I just bought a pixel 8 off of eBay for $100 to address “Google getting my money”.
And in the USA our options are limited when it comes to a modern, decent smartphone with an unlocked bootloader. The relevant consumer protection laws the rest of the world has don’t exist here because our politicians are bought and paid for by the telecoms.
She’s has a doctorate in philosophy.
Late Pleistocene extinctions – 13-50 thousand years ago.
Youngest Toba Eruption – 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand. We hadn’t even invented agriculture at that point.
Humanity has survived several mass extinction events. Short of something on the far end of cataclysmic (i.e. “no complex life survives”) humanity will endure. We’re highly adaptable and can eat anything.
That doesn’t mean that most of us will survive, or those that do are going to be having a good time.
A lot of internet anarchists are like any other internet leftist: their main “actions” are gatekeeping, purity tests, and virtue signaling that they’re real [whatever flavor of the left they claim]. They have zero pragmatism and no actionable plans – but they get pissed if anyone suggests something that doesn’t perfectly align with their professed ideals.
They don’t actually do anything for their cause in the real world: all they do is bitch on the internet and to their close circle of interchangeable friends. They’re the dead wood of progressiveness.
President Camacho was a far more effective leader, charismatic, and intelligent than Don.
He’s not, but he does some questionable to fucked-up things.
Anti-hero maybe – he’s insane and does some incredibly fucked up things. But I’m pretty sure the “Nazis with a different name” government and its toadies were infinitely worse.
They also worked in alienating our allies as a step towards isolationism – one of the many goals of Project 2025
I’d remind everyone to read the actual study before making conclusions. Article titles and their synopsis usually (even unintentionally) misrepresent the actual findings.
Can we also make benevolent, super intelligent machine minds to put in spaceships with silly names?
Win? Why would a despot care about “winning”? So long as they don’t lose a protracted war is a boon.
It’s a means of acquiring even more personal wealth and power. It’s an excuse to oppress their internal enemies, a distraction from their crimes, and a rallying point for their allies.
Clearly you need to spend more time around Joe Rogan watching dude-bros. There’s also several of them on supplemental testosterone: “The doctor will tell you that your level is normal but they’ve been secretly lowering the ‘normal level’ over the past several decades. If you want I can give you my doctor’s information.”
My theory is reincarnation is real and I was a horrible person in my previous life.
Yeah! Why design a product that caters to your target demographic instead of designing it for people that won’t use it?
Firehouse in the USA: “right leaning straight white guys that watch FOX news” is over represented. We work 24 hour shifts and thus cook two meals a day at the station. Inevitably that means I get to experience whatever dumb-ass dietary advice the manosphere/RFK Jr. is pushing: keto, carnivore, MORE PROTEIN, etc.
They get hilariously defensive when I tell them “I don’t do fad diets”.
Or cleaning the inside of the toilet bowel – it cleans itself, genius.
Facebook has been handling false account suspension appeals poorly, whereas GitLab doesn’t.
My mom had a rooster that hated me. He wasn’t super mean but would attack after warning me if I didn’t leave quick enough.
I solved the problem by saying repeating “I’m going to pick you up” and catching him anytime he started getting aggressive. I’d wrap him up in a towel, take him inside, and we’d watch “How it’s Made” while I pet his head and talked to him. He calmly but unhappily accepted the situation.
After a few days of that he mostly left me alone. If he started puffing up I’d tell him “I’m going to pick you up”: he’d instantly deflate and run away making unhappy noises.