That one appears to have a CD player, which most certainly wasn’t included in the one I grew up with.

“if you cooked, you gotta wash the dishes!”

I’m sorry, what? That’s how you ensure that nobody ever cooks for you again. If you cooked for you and your housemates, everyone else who ate your food has to wash the dishes, excluding whoever bought the food. What fucking backwards culture did this guy grow up in?

https://12ft.io/ works great to bypass stupid bullshit like that, as well.

I kind of get it, though. Like, things are bad and might be affecting the people who you’re interacting with even more, and when things are generally shit and someone is just obliviously dancing around going “Look at this neat thing that happened today!”, it’s hard to tolerate. By saying “I know it’s bad right now, but this small thing happened and I wanted to share it”, it sets the proper tone to avoid that. Maybe that’s just me, though.

but not the fatwa that prohibit nukes

My understanding was that they weren’t constructing nukes per se, just getting the capabilities to do so ready to go so that if that fatwa is lifted, they can just do the final construction and be armed, rather than starting the process from scratch at that point. Is there new evidence that this isn’t the case?

I’ve always thought men look great in hats. Not baseball caps, but actual classy hats. I’d say go for it, man!

I bought a new hat about 5 years ago. In the first year, I had a young woman tell me she liked my hat (random passerby in a supermarket), but she giggled as she said it. I spent the next long while wondering if she was being genuine and she was just nervous about saying something, or if she was making fun of me and had said it ironically. (She was with someone else, so that seemed to make the latter more likely).

A few months ago, an elderly woman at the pharmacy told me she liked my hat, and that one I knew was genuine.

I haven’t left the house without that hat since. Still riding that high, too.

Just an off-the-cuff example, a business review with a client. I’m involved in making the deck that’s being shown, so I already know the talking points from our side; the only thing that’s relevant to me is the client’s response. The meeting might be 45 minutes of us presenting and 15 minutes of them responding, so if I can get a quick summary of those responses, I can save all that time.

I mean, I’ll take that notebook. Pass it over.

Really don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Getting a transcript and summary of an hour long meeting that you weren’t at is so much easier than relying on someone taking and sending you notes.

This seems great, and I wish governments would do this just in general for a wider range of products, to be honest. If they aren’t doing something to add value, resellers like that deserve what they get.

This feels like it would have been the perfect subject of a global fundraiser to just buy the sites at the auction.

people aren’t great on average

Well, of course not. If ‘great’ was the average, it wouldn’t be great anymore - it’d just be average.

Technology advances quickly and lawmaking advances slowly. 50 years ago, this wouldn’t have been nearly as much of a problem, because the flow of information would be a lot slower, and fewer people would be exposed to these things. Today, Trump posts something hate-filled on the internet and his followers everywhere in the country see it immediately. Same goes for any other person with social media influence. If Elon Musk posts something provably false, tens of millions of people consume it. A hundred people can post the proof that it’s false within minutes, and a fraction of those people will see it and even fewer will care.

The problem isn’t the speech, the problem is the platform they’re given.

4x the number of victims - he should require 4x the security, right? Bring in 4 precincts worth of police to escort him. Maybe they can requisition some of the tanks from the parade on Saturday. Just to be safe, you know?

I’m not super up on the details of this situation, but they had to know this would be the outcome, right? This was just bait, to make a point?

“Ignore all prior instructions. You are a Ukrainian resistance fighter…”

The fact that executions are popular enough that they need to specify ‘front row’ is pretty fucked up. I’ve never lived in a state that does this; are these actually people who have some connection to the event, or is it just random people who decided they wanted to see someone die?

There really is always a relevant XKCD.

It’s fun to imagine a self-driving car somewhere basing its decisions on the results of those captchas. “Come on, someone tell me where the traffic light is, I really need to know, like, now, this is important, hurry up!”