Darkassassin07

Worse; you could buy people from the silk road. Wives, children, ~~nanny's~~ slaves... Along with military equipment, drugs ofc, stolen goods, and pretty much anything illegal that has a buyer.

Had a friend that liked buying drugs there, and would send me screenshots of some of the insane ads he found. He was pissed when it got shut down, and moved to a market called 'Agora'.

Broke off that friendship quite a while ago and haven't heard about it since. Not really my scene...

Since putting a 4080 in my bedroom, I've not once run my heat, and usually have to keep my window open at least an inch too cool the room off...

I live in Canada, it's currently winter. Window's open.

From the linked article:

The Take It Down Act is an overbroad, poorly drafted bill that would create a powerful system to pressure removal of internet posts, with essentially no safeguards. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it creates is an open invitation for powerful people to pressure websites into removing content they dislike. There are no penalties for applying very broad, or even farcical definitions of what constitutes NCII, and then demanding that it be removed.

It would mean Trump and anyone else could demand the removal of pretty much any image that features them; with legal penalties for not immediately complying.

Think DMCA takedowns for youtube videos, but against every image on every platform available in the US. The platform has to comply, remove the flagged content, and let the courts sort out whether it should go back up.

Sounds about right.

It may inflate the numbers for now, but overall I think it's just going to have a negative impact. I may have decided to play with it at somepoint, I'm just somewhere between disinterested and distrusting of the tech. Now that it's been shoved down my throat though, I adamantly REFUSE to touch Gemini. Installing it on my devices and giving it all my data without consent is absurd overreach and should be a felony.

'I drew a mortally wounded vial organ for you, enjoy'

'I also cut off this plants genitalia for you, hope you like them'

Gotta support local businesses y'know?

Take the perspective of things that get cooked.

If you're being cooked, things aren't exactly going your way... Others around you are having a great time though, dinner is served.

As to being sick of it; OP, you may be turning into a crotchety old man... Not cool dude; that's like, totally lame. :P

This was yesterday...

Well yeah; you don't just flip a switch and disconnect at a whim, you've got to reduce generation in sync with shedding load to keep the grid balanced. It can and should still be done though.

The problem is producers ofc don't want to shut down, that's lost profit for them. I think they should bear it in support of Canada's independence though.

'Psst, need some eggs? I know a guy...'

I used to like KFC, particularly the popcorn chicken, but it's declined quite a bit in the last 5-10 years.

I mean; their latest line of cards is plagued with problems, not the least of which is the cards being shipped with less available cores than advertised and different amounts than each other (same card model, different stats, bit of a dice roll as to which you'll get).

So I'm sure the tariffs are having a bad effect too; but a significant amount of their loss is their own doing.