The biggest difference between transistor radios and BT hardware is that BT will never give you a prize for being the 9th caller.

I’m just starting “blasphemous” and “inscription”. I just completed “Axiom Verge”.

An (American) football team my family follows used to have a coach that got so upset over plays and calls that he would advance onto the field gesticulating and screaming, causing the team to get penalties.

Did they council this guy to control himself? No. They got someone on staff to physically restrain him when he lost his mind. Like the kid’s only job was to grab the coach by the belt-loops and keep him off the field.

I love this story because it’s about a masculine man engaging in a masculine activity who cannot be expected to control his own hysterics. I keep it in my back pocket for when the “men are stoic, women are emotional” BS comes up.

This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.

It’s a good read. AI is a scam and the tech bros need it to be transformative for their shareholders, not their users.

But having a different set of values and goals than the ones you espouse is called hypocrisy, not nihilism.

No recoil, but you might feel a little sting.

This is the first one of these I’ve upvoted.

“I’m a lethal threat to the women close to me” is surprisingly honest and open misogyny . You’d probably hit the front page of Reddit with this meme.

Your search has still only turned up a forgery.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fruit-of-the-loom-cornucopia/

I’m trying to imagine the user that both needs a text editor in the command line, yet is uncomfortable outside a gui.

I write scripts all day, but closing a program without clicking the little ‘x’ is scary and weird.

What are you even talking about!? Nobody gives a shit if they bomb or kill people. Raising gas prices will bring more military consequences in a week than you’d get for a hundred years of genocide.

American Football: no time outs.

Play it just like soccer. Ref’s calls are final, and the clock doesn’t stop unless their is an injury.

It would make the game much more fun to watch, cut the runtime by two thirds, and force teams to hire athletes who can maintain vigorous activity for half an hour without dying.

The scary thing is if you could get 5 SCOTUS judges who buy “the constitution is just for white people”, then it becomes true.

Well, you’d just need 3. Thomas and Alito are already on board no doubt.

This isn’t cooperation, this is rivalry. The point is for you to use Edge instead of Chrome.

Just another skirmish in the war for what matters most: which tech-giant is the default choice.

This is a real thing. They’ve got a website, a facebook, and a youtube.

What’s the deal with people hating on astrology? DAE get the vibe that there’s more to this than “astrology doesn’t work”?

The thing is that even in the James Randy world of people taking advantage of the credulous, astrology is still a pretty small fish. The skeptic doth protest too much.

Sure, but if you think Walz was wrong to order an assassination, then aren’t you implying that killing a Democrat is wrong or bad in some way?

I love all the little ways observant Jews try to lawyer their way out of the inconvenience of their own religious observance.

For example, some elevators in NYC run continuously on Shabbat, stopping at every floor so nobody has to push any buttons.

I just love the contradiction of an all powerful, omniscient God that can be so easily tricked, delightful.

What group are you referring to? Usually when I hear the “no body is above criticism” it’s a defense of bigotry.

People pretend that you can’t criticize Islam for example, even though you can’t mention that religion online without some brave truth-teller reminding us all that Mohamed was a pedo.

People say you can’t criticize Israel, but I’ve criticized them plenty with very little push-back. Maybe the accusations of antisemitism is chilling, but being called a name isn’t the same thing as “not being allowed”. (I also find that unfair accusations are not nearly as offensive as apt ones)

Maybe you just ironically want sacred status for people who criticize? Because receiving criticism seems to be the chief complaint for people making this argument.

Just look at how much better Afghanistan is after we toppled the Taliban.