I can’t be the only one who thinks Jimothy is creepy instead of cute, right?

And yet, if you destroy sand art by kicking it over, people get upset! So weird!

A gastroenterologist said on an episode of his podcast “fiber is the girl you thought protein was” and I felt that.

Your plan backfired and made them seem even more awesome.

(I do not think your plan was to make them look bad.)

It’s not loading for me either.

They raised a generation of kids who know what you do with security cameras is destroy them.

I would actually say this is very good.

Good riddance.

Right? I woke up the other night and the gnomes were playing Rogan and The Daily into my ears at the same time. The exterminator says it’ll be $10k to get rid of them permanently, and I just don’t have that.

One of the huge issues with these kinds of rulings (other than enforcing them when the people who are supposed to enforce them don’t want to) is “okay, how?” Courts seem completely unwilling to specify how their rulings should be implemented.

I’ve heard people call it a thriving wage but if this is what it takes to get the wine moms to shift left, let’s go with this terminology.

Maybe citizens should start physically intervening when non-uniformed people are trying to cuff random folks.

Wait til you hear what happens in American prisons.

You know, the country where slavery as punishment for a crime is explicitly legal?

Tl;dr: However they’re supposed to work you can’t trust them.

There’s no “chip.” Alexa, Google assistant, and Siri are always listening. They are looking for the command word, and in the case of Alexa and Google assistant they take at least a thirty second buffer from before the command word for “context.” It was verified several years ago (not sure if it has changed since) that Siri is the most conservative, stripping anything before the command word. All of this is handled in a subroutine that is running as part of the OS for these devices.

There have been documented cases where Alexa and Google devices were recording and uploading 24/7, these were dismissed as “bugs” but they were also only discovered because the users were checking network usage at home. I have not heard of that happening with Siri but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t.

I appreciate the perspective. I knew the Chinese government was not allied with Vietnam but I didn’t know about the killings. And your point about the difference between non-rich in rural areas vs urban areas is true in the US as well. In fact, there was a UN delegation that reported finding some of the most extreme poverty in the world in places like rural West Virginia.

I don’t know what you’ve been saying but what these guys are talking about isn’t what I consider a serious concern. It’s more of the “oh this is going to be so massive, it will transform everything” warn-bragging they’ve been doing from the jump.

Recall that Rod Blagojevich got in serious trouble because he basically offered to sell Obama’s senate seat.

Now make it retroactive.

I hate having to use that term. It’s just feudalism without even the illusion of a binding social order.

The most moving tributes have been from the rent boys he paid to absolutely rail his ass.