

Surely all screens should be sapphire then?


Surely all screens should be sapphire then?
Either make them more circular to give the nostril a more round appearance, or make them taller on the other side to show the profile of the nose a bit more. At least, those would be my first options.
Maybe find a closed mouth solution too.


I didn’t see a single ad. I recommend getting an ad blocker!


The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They’re not incompetent, they’re doing their job just fine.


If you live in a country with 19th century banking where people still pay each other by IOU on little pieces of paper, then sure. In modern countries a lot of places only take electronic payments.


The speaker asserts that the US system is designed to prevent democracy. The evidence given is that democracy is not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. He notes that John Adams wrote that if people could vote that they would abolish debt and redistribute land, so we can’t have that.


In the USA there is an assumption that people speed a little in their cars all the time. So speed limits are set lower than they should be, because people will go over them. People know this, and assume that the speed limits are deliberately set too low.
This leads to nonsensical situations like where you have a road with a 35 miles per hour speed limit, and then a yellow warning sign in front of a bend in the road warning that 35 miles per hour is the maximum safe speed. Like, why is the sign necessary if that’s already the speed limit?


Akhenaten


One day when the toungin’ is done, we’ll take our leave and go.


Oh yes that was it!
So, mod removed. I feel less annoyed. 😄


I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled “solved”… then deleted for some reason. 😞


I hadn’t seen this new high resolution version, thanks!


I just download and install games.


In the US in the 1980s there was still existential dread from the cold war… nuclear war was very much a concern, although less because, well, it just hadn’t happened. We also had a terrific “war on drugs”, which was used to oppress minorities and in general stoke up fear and funnel money to militarized police. We had massive inflation at the start of the decade. Iran had just had a religious revolution, and the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Trump declared war on unions and basically ended the successful policies preventing the worst excesses of capitalism that were put in place after the Great Depression (which Clinton gleefully continued). The AIDS epidemic began, and we had no idea in the beginning how bad it might become. It stoked already rampant homophobia.
As far a daily life in the US, we had the dominance of malls as a place where people went to buy stuff. It led to a lot of neighborhood businesses dying, and eliminated any place where people could meet without a commercial purpose. And because they were private property, people could be controlled. No protests allowed on private property.
We did have a few good things of course! The split of AT&T meant cheap phone calls and the ability to buy cool phones, like a hamburger phone of whatever. Computers got cheap enough that there were 8-bit microcomputers, like the Commodore 64 or the Apple II. Piracy was rampant - you could go over to a friend’s place with a box of blank floppies and come home with 20 new cracked games. We got rap and break dancing and synthesizer music and music videos.
The Internet was only available at a few universities, so if you wanted knowledge you went to a library. Urban myths and misinformation were everywhere, but unamplified by any algorithm. You could shop by calling a shop or even sending a fax.


It looks like some issues were introduced by rewriting the shell-based tests in Python. Or rather by AI rewriting the shell-based tests in Python…


Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?


I think back to 3000 years ago when Trump was asked what he would ask God forgiveness for, and he could not think of a single thing:
https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2016/user-clip-have-you-ever-asked-god-for-forgiveness/4619501


Is she going to be able to get some of that $1,776 million slush fund for people attacked by a weaponized justice department?
Are you being ironic? I can’t tell. 🤔