Yep, that's exactly what it did. Maybe there was a way to do it, say if you had a VPN, but people picked up pretty quick to ban a single IP.

A lot of the actual, serious ones that knew what they were doing got caught. Some went to lulsec to be jerks with no agenda and were caught by the Feds. All that was left were script kiddies that downloaded the Low Orbit Ion Cannon and used scripts they find online. Then they left or were overtaken by alt right idiots.

The original Anonymous are in their 30s and 40s by now. Everyone ages out.

This is the first I've heard that they're planning other engines other than the hydrogen. Which I certainly hope for, as hydrogen-only would put it out of reach for a lot of people due to how impractical it is to find a hydrogen fueling station right now.

My other concern is that they won't make many of these. I'd rather it not be a 1 of 500 that sit around in collector's garages collecting dust.

Computer usage doesn't determine that you spell it with a k.

A disk is indeed short for diskette, and disc is short for discus.

However, you can absolutely use a compact disc on a computer.

And while there are typically spinning platters or spinning magnetic strips inside hard drive disks or floppy disks, they are referred to by the whole unit as a logical disk drive that you'd see in computer.

If it's possible to find them all now, you'd see that DVDs, CDs, Blu-ray, laserdisc, are all spelled like discus. 3.5, 4.5 floppy disks, hard drives, solid state drives, tape drives, etc all spell it disk.

So for the most part, being purely observational, you can see that anything shaped like a frisbee with a hole in it will be a disc, and everything else is a disk.

I think that's slightly different than your explanation, as the terms are mutually exclusive.

It's probably more sanitary in Japan, but in the US I could see the guy sitting in the both next to me sneezing directly into the water, licking his chopsticks before attempting (and missing) some noodles. Then giving up and using his hands, that he didn't wash after coming back from the toilet.

Kind of like buffets.

Working on IT, I see quite the spectrum. One of which was a guy who was socially lacking. He did his job ok, but in office, he didn't know how to interact with other people. He would bring his own pickles and put them in the fridge, and fish them out for a snack. Then he would get ice for his water, and go back to work. He missed a critical step of using a utensil or washing his hands, and it took a while for everyone to realize why the ice started tasting off.

Then we find that he didn't wash his hands thoroughly, and I got sick eating chips he had rummaged through earlier.

He did an ok job at his desk, but made other people uncomfortable because he couldn't pick up on enough social queues to prevent people from disliking him.

He was eventually let go for trying to fix a cable under the desk of the only girl in the office, on the day she wore a skirt. This was far and beyond extreme and I wouldn't expect most people, no matter where they fall in the spectrum, to behave this way. But the interviews are to try to suss that out. "Culture fit", I think they'd call it.

That's slate. Very sure. It's a common building material (especially roofing) where it can look and act like that.

Shale is similar. I have a lot of shale deposits nearby, and I can say that stripping paint with a paintbrush would likely break little bits off of it. It's way to fragile to do anything with it. It would be exceedingly difficult to cut it to that shape and keep it that way, as well.

He really hated Obama, but now there's a real fear that the entire nation will say they like a black woman better than him. And I just don't think he could handle that kind of rejection.

I just want to ride on my motorcycle

He looks like a baby that just ate a lemon wedge for the first time.

If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die historic on the Fury Road!

I really enjoyed the first one, so I'm looking forward to this as well. They made a pretty good historical have that was also entertaining, and felt much more realistic than something like Skyrim without being too hardcore.

They did this in 2008-09 with an 8k payment to homebuyers that wasn't a loan and didn't have to be repaid. This enabled me to but a foreclosed house and make it livable, and I've been living in it since then. It didn't raise prices in my area, because no one was buying houses anyway because regular possible couldn't afford it.

I don't know if I would have been able to get so financially situated if that payment wasn't there. I could've bought the house, but I would not have been able to fix it enough to ever stay on top of the maintenance and bills.

Would this be exactly the same situation? I dunno. But I know a similar push sure worked in the past.

I bet Everett was eating a meal with this dude, just scowling and chomping away. So this poor bastard brings up an interesting factoid to cut the silence, and Everett threatens him with assault and battery.

So far, all I know about Everett is that he doesn't like abuse of horses or dogs, but he also just doesn't like people interacting with him in general.

Which does shed light on what general morality people thought of animal treatment back then, as opposed to the often poor practices we hear about historically. I guess there's a bit of anti-intellectualism here, which is sad but understandable for the time. Almost reassuring to see that there were always anti-intellectuals trying to stop progress in their own way.

But also, I wonder what views Everett might have on race, pricing, capitalism, socialism, etc. I think he leans pro-union though. Considering the time period, that's probably fairly popular. Since really it's just the voice of the cartoonist and I assume a segment of the population. Since this was really the early 1900s, it's fascinating seeing what people thought back then.

If you open the sliding door all the way, it says "MEAT AGAIN".

And to add to that, set all your programs and links to open in Firefox by default, instead of the YouTube app, etc. then you're blocking ads just like a desktop on every site you visit.

Well, right, it doesn't have to be a specific OS. I haven't done much research because I'm my current situation, it's not a good option for me as (for instance) some of my required 2FA apps won't validate on a rooted phone.

If that changes, I'd do more research, obviously.

I bet the adult diaper cradles them just enough to prevent it

I rooted my phone years ago and it was a chore. Once it finally worked, hardly any of my apps would run and nothing important worked because suddenly a rooted phone isn't "safe". It was such a pain in the ass to do updates and fight programs to run that I stopped. I didn't want to spend hours fixing a device that I really didn't want to think about.

I would love to install GrapheneOS and have it mostly just work. I hate having my phone locked down like it's not mine, and it's one of the reasons I won't use it for anything important over my desktop.

Here's the only positive comment I can think of for Kevin Sorbo:

He's a good enough actor in a hammy show to make you believe he's a hero; one of the good guys. You don't, for a second, suspect he's a bigoted back of shit unless you catch him off set and out of character.

A broken clock is right twice a day - I won't really bother to find out why they won't go to DD, but I'm already boycotting them because their donuts suck and their coffee isn't as good as my local coffee shop.

Donut is in their name, and they can't even have fresh ones made? Lazy and greedy corpos run that place.

They're probably set up to conserve battery power and stay up for hours at a time, whereas kamicrazy drones are full of speed and explosives so they don't need to stay up long. As soon as a UAV is spotted, they launch to intercept.

Just a guess, though.

Yes, but I would also say that an entire generation isn't responsible for everything. It's usually a few very powerful people in that generation that get an the influence.

I'm kind of surprised there's no easy way to detect a bot, but I guess they won't be smart enough not to use the same IP range for each account, be it localized ISP or VPN. Maybe account age?

I imagine a lot of people are conditioned from online everything to down vote/dislike and don't engage because arguing won't change anyone's mind. Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter all encourage that type of engagement.

But banning that kind of behavior instead of a warning or a temp ban? Seems harsh. Unless banning has a different definition here.

Plus, I doubt anyone knew they were taking to a site admin.

Personally, I'm very used to hearing "but both sides" from libertarians/Republicans that want to justify voting for Trump and they aren't arguing in good faith at all. So I can kind of understand the lazy response.

Walmart.com didn't work for me on FF for about a week, and it did work on edge and chrome (still broken on FF when I disabled all my add ons). However, they fixed it and it works now. I think it was just a problem with the build of the website, and wasn't intentional because it definitely works now.

I think that's what's more likely - temp problems that could affect any browser until their web dev fixes it. Not anything malicious like intentionally blocking a browser.

And then, it's just Walmart. It's nothing that really mattered.

To add to that, I very much doubt any big company tests and verifies anything anymore.

Boeing ships planes with missing bolts and proper software, Crowdstrike pushes updates with no testing, we've all seen Microsoft push updates that break stuff because there's no testing, and that's just what comes to mind.

That's how they maximize profits - get rid of testing environments, do minimal checks, and have the one guy doing 3 jobs at once just push it to production.

I've been in IT for the banking industry for over a decade and I promise you, we're all a missed cup of coffee or a comma away from another massive outage due to a program or network misconfig.

As long as business culture is set to maximize profits for one quarter, I wouldn't trust a sales website about "verification" or "disaster recovery backups" any more than I trust a used car salesman.

That goes for Crowdstrike, but also all of their competitors.

I didn't even know Putin claimed he'd take Kyiv in 3 days until you said something and got all upset about it, brochacho. But now that you made us all look it up, I'm definitely repeating it to everyone, everywhere.

Can you tell me more things that make Putin look like a fool? Since that seems to be what your goal is.

Well, what I mean is that voting "against" a genocide across the globe could very well enable a genocide here, because it can and has happened before.

I live in a reservation, but I can drive 20 minutes to see the house my great grandmother lost to a white man because he was more important. My family tree has lots of people that died in their 20's and 30's of "Tuberculosis" and other BS reasons just to lose their land allotments, and we didn't even have headrights to our land in our tribal deal to be removed from our homeland by force.

So yes, genocide in the US is always fresh in my mind and I don't see that it'd take a lot to whip up Proud Boys and MAGA heads into doing the next round on anyone that wasn't straight, white, and Protestant. And I cannot fathom why anyone would enable Trump to do that again because of Palestine, which Trump would enable anyway.

The US was founded on genocide. Right here, on this soil. And everyone at the time went along with it in the name of Manifest Destiny. But it didn't end there. The US either directly or indirectly enabled genocide around the world through most of its history.

What happens when you can't support Kamala? And Trump wins? He absolutely supports genocide and will help it along at a scale we've yet to see in Palestine. And worse. And he'll bring problems directly to you, in your own home.

Would you trade millions of dead men, women, and children in Palestine for millions of dead men, women, and children in Palestine, other countries, and here at home as well?

Because I don't see what you have to gain by helping Trump win.

Either side she chooses will lose her votes. I don't know that anyone will accept any sort of fence riding, either.

It's silly, but I like this headline better than "Trump supporter breaks into house and beats man with a hammer" or "Trump supporter kills police officer during attempted takeover of Capitol" or any number of other things we've had happen this year.

They're going to buy a lot of Chinese-made red MAGA hats and flags anyway, so I don't see this as too far off.

As long as it doesn't lead to anything worse.

The problem is you remember eating it as a kid. Drinking lots of Coke/Pepsi/mountain dew, hostess cakes, and all that other over flavored, ultra processed food covered with sugar and salt.

Now, as you've grown, your taste buds aren't used to the barrage and it's just too much to enjoy the nostalgia. Probably because they've steadily increased the additives to make it more appealing to an increasingly desensitized palette.

I feel the same way. I eat much healthier, feel better, and save nostalgia for movies instead of food.

I'm actually surprised this is an unpopular opinion. I guess a lot of people here are early 20s? It's easier to get back into the processed enjoyment mode then, maybe.

I think the "Biden is suddenly to old" stuff is a psyop, this close to the election. But the "we're cooked" is a general feel I'm getting from my friends, too. It feels bleak. However, I'm in Oklahoma so there's no way my state wouldn't go for Trump. So maybe elsewhere there's different opinions? I hope.

I also vote, even though I know none of my votes have counted since it's always a Republican that wins, here. I don't want anyone to have the satisfaction that they took my hope and resolve away.

I didn't downvote you, but thanks for downvoting me and not answering the question.

Ok, who?

They'd need name recognition, money, and influence to catch up. Who do you think would be a good pick that seems interested in the job?

Clearly he's got aides helping him do most stuff. That's not unheard of for any political official, but I imagine he's just going along with it like Reagan at the end of his term.

When he's by himself on a debate podium, you can see he's not doing great.

However, Trump is worse. They're two old men and you can see Biden is a calm older man slowly slipping. Trump is mad at everyone and everything, refuses help, and requires everyone to be a sycophant around him to placate his ego. The only way people get what they want out of him is to steer the bull in the direction of the China shop they want destroyed. He's an old man yelling at the TV, and we all have to hear him.

That said, one of them can, will, and has done more damage than the other. That's why I'd vote for Biden. The meme of "live Biden > dead Biden > dead Trump > live Trump" comes to mind.

Jail the executives and/or apply the fine to them. They are ultimately the ones that pushed this culture to happen, and as they say "the buck stops here".

Wishful thinking, I know. It would never happen in real life.

In the off chance I only exist to argue with you on the Internet, I feel like it's my duty to say you're wrong and have nothing to back up my viewpoint because the resources weren't allotted to have any supported data.

I hope I exist tomorrow.

I think it's more along the lines of "I don't want the other guy to win" so they'd vote for a carrot over the offered Republican, who they know what they stand for. They'd prefer a better Dem, but anything to stem the bleeding.

The mentally deficient ones are the ones that can't seem to decide when the choices are obvious.