Indeed. I might vote for some Greens down-ballot, but Stein is a stain on the party and its cause

I actually read your article, and I wholly disagree.

Facts matter, truth matters and without the A students we would be even further down the road to Idiocracy, which ofc looks more like a future-documentary every day.

Your brand of "it's all stupid, so join the stupid train" seems designed to appeal to people who want to be stupid. Or you could call yourself ignorant, if you prefer.

In any case, the anti-intellect position that you promote may have a basis in reality (headline hippos) but it is far from a positive contribution.

You can do better.

Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ' in a sexshop

For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the 'video booths' area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

32 now and I actually like it. I hope it will taint my profile in a positive way

Marie Douceur

By Marie Laforêt

https://youtu.be/3zuqX6gHriM?si=C1RnyifZr1Z94gNj

I'm not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.

It's easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.

It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again

All this tells us is that Russia has literally zero anti-aircraft/intercept capability --- even for national-level strategic sites.

They keep getting their turds pushed in by radio-controlled light civil aircraft pottering in thousands of km at highway-traffic speeds.

Pitiful.

I came to the comments because of that discrepancy

Someone has no idea how memes work

And this is related to the relative capabilities of USA vs Russian in terms of logistics.

The Americans can generally afford the fuel, and the logistics tail to keep it flowing.

Russia cannot.

How well the M1A1 serves Ukraine remains to be seen, but so far they've gotten pretty fantastic performance out of every weapon system they've been given, from Javelins to Patriots.

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One of the two men you mentioned will win -- barring a death before the election, either Biden or Trump will be elected.

All the wanking in the world isn't going to result in a third option with even the remotest chance.

Why not both?

An extremely moving story, and it's unconscionable that she had to travel to receive care.

I hope her advocacy touches people, but it seems like most of those 'representing' her and other mothers like her are not interested.

I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.

Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.

But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like "stickers" and then the pin-code harassment.

Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)

Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!

Oh. Wait. That's exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted.....

Facesitting porn (of adults) is illegal in UK for the reason that it's potentially dangerous

Ehhhh im currently driving a Gen 1 Prius (2003) that I bought at auction for $500.

I have less than $2000 in it all-in (everything except fuel and insurance, even oil changes).

I've put about 55k miles on it and it pulls a steady 43-44 mpg

Hysteria over battery issues has turned out to be exactly that --- these 22 year old batteries are fine. Being used (within the design tolerance) keeps them fresh.

self-deprecation or delusion?

Yes!

Hemlock Society recommends an oven roaster bag (like for turkeys) and a bottle of inert gas (usually helium is easiest to get) and just flow enough in to keep the inert atmosphere in the bag "fresh"

Also, there is 'gas stunning' which is used in Europe for slaughter. There are some practices that use CO2 for this, but at a nearly 100% level it is pretty instantaneous, much like HS2 -- which you can't even smell at high concentration, because you're dead already.

Point, there is some state of the art around using gas to kill; it's not a brand new concept.

So,.like --- was this guy in a relatively large volume chamber/booth and they just trickled the N2 gas in?

If there was enough volume, it could take a long time for the O2 levels to get low enough for him to pass out... BUT does a human body produce enough CO2 to fill that space to the point of triggering the suffocation response? Seems unlikely...

OR did they just strap a rebreather mask to his face and turn on a few l/min?

Were any specifics about the actual setup published?

But -- nitrous (N2O) is more fun and has just as little usable oxygen -- zero

For easy access to an inert gas at-home, try a helium tank from the Party Store

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.

Virtually every international border on the planet.

https://archive.is/TMXZN

It's pretty well established that any biometric can just be taken from you --- facial recognition is super easy and it won't be hard to force your thumb onto the sensor.

This is also the case for things like blood draw for blood alcohol testing.

The only unlock key that's (probably) truly yours is something inside your brain.

I've mulled/wished for this for years. Also useful at borders, where in the past I have actually been asked (required) to unlock phones and laptops. Generally you have no rights whatsoever there.

Those shadow accounts would need to be 'lived in' to pass those border checks. My worst experience was traveling with new, obviously burner devices --- border agents were extremely suspicious.

no, of course they are very unlikely to be making the entire mechanism. However, some folks are assuming that all mechanisms currently available are crappy, and that these folks are using the only crappy mechanism available.

That may very well be the case, but --- is your opinion or the first commenter's opinion based on any actual, specifc knowledge? If so, what is the source of that knowledge?

Are you sure about that? It's listed as being NOT autoreverse, which seems odd if it was using the most common mechanism, as autoreveres is pretty much universal. Even the ones listed as "auto-stop" seem to have a rewind function, which means motors on both spindles which (usually) means it's autoreverse capable, only needs a double read head*. The head is the most expensive part of the mechanism.

• at one time i owned a boombox which had a single-sided read/write head but which was on a small turret --- it physically flipped around. Superbaroque

It looks totally plausible for Sony

maybe still better than the flashlight/photocell types!

Pretty much everyone, including the 3rd party apps, agrees with what you've said.

Reddit needs to monetize the API, and spez has really fucked this up.

Reddit posted a chart showing the top abusers of the free API, with an implication that this was the reason they are now going to charge third party user apps for access.

However --- according to Apollo, which has been pretty credible and is apparently the largest app, they aren't even close to the excess usage levels shown

I expect those top-ten abusers of the free API, exceeding the limits by 40000% and whatnot are all LLMs sucking up text for training.

Reddit has been letting those project hoover up very valuable (given recent valuations of LLM/AI projects) textual discourse (authored by all of us of course) for free. They may feel a bit foolish, and they are realizing their worth, in terms of the value to LLM efforts.

SO, I think the pricing is related to what they believe the various AI projects can afford to pay.

It's still an easy win for them to kill the third-party apps that they wish were gone, given the NSFW and in-app ads issues.

If reddit wanted to, they could create a seperate pricing tier for usage that passes through to individual humans, rather than to language machines. They are different use cases and absolutely have different value propositions in terms of potential revenue generation.

This is a thing that happens in 'fancy' restaurants in the US

Main benefit (besides the obvious fun) is that it eliminates 100% of splashback.

It's also a clear (lol) indicator that the restroom is frequently attended.

Per my brit gf:

Yes. But most people don't. However, if you use the same knife, you'll get butter in the Marmite, and because marmite isn't refrigerated that gets really gross

Is there any circulation of the water?

Are you using aeration or a pump to create some flow?

I've considered creating something like this, but am concerned that it will more or less fill itself in with leaves/detritus over time. A neighbor did similar and while it's true there are plenty of frogs, it looks like that pond has lost maybe half of it's total water volume over five years.

We do live in a heavily forested area so external vegetation does fall/blow in more that it might in a typical open field.

it's a concept