We’ve never been great. It’s just removing the veneer of respectability we gave ourselves and doubling down on the shittiest parts.

Jennifer Government and Snow Crash here we come. Except we don’t get any of the cool shit fictional cyber-dystopias do.

Yep. Engagement drives more engagement.

Obviously it would be a choice to have them wifi or not, opt-in, not opt-out. I wasn’t implying anything should be automatically wifi.

Things that can be wifi: my light switches and anything that might’ve had an analog timer back in the day. Anything critical? You can buy an analog sensor that will beep if it’s out of limits, like a freezer alarm.

The rest can f right off.

Place yourself in front of the vehicle. Refuse to move. Do not step aside. When the car moves toward the officer, claim it’s attempted murder (or whatever hyperbolic statement), and immediately bring deadly force to bear. Doesn’t matter if the offender has literally done nothing wrong to warrant deadly force.

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Oooh, someone’s disagreeing with me or using some argument fallacy to make themselves more right.

That should shut down /liberalgunowners.

Did they get it wrong? Like Grindr being suddenly popular wherever the Republicans have a convention, maybe the ratio is far better for partner-seekers than it looks on the surface.

The terrorist suddenly pays the victim when their terrorist site is taken down.

Don’t know about the “striking” part, but fermentation of veg has been done safely for a long time.

Think Kimchi, pickles, Sauerkraut or even things like soy sauce or chocolate. All fermented or have fermentation in the process. I had some fermented pickles this summer from a “picklefest”. They were awesome.

There are plenty of online sources, you’d need to look up what you want to try to make and follow the instructions.

When they track your phone ID or use face recognition around the store to adjust pricing we’re fucked.

The same variety every country finds annoying about tourists from different cultures because foreigners. Loud, demanding, not obeying local social cues or courtesies, not speaking any of the language, walking too slow because tourist, crowding, messing up local living conditions thanks to vacation rentals, drunks, etc.

They do nothing that doesn’t increase profits. It could be anything from cutting the staff or hours needed to update pricing or surge pricing. Increasing salsa pricing while offering a minor discount on chips for a large televised sporting event or something. If they can get away with it, they’ll do it.

It can be crushing.

Unfortunately a lot of people seem to put a hammer in their pocket because they are always looking for nails. Hammer or not.

There are untold numbers of videos, clips, tiktoks or whatever of people who refuse to walk away from an escalating situation. Out come the fists, or sometimes a gun. The comments are full of people agreeing with FAFO with no thought of walking away and the violent means and end, and plenty claim to be fine with using a gun.

I’ve been through those courses and carrying a firearm is sobering. I don’t do it anymore, and sometimes I miss it, but not enough.

FWIW, KISS. I built an elaborate WC setup. It was fun, looks neat, and expensive. Super-quiet and cool running. That said, as the years have gone by the WC cost of time/maintenance has been a downside. Even AIO will need some care and have a higher potential cost of failure than air cooled. Fans are easily replaceable vs having to remove and replace a pump or cooling block, or deal with a leak. Most new fans are super-quiet (as long as you don’t have one of those absurd cases with 10 fans in it) so you can enjoy gaming with a cool-running setup and no sound of a server farm running by your desk.

Trump does something stupid.

Nah. Too easy.

Trump is no longer in office. Death, mental incapacity, whatever. There. That’s my guess.

Betty boop detective noir film. That would be good. Make her a badass like Ana de Armas in No Time To Die.

Wasn’t there a computer vision cheat setup that got some attention a while back?

Yep. and there might have been one before this, I just can’t find it.