Yeah, I think this is a lot more plausible than the wall heating theory that someone further up got way more upvotes for.

Dems know exactly how they could get a massive landslide in the midterms, and are choosing not to do it.

This is very true. I’ve got business past and present in many countries, and the US is by far the one we have to be the most careful to cover ourselves when dealing with.

What they’ve done is move all the stuff that a lot of countries’ governments would handle impartially through regulation or legislation, made them private civil matters, and called it “Freedom”. This incentivises people to file suits for anything they can think of, and those on the receiving end can end up bankrupted even when the courts rule in their favour.

Looking at how the clock in Windows defaults based on region, it seems to be mostly the Whiter of the former British colonies plus a few South American countries that use 12h (for computing, at least). The rest of the world are all 24h.

Does she refer to it as “hora militar” though?

Kleenex has not reached the stage where they’ve lost the trademark. Also everyone I know just says tissue.

If “Googling” falls into common usage to cover all web search, Alphabet lose their trademark protection…

An AI trained on Facebook comments would be stupider than an AI trained on nothing at all

Stuff for classroom walls

If you want to make a big poster by printing smaller sheets of printer paper, all the first page of Google results is sites that let you upload your image and then make you sign up for an account. So here’s https://bigspread.niy.ai/ instead

It wasn’t until this current administration that I discovered the DoJ weren’t actually part of the judiciary, and were actually just the President’s personal attack dogs

recency bias

lol, by that argument you’re a bedwetter who suckles on your mother’s breast and doesn’t know how to read or write

dude spend two min googling ‘Chinese atrocities from 1900’

Ok, I did that exact thing verbatim, and the entire first page of results are things that happened before anyone here was born.

I’m not about to claim they’re saintly in any way, for sure they have lots of well-documented internal issues with civil liberties, free speech, and oppression of minority groups, but the fact that you’re going so far into the past to make your case just makes it a case in support of the opposite view.

not to get all tankie on you, but China has thus far managed to restrain themselves from bombing other countries’ civilian populations.

For sure they know they shouldn’t be doing it, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to hide it.

Most of what makes these “bad times”, involves the existence of massive dickheads like Laurence Fox, who think that strength is the same as bigotry.

Ten years ago my position on piracy was broadly, “do it if you want, but don’t act like you’re justified or ethical”.

Now I’m convinced piracy is more ethical than feeding these monsters.

I also don’t consider it a change in my own values. It’s a change in how fucking awful and in need of dismantling the Corporation has got.

His name is Yogi Bear, not Yogi the Bear

“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.

Phrases like “renewing my subscription” in context of a fucking doorbell itself sounds so absurd to me.

Why? It’s logical to want your video footage held offsite so that burglars don’t just take the device you’re storing the footage of them on. Which means paying someone to store it for you. Which means a subscription. Even if you’re running AgentDVR on an offsite server that you control, you’re still paying money to the hosting company.

A raspberry (or the likes) with some run-of-the-mill ip-cam, some wifi-doorbell and AgentDVR would do the same for even less moneyz. And just for you, not the whole world. Wouldn’t take more than some hours of setup.

Wow. Do you have any idea what you sound like there?

(also, it’s not even true on its own terms. A raspberry pi plus all the components and equipment necessary to set up what you’re describing would be easily over $100, I paid $19 for my Chinese internet camera)