Don’t be evil

Be evil when it makes money.

It worked in the USA. It is currently not working for the USA.

Source: See the current state of the USA.

I’m confused cause that article says they already departed Barcelona after they had to turn around due to weather. Looks like the link was changed as well.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-flotilla-gaza-departs-barcelona-after-stormy-weather-turnaround-2025-09-01/

I’m sure he is still capable of shitting his pants and not showering.

60+ years of conservative polcies have removed social safety nets, supressed wages, irresponsibly deregulated key industries, and funneled money to the ultra rich. These policies are largely responsible for the decline of the middle class, lack of accessible medical care, and decline if upward economic mobility. In this essay we will only be reviewing the 5,897 polcies enacted since George H. W. Bush that have directly affected these key socioeconomic systems for the middle and working class…

Yeah that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “brown people did it” does it?

Because, uhhh, whoa what’s that? ducks behind the podium

I mean yeah that’s why I made the distinction in my comment… Without secure boot you’re still opening yourself up to a whole host of other attack vectors even if you have bitlocker enabled.

Ah gotcha! I for sure was not following what you were saying. I don’t know if that’s he real thrust of the point in my above comment, but I was more referring to the fact that artificial vanilla doesn’t necessarily come from vanilla beans. I should’ve been more precise with my language, but it’s worth noting that artificial vanilla is largely synthesized and comes from a variety of sources, not just vanilla beans (see below for the source/pertinent excerpt).

It also gets weird as to how the FDA regulates the term. I believe the key term is actually “Pure” in the “Pure Vanilla Extract” but don’t quote me on that. Not sure how it’s done by other regulatory agencies but it’s probably equally convoluted in a lot of places.

Source: https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/technical-documents/technical-article/food-and-beverage-testing-and-manufacturing/flavor-and-fragrance-formulation/vanilla-regulations

Pertinent excerpt:

However, many alternate routes to vanillin are well documented, including vanillin derived from spruce tree lignin, corn sugar, rice or wheat bran, clove oil, curcumin, or guaiacol.

Look some people keep sourdough starter for generations. Just because they don’t necessarily make sourdough for 37 years with it is no reason to shame people for their hobbies. /s

Fun fact there’s an ancient sourdough yeast that is thought to be several thousands of years old. It’s not a virgin though and gets around quite a lot!

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220711-the-worlds-oldest-sourdough

I’d argue that you now have two major issues. Someone breaking into a house and stealing a desktop isn’t unheard of. Full disk encryption with secure boot deployed will save you the headache of also having your identity/bank account/cc info stolen a few days later.

Okay but you should enable secure boot on any device you want to keep any level of private data on. It’s trivial to break into a device that doesn’t have it enabled if you can physically access it. Laptops especially should have secure boot enabled.

I don’t understand what this would be correcting in what I said above. Can you show me what part this is correcting? Cause I’m legitimately confused.

I have missed this trend and I am hoping to never be caught by it. Even cartoon animals in distress fucks with me and I can’t imagine me sticking around long enough on a video to analyze it closely enough to see if it was AI slop or not. I can 100% guarantee I will get random flashes of it for several days if not longer after catching a glimpse of it though.

I think it’s worth pointing out that vanilla extract is from vanilla beans and artificial vanilla is whatever the fuck they feel like that tastes like vanilla. Also, modern artificial vanilla extremely rarely, if ever, is derived from Castoreum because it’s hard as hell to farm beavers and expensive as all fuck. The “artificial vanilla comes from beaver anal glands” is basically a prevalent internet myth that gets passed around like the, “You eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep.” myth.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-vanilla-flavoring-actually-come-from-beaver-butts-180983288/

Well you’re half right.

The Ayn Rand fever dream!

Any % cancer speedrun

This is kind of the actual problem though. It’s hard to actually have effective charities. Even some of the most ethical, and well run charities, end up with surplus funds (Dolly Parton’s charity for example). The government is setup to spend that much money helping people though. But paying taxes is somehow bad and wrong. I don’t know if I had a real point other than maybe we should actually tax these rich folks so they can achieve their dream of giving away at least half their wealth.

Sounds like the dollar store version of Ben Affleck, Bin Aflick.

Imagine the other gaping security holes in this thing if storing all the data on a public s3 bucket flew under the radar until after release.