In a similar vein, Project Pluto. Essentially a nuclear ramjet that could fly 150m off the ground at 3,700 km/h, was impossible to intercept at the time, could carry sixteen nuclear warheads and crop-dusted the earth with radiation everywhere it went. It was eventually cancelled for being “too provocative.” Which, coming from the US army, is quite a thing lol.

Cool under pressure maybe? I expect a lot of people would freak out upon meeting an alien which is probably pretty inefficient. And smart is presumably a benefit. That’s not really representative of most humans though lol

Someone on here told me earlier I wasn’t left enough when I posted a Karl Marx quote lol

Maybe yeast is the thing?

In which case, cake isn’t bread.

And also bread isn’t bread, it’s just a really thick beer.

But it doesn’t have alcohol, so you’d need to add sugar.

Then beer is cake.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

• Karl Marx

If you go far enough left, you get your guns back!

TBH I feel like there needs to be a general look at ways to prevent ‘spamming’ for want of a better word in government. Like the filibuster, and also that thing where after Obamacare was passed and the Republicans tried to repeal it over 70 times in the first few years. I get that situations change and you might need to change a law, but at a certain point you’re just being belligerent and wasting everyone’s time IMO.

Also it should be illegal to tack on irrelevant laws to popular bills to try and get them passed, but that’s a whole other thing.

Exactly! I assume that my little 4tb external drive full of movies will one day be the only usable relic discovered of our civilization, so I must plan accordingly lol

You know what… if it turned out that they just sent it back to the lab because someone had the idea to try and get all the Sims to run on AI or something I honestly wouldn’t be surprised. It is EA after all.

I think it’s one of those things that will become a bigger deal indirectly because of all the knock-on effects. Like the branding, they’ll have to have the logos all redesigned, the domain name will have to change, it’ll mess up a lot of troubleshooting when people google the old name etc.

Freetube had an update I think either yesterday or the day before and that seems to have recovered now.

For me, going into the app info and enabling “Exploit protection compatibility mode” worked for banking.

I think it’s kind of an extreme version of that thing where if you want an answer on reddit you don’t ask for help, you confidently post a wrong answer and someone will immediately correct you.

The need to pedantically correct strangers online knows no bounds, not even the government can prevent it.

I started reading up on him and apparently he said this:

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful), or that he’s America’s Hitler.

That fact that he thinks Trump could be Hitler and is still prepared to get behind him for his own gain tells me all I need to know about the principles of the man.

That’s my gut reaction too. It’s done. That fucking photo where Trump stood up and did the fist pump with the blood on his face and the American flag in the background:

https://i.headtopics.com/images/2024/7/14/timescolonist/trump-rally-shooting-is-being-investigated-as-an-trump-rally-shooting-is-being-investigated-as-an-56235AE0556FFDA67127295A88A54C8B.webp

There’s no beating that. That’s literally like a movie poster. Whether Biden stays or goes, I really don’t think it matters now.

Also as an aside, I don’t mean this as a compliment to Trump. I think he’s a raging piece of shit and I hope he loses. But it’s elections are all about perception and I really don’t see Biden doing anything to top this.

If there were any security/civil rights/general spying on people bills that were floating around but were too unpalatable to push through, those are most likely going through now.

Also if the shooter turns out to be anything other than a straight white cis male, then whatever group they were part of is probably gonna have a bad time for the foreseeable future.

I remember working in a store and a guy walked through the scanner at the door and it went off, the other employee looked at me and was like “that guy stole something, hey?” And I was just like “yep” and we went back to whatever we were doing lol

Windows 10. My PC doesn’t have TPM and I’m not buying new hardware to accommodate Microsoft’s nonsense so that’s that. Plus I only keep Windows around as a dual-boot option for like 2 things that don’t run on Linux anyway, so it’ll get phased out eventually.

I also noticed how one of the immediate talking points was that Labour’s popularity might look bigger than it is, because of lower voter turnout.

So I need to bring my ID to vote, but don’t need to provide any personal information at all (or apparently even confirm that I really exist) to run as an MP?

The Long Dark came out in 2017 and the story mode still isn’t finished yet, so I dunno if they’re the ones to be pontificating about being slow with the content lol.

I mean it’s a great game, but yeah it’s been a minute.