So it turns out the windows 11 'shut down' button no longer shuts down the computer entirely. I know this because task manager snitched on the runtime. So I shut it down and turn the main switch off and guess what happened on the next boot. American Megatrends. How the hell does windows 11 even manage to fuck up shutting down

Apparently it fucked with my bios settings? Now I can't even run my emulator.

This shit was NOT set to off before. This OS is a virus that fucks with your system. And not in a good way.

I have a suggestion

For anyone who has any modern Windows PC: This has actually been broken since Windows 7! Maybe 8, I don't remember, I just remember being the exact same level of horrified as OP when I finally noticed an 'up time' of like three hundred some odd hours on my old PC despite it having been shut off regularly. Anyway.

The usual culprit of Windows not "fully" shutting down is "Fast Start Up" being turned on (which was and is "on" by default, because it does help a slow computer or a computer with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) start up faster). Anyone with a modern Windows PC running an SSD as your boot drive should turn this off. The computer not fully shutting down can lead to weird compounded errors. So please follow along!

Type "power options" into your search bar and click the result, should look like this:

Which should open this:

Now we're going to back up to "Power Options" by clicking that in the upper bar or hitting "Cancel" on the bottom right. Now you should be here:

On the left hit "Choose what the power buttons do". Now you should be here:

Ignore the power button thing, but if your "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" is still on then turn it off! If yours is also greyed out make sure to hit that little blue thing with the shield near the top that says "Change settings that are currently unavailable" and then turn it off. Remember to hit "Save changes". Now your computer should fully shut off!

If you don't know how to check your "up time" to even know if this is a problem for you the easiest way to check is in the task manager. In the "performance" tab under your CPU at the bottom it will have an "Up time" like this:

(No comment on the SVM mode randomly disabling itself, it may or may not be related to this. I've never made use of and therefore never paid attention to mine and a lot of people aren't going to have it because that's AMD and while it's been more popular lately Intel is still really big out there. AMDs known to be quirky though (I say this as an AMD user) so who even knows what happened there.)

I know the post became memeing on windows but this can cause actual issues on modern hardware so figured I'd hijack in case it helps someone out. (It's something I have forgotten to check in the PCs I've helped friends make recently so I'm now having a "wuh oh" moment wondering if quirks one of them has been exhibiting is related to this.)

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."

Buck Up And Drive | indiegamelover.com/BuckUpAndDrive

Have no idea if the game’s any good, but something funny with it is that there’s billboards around the map and they sometimes have pride flags on them, and in the setting there’s a pride flag toggle, but if you set it to off, instead it makes EVERY billboard a pride flag, so kudos to whoever made this for that power move

feeding her stuffie must live on....

Dave Brandt was so much more than a meme. He partnered with universities to experiment with and expand soil conservation and cover crop techniques, worked to educate other farmers through worldwide conventions and direct mentorship, founded the Soil Health Academy, and was called the "Obi-Wan Kenobi of soil health" by the chief of the USDA's conservation department.

There is no healthy planet without healthy ag practices, and this guy was a legend.

The A-horizon on his farm was 4 feet deep

You do not understand

Most modern Ag operations don’t even have a proper A-Horizon. They’re too busy turning the earth every time they replant. The A-horizon is the Black Gold that makes Soil Soil. It’s a structurally complex soil horizon that must be built in place by the interactions of Plants and Fungi and Insects. It is The Thing that soaks up rain and holds onto it for plants. The A-Horizon is The Thing that builds up when you let a field sit fallow. The act of tilling creates fecundity by breaking up the A-horizon. On a really good Organic no-till farm you might find an A-horizon between 3-6 inches.

His A-horizon was 4 feet deep. 50 inches.

I-

I have no context. His farm was covered in a living skin thick enough for a child to stand in.

Gives me hope for what we could accomplish if we got our collective heads on straight, you know? Like. This was one guy. A brilliant man, who knew what he was up to, but. The thing about brilliant ideas is they can be shared.

50 inches. The mind reels.

This is so much more impressive than I can understand and comprehend and I would love to know more about A horizon

Do you love the color of the Soil?

Humus, or Humic Compounds, are a cryptic and poorly understood set of organic substances. As the final metabolic result of once-living things being digested first by macroscopic organisms, and then by microorganisms, they resist most forms of analysis, and have cryptic structures. A few that we have managed to isolate and study are the Humic & Fulvic Acids.

Humus has a number of remarkable tendencies. It is capable of retaining water far better than any raw mineral clay; it also retains electrically charged clay granules, which themselves retain mineral ions, all of which is essential to make a soil a high-quality resource for Plants to grow in.

A composter is a box that contains an environment that is conducive to the production of Humus, but the best way to produce it is in-place, by laying layers of organic material down over an unbroken earth and growing things out of that. The interaction of the plants rooting, the fungus weaving itself through everything, the bacteria and archaea metabolizing as they do, and inorganic weathering forces all combine to gradually build up the microscopic equivalent of a complex megastructure capable of retaining far more water, and containing far more nutrients, than any inorganic substrate.

This stuff is black gold. This is the stuff that determines whether or not a plot of land is going to be “productive.” The knowledge of how to make it, how to care for it, is an essential piece of wisdom that our civilization needs to remember.

Fortunately, folks seem to have the right response:

Farmers are more important to the continuity of civilization than administrators, no matter what the elitists say. This knowledge is important.

Exactly

Look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?

Silksong Theory: Hornet inherited her father's power of foresight

1. In Hollow Knight, Wyrms (like the Pale King) can see the future.

2. Whenever Hornet (or the Vessel) "dies," they are startled awake on a bench.

3. This "death" never happened, it was a premonition of what COULD happen, glimpsed when the player stopped to rest.

4. This is the in-universe explanation for why benches act like save points, and why Hornet is so fearless.

YOU. PREV. YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING.

sibling tomfoolery

(tho using magic like that is not Hecate approved 😔)

post-apocalyptic gang like the kings, the gang that worship elvis from fallout new vegas, except they’re all skaters who worship tony hawk

Addendum: none of them know what he looked like

What did The Hawk look like? He looked like you. You look like Him. We all look like Him. The Hawk was always told “You look like Tony Hawk”, but no one ever thought He was The Hawk. So we can only presume that everyone looks like The Hawk. He is the commonality of all humanity. 

The commonality of all humanity that does sick shreds.

Tony Hawk is a member.

now that's a friend indeed

"Ignore the long Elmo" no I don't think I will

“Well you wouldn’t be discriminated against if you just hid everything about who you are from everyone”

Hey. Hey. Listen. Come close. Closer. Yeah. Listen.

*blows an air horn in your ear*

You know as a trans person especially it’s wack to hear gay people make this kind of argument.

“You could just not transition” or “You could just stay stealth”

And you could just pretend to be straight forever and cheat on your spouse that you never loved in the first place and die of stress and alcoholism related causes in your 60s. But you know that that’s generally not a good time so you’re not doing that. Connect the dots, bitch. I’m not the enemy here.

“I don’t understand the whole trans thing”

And a lot of people don’t understand the whole gay thing so why don’t why don’t you shut the hell your mouth up

IF NOT FOR EAT WHY CAKE?

IF NOT FOR MOUTH WHY HONEYCOMB?

IF NOT FOOD WHY LOOK LIKE FORBIDDEN SNACK?

this is basically a short horror film

if anyone ever asks why return of the jedi is my favourite star wars film i’ll just send them this gif

I think the funnier conclusion is that Luke did mean to physically kick the guy, missed, and then used the force to cover his fuckup.

It sounds like he's taking the piss, but he's being serious. Old TVs were... fuzzier isn't quite the right word, but it's close. They naturally warp their graphics in a very specific way. So game designers would make pixel art with is in mind.

This is one of the most obvious cases:

I know which one of those I'd rather look at.

Also busting in to report that light guns (think the NES Zapper, SNES Super Scope, and in this man's case, likely a Sega Stunner) do not work on modern TV sets. It's the first thing any retro game store or online auction will mention when you want to buy a light gun. (Long story short, it relates to how screen refreshes and the light-sensing diode in the gun works. If you'd like, here's a Text Explanation and a Video Explanation.)

My friend said this but this is a very important point that yall need to understand.

Shel Silverstein wrote and illustrated poetry for children,

drew cartoons for Playboy,

and made the most terrifying album cover of all time.

Don't put artists in a box.

I’m not sure you could make a box that could contain Shel Silverstein.

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again

Important addition y’all

there is an overwhelming amount of cool in the background details of these photos if you look at what she’s got at her desk, which i really really hope and believe was her actual everyday desk