People that don’t bother to vote are as bad as Trump supporters. The true foundation of every autocratic regime is not fear, it’s not their real supporters, it’s people that don’t care what happens as long as it’s not happening to them (yet).

The effects of the disaster were compounded by those cars in several ways, from climate change to almost every single surface in sight being paved with a material that can’t absorb water.

That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

If you put the phone on top of the glass while adding the Cesium it will reduce the lag by getting closer to Starlink’s satellites

500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.

It can happen to anyone, you are walking on the street and a rubber bullet materializes out of thin air and hits you on the head. Always check the weather report for self-materializing bullets before leaving home.

Lightweight distros need less than 1GB of RAM, so you don’t need to use the entire RAM.

Lots of countries have deposits on bottles and they will very much be reused. If that’s not being done it’s a cultural/political problem not a glass bottle problem.

If you live in an house or a ground floor you can install a trap door right on front of the front door.

What about targeting door-to-door salespersons and missionaries?

They also kicked Jack to the curb went he tried to go full Musk on content moderation.

The second from the middle is actually Czechoslovakia.

They will always have slave labour as an “unfair advantage” (to use management-speak euphemisms), so prices might remain low.

98SE was complete crap and people only forget about it because it was followed by ME.

Ireland systematically trying to make the EU a race to the bottom is hilarious /s

At least goblins and giants and the wand ban is broad enough to imply more.

What species are allowed to use a wand and attend Hogwarts?

You mean the world where slaves like to be slaves and trying to release them is wrong, apartheid is right because the other sentient people look different, the bankers are antisemitic stereotypes and the main character becomes a literal cop enforcing all this?

It’s really a magical world /s