I think Robbie the Wormbot’s batteries are running low.

But not before harvesting a bunch of personal info.

No one ever gets to be a Nazi “ironically” - pretend to be a Nazi, and you’re a Nazi. He could agree with me on a dozen issues, and he’d still be a Nazi (and it might make me question that much agreement). Seems awfully convenient all these recent forays into Linux and talking about degoogling - almost like after years of keeping a lower profile, he and his team are trying really hard to rehabilitate his public image.

This isn’t YouTuber “drama” - this is a guy who repeatedly engaged in very public examples of bigotry and parroting Nazi symbols and salutes. So yeah - we do in fact know.

Less nice: the arcs of nazisms and bigotry

And found the show I was thinking of: Far Out Space Nuts https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072499/

I love the wording of this headline as it kinda sounds like they oopsied a rocket into space, like it was a Sid & Marty Krofft tv show from the 70s.

I think a lot of it is that he spends much more strategically and with lots of strings attached. He also does a lot of work to basically indoctrinate folks who aren’t big players and fund them until they are - JD Vance being a prime example. He’s basically developed into a cult leader for rich wannabes and ends up owning their asses.

I really wish articles like this made it more clear that this was under government orders.

If they knew about the attack, wouldn’t it have been easier to move the planes or stop the trucks carrying the drones? I admit the tires were weird, but may have been more to counter surveillance than to counter drone targeting. Can’t see any reason why they’d let Ukraine blow up billions in critical hardware to prove a point.

Jim Henson - I was 19 when he died, and it felt like a central focus of my childhood was suddenly taken away.

He won about 3 out of every 5 states - most of which have low populations. By percentage, he didn’t surpass 50% nationwide and only won by 1.5%.

I’ve been married for more than 30yrs - and the sometimes harsh (but constructive) feedback an editor needs to supply is not a model for a lasting marriage. Also, a spouse has different motivations than a professional, independent editor provided by a publisher.

As for the writing, every single person who has ever talked to me about WoT mentions the world-building and overall story, but I’ve never heard anyone praise Jordan’s writing style, dialog, or pacing - if it’s mentioned at all, it’s usually in the nature of “there’s problems with the writing but the story makes it worth it.” While the novels may resonate with folks for good reason, that doesn’t change the fact that the writing - from a technical standpoint - is subpar.

Wasn’t implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don’t believe she did that in editing her husband’s books.

The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband’s works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.

Considering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.

Well, if he loves movies, he should do one about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige - that would be fascinating!

I mean, a number of people have retrofitted classic Beetles as EVs, and the modern Beetles were bigger. If BMW can make an electric MINI Cooper, pretty sure VW can figure out an electric Beetle.

VW just needs to make an electric Beetle - how hard can that be?

“real-time 2FA SMS logs routed via Twilio.”

Um, Valve doesn’t use 2FA SMS?

You do know the USAID’s budget is public and directed by Congress, not the CIA - right? And that they don’t send out folks directly but fund charities and NGOs to meet certain goals. In 2023 they spent $43.4 billion over 130 countries with $30 billion of that going to Ukraine. NGOs account for 52% of what they spent and among public international organizations almost all of the money spent goes to the World Food Program and the World Bank.

Current estimates on the effects of cutting USAID funding are one million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.

But sure “CIA front” sounds so plausible.