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Mate, I have ublock origin, and the website still tries to run google analytics.

You guys aren’t using noscript and blocking the analytics script from even running?

I’m not the most familiar with hardware level stuff. With the security disabled as in the article, can a malevolent actor rewrite firmware or leave the equivalent of an undetectable rootkit on your hardware? It would be mildly amusing to see an entire generation of pirates fuck up here, but also reminds me of the arguments regarding the intel cpus having a secondary, unknown firmware in the form of the management thingamajig.

You can’t educate someone out of an addiction. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding about addiction…

Just make it simpler. I hope people who voted republican find themselves homeless and begging in the streets.

It’s okay, it’s likely going to be hershey’s milk chocolate, so I’d have to eat a person sized chunk to even notice the cacao.

Ugh, as if it were that simple. There are plenty of actual M.D. recipients that spout off about things they know very little about, and trying to explain to an idiot that one doctor (of dermatology) doesn’t cancel or counter the opinion of another doctor (of epidemiology) is like trying to clean cargo ship with a toothbrush.

Women don’t want you to be mysterious, they want a dick (or strapon) made of chocolate that ejaculates money. Hell, I want a dick or strapon made of chocolate that ejaculates money, and I’m a dog!

Oh, shit, I wasn’t supposed to let ya’ll know dogs can get on the internet.

Aw, poor geek squaddies.

Why does that sound like the radioactive dragon thingie for that netflix show about league of legends?

Dailies, and other similar grinds, are one of the worst crimes against humanity in mmos. Surely we can move beyond the ‘take twenty hours to level up your character so you can progress’ idea that crystallized in jrpgs and now sits in the center of the late game experience like a giant aragog sucking your enjoyment. Let me just log in and raid, gorramit!

Okay, look, I loved my grandparents, but spending time with them at the end was horrifying and I really would have watched paint dry in preference.

Kids, dogs, and partner could also have some time off my hands by taking care of certain limited tasks. Cooking, cleaning, wiping ass… Don’t tell me you want to cook every breakfast, lunch, and dinner compared to playing a board game with the dog while the android dices your onions and peppers and the partner and kids take a nap on the ceiling.

What kind of engineer? Because while the physical world, with all of its mechanical and civil and aerospace engineers, has its shit figured out with professional standards and very clearly defined responsibilities and duties, the world of social engineers, tire engineers, procurement engineers, supply chain engineers, sandwich engineers, project engineers, lead engineers, and yes, software engineers, definitely is a little too loose with any definition for me to care that these ceos were once ‘engineers.’

Huh. That’s an interesting idea.

Well that fucking sucks, mate. I hope you’re in a place where disabilities don’t mean you’re abandoned by society.

There’s different levels of ‘knowing.’ Talk to the average american, whether democrat or republican, and they’ll happily spew out trite sayings: “all politicians are crooked,” “those rich fucks don’t know what it’s like down here,” or “the banks keep going up while my income’s going down,” ad nauseam. Yet, somehow, in every election, the person they are voting for somehow isn’t a part of that, or is way better than ‘the other guy.’

I think people have realized that the government rarely concerns itself with them, but the propaganda and social coercion into going along with the system is so incredibly strong, that people place a lot of different beliefs in their head box, and keep it them all separated and simply follow the herd.

Kooky. Cooky is a weird alternative spelling of cookie, and in a really esoteric way, the ranch cook.

Beat the rap, but not the ride. Fuck these bastards. Anyone who has ever been to court, whether criminal or civil, knows that it will fuck with you. Even if you’re completely innocent, the possibility that you will face the worst consequences of your life looms over you for months and years. I wish we had some way of getting justice against ‘bad’ arrests. Sure, a domestic violence case may fall through if the victim doesn’t want to testify, and the cop there doesn’t need to be thrown out of his job, but when a case is dropped or prosecution doesn’t even take the case? If a cop arrests someone for protesting, and then they’re simply released after 24 hours or so? That cop needs to go. And if most of a cohort of arrested folks have charges dropped, there needs to be ejections all the way up the chain of command that let it happen. We can reform the system by swiftly throwing out every cop like that, and I bet it wouldn’t take more than a year or two in this environment.

Never going to happen, but let me dream.

Yes.