I was thinking life in prison, and we haul them out every year during election season to talk about why they attacked ballot boxes, what they were trying to do, and if their life was worth throwing away for it.

Yeah, and Alexa/Siri/Google assistant don’t eavesdrop unless you use the magic words to activate them.

I’m having flashbacks to Windows 8 being heavily developed to be “touch optimized” at a time where 3% of computers had touchscreen capabilities.

Exactly. So if people stop going there, then there is no reason to go there. Full circle, people go there because they go there. Let’s just stop fucking doing that.

Why don’t we just let Twitter/X die? It’s not like it’s an essential platform, there are other places to post short-form bullshit opinions. Twitter/X is not the sole supplier of any resources except their own brand name. Just walk away and let it burn. Without massive public engagement, it’s just a more expensive to run Truth Social.

The difference between atheist and theist is the belief in N fewer gods, where N is the number of gods the theist believes in.

Putting 6 armed troops in a very expensive missile and dropping them in a very predictable trajectory with very poor accuracy sounds like a very expensive way to create gold star families.

Consider this. If you needed 6 very well armed troops in an area, why not just give a pile of money to the enemy’s troops to flip a few?

You could pay them each 10 mil, and give them a green card, and you’d save 900k on the launch cost alone. Not to mention it would be less predictable, more covert, and it would induce paranoia in the ranks.

Yeah, it’s either this, or he drowns in his cybertruck after accidentally backing it into a pond. That much hubris has consequences.

I thought those last two were Doom cheat codes for a hot minute.

idkfa idbeholds

That said, this data should be limited in scope and use…

Yep, anonymized, limited, non-distributable, and secured, with severe penalties (on the order of tens of thousands of dollars per person, paid to the harmed party) for failure to adhere.

It’s there, but people forget about it when they can get a 4" bigger TV for 100 bucks less.

Nervously glances at TPM and TSA approved locks.

And that is only going to go up. In my area at least, the price of rent has gone up ~15% per year for the last 5 years. In 5 more years the apartment I was renting will cost more per year than my house payment.

Neat. Show me one made of bricks or concrete.

Having a house that is lighter and stronger per pound than brick makes a lot of sense too. Stick frame houses can twist and shift a considerable amount and recover. Twist a brick house and it crumbles.

Th evidence is undeniable right now, whether you trust the science or not, the facts are easily observable to the layman.

We have a new summer heat record every year, for at least 10 years.

Hurricanes and severe weather becomes more frequent and more powerdul every year.

They ought to put him on a black list for the carrier’s safety. No more service to his address.

Yes.

Jetpack is just a rocket (or jet, but most of the depicted jetpacks are rockets) that you wear on your back. You’d land the same way the falcon booster lands, by firing the rockets to slow your descent.

Already exists.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/