An (American) football team my family follows used to have a coach that got so upset over plays and calls that he would advance onto the field gesticulating and screaming, causing the team to get penalties.

Did they council this guy to control himself? No. They got someone on staff to physically restrain him when he lost his mind. Like the kid’s only job was to grab the coach by the belt-loops and keep him off the field.

I love this story because it’s about a masculine man engaging in a masculine activity who cannot be expected to control his own hysterics. I keep it in my back pocket for when the “men are stoic, women are emotional” BS comes up.

This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.

American Football: no time outs.

Play it just like soccer. Ref’s calls are final, and the clock doesn’t stop unless their is an injury.

It would make the game much more fun to watch, cut the runtime by two thirds, and force teams to hire athletes who can maintain vigorous activity for half an hour without dying.

Domestic GPS is plenty accurate to use in weapons. It must be accurate to <1M to be useful for navigation. If google maps can find your iphone in your house a missile can too.

I suspect that the Government has plans to make the signal less accurate or even turn it off in the case of an emergency.

GPS is also trivial to jam or spoof since the signals are weak anyway. In Ukraine the EW space is so flooded that they use wired drones, and old rockets with inertial navigation are popular.

Don’t confuse patriotism with nationalism. Patriotism is love for one’s homeland, nationalism is a delusion of blood and soil.

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

Heroin.

Stopping the genocide is a necessity. Getting “justice” for the genocide is a luxury.

Palestinians will not forget what happened. No matter the media cycle or influencers.

pick me from history

It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)

It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.

OK, but the logical comparison here is not the OS on Switch, Xbox, PlayStation or any generic handheld, it’s to SteamOS, where Windows struggles to compete.

Like everyone else who “chooses” Windows, ROG has surrendered to what’s the default. Never mind that Windows has spent decades to position themselves that way through incentive, obstacle, and plain old coercion.

I don’t expect you to care about Microsoft’s business practices, but you ought to care that they didn’t achieve or maintain their market position by creating good software or giving a tiny shit about user freedom.

The recent Dungeons and Dragons.

‘Upgrade’ is an excellent sifi B movie.

Every appliance, monitor, speaker, clock, really anything that plugs in has to have a blue LED.

Got a modem from the cable company installed in my bedroom, the indicator lights were bright enough to read by.

People show you how they feel. If it seemed like your partner didn’t care, that’s probably the case.

If feeling wanted and valued is your prime criteria, don’t compromise. I’m not going to promise that you’ll find that, but I can promise that it’s easier to find happiness alone than with something you settled for behind sunk-cost.

This whole height thing is an artifact of dating apps.

Of course women are going to judge based on one of the 6 data points they have available. It’s not that they’re shallow by “nature”.

Women will almost never confront a man face-to-face with the reason she rejects him because to do so is physically dangerous.

I saw a meme on reddit today that suggested that an obese woman could have all the partners she wanted and that only men suffered from being rejected because of their body and this incel shit is gotten out of hand.

EDIT: here is the meme: https://i.redd.it/yyp4m7axn25f1.jpeg

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it’s users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

Why do women never take their mother’s name?

Shower sex.

In the movies it looks so hot, but in reality, you’ve got a eyes and mouth full of soap and your freezing. 2/10

misogyny. I’m not saying it causes the most death and harm (though it may), just that I’ve never met or heard of any dangerous ideology where misogyny wasn’t a core element.

Feminism inoculates against fascism.