I trust that they’ll be complete push-overs when it comes to law enforcement and agency data requests without a warrant.
Outside of moving data overseas, away from 5/9-eyes, I’m having a bad time figuring out how to obtain cryptographic control over my data within existing services. This leaves me to just upload crypto blobs everywhere with no real services to support it, or buying my own hardware and co-locating it myself.
After watching a few episodes of Dropping Names, I’m convinced that Frakes would tell this joke if the opportunity presented itself.
Meta. But perhaps an additional and entirely petty reason: It’s a terrible pun.
Okay, the photography in that one is just :: chef’s kiss :: perfect.
Indeed. Riker needs to back the fuck up. Also, where’s that human sacrifice?
There are plenty of examples of the tobacco industry telling on itself, but the mere existence of “automated cigarette QA” has to be one of the wildest.
Oh, so just smoke more? Ok, doc!
it was classified as a deadly nightshade
It’s worth mentioning that while this seems insane to us now, it probably made a ton of sense at the time. The key is that tomatoes are in the same botanical family, so the plants have a lot in common. For example, here’s what black nightshade fruit looks like:
You might see something that and think it resembles a dark tomato. Hundreds of years ago, people looked at a tomato and saw a red nightshade.
Some may be wondering how this scheme worked. Well, it didn’t. As someone who waited tables during those times, this really only mattered for seating and where you could light up. In reality, every section was the smoking section since the second-hand smoking experience was practically everywhere, including the kitchen.
There’s a special level of hell where your hair and clothes smell permanently of old cigarette smoke and fry grease, and it never washes out.
Well, what are the latest results?
Everything tastes like shit now and I can’t smell anything. Also, my lungs hurt a little.
Excellent. Ship it!
I often wondered about this behavior. Every so often I would see someone go to their car in a parking lot, sit down in the driver’s seat and just… go nowhere. Engine is running, music is on, driver has a 1000-yard stare. It’s so far removed from my own experience - I never do this - that for the longest time, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Somehow, the phrase ‘after a long day’ made it click. So thanks, OP.
Apartment living also showed me that some people just hang out alone in the car instead of in the apartment. That I can understand as some units can be downright claustrophobic if you have a big family. Want privacy? Get a car payment I guess. :(
“Might makes right” authoritarianism has no use for it. Why bother with getting people to like you when you have all the guns? Besides, these troglodytes are a pretty unlikable bunch in the first place - it’s simply not how they navigate the world.
That man is a menace.
I don’t even know who the hell this is.
I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(
not to mention their absolute laziness over the term.
Creatives almost always lean left, often far left. It’s not just lazyness: they literally can’t get anyone good to invent stuff for their whole… thing. That’s why the campaign optics and merch are so basic, and why they keep using everyone’s music without permission.
Point in case: “make america great again” was originally a slogan that was used during the 1980’s. That in turn is a knock-off of (the modestly clever) “Make Britain Great Again” from the 1950’s. “Lazy” doesn’t even begin to describe all this.
Exactly. We’re already there with which side has more human resources. Meanwhile asymmetric warfare is an escalation of technology and the resources to produce them. Sure, you can tip the balance of power on the battlefield with very clever use of resources, but it’s ultimately a contest of who is willing to dump the most into the conflict.
It could also be argued that technological warfare in a global economy makes resource blockades even more important. Nobody is 100% reliant on their homeland resources anymore. To effectively siege your opponent, you have to cut off everything that can fuel their ability to make war. That can be a huge perimeter in some cases.