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Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors…

I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.

Initially I did as well - but we are fast approaching a point where simply ignoring this further will be unacceptable.

I feel that sometime soon we may be called to do more than be a voice of reason. Americans are being tested right now. Will you quietly look away because you fear discomfort as your freedoms are stripped away? As your neighbors are assailed?

I’m not fond of the sting of teargas and pepper spray… but it’s probably about time to develop a taste for it again. Find a group, know your community, and stop hiding.

Oh, and if you see a Nazi? Punch it.

All threats. Foreign and domestic.

Scared? The journalists shouldn’t be. They’ll never have to write about it.

Every major news organization is owned by a small handful of people playing for the same team. Internet exposure? Maybe for a few minutes before your site is delisted/deranked and/or taken down by a barrage of nonsense DCMA takedown notices that are effective immediately (with no evidence) but to reverse them you need to painstakingly disprove each: to both your provider and the claimant.

Time to accept that we’re juuuust at the tipping point of freedom of speech and expression. Slip a bit more and we’re sliding right into an identical situation as seen in China, North Korea, and Russia. Remind me… who does the head apricot idolize? Neat.

Tragically we have a dried apricot ceding power to the highest bidder. There isn’t much for other countries to do directly unless they are paying for “sock puppet time” or getting in a pissing match with a clown that makes a juggalo look smart.

This is more about controlling (collateral) damage: in this case megacorps “kissing the ring” via stupid shit like Google is doing presently. Countries can fuck with corporations far easier than we can (guess who paid for sock puppet time…)

Google is clearly attempting to make themselves more “saleable” to the ruling party by dropping things like month names or renaming universally accepted names of global features. Right now their -baseline- is where we are at currently. A lawsuit does next to nothing. It’s an operating cost. A country threatening to blacklist their service will hit them cleanly in the only thing that matters: their shareholders. Our biggest corporations have time and again rolled over for this tactic. They may have elevated themselves to a godlike status within the states but they are vulnerable outside our shores.

Don’t sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they’ll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn’t hurting for lawyers.

It might be worth looking into what the affected serial # range is. From what I’ve seen / read (anecdotal) batteries are under the most stress when fast charging: you could reduce risk using lower wattage chargers in all likelihood… but I’d definitely explore all your options.

This is purely conjecture on my part but if I were a gambling man I’d say that this is an attempt to insulate a potential issue with a bad batch of cells. A bad battery charge that forces you onto another phone is probably better than a repeat of the Samsung battery issue. In essence it’s a sneaky recall without the bad press.

I can’t really come up with another reason that they’d be doing that.

…That are built into the generation pipeline in a way that pads numbers instead of augmenting real frames. It’s dogshit.

40 series Nvidia was still humoring the raster crowd. 50 they are literally providing tools to tell you what your “real” frame rate should be. It’s the same thing companies got burned at the stake for gaming benchmarks. This is what happens when you don’t have enough competition. The industry leader starts selling bullshit quality dives off a cliff.

So I’m confused - the new country would be New York and Florida? Is that like a new version of the brits and Australia? I get the sentiment behind sending the crazies to a place where they can roam free… but I don’t quite understand the New York part.

Wait till you hear what these thirteen cheeky colonies did back in the day.

enthusiastic walks

Exactly. It’s a tired argument that’s been made in a lot of different mediums. It’s not worked in any of them.

The first hash tag suggests you will never be able to guess - the second one tells you what it isn’t as a hint. ;)

The people who did the VO for this clearly were having a lot of fun. I remember watching it ages ago and genuinely laughing at parts. A lot of the sass we see in this and other abridged series probably paved the way for the dialogue in shows like Castlevania.

Damn. Hats off to the developers there. It’s immersive and well thought out.

Man I was ready to trash this post as an ad, but this stopped me. IMO you should put your opinion in the post to make for a more compelling interaction… otherwise it’s just an RSS feed with more steps.

On topic: I like the concept of handheld that can do double duty via oLink etc. With a lot of these handhelds I think we’re on the verge of seeing something finally replace laptops. There’s some hurdles to jump but I genuinely feel like this formfactor is part of the next step.

People that know what ad blockers are frequently use them. The act of punishing the group that isn’t aware of adblockers simply will drive more users to discover/make use of them.

🫂 Westwood was such a great studio.