What Trump needs is a Good Guy With A Gun.

Has he tried hiring a security guard? Did he try Duck & Cover? An armed school teacher maybe?

Why not just lock out the serial numbers for parts from phones that have been reported as stolen?

The Simpsons did it first.

Wasn’t one of PG&E’s recent justifications for an anti-solar maneuver “solar isn’t fair to poor people”?

Exorbitant electric bills are fair to poor people I guess?

I know this sounds made up, but it isn’t. I had to talk down a family member who accused Democrats of supporting “after birth abortions”. My response:

“No X, that’s called Infanticide. It’s illegal in all 50 states.”

Don’t know if he still believes it, but I encouraged him to look it up online and he later conceded.

Don’t let other people tell you how to eat.

If Italians had been gatekeepering 500 years ago, they wouldn’t have tomato-based dishes today.

Don’t know if I’d classify this attack vector as “new”. [Variations on this have been known for over 70 years. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)#:~:text=TEMPEST (Telecommunications Electronics Materials Protected,signals%2C sounds%2C and vibrations)

Sure, Microsoft is happy to let their AIs scan everyone else’s code., but is anyone aware of any software houses letting AIs scan their in-house code?

Any lawyer worth their salt won’t let AIs anywhere near their company’s proprietary code intil they are positive that AI isn’t going to be blabbing the code out to every one of their competitors.

But of course, IANAL.

No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.

/s

Someone create a GoFundMe so we can buy him tickets.

1 I had assumed votes were private 2 If I don’t hear soon that votes are private, I’ll simply stop participating and return to lurking. I’ll eventually just wander off to the next thing that doesn’t expose my votes to potential bots and/or abusive actors.

Nah. Whatever word we use, some propagandist will argue its semantics rather than argue that people’s lives should actually be good enough to eat, be happy, be healthy, have a home and raise kids.

The guy that can’t build a useful tunnel on Earth is supposed to built habitats on Mars?

Spoon!

What’s Putin worried about? He’s sure the Ukrainian invasion will be over in only 3 days. /s

Laugh it up now. When we’re 50, our holoshere is going to require us to submit to genetic modifications to get our next soylent nutrition paste to dispense. God only knows how we connect to a person young enough in 2040 to know if it’s even possible to bypass. That kind of stuff was laughed at the last time we tried.

He should take the opportunity to blame the truck design on a cyberattack as well.

Trump chose Vance because he knows no one could possibly “like” Vance more than Trump.
Trump’s narcissism prevents him from choosing someone even remotely likable or capable because Trump’s ego would fear them as competition.

B.O.U.S.

zsh: “Z shell”
ssh: S-S-H
sudo: I always think of it as “pseudo”

Not too unusual. There have been a lot of new vulnerabilities announced lately. A few months ago they announced one that exposed all (?) mainstream CPUs, even Apple’s new chips.
Some of the vulns are serious, but many require very specific circumstances to actually work.

Musk is really upping his asshole game. He's alienated 50% of the US, a good bit of Norway and now Britain.

Republicans worry Trump is having a 'public nervous breakdown'

No, Trump is just preparing his insanity defense for when he loses.

Back in 2000, Time-Warner decided to purchase AOL. AOL had spent the last 5 years bleeding (dial-up) customers to their main competitors… anything that wasn’t dial-up.

Time-Warner hailed the “merger” as the Deal of the Century.

Later, Time-Warner admitted, “We didn’t realize that all those customers we thought we had purchased could simply leave.”

For someone who ran to Texas to avoid paying taxes, he sure doesn't seen to mind asking the government court system for help every time someone hurts his feefees.

I've read that McDonald's is pushing kiosks so hard because on average people order more when they use them vs cashier or drive-thru.

Had McDonald's chicken nuggets in Canada a while back. They were made of real chicken. I'm jealous that Canada gets real food.

When looking for a new web browser, which feature would you prefer most and which would you prefer least?

• A color palette that matches Danny DeVito's armpit hair.
• Play the theme to Annie at startup.
• Take up all computer resources.

I don't want any of those. Can't we just have a browser that filters all of the popups, junk and advertising?

Nope. You can't progress through the survey without picking one thing you really don't want and at least one of two things you couldn't give a shit less about.

I remember when politicians would deny receiving money from donors. Those "donations" were called bribes back when. Now they're called "influence" and everyone does it.

A: "We really need this super-important and highly-technical job done."
B: "We could just hire a bunch of highly-technical people to do it."
A: "No, we would have to hire people and that would cost us millions."
B: "We could spend billions on untested technology and hope for the best."
A: "Excellent work B! Charge the government $100M for our excellent idea."

Ok, so cautionary tale time.

Regarding the "mac and cheese for life" bit...

Once a guy I knew received a "lifetime supply" of a brand of soap. Well-known brand. Not the cheap stuff. Showed up one day as a full pallet of boxes of soap. After about a week, he figured he needed to start figuring out ways to get rid of the stuff. He offered me a box (crate?) of the soap the next time I visited him. He offered another the next time I visited. And another. I soon learned to stop visiting. Soon all his friends and every person he knew were walking away with boxes of soap. Not individual boxes of soap. Boxes of 50 bars. His garage and soon his entire house smelled of soap. I'm sure delivery people stopped entering his neighborhood just to avoid having soap snuck into their trucks when they weren't looking.

Long story short, I was in school at the time and free anything was a godsend. But after trying to use up 50 bars of the stuff, it was just too much. To this day I can't even look at that soap when I'm at the store. The smell of it turns my stomach.

There's definitely such thing as too much of a good (ok?) thing.

Why is it always Austin, the most liberal, left-wing city in Texas? If they're trying to get away from "woke", they should be moving to REAL Texas. Some town nobody's even heard of.

They're posers. They want to look like Texans, but they move to liberal-ville.

1/2 /s

Don’t forget the “feature” where the video chases you around the page to force you to watch it. “You scrolled away, but we just know you really want to watch video of our Action News! team reporting on a completely unrelated topic!

While you’re here, do please enjoy a popup that completely blocks access to the page. We felt it necessary to keep the annoying pop-up despite the fact that we have no advertising to put in it. Just the name of our website. Yay us!

Wall St destroys yet another company through sheer greed. Film at 11.

Boeing doesn’t listen to their engineers, but we’re supposed to listen to their marketing department.

Mark Twain said it is much easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they are being fooled.

If we eliminated all CO~2~ emissions tomorrow, we would still be stuck with all the CO~2~ we've already released. A lot of the CO~2~ we've released has been taken up by the oceans. We have to find a way to sequester that C0~2~ "back in the ground" in order to back to levels we had years ago in order to head off/reverse global climate change.

Like FastPass at theme parks. You pay extra to stand in a shorter queue.

McDonald's recently announced they were giving up on their AI drive-thrus because of the order chaos they created. But I'm confident Taco Bell is going to succeed where McDonald's and their billions could not. Great choice, Taco Bell CEO. Next step, AI CEO.

Yes, Teslas can charge at 250 kW, but they do not sustain that charging rate for long. As the battery charges, its charging rate drops. If newer battery technologies can sustain the higher charge rates longer, they could theoretically store more charge in less time.