I knew there was a reason I love 'em so much!

I don’t doubt the possibility but that’s not the situation here and now with defending Ukraine.

Except he’s not funding a war, he’s funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.

Ukraine didn’t get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It’s had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don’t have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you’re trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.

That summary may also explain why some men are so insecure about women earning more money than them too.

I’m old and first played paintball before masks were a thing… we just wore goggles. This was mid-80s. I got shot at very close range right in the jaw. Took a perfectly round, paintball-sized piece of skin off, my jaw immediately swelled and with the red paint splattered all over my face, I looked like a crime scene. 😄

Masks were a great addition to the game.

The need for privacy in crypto is significant and a hinderance to wide adoption. With most crypto if you send me money once I then know your wallet address and I can then look up every transaction you’ve ever made with that wallet and every future transaction you make later. Clearly that’s a problem.

The fact that criminals are more motivated by privacy concerns doesn’t reduce the need and expectation of privacy for the rest of us.

To hear you say “Hey Google” it has to listen to everything you say, all the time. While they pinky-promise they aren’t doing anything with all the voice data they’re getting while listening, do you trust them?

Surprising that they’re still cut-off since it’s the Antarctic summer right now.

Not for the billionaires, no, though they probably have several homes and lots of acreage and still pay significantly more than you and I. Better the wealthy pay more even if it’s not going to scale precisely.

And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.

Thank you. I couldn’t remember the names and was rushing my comment before a meeting. I knew someone wouldn’t let that go without a correction.

Calling GPS part of imperialism is a stretch. It was put in the air at no cost to another country and can be used without cost by anybody, but nobody has to use it. Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don’t because that’s expensive and GPS is free. The US isn’t making money off of it or exploiting another country with it.

Yes, the US can jam it regionally when in conflict but of course why wouldn’t we? No reason to help the enemy.

You might know this already but if not, people who have TSA Precheck don’t need to remove their laptops or take off their shoes. Sometimes TSA guys will remind people of this in the precheck scanner line. It’s not always super clear which scanner line is the precheck line vs regular though and perhaps you were hearing the precheck instruction instead.

If you read the whole thing you’ll learn that for some time their cards were in fact deactivated and they had to sneak in behind other people.

Why would you send an invitation to the unrelated “rich assholes” at all? Asking for a gift from people you don’t like just to somehow guilt them into “sending us expensive shit or a decent chunk of change” proves you’re just an asshole yourself, just not a rich one. It’s a “dick move” no matter who you send it to.

Crypto doesn’t avoid network fees. The fees aren’t quite as arbitrary and are shared with a broader pool of those providing the network, but the fees are still there providing the incentive for the network transactions to be processed.

The boosting of propaganda and the identification, tracking and exploitation of government targets.

People in key government positions are still people like us and they love social media too. Having an app on their phone doing data mining can identify people of interest and then collect data, target and compromise them. Even without the app on a government issued phone they can identify key people using their personal phones and then target them for more sophisticated surveillance.

Best to talk to a lawyer for specifics, but like non-compete agreements, NDAs often include things that can’t legally be enforced. The people wanting you to sign the NDA just hope you don’t know better and you’ll shut up.

If you know better, you can take their money and then disclose the facts anyway.

That brought a legit chuckle!

I love that they have a belt. Like, you gotta put your belt on even with cut-offs.