I imagine that a dollar store disguise mask should work wonders. Actually, I’m going to buy one today and do the face verification that Aliexpress is now requiring for many items, even basic cutters, for example.

I don’t see why “free” food and drink, beyond water, has to be provided in basic fare. It just adds a layer of cost.

If you want food service, pay for it.

Last time I flew through Madrid, beyond security, there was a Burger King (a bit more expensive than regular), a bunch of other deli and coffe places where you could get sandwiches, baguettes, etc, water fountains to refill your bottle all over the place, and a bunch of vending machines with sandwiches and snacks.

Makes sense to me.

Hmm mm. Isn’t that a national ID system?

What is the American rationale for hating it? It makes so many things easier, cleaner, safer.

Voting is so much secure, for example.

Do most Americans live the unabomber life?

Banks, the IRS, insurance companies, internet companies, data companies, the DM, the credit card companies, schools, yada yada. All have your data.

As a matter of fact, if the government acts a a data proxy, it could prevent you from having to disclose a lot of the data you disclose now.

You are in so many places, and this is pre-digital, that not having a national ID is just idiotic.

MAGA squirrels

I bought the original Gameboy on launch week. A couple of years later I bought a bootleg cart that was like 100-in-1 games.

I still have the Gameboy, but I don’t know where that cart is.

If you have decent coffee, you get the grind dialed in, and a half decent sub 300€ expresso machine, you can get very very good coffee.

I have owned a small resto in Spain, so I kind of know a bit about expresso.

The coffee experience is 100% subjective, anyway.

Some like light roasts, dark, some Arabica, some robusta, some espresso, pour over, some percolated (I just barfed a little in my mouth here).

There is a lot of bullshit being peddled by coffee influencers who every week have to make a video about the same subject to keep making money, anyway.

Yeah, good luck. I’m fuddling about with a local AI setup, with RAG and web access, and it usually accesses like 2-3 websites and takes a bit to figure out time and date.

Early W10 was actually pretty decent. I have it running on a windows tablet, and a stick pc, both 2gb RAM.

One is getting Linux, but I have to do a bit of digging to decide on the distro, as many are becoming kind of bloated too.

I use CP/M, BTW.

He must have made a hell of a deal to have Mexico agree to pay for it.

There is Huawei Harmony OS.

Chinese, etc, and I don’t know about licenses, but it’s mostly compatible with Android apps. I have a Huawei tablet, with awesome hardware, but de googled from the get go. I mainly use it as a media consumption device, though. No mail, banks, etc.

I’m working on ways it right now. Aliexpress wants me to do a face check for some items. I’ve been a customer long enough to have been born and become a legal adult as a customer!

They don’t want my face for verification. It’s an excuse to feed their AI, which is already scary good at voice.

Is the measure in Imperial pick ups,

or metric pick ups?

Which is still better than most other brands.

Libre office draw is pretty competent.

Affinity layout is also quite capable.

1st. Affinity is not one application that does all, but three specialized application that integrate tightly.

2nd. Affinity is made by Serif, which was bought by Canva. Serif has been around since the age of diskettes, making affordable pro graphics software.

Remember: look at the average person, and realize that half of the population is even dumber.

I don’t know, I traveled with my parents to several African countries as a kid, and we got a bunch of vaccines, and I don’t remember having any major reactions.

Please, define Socialism.

USSR socialism? Spanish socialism? Social democrat? Democratic Socialism?

I have a few questions: Why does that tray look absolutely new? like no scratch marks? I’ve been military, and NEVER saw anything that new.

Am I to believe a ship the size of a floating city doesn’t have non-perishables to last 5 years at least?

The ships can’t be resupplied by bog standard container ships from a nearby neutral/friendly country?

The armed forces that can essentially airlift an entire army within a week can’t airdrop a few hundred pallets on a carrier’s deck? (Nevermind that in the Vietnam war landing a fucking C130 was trialled, on carriers smaller than supercarriers.

Also, the newer super Hercules y way more powerful, has shorter take off and landing, etc…), never mind that heavy helos can lift 4-5 tons, so 10 Sea Stallions or equivalent can put 40 tons of food on a carrier’s deck within hours.

The surface under the tray looks suspiciously like a kitchen countertop, but I haven’t seen a carrier mess hall.

Sorry, but I have a hard time believing it.

The postal stuff I can understand, as it’s really non essential.

I’m 110% against the Epstein wars, but this looks iffy.

My first choice for RAM, SSDs, and Flash drives is always Goodram, because they are European, but I’m pretty sure they buy the actual chips from Asia.