Religion is a control mechanism. It helps people feel better about things they can't control, mysterious ways and all that, but it is always about control and power. Ea is gonna get you, be scared

Good things: you get someone to spend time with. Frequent sex. Someone to share your world with.b you tell your secrets, you trust them

Bad things: they have their own needs, even when it isn't convenient for you. You have to accept that you're a partnership, and their judgement is important. You trust them, whether or not they deserve it. You are open and vulnerable, which means you're vulnerable. Sex can be mechanical and unfulfilling. Your growth needs to include them

I had no idea I even did that. I read it several times and in my head it was britches the whole time

Cancel order. Every. Time.

Same question - why aren't businesses responsible for maintaining enough security, with damages due for those whose information they misplace.

Was it a stupid question?

Yep this. They are afraid that their way of life is being threatened... Just like the other fanatics There are religious fanatics, sporta fanatics, Independent fanatics prepping for the aliens to come and kill them, etc. Mobs are dangerous no matter the flag they wave.

All those bombs and planes and tanks and drones and machinery of death emit CO2 - also the burning rubble and bodies

Look around, we're killing ourselves at every possible opportunity

Practice good hygiene and it'll be fine The trouble is that modern apps are forced to adopt features which depend on the new OS. Your old one will be incompatible, on purpose

The security aspect is secondary to the monetary growth and recuperation of investment in the new OS.

They spent all those monies to make it "AI" betting that you will eat it up and pay up. Now there will be significant pressure for them to "increase adoption" or someone gets fired

It's to support all those artists right? Right?

I just had Mac n cheese with green Chile and meatballs. I liked it 👍

I remember it being pretty incredible that there were other users out there I could talk to. I had heard about email and I got an address! I didn't know anyone to email, but I had an address! Chat was amazing. BBS systems offered text games, like LORD - which also took things to a new level. Participation in discussion forums on BBSes and AOL led me to forums on the Web. At school we used to use gopher but the www was more fun (if you could see past the construction sign graphics) and you could always see the hit counters and guestbook links on most pages. Then the construction signs got more sophisticated and animated😀 The early-mid-90s Internet was glorious. Google showed up after Yahoo was too littered with ads.. Some guys in college made a search engine that prioritized speed - dreadfully important at analog speeds..

If it isn't meant for others to see, what's wrong with a .txt file you just add notes to?

If the exploit happens over Ethernet, why do you need to have the TV?

Edit: the exploit doesn't require the TV, it's just a novel way to do it

Because everything costs so fucking much that the "economy" doesn't represent their daily experience

It's really weird that this octogenarian president is having trouble connecting with young voters 🤕

I pre heat, but usually don't read all the t & c 🤷‍♂️

This is annoying, where I am, I can usually just smile and walk past them. They want to check my receipt, but I don't

What's become especially irritating is that so many items are locked behind glass. Want some knee pads so your kid can go skateboarding? Please get an associate. Want a new inner tube to get a bike up and running? Please page someone for help. Then, when you finally get the inner tube, the guy has to physically walk it to the self checkout area, put it into a cabinet and then I have to walk around to the front of the self checkout, ask the girl there to go get it and then I ring it up myself? What the hell is going on with inner tubes!?

Recreational is legal, it's against the law to smoke in public but I still smelt that skunk while I was there recently

This is self evident to any animal lover

What happened to my country

That's a really great question

Thanks for your perspective.

I didn't mean I want to have a bad exchange, but I think more business like and transactional.

Yes thank you. I'm not totally alone, but the person I most want to help me is the same person.. old habits I guess

This is timely for me

The party system is at the root.. That and megalomania

I've had almost no luck convincing people to try something else.. hard to overcome the momentum and the "but everyone I know is on that one"

Have done this before, Windows being Windows it will replace grub with the windows boot loader. Use a live disk to reinstall grub and reset your boot options and you're done.

It's just enshitification. and it will slowly grow to become more and more noticeable over time RIP

His "art" looks like it's just him going places and taking pictures of flipping the bird at some landscapes? Edgy

Same been running netdata for years. They're monetizing now where it used to just be free. Good for them, it's a great product. And it's foss

This perspective is really interesting to me

I have admit,I tend to agree. I make comments like "individual people are smart, but people at large.. they're idiots" it's the way I can rationalize how we're facing a rematch of Biden v Trump in the US the year.. And other things that defy reason

But in weighing the positives and the negatives of the totality of our impact - how many good small acts does it take to overcome a Khmer Rouge? What about when those loving families are torn apart by religion, patriotism, morality etc and the angels fight? Conflict, like death and taxes, seems undeniable - maturity, much less so

I agree that existence is truly a wonder.

Yet I don't see how everything else being great around us means we're so great for just seeing it all.. I'd ask, a net positive to what group? Our own, of course, because we procreate. But.. at what cost? Does the cow share your zeal for humanity, you know

Is the point of existence merely for wonders to be observed?

Great, but why are you convinced?

I don't know what human nature truly is, or if there can be a singular definition.

However, judging by the historical record, we seem to be quite good at exploiting things and beings for our own benefit at their expense, which doesn't really make a compelling case for worthiness

How does this Wikipedia argument address whether or not we're a blight, or if we should be?

Whom created capitalism, or any economic strategy?

I think many of the people in Palestine felt betrayed that they did not use the words cease fire. When faced with this existential crisis, nothing less is acceptable.

The icj used language that practically meant cease fire, but mid east news expressed disappointment.

So I guess the point I'm trying to make is that you're admonishing "Western" media, but if that was the perspective you heard - No cease fire was called for - it probably accurately represents the sentiment of many of the people there.

The South Africans understood what the icj said, and their comments immediately following the decision illustrated that.

I was hoping you knew.

Thanks for the link. I am from NM and didn't know about this site

I like my bar, too. I like to try new things, and being able to input what ingredients I have, and to have it show what I can make (and even those things that I can almost make) makes it simpler to explore different options. Some of the recipes I question - no accounting for taste, I guess