What I love so much about this episode is that I’m 99% sure the actor in the suit can’t see a damn thing. He’s just bumbling around in the desert heat, trying to hit his marks, while straining to hear Shatner and the director through all the sweat and foam rubber.

It’s a common error. You have to spell it like daemon:

$ sudo paegan ritual

It’s not just that. More people need to know about how escalation works. Yes, there’s a strong tactical advantage to being more prepared than your adversary. At the same time, you have to consider what the opposition will do to attack/defend when confronted with superior numbers, weapons, and body armor; they’ll likely try to match that force as much as they can. Since it’s a space filled with civillians, this ramps up the risk of the operation tremendously (e.g. take a hostage or get dissapeared). They would have done much better to dress like typical cops without all the tac gear. Yanno, de-escalating the situation rather than the opposite. The passengers on this plane should be pissed.

it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly.

That’s exactly what it feels like. I installed Social Fixer on my browser(s) to make FB at least usable for the few times I have to touch it for event coordination. People ask me what that’s like and I simply say: “Oh, it’s boring now. I only look at status updates for a few minutes and go do something else.” The pull to go back is just… gone. It’s as dull as LiveJournal ever was, and frankly, it’s better this way.

What did I strip out of the feed? Everything that wasn’t generated directly by someone on my friends list. That’s all it took. All the “engagement” is either artificially injected into your feed, or clickbait people pass along because their feed isn’t filtered.

According to a Kyiv Independent SBU source, first-person-view (FPV) drones were covertly transported deep into Russian territory and hidden inside trucks before being launched against four major airfields.

Holy shit that’s embarrassing. I mean, those operatives are going to have to flee to Japan to in order to get home, but wow. That’s incredible.

Asking the real questions.

It’s already kind of happening. The Curl project is having a really bad time. No idea if the “bug” submissions are themselves automated, but the content of the filings are pure AI nonsense.

What really has my brain in a knot is: Does option “D: None of these” include or exclude option D?

This statement is false.

I would loudly go on the record for my reasoning that Hypertext Markup Language is not Turing Complete, and therefore fails to be a programming language by the only academic and theoretical definition that matters.

They already are going to award me “lawyer up” money, so I’ll come after them for damages later if B is the "right’ answer.

People may not appreciate the genius of this suggestion. Un-tethering the “rural” and small-town poor from struggle would allow them to consider voting in ways that aren’t strictly about money. In some places, that means voting for cleaner water instead of more gas drilling. Or even human rights over tax breaks.

Yes, exactly! People were easily misled to think that provable attribution for a thing is the same as ownership.

FWIW, I think that a blockchain registry for attribution would be invaluable for combating misinformation. The problem is to get content providers (media) and browsers to cooperate over a standard. If you could get a few certificate registrars onboard, it would work even better, since they have the secure infrastructure to seed this whole thing and help manage identities for the parties involved.

Emphasis on “rich” here. History has shown that genocide is always followed by claiming and then divvying up the resources once held by the displaced/dead. That’s always a rich-man’s game.

Thanks.

It could be an innocent mistake, or if we put our tinfoil hats on for a second, deliberate counter-propaganda aimed at sowing division and dissent by baiting people with otherwise good intent.

I agree. It’s kind of a tightrope these days. As a white, cis, hereto, middle-aged, male, I pretty much clock as the poster-child for privilege. I am palpably aware that crying loudly for any support might just come off as tasteless, or even insensitive in the wrong group.

Yet, a lot of our social ills these days look an awful lot like mental illness, which is poorly compensated for through evil, perpetrated by people that resemble this description. Zero social support means you just listen to Joe Rogan instead, while projecting trauma as hate.

This poster/meme might work better if it aimed for equality and that it doesn’t exclude anyone. Or maybe if it had a quote from research or some person of note about the silent epidemic that is men’s mental/social health issues.

Edit: some clarification.

I’m trying to argue that while I agree with the poster’s message on its face, the delivery is problematic, if however subtly so.

The message on the poster aligns strongly with a privileged group (“men”). Therefore it’s wise to use different or additional language to include/acknowledge less privileged groups, lest it be interpreted (or co-opted) as exclusive to that privileged group. It’s hard to be succinct while doing this though.

To be clear, you’d see me side with movements like BLM over whitewashed nonsense like “all lives matter”, any day of the week. I’m not suggesting we do away with targeted language on the basis of it being exclusionary. What I am saying is that one must be VERY careful to put things out there that can be utilized in an exclusionary way.

break a public pay phone

At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.

Possibly? I’m not an archaeologist.

The triangular end is what’s pushed into the clay to write like this. I suppose there’s a limit to how deep you can go, but I bet that with enough practice, a reader could tell the difference between consistently shallow and deep impressions. Pressing really hard into the clay might be the same as adding emphasis.

Although, I like your version of just using a bigger hunk of ceramic to make a point. You have to wait longer for it to dry and it’s heavier to transport. It’s like saying “by the time you get this, I’ve already been pretty mad for about a week.”

Well, he does control massive, fast-moving, flying objects with nothing but the sound of his voice. Also: has had the fate of countless people in his hands, practically on a regular basis. He is indeed quite powerful.

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Your customers can’t compare prices with the competition if there’s nothing to compare.

health is under 10%

Consider something like Elden Ring, where level-scaled bosses can basically end you in 1-3 hits. 9% or less means you have to be able to endure something like 10 attacks, prior to this kicking in. IMO, that means your foe is probably not at your level in the first place.

Then again, is anyone playing with a “blood knight” style build in games like this? Like, deliberately running around with 5% health, or just burning HP to get stat boosts? Just curious - that’s not my style at all.