Yeah someone who cares enough about security to switch to Signal in the first place will be willing to go into the settings to get everything just the way they like it, but everybody else will only keep the app if it doesn’t bug them.

Well, they’re DEVELOPING them. They’re not MAKING them yet.

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/hyundai-developing-hydrogen-powered-military-tank-with-rapid-acceleration-quiet-driving-and-stealth-features/2-1-1728622?zephr_sso_ott=ZTJkra

If you go through your day and meet one asshole, they were an asshole. If you go through your day and keep meeting assholes…

…maybe instead of expecting the world to get more i tune with your sense of humor, the person who needs to make the adjustment is you. The Internet is made of strangers who can’t hear your tone of voice or see your tongue-in-cheek expression. Poe’s Law basically defines the Internet.

China seems to think it can be friends with everybody.

The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out

PiS isn’t pro-Russia so much as it’s anti-EU. They see Brussels the same way they see Moscow: as a sinister foreign power that wants to control Poland, and they see Poland as surrounded by the EU and Russia, with only the USA as a trustworthy ally keeping both in check.

I don’t have kids so I dunno if it’s still happening, but my dad had a brief and very awkward conversation with me to tell me that if I had sex to make sure to use a condom but if I ever did get a girl pregnant I could always tell him and it’d be OK, we’d figure it out, etc. Nothing fancy or anything; just the essentials to make sure I wasn’t a dumbass about sex.

Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.

Absolutely not; I wish all kids argued their case using well-thought-out presentations

In principle I agree. The problem is that there are countries which don’t care about respecting law and if you kill AI in the West, all that will happen is the West will get left behind.

I would develop some city neighborhoods and set up some community land trusts to run them.

Remember that MAGA can’t empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds.

More Americans need to watch The Grapes of Wrath.

“A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we’re payin’ twenty-five!”

Fun fact:

“Reign” is what a monarch does. “Rein” is the strap with which a rider controls a horse. When a rider allows a horse “free rein”, it means the rider is holding the reins loosely so as to allow the horse to steer itself.

I have saved you a letter!

I’ve not submitted my DNA to any genealogy sites for testing, but what annoys me about all this is that in order to get as much info about my family tree as possible (for posterity and confirming theorized connections) I SHOULD be testing my parents’s DNA because the oldest family members are the best for connecting to distant relatives, and my parents aren’t gonna live forever. But I can’t get them (or myself) tested, because of considerations like this. This shouldn’t have to be a consideration. But it is, because of greedy bastards and the gombeen politicians who allow stuff like this to be legal.