These monsters crave power. They see oppressive regimes all over the world, stepping on people in a variety of ways, and think: “yeah, that’s the stuff.”

Protip: the mandatory “health & safety” briefing is just so HR can cover their butts. Don’t bother wasting your time with it - you’re not going to need any of that don’t-run-with-safety-scissors stuff.

Agreed, although it’s wise to have a backup option for this. It’s entirely possible that you have two solid Portal players go at this, which should be a really fun romp. However, in my experience, any skill gap between the players usually turns every stage into “how do I carry my friend through this puzzle?” An extreme version of this can be seen in Game Grumps’ playthrough.

By “traveling community” and “travelers”, does the article author actually mean Romani (“gypsies”)?

I ask since the article may have lost something in translation. It also puts the police’s actions in a different light if true.

ISPs also log which customer gets which IP and keep that historical data

I can confirm that not only is this true, but it’s been this way since the 1990’s. The metadata correlates the IP address, date/time information, and customer account number. It’s highly likely that any given ISP will have this data going back years, if not decades. It really doesn’t take up much space.

I can also confirm the “just ask nicely” part. I’ve seen it with my own eyes that it really comes down the scruples of the people guarding said data. There exists no law that prevents that information from being disclosed to anyone.

From the charging hole.

Can do, boss! Not sure what this means though.

She’s onto something. CRT displays and VHS recordings are very imperfect in the best way; they lie to us so sweetly. There’s a lot of production mistakes and fakery that is really hard to spot with old tech. These things stand out in ways unforeseen on digital remasters all the time - it kind of kills the magic of it all, really.

Story time.

It honestly feels like about 264,000 gallons of that were spilled at a placed I used to work. I still have no idea who the culprit(s) was.

No kidding, the problem was so bad that building management stepped in and… added chamomile scented floor mats beneath the urinals to catch and deodorize the… ugh (gross)… drippings. It was such a strong smell that it wafted out into the hallway with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. This prompted some of the women in the office to remark at how unfair it was that the men’s room was obviously getting all this extra attention. I almost can’t describe the mixture of disappointment and disgust on their faces once I explained why this was happening.

I also once had to explain to my wife that the above situation, along with the smell of urinal cakes and most gas-station-restroom deodorizers, are the reason why chamomile tea is a hard pass for me.

If you must have a lawn (e.g. HOA, personal preference), I strongly recommend doing away with this nonsense and go electric. Better yet, stay ahead of battery obsolescence and get a plug-in model, provided your yard is small enough. No more gas, oil changes, clogged filters, re-gapping spark plugs, and no more dislocating your shoulder trying to start the damn thing. Just keep the blade clean and sharp and it’ll run for a decade at least.

OpenAI fed this thing a steady diet of internet forums as training data. You’d better believe that it knows how to verbally destroy anything and everything, at every conceivable level of sass and/or vitriol.

Hey, I’m game. Sounds fun.

Also: should there be a “AI writing prompts” community?

I see it as symptomatic of something worse: the tendency to monetize, advertise, and exploit everything that you are. For anyone willing to go hard enough on those ideals, it’s (theoretically) possible to achieve more income. The thing that’s keeping the rest of us from doing this are opposing ideals like privacy, quality of life, respecting boundaries, and healthy relationships.

Humor is important.

Laughter doesn’t erase our better sensibilities about real topics. In fact, it’s the sweetener that makes that medicine go down. Otherwise, all we have is the horror of stark and bleak realities that have already pushed many of us to the edge of burnout. These people aren’t making light of our situation, or being insensitive about the plight of those effected, they’re being kind while reminding us of the core message: there are people in charge that believe in cruelty as a valid form of governance. Without humor, we’d all be looking away most of the time as it’s simply too much.

Also, your mind will work overtime to block things that hurt or shock you. But you’re far more likely to remember a good laugh. Jokes get the message out, and help make it stick.

I’d like to take a moment to appreciate the overall range, style, and quality of protest signs on display this past weekend. If you compare all this activity to all the republican¹ rallies in the last few years, the difference is stark. The left really does have all the creative² power.

1. Do not use his name.
2. “MAGA” is re-used from the regan era which in turn is kinda/sorta re-used from an older UK campaign: “Make Britian great again”. Jerks can’t even come up with a decent slogan on their own with half that much typographical impact.

This is it. This is how mobs operate. A culpable employee is a loyal employee.

As a bonus: his sin isn’t even tied to the organization. So blowing him up would be essentially risk free - a quality hire if there ever was one.

Edit: dammit, this is going to really happen, isn’t it?

How would you describe the level of trust you have for IT systems, and IT security in general?

Basically, I’m the guy from the meme that keeps a loaded gun next to his printer. I also keep my media backed up in a fire-safe, offsite.

Was recently ejected from a job along with a whole lot of other ship subsystems. Something about “downsizing operations in engineering”? Starfleet meatbags can never make up their minds.

Anyway, “has seen some shit” could easily sum up huge swaths of my CV.

Could you help me understand something? Is this person also… dumb? I don’t mean to be disparaging or judgemental, but I’m trying to navigate all this and I’m having a hard time understanding how someone can lack this much self-awareness and still function in society. Unless, they can’t do that either? Thanks.

On the one hand, the shock and horror that people experience when their government goes hard on bigotry, demands some kind of retreat to psychological safety. On the other, the above is not the kind of copium one should reach for. What’s sad is that, as a group, they probably had the resources to actually do something useful to help themselves, rather than offer mutual support to ignore all the warning signs.