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I wonder how adjacent/adaptable this is to an autonomous drone that goes looking for tanks, or soldiers with a Z on their hats?

Jonathan_Mayo: For a gang that is against “cancel culture” they sure to love to cancel things, even ineptly. But boycotts are anti-capitalist, so they have to buy the product to prove they aren’t commies. I’d say /s, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that is the actual reason why people keep doing shit like this.

Sorry to bust your trinity, but every toilet must have a plunger. Right there, within easy reach, no further than the TP. And at least one spare plunger that everyone knows the location of. You do not want to be without a plunger when you need a plunger.

Cryptocurrency (and related fuckery) TechCrunch – 19 Aug 24 Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new... Former a16z-investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island near Singapore to create his own “Network School.” Est. reading time: 3 minutes

TechCrunch – 19 Aug 24 Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new... Former a16z-investor Balaji Srinivasan has booked out an island near Singapore to create his own “Network School.” Est. reading time: 3 minutes

Bidets are availabel with an “air drier” function. Some blow cold air, some have adjustable temperature. My current bidet has an additional feature called “Deodorize”, which runs a fan to pull air out of the bowl; there’s even a small absorbent pad you can presoak with drops of good smelly stuff. My routine when not in a rush: Flush. I cannot stress this enough....

Though if they really wanted it because they thought it was a genuine Taylor Swift guitar, and have now found it isn’t, they haven’t lost out either.

It just reads like an peace designed to get you to spend more than you need to. All these things save you money, but you should not do them, cos we said so…

Elokapina ban [Extinction Rebellion]? The Uutissuomalainen (USU ) news group reported that Lulu Ranne, the Finns Party cabinet minister currently holding the Transport and Communications and Interior portfolios, said she considers it necessary to look into a possible ban on the Finnish environmental movement Elokapina. Ranne told USU that “quite a lot of red flags” have been raised, which is why she says a...

Yep. A lot has changed in the world of info security in the past decade or so. Which is why I mostly leave it up to the professionals - the intuitive answer stopped being the safer path a while back.

It was years and years ago when I first came across websites that informed users their passwords could not include any “dictionary words.”

The parking lot was already flooded, but the boss told him he’d have to get permission from their boss to let the workers go?!Video from Impact Plastics employee launches investigation, attention from Tenn. officials

Indian Creek Village, known as the "Billionaire Bunker," isn't just another gated community. It's the ultimate fortress for the ultrarich. Nestled in South Florida's Biscayne Bay, this private island is where some of the world's wealthiest people,...

Oh it’s meant to remind you of Texas! Because to non-Americans it sounds like a brand of bleach or something. And Texas reminds people of stews for some reason?

I’d still imagine they would remember Trump’s Muslim bans, and similar behavior. But it’s clear that an awful lot of American voters have somehow forgotten about Trump’s four disastrous years in the White House, or won’t do the most basic due diligence and check his actual record.

No one’s getting on or in my bed wearing manky cowboy boots! Gross! You’re weird and gross, lone skum! Weird and gross!

Tina Peters to be sentenced Thursday Judge sentences Tina Peters to 9 years behind bars Tina Peters SENTENCED To PRISON All three of these vids are so good, I’ve also posted them on the other tina peters thread.

Tina Peters to be sentenced Thursday Judge sentences Tina Peters to 9 years behind bars Tina Peters SENTENCED To PRISON All three of these vids are so good, I’m also posting them on the other tina peters thread.

robertmckenna: One of the arguments against anti ballistic missile systems during the Cold War … the other one being that the technology of the time could not possibly have achieved the mission — it was just a scam Whether it was the enemy being scammed, or the taxpayers, was open to interpretation

Someone in another place also pointed out that the grey background just happens to be pinkish just under the signature and downwards. Kinda what it would look like if someone had screwed up the red signature and tried to erase it with turpentine to try again…

en.wikipedia.org Fourteen Words "The Fourteen Words" (also abbreviated 14 or 1488) is a reference to two slogans originated by David Eden Lane, one of nine founding members of the defunct white supremacist terrorist organization The Order, and are accompanied by Lane's "88 Precepts." The slogans have served as a rallying cry for militant white nationalists internationally. The primary slogan in the Fourteen Words is,...