And please check them to see if they are safe to throw in the trash before you do. Some of them contain small amounts of really nasty stuff. Even the hazardous waste dropoff on my county was reluctant to take a batch from me. They said “you’re really supposed to send those back to the manufacturer.” But they did eventually take them.

Yeah that seems pretty dumb, but these processes are hardly robust. More like Byzantine.

Thank you for bringing reason to that moronic comment above yours. “This is the whole punishment! WAH!” I’m so sick of reflexive cynicism in ignorance of the facts. It’s like people have forgotten how to put anything in context and want the shortest path to despair no matter what the news is.

In a way this is what’s most scary. Because they are desperate. Any safety concerns will be damned and they are all racing to be the first who makes a breakthrough in the direction of AGI.

If we ever get there, this is not the way it should be done. I hope they remember that we need to have a world where they can spend their money.

There is a third category here: people who also hate ads but pay to turn off the ads, recognizing that a service takes money to operate. You’re not the only one who hates ads, and if you simply eschew them, that’s great. But we have a lot of people here who want to get everything for nothing, and that’s just not a tenable plan.

I mean look at the entitlement in the post. “Your” ads but “my” video.

Software that’s been around so long you know it works and can freeze contributions and even stop testing for it… chef’s kiss

It’s incredibly conspicuous that Trump hasn’t arrested anyone over this. He’ll take any opportunity to persecute his perceived enemies, and plenty of them are in the files. He sues people over absolutely nothing. It’s weird that not one prosecution has gone down. He’ll probably even pardon Maxwell.

Yyyeah basically it means Europe will be 2% more aggressive in its sanctions, which is not saying much.

Finally! An arrest!

Many providers promise absolute security

This struck me as wrong, because that would be a technically impossible and liability-inviting thing to promise.

And after checking the homepages of the 3 services they tested, yep, none of them promise “absolute security.”

Oh you’re right. You didn’t miss another one, I lost another brain cell.

I don’t know of any plasma torches that can come along in a backpack but you can get a lot of good work done fast with a battery powered angle grinder. Occasionally I take mine out in my neighborhood when some asshole has padlocked their sandwich-board ad to a lamppost.

This kind of thing goes way back. I mean you’ll get a lot of content deleted on most web forums, but the one universally verboten thing, above all, priority zero, until the end of time, is: no. fucking. recruitment. to. competing. forums!

If you ask a lot of web forum owners how their site got started, more than half of them will tell you “well there was this other forum but their server went down for 3 days and people needed a place to go.”

Communities are portable. Reddit knows this. Every site manager knows this.

It would have happened after Experian if it was ever possible for it to happen.

EDIT: I was thinking of Equifax but Experian is not clean either

Just wanted to point out one oddly written passage:

Numerous media outlets sounded the alarm. The online privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) condemned Ring’s program …

Many private citizens who previously used Ring also reacted negatively. “Viral videos online show people removing or destroying their cameras over privacy concerns,” reported USA Today

I was hoping to see that this story had gone national and wasn’t just a buzz in privacy centric circles, so my ears pricked up when they said “numerous media outlets.” But then the example they gave was a quote from was EFF, which I would not exactly call a “media outlet.”

Below they go on to say that “private citizens” also cried out, and then they use a quote from a USA Today article. USA Today - now that’s a media outlet. 🤷‍♂️

Next they say that even scum sucker fish are against all this, using a quote from JD Vance to back it up, and that part was all right.

The Red God is not mocked.

Keeping sibs together is doing gods work

She played the role of a prostitute in a movie and instead of the article being like “whoa this movie is pretty heavy - trigger warning” it’s all “damn she’s hot.”

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You mistake me completely. I’m not advertising the virtues of this system at all. I’m just pointing out that there is nothing Korean or American about declining birth rates. This is a universal phenomenon of a society’s transition from agrarianism where more hands = more wealth to an educated, skilled labor force where each child requires a significant investment.

The US and, for example, Germany use immigration to offset this and keep their population growing. That’s simply a fact you can look up. Japan for example doesn’t want to do this and they’re dealing with the consequences of population decline. This is all over the news for years now.

I’m not saying this is good or bad or anything. This is just the way things are.

Your bit about Ancient Rome is a good laugh because it was hardly a developed society by today’s standards and it did indeed run on imported labor, except they called them slaves. So you are at once off base and also wrong.