Legislation is so far behind these issues, I expect AP to be replaced by whatever comes next before legal considerations have any impact. And what’s Joe Smallserver going to do? Sue Google?

I agree with your theory, but while in theory, theory is the same as practice, in practice, it doesn’t.

1P gives me anxiety. It’s on my no-fly list.

Hmmm? You mean in the way of all inkjet printers, that the heads get clogged?

Shit, take away Giordi’s glasses. Take away any prosthetic from anyone. Removing the arm was dumb.

Turning people off is also astonishingly easy. Turning them back on is a harder trick, but we do it on the regular.

The entire arc of those two are simply genius, and some of the best story telling, writing, and acting - full stop. And I’m a Firefly fan, so that’s saying something.

More exposition! Explain yourself.

For me, the Borg were boring until First Contact, where they became scary. Invasive. Not just lumbering Frankenstein’s monsters with good shields.

But I want to hear more about your thoughts on the Tholians.

Epson EcoTank, or similar. No cartridges; you refill it with ink bottles.

That’s Russian for “we surrender.”

• Radler: beer & lemon soda
• Berliner Weisse: beer & raspberry syrup

Those are the two I know; there are others.

The Germans, who among all people are known for their long and storied association with beer above all else, regularly mix beer with random stuff. If they do it, I’d argue it’s more normal than American purism.

And there’s such a thing as bad LSD, which really sucks. Those quasi-legal, almost LSD analogues often sold as genuine LSD, but with glitchy side-effects.

Legalized drugs can be regulated and quality-controlled, and should be. Fuck Reagan for many, many reasons, including his “war on drugs.”

Watching that masks my back hurt 😟

Your Mastodon and Lemmy (and all other ActivityPub-talkin’ platforms) posts certainly are. I’m not sure it’s even technically possible to have federation without being open to AI ETLs. A centralized platform, maybe, but I expect this is the price we pay for decentralization.

Oh, man - what a gorgeous place to have a convertible! I’ve driven through, but only in a hard top, and having the windows down isn’t quite the same.

Lovely picture!

Interesting. I think zoning must have a lot to do with it. I wonder how many cities have ordinances against burying people in city limits. Rural, sure; but it would surprise me if townships allowed on-premise burials.

End to end could still - especially with a company like Google - include data collection on the device. They could even “end to end” encrypt sending it to Google in the side channel. If you want to be generous, they would perform the aggregation in-device and don’t track the content verbatim, but the point stands: e2e is no guarantee of privacy. You have to also trust that the app itself isn’t recording metrics, and I absolutely do not trust Google to not do this.

They make so of their big money from profiling and ads. No way they’re not going to collect analytics. Heck, if you use the stock keyboard, that’s collecting analytics about the texts you’re typing into Signal, much less Google’s RCS.

Unsolicited advice: there’s wide, double-sided tape on Amazon that’s inexpensive. It comes off without taking the couch fabric with it, and if you put it where she scratches, she won’t. Giving her something else to scratch is a great idea, and it will help her change her habits if you also discourage her old scratching places.

Something like this - I’m not vouching for this brand, it was just the first result.

Psh, it’s like you’ve never cooked meth before 🙄

And that, kids, is a great use of RAID: under some other form of data redundancy.

Great story!

So dumb. At least some of the characters will be black and gay.

“Netflix and chill” didn’t become a thing until after it was mainly streaming, and you and your date could pick something neither of you wanted to watch.