More criminalization of the destitute for the crime of being poor.

He was being defensive, borderline hostile.

He was correct. He was direct. There really isn’t any other way to handle an asshole when they’re celebrating their own assholery.

Aye, that’s a Pavement Princess bought with more money than sense.

Science wouldn’t function by this metric. We aren’t in a universe where opinion shifts reality, we can make very solid axioms that are broadly true and testable.

It’s why science relies on the test of disproof. If a premise survives the test of disproof, it graduates to a hypothesis because it is seen as a reasonably accurate description of reality, in that nothing else comes as close.

I’m assuming no one can actually tell I’m using LibreOffice.

Trace formatting issues aside, it will show up in other subtle ways such as smaller *.docx files and cleaner doc-to-PDF conversions.

You can still acquire non-365 licenses that also come bullshit-free with no AI.

Once those are no longer available, I’m sure I’ll be fully over on Linux/LibreOffice by that time.

In terms of public speech, specifically:

• Anything that can be or has been demonstrably proven cannot be subject to denialism. For example: the holocaust.
• News orgs cannot knowingly air falsehoods, and need to correct any falsehoods during subsequent broadcasts. Knowingly airing falsehoods should come with draconian financial punishments with no ability to appeal.

IME it is more devs and managers going wild on the “golly gee wiz” features that are meant to dazzle site visitors, rather than on actual content (or to obscure a lack of actual material content).

Sure, what you mentioned is a problem, and a serious one at that. But your issue arises more from marketers and bean counters and C-Suite execs than devs and managers.

And yet, developers still build sites that load 500kb of JS just to display 5kb of text.

We don’t need faster speeds, we need more reasonable and thoughtful site design. Most sites are ridiculously overengineered, and don’t need a lot of what has been stuffed into them.

Cool to cold. Essentially a cold 3-month winter of sub-zero (0℃ to -30℃) temps and lots (1+m) of snow, a short “warm” summer of only 2 months with temps never exceeding 30℃ at the absolute worst, with most highs not exceeding 24℃ and most nights in the 10-15℃ range, bookended by long spring and fall seasons that are cool and moist with daytime highs rarely exceeding 24℃ and nights never dropping below 0℃.

Thanks to a heat exhaustion event when I was 17, I have become increasingly sensitive to heat over the last 35 years.

As an example, whatever comfort you feel at 24℃, I feel that same level of comfort - while wearing the same general clothing - at 14-16℃. Whatever comfort you feel at 30℃ is what I feel at 20-22℃.

So when local temps spike to 35-45℃ during our (much more frequent, hotter, and longer) heatwaves, imagine being forced to exist and do all normal outdoor activities in 60-80℃ temps.

Yes, it really is that f**king bad for me.

And I sweat just as badly at the lower temps as you would at the higher temps. For heat waves, think wet sauna temps at their dangerous extremes. It’s why I shave myself bald for six months out of the year… because I would look like a drowned rat during that time otherwise. And yes, I still have to carry a “sweat towel” with me during that time to avoid looking like I just stepped out of a shower. I have to wipe down my head and face several times an hour even when temps are in the high 20s, and especially when I physically exert myself.

Climate change is going to be a right b**ch to me as it ramps up into overdrive over the next decade.

I would love to see Europe ban/block the API endpoints that AI communicates over.

Then ban all Meta endpoints if/when meta moves AI communication onto the same endpoints as non-AI communication.

European laws are not perfect, but they at least make an effort to put the needs of the people ahead of corporations and the Parasite Class.

Never owned a single vehicle - or even knew of one - where this was a thing. And yes, I’ve had my share of dilapidated 70s and 80s vehicles when I was young and poor.

I would say to install the free Adguard DNS configuration profile, but only iOS has the capability of installing DNS configuration profiles. For Android you would need the paid app to do the same thing.

With that said, on Apple devices the config profile - a cryptographically signed internal proxy for all DNS requests, including any made directly by software where they bypass the system’s DNS - works absolutely spectacularly, missing only those ads that are retrieved from the same source as legitimate content.

So for example, in-app YouTube ads and Pinterest ads remain, because they are provided by the same API endpoints that serve up their content, meaning any DNS-based filtering cannot discriminate. But when I first installed it back in 2005 - shortly before I deleted the official Reddit app for it being the steaming pile of manure it was (and apparently still is) - I had ads in all sorts of apps suddenly vanishing, including all Reddit ads and promoted content

The only thing I’ve ever got was pregnant.

Hol’up…

Meanwhile tomatoes rot on the vine on U.S. farms because ICE has deported most workers and the rest are too frightened to show up. Plus, pay is far too low to actually attract American workers.

That’s some real 10-dimensional thinking, there.

I would gladly send a dik pic of my own, provided she appreciates diminutive mammalian ruminants.

Just like the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection, so the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.

Because that is what most depression saps out of people - the vitality to do things, to live life, and to give your own life meaning and the strength to forge ahead.

Sometimes people can handle depression on their own. Most of the time, however, help of some sort of help or assistance is needed. Never be afraid or let yourself be shamed for reaching out or accepting help, because we all need help once in a while. As the Good Captain once said, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

And while uncultivated ignorance can still be educated away, beware cultivated ignorance – these people are maliciously ignorant, and are intentionally trying to hurt you.

Which is why we really need to build cheap, simple, and purposeful aircraft. We need to move away from “everything AND the kitchen sink” aircraft, as multiple conflicting roles frequently reduce an aircraft’s effectiveness in any one role. Have five completely different fighter aircraft, if necessary, in order to ensure we can continue to maintain them via simplicity and ease of parts manufacturing. And to be able to drop an entire model to focus on the remaining ones, if necessary.

Companies will absolutely ignore advance examples like Klarna in the minuscule possibility that things will work for them where it has always previously failed, and that they will profit massively from it.

Klarna got lucky in that they backed out just in the nick of time. Other companies will not, and either collapse from leaving users or a failure to hire back staff quickly enough.

“We OwNeD tHe LiBs!!1!”