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I really wonder what a lawyer would think about this.

I did a quick check on the MA laws around it and it says that you need to obtain consent from all parties on the call. It would be interesting if the company tries to argue that its AI would count.

From a legal perspective, recording a call like that may just count as recording yourself.

2 hours of cooking for a 10 minute meal sounds like a skill issue.

Germany tried to create laws to prevent a repeat of the Holocaust. It's a laudable effort but they're failing at it.

The problem is that they were so specific about preventing "The Holocaust" that they ignored many other kinds of bigotry and racism. They thought that if they forbid a few key phrases and symbols, hatred would wither on the vine. Instead they just cleared the way for other aspects of racism to flourish.

We can all understand the attraction in seeing the US get its comeuppance but the death throes of the US would likely be quite unpleasant.

If the US could somehow transform into a more enlightened member of the international community, we'd all be much better off. Barring that, even a return to it's prior position as self-appointed world police would likely be less destructive than an actual collapse.

I sure as hell wouldn't want the job of securing logistics in the northern woods with a bunch of angry Canucks running around.

This guy seems like he might know what he's talking about but is there a version that isn't a 3 hour video?

Like an article or something?

talk to their parents first

This is key. It's one thing to stop a child from harassing your pet. If you "teach them a lesson" after the fact without the parents' permission, there are now two wrongs that need to be dealt with.

They do work. They've been using them to blow up tanks.

The way they're used there isn't much time for that. With regular drones they hunt around for something to kill and then dive in. The wired drones stay hidden until the target comes into range and then they just come out for the strike. The defenders only have a few seconds to react.

Wire guided missiles have been in use since WWII.

Markus Reisner has a pretty good explanation of how they're deployed in one of his videos.

They have much shorter range so they basically set them up as ambushes. The wired drone gets hidden somewhere at a choke point. An other operator flies a recon drone at long range. When they report that a good target has come into range the wired drone takes off and hits the target.

I thought this would be a thread where we post our unhinged snacks.

My goto smoothie:

• 1 banana
• 2 scoops of protein powder
• 3 heaping tablespoons of Benco cocoa powder
• 1 heaping spoon full of peanutbutter
• 2 cups of whole milk

Clocks in at about 1000 calories. It's great if you're the type of person who chronically forgets to eat

Ikea really managed to pull off a magnificent marketing stunt.

They have the same furniture quality that you can get off of Amazon, Wayfair, or Walmart but you have to go get it out of their warehouse and deal with the logistics of getting it to your house. But they hand out some meatballs and give everything funky Swedish names; so people get the impression that it's a fancy European experience.

China is the single largest manufacturer of Ikea products. I found that when I went directly to the source, I could get the same item cheaper or a better item at the same price. That deal is likely to die with the new tariff regime but that same regime will have similar impacts on Ikea.