Call your carrier to blacklist the IMEI. Done.

It has always worked this way, well before the smartphone era.

The only way to overcome is to find a country the phone works with and has carriers not part of the blacklisting networks. Doesn’t make for a very practical resale market…

So, now that’s out of the way, what control is Google actually trying to sneak in then?

Kermit on behalf of the frogs here, I have some questions…

It makes getting home feel all the more pleasant!

They’re not though. I think someone’s brain associated side muffler mounts with a random outlet pipe halfway down.

On its side, it’s more similar to some rudimentary boilers. But eeally, it’s just random scrap metal put together to represent resourcefulness from human pollution with little further thought from the artist.

“Give me back my child!”

“Non.”

LE BRRRRRRRRRRRTTT

Yeah, you could be right. My point is this scenario is historically common around the world, without external influence. It’s almost always states/regions with lots of rich natural resources. There are some exceptions like Singapore, but the Alberta situation can be compared to groups like from within Texas or Western Australia. Lots of oil, minerals, etc. and wanting to seceed to benefit from it, rather than contribute to the State.

It’s also common for those kooky people to be pro-mining or drilling and these people often have kooky ideas regarding political conflicts, the environment, and social welfare if there’s a pathway to economically benefit from it.

Of course, it would be a geopolitical disaster for both the seceedee and their current nation, so no one ever listens. It’s the premise behind “divide and conquer” afterall—regardless of whether internally voluntary or externally manipulated—so it won’t work out well.

It happens to states that feel they are the ones providing a nation all the wealth but get an unbalanced return of benefits from the nation. So someone gets the idea that the state would thrive, economically, if they were able to spend their earnings on themselves, as though the nation is holding them back.

Applying common logic, though, most people don’t acknowledge any of the pros for all of the cons. But there are some—imagine a nationalist mindset for their state/ region if you will—that think it’s the right thing to do because the current setup is “unfair”.

Yeah, I’m referring to them, not the image maker.

Osaka says hi.

“Rule by the rich” was the villain in Democracy’s origin story.

I love this guy. His recent video of the American Diner experience was great. Such a simple idea.

And now it’s in my head…

Here I am!
Bodyslamming Hurricane!!!

Light debugging I actually use an LLM for. Yes, I know, I know. But when you know it’s a syntax issue or something simple, but a quick skim through produces no results; AI be like, “Used a single quote instead of double quote on line 154, so it’s indirectly using a string instead of calling a value. Also, there’s a typo in the source name on line 93 because you spelled it like this everywhere else.”

By design, LLMs do be good for syntax, whether a natural language or a digital one.

Nothing worse than going through line by line, only to catch the obvious mistake on the third “Am I losing my sanity?!” run through.

I wonder how many people stop to consider the validity of the statement anyway. Like, “Source?”

You’re a thurd of the way to first base; you’re practically home!

I’unno. Watch the video. It’s…somethung. Stupid as always, but didn’t think Mattel was a country, that’s for sure.

Contextually, there’s no indication he had confused Mattel with a country, likely just said the word because of speech habit when talking about tariffs. To think he confused it, you’d have to subscribe to the idea he thinks it’s a country that makes toys and is run by an executive, or had an ear piece correct him mid-sentence.

He fucks up multiple times a day. There’s much more low-hanging fruit than this. Come on, peeps.

And I thought school detention now was bad…

Just fix it with AI!

American ideologies. If they didn’t make it to crazy religion status, they died trying as a crazy cult. And all the rest are about getting rich despite the odds and humanity.