Once you take away the veneer of civility, Target is just an overpriced Walmart.

Brain got the excellent speaking voice.

There is a historical example, but given the outcome, I don’t think it would be a good idea to follow that blueprint.

Nah, the vandalism isn’t coming from them. They’re way too conservative for that.

Technology may change, but we still haven’t made anything better than microfilm or microfiche for long term document archival.

Mostly we seem to have just given up on the idea of there being a future in 500 years.

It felt like a kidnapping because it was factually a kidnapping.

Actually, you might have dodged a bullet with those tech stocks.

Money does buy you happiness. It just has diminishing returns.

So the best way to maximize happiness is to take the money from those that have maximized its effect and give it all to the poor.

At this point ad blocking is more about security and optimization than stopping ads themselves. If a site wants to run some banner ads to pay for costs, I have nothing against it, but once Javascript is involved, that just becomes a vulnerability for attack.

Also, websites that bury their content in layers of overlay and popup ads with loud audio and several unrelated videos can go fuck themselves.

The biggest risk would be IoT devices.

The rebuttal wasn’t as comforting as some are making it out to be. They seem to be more interested in the semantics of it not being a backdoor tied to a specific product, which appears to be true.

Rather it is a potential for vulnerability that exists in all wireless implementation, which seems to me to be a bigger issue.

Need to start spoofing user agent strings again.

There’s a reason so much anime these days is a salaryman dying on the job and reincarnating into a fantasy world.

He’s there because he is a willing toady and not a threat to Trump. No one would be willing to follow him.

Vance is much less capable than Trump (and yes, I realize the complete deapth of incompetence that would imply). The harm that he could do would be negated by the complete inability of anyone around him to take him or any threat from him seriously. Especially those on his own side.

Trump, at the very least, still has the threat of his rabid fans to wield.

This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.

I don’t believe Bluesky is a part of the government. Legally, they are allowed to censor as they please on their own platform.

What you described is mismanagement. Just because he benefits from it doesn’t make it good management.

Fair.

I’d rather have a few months of major discomfort than the two days of hard-core body horror that they just went through.