Also, half of the QR code is filler (notice the repeating pattern), it could have been much smaller.

The contents are

https://yip.su/25X8U6

I’m not opening a random link on a Soviet Union domain.

Doubling every week means an interest rate of almost 5 × 10¹⁷ %. That can barely offset the ruble’s inflation.

Yeah, I only realized that once you posted it.

I can pay two duodecillion tokens in a cryptocurrency I just made up. It is on track to overtake the ruble eventually!

Rearrange, not rescale, which would be neccessary for a non-multiple-of-8 tile size. I originally thought it was ¾ size (12×12), which would need to shift graphics data to cram 2 virtual tiles into 3 physical ones. Of course, scaling would also look terrible, everything needs to be hand-drawn.

SMB on the NES and the DX port share graphics with a 16x16 tile size. Therefore, only 10x9 tiles can be shown at once, as opposed to 16x14. The small FOV and resulting camera tilt was very frustrating, especially with the Lost Levels.

This port scales the graphics down to the GB’s resolution. I imagine it takes a lot of CPU cycles just to rearrange the graphics data into the Game Boy’s 8x8 tile structure in display RAM. Either that, or it’s precomputed and the ROM is huge.

Edit: the tiles are not 12×12 but 8x8 so there is no need, they correspond to the RAM.

Also, they have backported some content from later games

Suicide drones use them too. Best energy density at the required power levels. (Zinc-air batteries are slightly better but you can’t extract the energy in minutes.)

Yup, that’s the problem.

Does not matter, hydrogen is not really the future

Also, I think there is a bit of a mistranslation: the Catholic Church most likely does not consider material poverty a sin, they meant “being poor in spirit”, or lacking any good values.

Project translators:

The meeting transpired about six months after the Vatican released “Dignitas Inifinita” (Infinite Dignity), in which it referred to gender-affirming care as threat to human dignity akin to poverty, abuse, and war.

Sorry, the Pope is infallible. If you align your gender, you’re basically Stalin.

It’s the other way around, Christians are being forcibly converted to Hinduism. Pretty bad that people are still hostile to each other over religion, and this isn’t even the Middle East.

Call them Li-Ion batteries to prevent confusion with lithium batteries such as CR-2032, which probably have been used in pagers.

Overloaded Li-Ion batteries don’t reliably explode. I would have expected them to place the explosive inside an oversized battery pouch along with a heating element in series with the battery. A microcontroller on the board could go short-circuit upon receiving a certain message, making a large current flow through the heating element and triggering the explosive.

Well, I’m guessing they concealed them in an extra-large Li-Ion battery and wired a heating element in series inside it, so that shorting the terminals by the circuitry triggered the explosive. Pagers use so little power that the lower capacity would be hard to notice and the heating element’s voltage drop would be negligible. I assume the pagers’ command & control equipment had backdoors, too.

They cannot just make a passive, universal device that presses places on the touchscreen, as Nintendo has filed a patent for a Game Boy case for phones, likely without actual interest in making this cheap hardware device themselves.