I mean, I get it but the only people bidding on WBD was Skydance (Ellison). The options were Skydance, Disney, a vulture fund, or Netflix. That’s probably why Netflix even decided to bid. Nobody wanted WBD.

Consolidation should have never been allowed, but now that the beast that is Disney exists, there is very little argument that could succeed against the WBD purchase.

Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.

Definitely Cyberpunk is a great choice as its built in systems try to pull you into stuff all the time. Don’t sleep on Just Cause 3&4 too.

This is the best possible outcome out of a very shitty list. They haf to sell, Disney already owns too much, Jeff Bezos would monetize it in the worst possible ways, and Larry Ellison is the most evil billionaire in the US. Yes, much worse than Elon, Zuck, Bezos, etc.

EDIT: Unfortunately Larry Ellison could still buy the global division which includes CNN. Netflix is only buying the studios and streaming. Still no idea what happens to DC Comics but I think it goes with global?

A very large culprit is your gut’s microbiome (the bacteria that live in our gut). The more junk food you eat, the more you will grow your craving for it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/202303/where-cravings-are-bred

Bowl movement analysis? Your poop says a lot about your internal state of affairs.

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I work on “the grid”. There is no one reason, but I can list the main culprits I see.

• Decaying infrastructure
• Negligible investment in transport infrastructure (people tend to focus on production, as does this meme, when it isn’t the biggest issue)
• Negligible investment in data management.
• Datacenter supply infrastructure creation is being wholly subsidized by end users. When the energy company goes to the legislature and says “we need 17 billion dollars or we won’t be able to supply the city with power”, they neglect to say that the entirety of that new capacity and all of the previous excess capacity the system had, is now going to power up new datacenters. The legislature approves and the cost is rolled into the consumer’s bill, if not entirely then definitely in part.
• Significant fuckery in billing and estimation. This I cannot go into detail on but I can remind all of you that you have the right to request proof of your detailed power usage.

I have ADHD. I have those awful looking and beat up vertical blinds. I haven’t replaced them because I am busy, lazy as fuck, and don’t give a shit about how crap they look, not because of my ADHD. Not picking up a strip after it falls because I get squirreled away? That’s all on my goofy brain.

I thought that the Firefox container tabs functionality (which is amazing) was a computer browser feature only and not available on mobile.

enshittification

For large volumes of data, nothing beats shipping a large external drive (with a fast interface) from location to location.

The Pirate Bay used to be taken down fairly regularly back in the early 2000s. A number of political and legal wins changed that.

Better Off Dead

My favorite movie about an Indigenous person taking on an invading and/or colonizing force is Prey. No white savior there.

Cyberpunk as a literary genre, and the Cyberpunk TTRPG in specific, are incredibly prophetic. In the Cyberpunk TTRPG (which predates the WWW), “the net” is eventually condemned (as in boarded up) because of AI and ia replaced by silo’d networks (think extended intranets).

I use Proton Pass for this. It creates the alias, which can be paused when not in use, and manages the login. The free tier gives you a handful but the paid tier is unlimited. If you own/buy a domain, you can configure it to be the domain for all of your aliases. For example, you walmart login could be

walmart@curious_dolphin.net

My wife used Xperia phones exclusively for years. The only real issues she had, and why she dropped them, was their mid tier cameras and the severe overheating. She switched pre-COVID, so maybe the CPU issue has been addressed.