O-kay. I can think of a myriad of other reasons than sheer cost why I might not want to buy a home straight away. But I see how the graphic kind of makes sense in the way you describe.

I’m not a big fan of landlords, by the way, and the instant downvoting for asking a simple question is extremely rude. Doesn’t exactly foster community engagement, guys! 😑

Not sure what the graphic is trying to say. Are landlords supposed to protect people from increasing costs of home ownership? 🤔 How are these ideas connected?

Mind you, ownership implies that you are not renting your home, you own it.

To me it actually conveys what I was thinking, namely “ex cuse me?”

Like the Italian hand gesture, you know.

Depending on the era and genre, the most ubiquitous drum machine would be a Linn Drum (late 70s & early 80s pop, e.g. ABBA), Roland TR-808 (80s soft pop, e.g. Phil Collins), or Roland TR-909 (90s House/Dance/Trance, e.g. Scooter).

There are many others, of course, and even if the actual machine wasn’t used, these sounds have been sampled and reused countless times, e.g. using a Fairlight CMI.

Interestingly, the 808 is the only one of the three that does NOT use samples itself but synthesizes all of its percussion sounds, which gives it a rather distinct character. Perhaps that is what led you to believe that it is the most ubiquitous drum machine - it’s easier to recognize than the others, even in a crowded mix.

Expellis Delusio

Says the guy who has obviously been puffing way too much coco recently.

Here’s to many more like it! 🍻

Spelling bee? Easy:

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That is one overambitious mouse!

It’s his remedy to your constant “headaches,” Karen.

(Stereotypes galore, I know, but they don’t seem like the most functional couple.)

Not pictured here are the scratches they got putting that thing on their cat. 😅

That’s why I’ve stopped watching satire programs. It’s become too depressing to see how little difference there is between satire and reality nowadays. And as you point out, it doesn’t change anything.

Surely that was precisely what Viktor Shklovsky had in mind when he coined the term ostranenie. 🤡📯🥪🤡

Oh boy, wait until they find out about the World Series of anything.

In fact, that is the expert consensus on language skills among animals (according to John McWhorter’s “The Story of Human Language”). Animals understand and can “talk” about things in the here and now but not in the past, in the future, or in abstract terms.

(My source was published in 2004 but I haven’t heard anything to the contrary since then.)

Even a dedicated lab might not be able to read your data once you’ve hammered nails through the platters.
Usually what they do is they take out the platters in a clean-room environment and place them in an otherwise identical drive, then read from that. But a deformed platter with a hole in it will cause extreme oscillations once you start rotating it at thousands of RPM. Which will crash the head(s) pretty much instantly.
So realistically, outside of an MI6-style lab with Q and his team using custom-built equipment dedicated to reading data from purposely destroyed drives, I don’t see how anyone could do it. Would love to hear from someone who works in data recovery or is in contact with people who do, though.
One thing we haven’t talked about, by the way, is how to prevent SSDs from having their data recovered. That should be straightforward though, just schwack the NAND chips with a hammer until they’re all broken. As with the HDD, be sure to wear appropriate PPE to protect against eye injury and dust inhalation.

Regarding #5, don’t bother with the wiring. No data stored there. It’s all in the magnetic coating of the platters.

I think it’s a reference to the Project Zomboid game.

Hey, at least the music was good.

Mine, too, and when he doesn’t I ask him to do it. Literally shaves ten years off my face.