chillpanzee

That article reads like a script for a slapstick comedy. CEO wearing an eyepatch takes shortcut across construction job site and walks right in front of a forklift (whose driver happens to be busy texting) and gets steamrolled. The forklift driver then makes the sensible decision to run.

Some kid with a high capacity clarinet playing Pumped Up Kicks probably. Praise Jesus.

I wonder if the Democratic Party refusing to let voters choose nominees is on the list.

I ran it on a Pi Zero W for a bunch of years, and it was as stable and problem free as it gets.

Early this year I swapped out my wifi/router for a minipc running OPNsense. I retired the pihole since OPNsense has Unbound built in.

Yes, don't plug them in. But no, people don't deserve it.

I read one where the wifi password at a bar was "YouGottaBuyADrinkFirst." So... customers would ask for the password, then buy a drink, then ask for the password again and be like "oh... you crafty bastard."

I read a story earlier this year where the author suggested that in the near future, appliances of all kinds will ship with embedded cellular radios. The author's rationale was that consumers either don't connect devices, or are increasingly finding ways of blocking cameras, microphones, and telemetry. The claim was that cost of the radio and service are cheap relative to the value of selling your private information.

Not sure if that'll happen, but it certainly underscores your point about the larger problem.

It happened once

Not even once according to the article. They don't actually know what happened on that flight, but their simulations can't test test for cosmic radiation and didn't reveal any other errors, so they presume it must be the cause. Then made up a story about that being a day of heavy day of solar activity, which the article refutes.

Yeah, they know exactly where you stop, and if enough people stop at a key moment (think GoT Red Wedding), they might use that data to inform future decisions, but it's a really mixed signal in this case. First, they have to be looking for "who stopped before the main event" as some sort of a signal. They might be, or they might look at it in the future, but like the previous person said, you're counted as a view well before you get to that point. In their eyes, you've effectively voted in favor of Jake Paul because the main event is Jake Paul. It's sorta like ordering a happy meal as a protest to MacDonalds and hoping they notice you didn't eat the burger patty. There are clearer ways to protest, like not watching it in the first place, or canceling your sub.

Also, it won't fuck with Jake at all. He'll get paid either way, and there are probably a hundred other metrics his team will care about more than that one (if Netflix even shares that level of detail). Moreover, being controversial and polarizing isn't a problem for Jake Paul. I'm sure they expect plenty of this sort of thing.

The alt right people I know are excellent at distancing themselves from the distasteful aspects of their chosen leadership, but they are more committed to Trump and his kind than ever. The do your research crowd is impressively good at "well I haven't read up on that myself" every time time you mention the flagrant crimes, or the intentional destabilization, the theft of public resources, and so on. In some sense, I get the ones like MTG and Owens. They are just grifters unapologetically doing what they do. But for every one of them, there's a million people who defend and protect them just because Jesus says so.

There is no falling out on the alt right side. They are expert trolls who despite what they say on twitter, are as committed to this regime as they ever were.

We might see more political violence, but I'm skeptical it'll ratchet up. The Democratic party has made being anti-gun it's identity for a couple generations now; it's out of character for them. The current MAGA regime knows who and where every non-MAGA gun owner is. They'll probably find a way to disarm their opposition, and the Dem leaders in the blue states will help them do it.

Christian missionaries have never gone on mission to accept people. They go on mission to convert, absorb, and indoctrinate people, and then exclude those who refuse. Look at what the Spanish missionaries did in California to the natives... they either got with the program and became good Christians, or got clapped. Sure, it's less violent today, but still highly exclusionary.

I saw OSU and figured there was more "Gym Jordan" stuff going on at Ohio State. Right idea, wrong OSU.