They show me nothing but naked hostility. The feeling is mutual.

If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don’t treat themselves like that.

Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.

Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won’t solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company “to bring this error to their attention.”

If the unhelpful CSO person hasn’t messed up, then it’s no heat on them and their supervisor will just say “ugh, just get rid of this guy,” and solve your problem. I’ve used this method a dozen or so times, works well.

It’s paid by weight and thickness so fill it with trash like pieces of cardboard and sand.

I’ll second NK Jamisin’s Broken Earth series. At a dinner a friend mentioned he had just finished the second book and the dinner immediately turned into talking about how amazing the series is. Highly recommend.

Three Body Problem is hard science sci-fi with amazing storytelling. The last book sort or rushes some parts, but I think that story of works for it in the context of a story of humanity rushing at dealing with possible destruction.

I didn’t see it mentioned, but the Hyperion Cantos books are more classic SciFi/fantasy but it still hit. I cried at the ending, I’m not sue I ever have before at a book.

I actually liked A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) but, obviously, an incomplete series. Still.

Came here to recommend this.

Amazing series. Totally out of the norm scifi-fantasy that’s beautifully written. The kind of books you can’t put down and then once you hit those last 200 pages you get anxiety about what life is going too bed like without this story on it anymore.

VLC maybe 20 years. How long has it even been around?

GIMP 10+ years for sure.

Another form of this question is for married people, of if their spouse’s genitals one day just flipped inside-out or outside-in, would that be enough to end your relationship?

I love my partner so, so much, as she basically saved my life. And if she woke up tomorrow sporting a turgid member, I wouldn’t love her any less. In fact, quite far from a deal breaker. Even if she, out of nowhere, wanted bottom surgery, I would support her 100%. But, with that, presenting as the gender she does is what makes me attracted to her. My brain stem loves them good lady shapes, and the rest of my brain loves this individual lady in particular.

It’s a package deal, but of she had a package, that’s not part of the math for the deal.

It was the first anime series I had seen, IIRC. Maybe not the first anime anything. I saw it on VHS tapes back when it was new-ish in the US. A friend in college rented it in parts over several weekends spanning a couple months. We binged it until around 4:00am each night he could get tapes and I slept or almost slept through a few boring bits and pieces of it that are contextually important. I was all about the Eva lore and battles and liked that the Evas weren’t just robots.

I might be remembering this wrong, but the store only had the original episode English dubs, so we had to find some random on craigslist with Death and Rebirth (or was it End of Evangelion?) episodes copied on a VHS tape he just had and then borrow that, or maybe we bought the bootleg copy for like $10. Then somewhere read a text file on some geocities page about the differences to get caught up and make sure we had the right episiodes. This was before torrenting more than MP3 via Npaster was a thing, and I think I had first seen a movie on DVD a few months before this, so this was sort of our only shot.

The first ending made me so mad I told my friend I wasn’t going to chip in for the rental that time because the cellos and drawing episode was such BS as an ending. I understand why the director kept trying to redo the ending after that, it was such a confusing let-down.

Recently watched it again on Netflix, and forgot how much weird art-but-also-borderline-loli scenes there are. I was actually surprised how much I recalled and didn’t sleep through. Amazing stuff, and I certainly identified more with the 3 adults playing the Id/Ego/Superego this time around than I did the kids.

My thought process as well.

TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you’re 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.

Summer mode:

Front right pocket, phone. Left pocket keys and slimline wallet. Optional, pocket knife in little coin pocket.

This is utter BS.

A foreign national on US soil doesn’t get the same protections as a US citizen would overseas.

What they’re saying is “fuck 'em all, let God sort 'em out!” for warrantless data searches and collection. And then waiting for the lawsuit 20 years from now about clear violation of the law to bother thinking about this.

WTF is this article? Browser extensions are standard browser fingerprinting data.

No, just the one.

Now I need a second one! This is adorable.

Are you in my house?

I have that cat. Both of them, actually. And that office chair.

LOL, this is what they’ve been teasing?

I genuinely look forward to seeing what the conspiracy folks have to say about this. They were already spun up about this being a final declaration of nuclear war. Such womp womp.

if you look at the comments on YC Hacker News, it’s a relatively sane group of people RE: AI. Skeptical first adopters that have experience in the industry usually. It’s worth your time.

Practice. I had a friend that was in her residency living with 2 other baby doctors.

They always had a pile of string on the table in front of the TV and would practice tying surgical knots (whatever exactly those are, IDK). They wanted to develop the muscle memory so they could tie them without looking.

All while abusing Third Party Doctrine to buy your data from advertisers and Palantir anyway.

If a VPN routing of someone in Chicago is via Texas and California, what judge would see that as “foreign”? Oh, right, one of their idiot ones they like to give cases like this.

Where’s the Kalshi bet for that?

There’s a line about “… unless they have a waiver.”

That’s the razor, it’s gatekeeping for who can get your special permit.