The universes where each and every would-be hero is terminally stomped for merely thinking about going on a quest are uncountable.
There are countable subsets where something other than that happens, and one of those subsets is where the universe rules provide enough wiggle room for a hero to win.
It is all but certain we live in one of the former. Stories about the latter give us hope that we might not be.
Compare: Why do the Power Rangers not simply create the Megazord in the first place and stomp the bad guy before its inevitable enlargement?
They'll find a way to launch it. They'll go back into the old Soviet mindset of throwing blini at a wall until something sticks sending cosmonaut after cosmonaut until they have a success and then pretend the others didn't exist.
And they'll fill the minds of young would-be cosmonauts full of propaganda and tell them that there was definitely no-one before them who died up there, especially not in pain or terror. Those were unmanned test missions. Strap yourself in, you're going to space!
Is there a name for the trope of something topical but not strictly necessary happening incidental to a punchline like the microwave in the last panel?
I know I've seen it in other places, but the only other instance I can think of is the people saying "I am a consumer whore!" "And how!" in the Rejected cartoon, and I'm not even sure that qualifies.
Maybe a few things that happen in the asdfmovies too, but they often introduce a recurring gag or a different joke entirely.
IIRC, the devs of at least one of the forks - thought I forget which - have said they'd be forced quit if there was no upstream Firefox to constantly rebase from.
I wonder how many of the forks (or rather, their dev teams) would be able to handle the load of becoming 'The Main Project' if Firefox-proper went away.
I can't say they improved my mood much, so there wasn't a great deal to notice, but I have noticed a distinct lack in extreme lows since I started taking it.
The trouble with mood-altering and mood-stabilising medications (and behaviours if you count things like exercise) is that they can affect perception not only in the present, but about past thoughts and behaviours too, so spotting any obvious change might require some effort.
Case in point, it took me a long while to notice that I haven't been having the crushing lows, and part of me still believes that it's not the Vitamin D that's responsible.
Best as I can tell there's no evidence that Vitamin D and kidney stones have anything to do with each other, and in fact, there may even be scientific papers in existence that suggest the opposite is true, i.e. Vitamin D may help reduce the risk of kidney stones.
Caveat: This was based on a quick web search, not deep research, and everyone's biology is different. If you're getting kidney stones, check with an actual doctor.
Interesting to compare and contrast with Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe who deliberately wore a toothbrush moustache and referred to himself as "The Hitler of our time".
Also interesting that now Mugabe is dead, there seem to be quite a few potential candidates for that title.
But, as best as I can tell, Uunona isn't in the running there.
Untrue. There are plenty of people who don't have the means to break pseudonymity but who would gladly torment, abuse or seek retribution for some real or imagined slight from someone they can easily identify by face and name.
And it's always worth making the truly scary ones work for it, because they're far more likely to go for easier marks first.
Note that the same logic applies to locking your doors at home. You don't leave your doors unlocked, right?
Well, no, it wouldn't. The bods that make these decisions still live like it's 1950 and dream of an authoritarian future of masters and slaves.
What good is The Google or The AI when you're sipping champagne up an ivory tower or out on the ocean being waited on hand and foot on a gleaming yacht?
Either you're a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don't. Averaging the first three sites that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing
Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b
So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.
He couldn't bring himself to eat it.
Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they're all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it's worse than that and they're used.
Do not want.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women's issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren't linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.
But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that's what I'm responding to. Food for thought.
qed was also a line editor but pre-dated and inspired ed, so that's pico to nano or ed to ex again, just even further back in time.
sed and grep grew out of commands within ed (or equivalent) so I guess you could say they're each kind of a knight's move two to the side and once backward from the direction of ex to vi. Backwards because they're simpler, but two to the side because they're not interactive.
As to what would be "backward but one to the side" in that analogy, that'd be something like a tool that asked questions about every line in a file and made changes accordingly. I don't think there's any such standard tool, but I can think of at least a couple of ways to write one.
Fun fact: "Aluminium" is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with "Sulphur", because the international / official spelling of that is "Sulfur". The others aren't wrong, but they're not the standard.
Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.
That is, it's an editor that works in almost exactly the same way as the original, but it's by somebody else.
ex is to vi as vi is to vim, or C to C++.
That is, the latter grew out of and improved upon the former, but you can still use them like their forerunners if you really want, which is why vi has an ex mode and why you can still use pointers in C++ if you're sufficiently warped.
The universes where each and every would-be hero is terminally stomped for merely thinking about going on a quest are uncountable.
There are countable subsets where something other than that happens, and one of those subsets is where the universe rules provide enough wiggle room for a hero to win.
It is all but certain we live in one of the former. Stories about the latter give us hope that we might not be.
Compare: Why do the Power Rangers not simply create the Megazord in the first place and stomp the bad guy before its inevitable enlargement?