Imagine being in a 40 million dollar fighter jet, looking down with your augmented reality visor, seeing a bunch of tents with children around them and going “yup… That one tent right there looks like Hamas to me!”

It can most definitely be denied. It can’t be avoided or fixed, but it can be denied

Mass surveillance everywhere all the time forever, just in case you ever decide to become a terrorist, or plan a robbery, or sell drugs online, or your description matches a suspect, or the cops have reasonable suspicion, or you plan on attending a protest against the government, or you say something bad about the Supreme Leader, or…

In today’s episode of “The rich and powerful do whatever the fuck they want with no consequences”…

The ICC still doesn’t have full WiFi functionality restored after a cyber attack in 2023?

If it’s like most places I’ve worked in, they have an IT department of 1 or 2 poor souls losing sleep trying to help outside contractors that actually do everything in there

Video games with apparently sentient NPCs.

Custom ARM SoCs from AMD and Nvidia for laptops, tablets and handheld consoles, running customized Linux to avoid Microsoft’s fees.

YouTube switches to unskipable server-side ads injection directly into the original video stream, rendering adblockers ineffective. Others soon follow.

Mainstream media starts releasing news in TikTok style videos where the bottom half of the screen plays random Minecraft / satisfying to watch slop.

End to end encrypted communication is quietly outlawed following some terrorist attack, using national security fearmongering. You’ve got nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

China inevitably invades Taiwan, TSMC burns their fabs down to protect their IP. Samsung and Intel fabs become the most cutting edge process nodes on next cycle, China catches up, profits go up all around.

Google kills Search and now Gemini is their only search engine. Others soon follow.

Basically PUBG, but with more guns

Plastic waste has been a real headache for scientists lately, this solution would cure that headache in more ways than one

Same here. Let’s hope they aim for a light orbital rocket that can be mass manufactured and reused, for example, or at least a Falcon type rocket that also had a hopper test vehicle initially

Edit: Reading Honda’s own post about the launch they seem to be implying that they want to develop a vehicle that can achieve orbit, but also to use it for transportation purposes?

It’s too early to make assumptions, but they do clearly state that they are aiming for something that can reach 100km in altitude in a vertical fashion. They also say they hope to achieve suborbital flights by 2029.

6.3 meter rocket demonstrator went up 271m and landed. I’m guessing they’re trying to copy the New Sheppard design for suborbital recreational hops

As a European I read the title and imagined 165 people standing ankles-deep in a lava puddle

Everyone is doing that. Apple is paying minimum wage workers in Greece to grade and correct their ai responses all day, I know people that work there

Literally psyops instead of helping. The people who did this are the characters you see getting shot in the movies and don’t feel bad about it.

-I’m literally under water right now because of climate change

-Climate change is a hoax, you must have low IQ!

gets executed

Screen aspect ratios are typically represented at their lowest whole number, no? That’s why we have 4:3 instead of 8:6 etc so I thought the same applied here

Why not take out the 0s and say 9:1

Making a fool of myself on purpose and laughing along. Karaoke bars, stand-up comedy open mic nights, improv theater.

It helps you see that people can’t really see behind each other’s “mask” all that well. All confidence is made up, so play along and it just sort of materializes.

Another way to do that is to try and become fluent in a new language. You build a different persona for each language you use, so might as well become confident in the new one on purpose.

Thank you God, for curing the cataracts of Sam’s mom!

BackTrack 5 because I was too poor to pay for my own Wi-Fi back then, so I had to become creative heheh