Dear Sir,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosed pizza menu suggestions. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence about topping choices. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose culinary ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you about pizza toppings, but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel fruit placement, compulsive sweetness, and the sadistic persecution of traditional savory flavors which has characterised the philosophy and practice of pineapple-on-pizza advocacy.

I feel obliged to say that the gastronomic universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from a shared pizza between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in Italian culinary experience and pizza-making achievement.

Yours sincerely,

What are the chances I had just sent something similar to someone advocating for pineapple on pizza?

Jokes aside - dude was pretty badass:

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and public intellectual. He had influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, and various areas of analytic philosophy.

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Let’s say everyone used an identity verification service to signup, like had to send photos of their ID and their SSN (national identity number) to be vetted by a third party.

How long after the service got popular would it take for the most aggressive marketers to pay rings of fraudsters to lend their identities and/or make fake reviews?

I think it would definitely start out great until it got big enough to be super useful and then the fraud would ramp up. I think an organization like Consumer Reports has a chance at successfully maintaining a low-bias product database, but the paywall is a big obstacle, as is the fact they’ll only review the largest product catalogs.

Audible chuckle

Tailscale w/burner GitHub for watch together

Oooooooh

Noted 😎

Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?

Yet here they are trying to own Z-Libs

Is this God’s Will?

ED Vance never does 😢

(Disclaimer: it’s okay if you have ED, this is only directed at couchfoker)

For those who wanna shell out some money:

textverified.com

Pricing is likely a little higher than the lowest price they show. Expect a couple bucks or something after making a purchase of like… five bucks or so.

Apparently Monero is accepted.

(They have plenty of competitors and some might be cheaper or not require purchasing a balance.)

Came to the comments b/c I was wildly confused. Nowwww I get it, live round ammunition. Thank uuuu

I’m wondering the timeframe. Did the gun SWOOSH out of his hand and then he slammed the button right in front of him worried the gun was going to explode or something?

What’s unforgivable is cops in LOS ANGELES even using one penny of taxpayer dollars to even think about cannabis. I guess they’re protecting state coffers - illegal buds = no tax revenue.

I’d want them to respond to complaints about growers near schools or something… and try to be proactive I suppose if a residential neighborhood reeks…

But reviewing all business power consumption and going on fishing expeditions WTF?! In LA?!?

Seem to work as an enema but concerning without knowing the bidet was deep cleaned moments before. Any thoughts on this very common thing we all like to talk about?

Been experiencing this for days now: on Voyager iOS, the wheel spins and spins while posting comments before eventually posting after about 45sec to 2min. Testing from a browser with this comment to see if it’s faster!

Edit: this was instant, hmm, will have to try commenting on a thread on a different instance from browser.

BTW: you say [Solved] - how’s that?

Edit 2: something’s up. In browser:

1: I try to load the news community on Lemmy.world by visiting:
https://lemmings.world/c/news@lemmy.world

And it takes 30 seconds to show any posts.

Then, I go to a post with 2 upvotes and 0 comments on Lemmings.world, then open it on Lemmy.World to see 241 upvotes and 24 comments.

Awww surely not!

Ever heard that quote, paraphrasing the start of it:

You run into a jerk in the morning, you ran into a jerk.

(Maybe you know the rest) If you give that some thought for the rest of the week (assuming you’re out and about), interested to hear any thoughts on it :)

Read about those DCP drives! Maybe cammers are just burning theaters one by one and careful not to return for a long time if ever.

A theater operator doing the recording would be wildly risky it seems unless watermarking has been defeated. Visual and audio watermarking perhaps.

Seems like they’re very comfortable with applying watermarks at least for those betting sites!

Amazing clip you posted seven months ago here. Doesn’t seem like it could even be any better now.

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Might have to make a new post about this:

How are there still cams if there’s been anti-piracy watermarks reported on since at least 2006?

Maybe the pirates never hit the same theater twice in a row… travel to different cities… only record at any given theater once every few years… then you’d need resources to catch somebody I’d guess.

I expect not all theaters can afford to send guys in with night vision goggles:

Maybe that’s outdated now since they can just throw up IR cameras:

Corrupt theater manager or shifty projectionist: no camera/security concerns, but still watermark concerns

Regular theatergoer: both camera/security concerns AND watermark concerns

Gutsy pirates out there!

This is the exact kind of thing I was hoping someone would chime in with. Thanks for the interesting info!

This is why I compose all my messages on an air gapped computer and send them out from my compound with couriers.