Classic Christopher Walken cadence.

He’s also lazy and incompetent!

And a very merry Christmas to you as well!

Heathcliff is a smart guy for keeping his window closed.

Again, you point out why “normal” is an iffy notion to begin with. Thank you for elaborating instead of just downvoting. 🙂

Failing to fully utilize the existing antenna diversity options on modern routers/APs might be another common cause that comes to mind.

Except if you have an ECOVACS cleaning robot which refuses to work with modern 5GHz networks. I actually had to install a Wi-Fi bridge to get around that limitation; thankfully, I still had one lying around. Helped me get a better signal for my phone in the bathroom as well.

But thank you for adding this information. Congestion due to interference from other networks (I guess that’s what you meant) can definitely be a factor as well. I guess that’s the problem with the notion of “normal” that I employed rather carelessly.

Sidenote: the fact that your Wi-Fi still works in those conditions at all instead of shutting down goes back to pioneering research done by actress-cum-scientist Hedy Lamarr during WW2. Amazing woman.

Sort of a serious answer because I’m bored: You’re thinking of speeding up the air when what you should be thinking about is speeding up the waves. But then your waves are reaching you plenty fast already with latency being in the single digit ms range. Not much of a point in trying to accelerate that, really. You won’t notice anyway.

If you feel like your internet connection via Wi-Fi is slow then the bottleneck is probably not with the Wi-Fi part of your network but the Internet Access Point behind it. Or even further down the line.

Now this is based on the assumption that you are in a fairly typical network environment, i.e. using semi-current hardware with moderate, if any, electromagnetic interference in the area. If you’re living right next to a high voltage transformer station and using a router from 2008 then, yes, you’re going to have Wi-Fi performance issues.

But in most cases, people complaining about “slow Wi-Fi” are actually suffering from Internet connectivity issues.

Think of it this way: If you enjoy your McDonald’s from the local franchise but you can only get 100 burgers per hour from them (of course you need MOAR!) then upgrading your 320hp Camaro to a 400hp Mustang is not going to enable you to pick up appreciably more burgers from the drive through in the same amount of time.

They’re really telling on themselves. Scared shitless.

Shiiit now I’ve got to take up smoking again. Just when I’ve been clean for 25 years.

Distance is really not much of a factor any more, and hasn’t been for a long time. Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg can already be reached by submarine launched cruise missiles in less than 15 minutes (conservative estimate). And let’s face it, with MAD being a thing, any kind of nuclear strike is likely to escalate into all-out nuclear annihilation, anyway. This makes any attempt at overwhelming the opponent a losing proposition. So in that sense nothing has changed since, oh, the mid-1970s?

Then there is the argument that Russia doesn’t want a long shared border with NATO. Guess what, their aggression has caused Finland and Sweden to join NATO, which has only added to their shared border with NATO. That they already had with Poland and the Baltic states (there is no treaty nor official document prohibiting NATO expansion).

And finally, how hard is it to understand that NATO is a defensive alliance? It is neither politically geared to nor militarily capable of mounting a conquest of Russia. The fact that so many of Russia’s neighbors are eager to join the alliance should be a pretty strong hint as to why it needs to exist in the first place. It is Russia that cannot be trusted, not NATO. And you can’t make your neighbor “drop the gun” in their own house. The Ukrainians were stupid enough already to return their nuclear arsenal to Russia in return for explicit security guarantees. What a mistake that was.

Don’t even get me started on how China is criminally underrated as a manifest threat to world peace…

It’s like their version of STOP RESISTING.

Niger, please.

P.S.: I like using the French pronunciation IRL to forestall any confusion.

Oh right, the post-nut sensation of urethra blockage. I switched recently from Strattera to Vyvanse and haven’t experienced that since then, I think. Need to pay attention to see whether it is fully gone. I totally agree. That was very unpleasant. (in my case, ejaculation itself was fine)

So fall he shall. Something something humble beginnings, auspicious prospects.

Well, we’re also “sorry” that he was “murdered” by a “criminal”.

Yeah the AI companies are chomping at the bit to let their killer robots loose on us. Wish I were exaggerating but I’m not.

And to think this could have been avoided with a simple Google search.

I’m sure they’ll be dropping their kilts for you in no time.

I wouldn’t go so far as to read objectification into it but there are definitely a lot of women out there against vaccination. So yes, I agree it’s one of the weaker Cyanide and Happiness comics.

How long until enough Russians start asking?