Also Clegg

asking women for permission would ruin my sexlife.

probably.

The Last Jedi is top 3 out of the Skywalker movies easily.

In a few short years, you’ll see. The sequels will be redeemed just as the prequels before them. Time is a flat circle.

It’s great to see Elmo suffer.

But I’m reminded that the concept of “voting with your dollars” and “consumer activism” are the ways capitalism has captured revolutionary activity into a fashion that serves the ego, satiates the desire to act, and neuters any chance of efficacy.

When capitalists see the demand for change, they package it, promote it, and trade it on the market.

For years people have given me the blinking stare of unbelief when I tell them I’ve never had a Facebook. Now being absent on that platform and others is seen as suspicious. I got a buddy who couldn’t complete a job application because Facebook was a mandatory field in the electronic form. The border Gestapo and the State Department require your socials for visa applications. A friend told me that she wouldn’t date a guy without socials because she browses them as a kind of background check.

Fuck Meta.

The anger people have when you tell them it’s neglect when you just let a cat roam free. It’s insanity.

If you want to see people loose their mind, suggest that the way we dominate these animals to please us is the root cause of all that suffering and neglect.

*I live with a cat and am having beef for dinner. I’m a hypocrite, not PETA.

These people are like the photo-negitive of Eugenicists.

anti-natalists present with reactionary ideology since they’re obsessed with what other people are doing with their bodies. And they advocate for a totalitarian state to regulate that. But then they’re also obsessed with environmentalism?

Maybe their lefty misanthropes? I don’t get it.

TED is just like sharktank. Only instead of having a good business idea contestants compete to sooth the guilt of wealthy liberals and promise them that technology is going to save us.

Just change the file extension to *.png. Works every time.

This is a big deal. The emergence of eukaryotes may be more important to our biological story than the emergence of life.

Some have suggested (I saw it on PBS Spacetime) that eukaryotic evolution is the “great filter” that prevents civilizations and explains the Fermi paradox. Perhaps the universe is filled to the lid with slimes and bacteria, with complex cells being vanishingly rare or maybe unique.

The problem is that the US put sanctions on this person. Not that M$ is obeying those sanctions; it’s not optional.

Best practice is to criticize them for genocide profiteering. They chose that.

I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

pussups

I’m decades younger and I wouldn’t want to be compared to Springsteen.

I hate AI as much as the next lemming, but nobody is going to tell me a babble fish for real isn’t cool AF.

However, the company said it had found no evidence to date that its Azure platform and AI technologies were used to target or harm people in the Gaza Strip.

A lawyer wrote that statement. I read between the lines that M$ has a don’t ask, don’t tell policy in regards to war crimes.

we live in a society where men abandon their families every day and nobody blinks, because it’s all part of the plan. But when a woman does the same thing, everybody looses their minds!

That seems like a fair price, am I crazy?

Why would you not want to encrypt your files?

Bitlocker is only as secure as Microsoft is. If someone hacks your account, they’ve got your keys. And Micosoft stores that key in plain text.

The control panel dialogue allows you to do this as well. Control Panel > system security > Bitlocker encryption. But it also has the superior option which is to turn it off.

I didn’t loose any data BTW. I had my M$ account info, and a backup besides.