I don't even necessarily disagree, but I think that position is unfalsifiable because if the example is a highly popular program then "that doesn't count because it's big", and if it has a small user base then "of course it's small, it has a shitty name".

Sort of

Today we differentiate between the physical substance (or category of substances that are the ethers) and the alchemical concept of the aether, but look at the etymology of "ether".

The term "ethyl", as in ethyl alcohol or ethanol, similarly traces its origins back to "ether".

At the time these various "light" flammable easily evaporated substances were conflated with each other, and were thought to be this sorta mystical stuff that was the fifth element from which the 4 other ones were differentiated from. Since it was undifferentiated it was supposed to be "pure", and free of the messiness of ordinary life (space was thought to be filled with it because of the "perfect" predictable movements of the heavenly bodies). This is also where we get the word "quintessential", which literally means "fifth essence", to mean a pure, perfect, and archetypical example of something, without complications. It's also where we get the word "ethereal" to mean "otherworldly", "light", "ghostly", etc.

It's for similar reasons that we use the word "spirit" to mean both something that comes in a bottle and a disembodied soul. All sorts of alchemists from different areas and different times believed different things of course, but a lot of alchemical thought was based on the idea that everything had essences inside it which were hard to perceive or touch directly but which gave things their properties. In other words something's essence is it's spirit.

Of course what they called "spirits" or "essences" were really things like distillation products, gasses driven off by heating, and the colored flames that you get when you put some metals in fire. But that's what they thought was going on.

The really crazy thing to me is when a game is updated to remove copyrighted songs they lost a license for.

That was apparently never a problem back in the days of CDs, but now they have to do that or else the poor music companies will go bankrupt.

Initial cost of the read device will be about $6,000

That's not bad at all. It's something that basically every library could have. Imagine that level of distributed redundancy for hundreds of terrabytes worth of information, in a medium that essentially lasts forever.

Assuming it really is coming out at that price of course.

I mean, the first one alludes to a pun, but just devolves into word salad in the second half. It's also an intentionally shitty modification of this earlier version of the image:

And probably some other meme image too, given the subway food in the background and the blacked out impact font text. I'm not familiar with that one though.

Where does rail transit fall within this hierarchy?

Originally the Norris jokes were ironic, because he played "badass" roles in a bunch of shitty movies.

Of course that went the way every single ironic joke goes.

A game is not a book, even if it might have dialogue. It is much closer to an impressionistic painting or a kinetic sculpture.

They all started killing each other because plasmid use makes you psychotic, unless you can afford to keep taking more and more.

They all started taking plasmids because they needed to compete in the workplace (then later, in the war) or end up homeless / dead.

Plasmids were legal in the first place because Randism, being based 100% on individual responsibility, doesn't believe that things like feedback loops or cumulative effects can happen at a societal level, and so doesn't believe in regulations.

Plasmids are a pretty clear metaphor for dehumanizing yourself to serve the market, especially because the Randian superman is a psychopath that is only self interested.

But even without plasmids the fact that the worlds elite were brought down to Rapture, yet (to quote an audio log) "we couldn't all be captains of industry, someone had to scrub the toilets" bred a huge amount of resentment from people who felt scammed and now trapped down there. Just like in the real world the markets in BioShock rely completely on low level workers to be able to function, and yet punish them for being in that position.

There are actually some fossils of dinosaur mummies, a rare preservation of a rare preservation. For some species these give us direct evidence of their physical appearance beyond their bone structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_mummy

It needs a port that you can attach your bag of caffeinated noodles to.