Throughout Latin America, nowadays you'll hear the USA being referred to as "Disparos Unidos", which roughly translates as "United Shootings of America"

That's the one I got precisely for those reasons.

The shitty part is that the screen was advertised by LG themselves as an HDR display and once I got it it's not HDR in any sense of the word. If I used my phone to watch stuff besides the odd tiktok I would have been very pissed and returned it.

The irony...

About Casting, at least in the granddaddy of programming languages, C, just meant interpreting the value of a variable as if it was a different kind of variable. Important detail is that variables are actually just memory locations and the number of bytes that conform it. So if you have a variable x of type string that holds the letter A, and a variable y also of type string with the letter B, if you do

x+y

You get 'AB'. But if you cast the variables like this:

(int)x + (int)y

You get 131

To put it in words as you asked, you are saying "please add the values located at memory locations x and y, but treat the values found there as if they were numbers, and not the ASCII codes for letters (which is what I had originally told you was there)".

It's been almost 30 years since the last time I actually used this, so I might be recalling something wrong.

Demons' Souls (PS3)

Tie Fighter

Outer Wilds

Master of Orion 2

Shenzhen I/O

The options you are talking about happened because they were publicly recommended by a tips sheet from a popular broker.

Now this is so patently false that it borders on gaslighting, and in turn casts doubt on the rest of your assertions and your intentions. The trading anomalies were so large and significant that foreknowledge of the attack was patently obvious, there were several news stories over the next few days and then all sorts of academic analysis over the next few years, all pointing in that same direction.

Now, even the news stories back then and the initial assumption was that it was Bin Laden himself that had placed those financial bets through shadow international holdings or somesuch, precisely to profit from the attacks (similar to today, think Israel affairs and Polymarket), and the SEC immediately -and understandably- put all its effort and focus on the investigation. When following the money led them not to Al Qaeda, but to US financial institutions with players having deep CIA connections, the investigation was stopped, all names were redacted, several typical "nothing to see here" statements were issued, evidence was blatantly and illegally destroyed by the SEC, and all subsequent reports always had the actual names of the people involved blacked-out.

You can read all about it here on this compilation from an amazing researcher, which means you'll have dates, names and -most importantly- links to all primary sources of information (original news, SEC reports, etc) so you can dive deeper into any one of the relevant facts:

Researcher substack piece

So it's not opinion or truther/conspiracy bullshit, documented and historical facts point to some people connected with and also within the intelligence apparatus had foreknowledge on several aspects of the upcoming attacks: dates, airlines involved and apparently also one of the targets (the WTC).

And you'd be correct. The only reason Israel is a tech powerhouse is them having a captive and defenseless population in which to field-test anything they come up with, AND THEN have everything paid for by the US taxpayer.

"demonstrably"? You don't have the self-reflection capacity to realize that you only think it's better because that's what is used wherever you happen to live? And to realize that it's the exact same for everybody on the planet?

Hmmm, so you're saying that being able to sell on steam is, for lack of a better word, valuable?

And then, as with everything else in life, you consider the price/value and determine if it makes sense to you?

How do you haplessly wander into it? I can't even deliberately visit with the url, it just throws an error thru lemmy.world

"Absolutely, yes, 1000%."

Then do just that? Unlike with Sony, Nintendo, Apple, MS ecosystems, the PC is an open platform, you don't have to ask anyone's permission to just start selling your stuff for it over the internet.