bellyfullofbac

"Honey the floor is dirty"

"Yeah, I know, someone unpublished left-pad again!"

Oh please.. such laws don't matter if you're rich..

If someone said it was, would you avoid reading it? If I can guess, maybe your hero worship (I presume) of this guy is making you unobjective.

Now when I say "hero worship", it sounds like I'm saying he's the opposite of a hero, to be honest I just know the name and the case, I haven't dug deep into it to make my own judgement, but I've seen a lot of comments championing him as a hero, and to me it seems their view of him clouds their judgement.

Also happened in the UK: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s...

Google is insanely moronical nowadays. I use YouTube's English interface (do they have localized interfaces?), watching videos in the language of the country where I currently reside. After a while I noticed the titles were in English although the people were talking in the local language. I figured out YouTube was auto-translating them... is there a setting to disable this? Nope.

A while ago it was doing the reverse, translating all video titles to the local (where I live) language. I was watching American gaming content but the titles were in a different language. Fuck you very much, YouTube.

A trivia of this was that the British soldiers on the ground were led by future famous musician James Blunt. Headline is probably exaggerated, but:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/how-james-blu...

Watched 1 minute of the content, felt the need to comment: hah, I thought that was actually Hillary Clinton. Choosing her would be odd, she would go on to have a history of blaming video games for society's problems. And Leslie Nielsen's comment about "I sure hope she has health insurance" is bleakly funny in 2021, considering that 2.8 decades later, healthcare is still a fucked up thing in the US (here come the defenders...), and back there Hillary was working for her husband promoting a healthcare reform program: https://ballotpedia.org/%22Hillarycare%22_(The_proposed_Heal...

But the phone hardware also has an IMEI, which it also tells the network: https://weartotrack.com/imei-number-blocked/

So it might be you're basing your knowledge from some fictional show where the writers got it wrong.

Hmm, what's next, a coffee machine, a burger dispenser? Those are road trips essentials too. Tesla should just concentrate on the car, everyone has a damn gadget (phone, Nintendo Switch, etc) for games...

Why, why do they even offer games on the move if they (correctly) have such watchdogs?

Makes me think of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TCeR_SWZM0, just adjust Chandler's line to "0-60 in 3 seconds, top speed of 160mph, 500 mile range!"

Since we're all just on video calls nowadays, maybe these apps should come with game streamer-style "add an image overlay" capability.

Haha, the error message is a bit ironic when talking about working 2 full time jobs:

Resource Limit Is Reached - The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

Oh wow, the first screenshot of the last link ( https://www.os2museum.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/dos-... ) transported me all the way to third grade...

Sigh. Yes Epstein is a vile scumbag, but he was also a rich asshole who liked networking, I don't think it's fair to associate everyone who met with him as a part of his rapey ventures.

Opened your link, scrolled to the conclusions. Hah, reads like a Q-Anon writing...

To be cynical about it, principles don't buy you Bentleys nor does it attract trophy wives. Not that I'm saying I'm superior, I also like money and the comfort it brings me, in the current system that rules the world.

Sibling comment has been modded to death by talking about players coming from countries with slavery, that seems over the top, but another online comment I've read is that in the Middle East, slavery is right there, meanwhile in the West there is a bit of distance. Who makes your clothes (probably underpaid Bangladeshi, or nowadays, Ughyurs), who makes your electronics (probably Chinese factory workers in not-so-great conditions), or who mined the minerals needed for them?

The headline is already clickbaity by including "bitcoin".

The hadline makes it seem Sony had so many bitcoins, and they were stolen. No, Sony had cash, it was stolen, and got converted. An equivalent headline might be "US returns $154M in Lamborghinis stolen by Sony employee." and you'd be wondering Why Sony had so many Lamborghinis...

> I don't really understand why they view us and NATO as such a t[h]reat. We'd never invade Russia.. Nobody would ever want to.

I guess it's a paranoia which he's supported with cherry-picked info from history. Someone else better has written that world politics is about who has the most influence, e.g. USA and Europe used to be able to decide almost everything everywhere ("we'll give you development loans, in return you'll have to buy our products"). China is doing that in Africa now, and from Putin's perspective Eastern Europe now has "puppet" governments controlled by USA/Germany (in the guise of EU), I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks their democratic elections are as rigged as Russia's ones, with the media under control of the rulers.

I guess Putin is worried that Russia could fall under that sphere of influence, although I don't know how missiles pointed at Moscow would make the country more democratic... Maybe he sees them as a persuasion tools, after all that's also what he uses his forces for.

From your 2 responses, you seem like a difficult fellow to work with.

I wish the people who do have to work with you as little hardship as they need to suffer...

Critique about the writing: BuzzFeed/Twitter-style 1 sentence per paragraph made me stop reading after the 2nd paragraph.

> Do you really want the English guy to forget 2/3 of his native language just to please others?

Communication is about exchanging information. If you're this English guy and you're blabbing something and no one understands you, would you be fine with being not understood (i.e. your information being lost)? If so, why even open your mouth?

GP's scenario is about people in Continental Europe. If the English knowledge is weak, an English person speaking in idioms (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awUqKKEKQh4 ) would confuse them quite easily.

I wonder if they just reinvented UU-(en,de)code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

I guess it'll go... nowhere.

Suddenly the Truckla (Tesla pickup) makes more sense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35gWBtLCYg - the inventor is a Swede living in the US.

That, and the on-going economic meltdown that's been going on since 2008. Desperate to make money? Look decent? Pull out your iPhone, take your clothes off, and kaching!

I guess in well-off countries like Finland, less girls are taking their clothes off and putting their bits online. Maybe I'm just not looking...

But yeah, it's an incredible confluence. Investment banks becoming unregulated, super big, and crashing the world economy, depressing the job market for a decade plus. Reality TV, social media, and "talent" shows promoting the "Get rich quick through fame" lifestyle. The broadcast camera and studio that fits in your pocket (thanks Steve). Everyone making some fortune out of the crypto-scam. A pandemic, lockdown and bailout money making a lot of horny guys with cash to spend: OnlyFans!

Feels like the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" (where everyone was trying to get into a talent show).

So... will she be trialled for slandering a high-ranking member of the ruling cabal? What's that, no? Why not, why does she enjoy that privilege? Why doesn't the punitive government want to punish her for issuing a "false" rape charge and "smearing" China's name in the international scene? Is it because he did rape her, this recantation is a lie, and they just want the focus off this topic as soon as possible?

> Weird side-effect: homeless people might ask for your empty bottle and do the collection. Not sure how I feel about that though…

It becomes an alternative form of giving them your change, and you conveniently don't have to carry the bottle home. Although I've lived in a city where an old lady was known to roam the parks and was very pushy about wanting you to surrender your bottles.

I now get why Zuck has tied Oculus devices to Facebook accounts, it's a lot easier to corporate-doxx people who might do bad stuff using their Oculus. Although I guess some people could plausibly claim it was someone else using their device (people living with others) and the law usually needs a definitive suspect. If it even reaches the courts, with the broken American justice system...

It's pretty silly to believe the label on the tin to match the contents. Democratic People's Republic of Korea isn't democratic, of the people, nor a republic. Same with German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

Sure China claims to be a communist country, but over there money still talks and ultimately rules.

Edit: I actually read the article after writing this comment, and from the first few paragraphs (even just subtitle alone) the author is just talking about America, not the world.

It's a bit tragic that people get hard ons for the number of mining rigs they've purchased instead of water wells or similar, and number of dollars obtained rather than hungry people they've provided with food.

But who am I to preach, I'm part of "people" in the above sentence...

On the flip side, crypto has been off the peak for a week or two, and I've noticed the price of crypto has an effect on meme stocks (like AMD, Nvidia, Tesla).. I wonder if the end of student debt payment deferment will cause a lot of people to liquidate their investments and cause a big dip..

Mixing cause and effect? Desperation (economic, social life, etc) leads to escapism, among them substance abuse, leading people to lose even more grasp of life and lose their homes?

There's an epidemic of loneliness, I wonder why, is it people having FOMO due to social media, reality TV, etc?