Hopefully the absence of an algorithm pushing engagement at all costs will dispel some of it.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. Glaciers formed over millennia. If they melt, they’re gone, even if we drop CO2 to pre-industrial levels. The Antarctic ice sheet is millions of years of snow that fell at the rate of a few inches a year and just didn’t melt. If significant portions of that fall off and melt, it’ll be millions of years more for the water it adds to the oceans to cycle back to the ice sheet again. The changes we have made will not be reversed automatically or in many cases at all.

Because it won’t work? That’s what I got from the article. I’m not sure what else you’re implying.

“You feel like a stupid piece of shit? Try a brand new OS to have that feeling confirmed.”

From what I understand it doesn’t matter, that’s just a label they assign to all the data they have about you. Attaching all of that to your real name is trivial once they have the profile.

Right? Let’s demonize vore fetishists next, those are clearly cannibals in waiting.

If you do it right, masturbating is light exercise.

They don’t want to carry inventory because Amazon doesn’t. The prices are higher because vendors are contractually obligated to sell on Amazon at their lowest price. So retailers, with a need to have a physical presence and having to buy at more or less the same price a product is available for on Amazon, get fucked. Their only hope is vendors who make a “different” product to sell at other outlets. An example of what I mean is, Poppi soda sells for $20/12 pack on Amazon. They sell a 15 pack at Costco for the same price. Because it’s a “different” product they are not in breach of contract.

IIRC, 36” was the biggest standard CRT that was sold do consumers, after that you were looking at rear projection screens which got as big as 80” (maybe more, not sure.).

I remember reading about a deaf colony in (IIRC) Guatemala that was initially populated by deaf adults who had learned sign language as adults or older children. The original residents had children, and the children developed the sign language into a more complex “full” language with more developed grammar and syntax. Children’s ability to learn language goes beyond their higher neuroplasticity.

In fact, being stupid is probably a benefit.

Batteries are heavy and expensive. A wired power source is so much more efficient for rail it’s barely worth discussing.

One of my favorite tweets is related to this.

“The best insult is ‘who’s this clown’ because it implies:

1. they are a clown
2. not even one of the better known clowns.”

Harry Potter and the poorly-constructed magic ruleset.

Don’t even need to ban anything. The federal government is the largest single purchaser of computer hardware and software. If they mandated that systems had to start diversifying-say 1/3 windows and 2/3 Linux distros, Microsoft would need to actually compete. Similarly if they mandated security software come from no fewer than (say) five providers, each provider would need to do actual QA, and would be a viable option for other purchasers as well.

You got money for F1 teams but no money for QA? Where’s our money, crowdstrike? WHERE’S OUR MONEY?

Jesus, is there any way both sides can lose? Because fuck ticket scalpers, but fuck Ticketmaster too.

I want to be a mouse rabble rouser building mouse-scale guillotines.

A lot of content sites have altered how they write articles to be in line with google SEO to drive traffic. In doing this, the content that can be found by any search engine is now of lower quality.

The problem is that a fuckton of the web is SEO poisoned, so even a better search engine will find garbage because for a lot of subjects garbage is all that’s available.

The best chef in the world can’t turn shit into anything you want to eat.