This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.

Idiocracy is the only movie I’m aware of that was released as a comedy and became a horror movie.

Thanks for that summary. I think the big gap in my understanding is that the PM doesn’t even have to be an elected official. They essentially always are, but not having that codified is a surprise.

In my nightmare scenario, the cons eke out a majority, toss Pierre, and name Elon Musk as PM is Canada.

Is this reporting true?

After maintaining frontrunner status throughout the two-month race, the former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor will become this country’s next, and 24th prime minister within days.

How does an unelected banker walk into becoming Prime Minister? Doesn’t he need to be elected by Canadians first?

If true, that seems like a horrendous hole in the system.

ORDER CORN

It wasn’t that long ago that the world almost ground to a halt because some people saw Janet Jackson’s breast.

Now we have this, and there will be zero consequences.

He’d try to eat the chess pieces and then blame his choking on New Zealand.

You should be able to play a video that’s at 100% even if the torrent isn’t complete.

It could be a codec issue? If you’re using windows there’s a tool called MediaInfo you can install that’ll analyze a video file and tell you if it’s corrupt and what codecs it uses. You might just need to install a codec pack like K-Lite if your system doesn’t already have the codec you need. Or, like an other commenter said, try opening it in VLC which has killer codec support built in.

Hey now, everyone deserves a chance to get their first real job. Unlike government, car washes provide training.

Hanged them?

Found them important positions at NASA?

Especially with an election on the horizon. Any party campaigning on capitulation is going to be radioactive to most voters.

He’s scared because stocks were down a bit this morning, he’s been fielding calls from panicked CEOs all weekend

The cynic in me says this is all by design. His rich buddies are buying stock on sale this week before the market corrects again.

CEOs might be temporarily unhappy, but the true wealthy are making moves.

George Carlin.

Hitler had better posture?

Elon looks like he’s demonstrating to a toddler what starting a lawnmower looks like from the lawnmower’s perspective.

GoodReads is good for this. They have lots of curated lists and popular top 100 lists you can browse through, and you see the cover and a paragraph synopsis of each book.

Beside each book there’s a button to add it to your Want to Read list. Pick books that sound appealing until you’ve built up a decent list.

Then if you don’t feel like manually sourcing them all one at a time from LibGen or Anna’s, you can set up Readarr to automatically sync your Want to Read list and it’ll auto acquire them. If you’re already using automation apps like Sonarr and Radarr it’s exactly the same thing.

Because he didn’t prosecute child groomers.

Despite being the first prosecutor to do just that.

But I guess he was too late to do it, even though Elon didn’t mention it anywhere near when it actually happened.

Hindsight is sometimes 20/20, but in this case I think Elon’s hindsight is 14/88.

I keep having to explain this.

The amount of delta v required to put something into the sun is extremely high and unnecessary. We just need to put him outside earth’s orbit and the problem will be solved.

What are we afraid of? Some far future civilization will find his corpse in heliocentric orbit and revive him?

And the illegal miners and loggers are the fucking Ferengi interfering with everything.

First they came for Mario…

Not just because of all the inbreeding.