skulblaka

anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law

There is no situation outside of basic ID verification where any statement you make will benefit you in any way. If a cop has decided he’s going to arrest you then you’re getting arrested. The proper time to fight against that is in court, not at the time of arrest.

Pretty much none of these are based in any sort of evidence though. This time we have concrete evidence that our environment is in a runaway loop past the point of repair. We have guaranteed proof that we have already destroyed our planet’s biosphere. The melting ice caps by themselves are already a self-sustaining heat loop even without additional help.

This is not “I declare that Jesus will return in 184 months and then the rapture will happen” like pretty much every other prediction of apocalypse. This is not “the Mayan calendar runs out this year so the world is going to end”. This is not “the Bible said we’re going to have Revelations this year”. This is known fact.

Maybe silicone would be a good material for this?

I don’t know about the rest of them, but Ben Franklin sure envisioned some orgies. Attended a few of 'em too.

Fictorum is the game that most scratches the wizard itch for me. It’s an indie game, so don’t expect AAA polish, but what is there is absolutely what you might call a “hidden gem”.

But the fact remains that it doesn’t know what a cat or a feather is. All of this is still based purely on statistical frequency and not at all on actual meanings.

Cool story bro

The self-reference in this was expected but somehow also the perfect cherry on top

I, a white man, would love to learn to speak German with an Indian accent just to really fuck with 'em

Dead Cells seems like it would be absolute ass on a touch screen, I’ve got 300 hours on it on PC but no thank you

You folks that like to sync a controller to your phone might enjoy it though

All I can imagine reading this is just Patrick Star

I have a Z Fold 2 that I bought refurbished about two years after its release, and have been using daily for about two years. On average I have a couple dozen open/closes per day. It is beginning to show a bit of wear on the center fold but the phone is still highly usable.

I love this thing, it splits the difference between a phone and a tablet in a way that is perfect for me. I will be looking at folding phones again in the future.

Chrome already knows who you are without needing to login

Could we already do this by leveraging the Library of Babel?

Genuinely asking, I’m not really sure.

Unironically this is what got me to stop being afraid of the dark when I was 11. I just hyped myself up real hard, hit the lights, and intentionally slow-walked back to bed. Show no weakness.

“Your failure to plan does not constitute my emergency”.

Sounds to me like they’re just choosing not to comply with FOIA, a federal law.

This is a bullshit ruling and everyone involved with it knows it. They have my information, I require a copy of my information, end of story. Not providing it is noncompliance.

But of course nothing will happen because the American federal government is broken.

I’m a mechanic.

At any given point in time, I can clock out for my lunch break and walk out of the parking lot and I am no longer an employee of my company at that time. The big-ass prybar in my toolbox also isn’t company property.

I haven’t had a situation yet where I’ve had to make use of that ability, but I have had to bring up its possibility once or twice.

And that’s only because I actually value my job. If I didn’t like my job there’s really nothing stopping me from throwing some hands at a shitty customer other than police action, and to be honest, the cops don’t really like to come around the area where I work very often.

More people need to be just a little bit more afraid of service workers. Treat us nice and we’ll treat you nice. But treat us like shit and we don’t really have all that far to fall if we decide you’re the hill worth dying on. I’ve been really damn tempted to just beat the fuck out of an asshole customer before and while I’ve never done it, I know a lot of folks in my industry with a lot less restraint than me.

WinXP has had a long time on the shelf, it’s EOL so it’s not getting updated, and it’s still occasionally in use by businesses - when true, usually on critical infrastructure pieces that they can’t afford to take down to swap to a newer machine. People know this and so XP is a malware magnet. There are about a gorillion scripts loose in the wild that just find IP addresses at random - or not random - and hammer them with a bouquet of exploits, almost all of which will be easily fended off by a modern updated system, but several of which XP is probably vulnerable to.

So, the second you have a functioning network driver and complete your handshake with the internet, chances are good that somebody will be trying to sneak a script up your ass to corrupt the system. I’ve never seen it happen during install but if you’re exceptionally unlucky I could see how it could be possible.

There’s a few men on Grindr that might just take you up on that offer…

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