This is a serious case of “STOP! Or I’ll say STOP again!”

Fuck all will be done.

I am not a redneck, but I know a few. Not one of them is a MAGAt.

Then again, if they were, I wouldn’t be friends with them.

Everything ICE/DHS did/does (officially, not murder), was done before ICE existed. It was created for the purpose it’s fulfilling now. INS and USCS already existed.

The point of the creation of DHS (and by extension ICE) was to give the Bush admin a way to utilize the over-reaching powers they granted themselves after the World Trade Center. Because they believed in a Unitarian executive, they wanted all power under the Presidents direct control, and out of agencies that may not go along with their agenda.

Well, the beast ate it’s own fucking tail didn’t it.

Limited to paying subscribers. So the only thing stopping people from creating CSAM, and fake sex pics of famous people is $8 a month?

Yeah… that’ll show them.

Putting himself in harms way deliberately to have an excuse to murder someone.

Im with you. I don’t belittle or make fun of anyone’s disabilities… unless they do it to others… and he does…

Fuck him and his shit filled diaper.

I used an AI to analyze a piece of writing I did years ago, long before AI was a thing. It determined that there was some huge margin of my work was likely written by AI, and when I asked why, it stated by use of sentence structure, words spelt using British spellings, oxford commas, and emdashes indicated I was AI — which I am not.

So many things wrong with this.

I am not a programmer by trade, and even though I learned programming in school, it’s not a thing I want to spend a lot of time doing, so I do use AI when I need to generate code.

But I have a few HARD rules.

1. I execute all code and commands. Nothing gets to run on my system without me.

2. Anything which can be even remotely destructive, must be flagged and not even shown to me, until I agree to the risk.

3. All information and commands must be verifiable by sourcing documentary links, or providing context links that I can peruse. If documentary evidence is not available, it must provide a rationale why I should execute what it generates.

4. Every command must be accompanied by a description of what the command will do, what each flag means, and what the expected outcome is.

5. I am the final authority on all matters. It is allowed to make suggestions, but never changes without my approval.

Without these constraints, I won’t trust it. Even then, I read all of the code it generates and verify it myself, so in the end, if it blows something up, I bear sole responsibility.

I can’t believe no one has said The Thing yet.

The creature effects are so good, it holds up today.

Once you see the pterodactyls, you can never unsee them.

I have a buddy who won’t switch his streaming box because he thinks his in-laws will be too confused by a different button layout on the remote.

I front-end mpv with smplayer.

It’s enough for my purposes.

An effective monopoly is not the same as actually being a monopoly.

As long as Steam doesn’t act like a monopoly, there really is no problem. Yes, every PC game will likely end up there, but it’s not like other game stores don’t exist. Steam also doesn’t have enforced exclusivity.

75% of respondents were senior managers of C-suite level, with 77% from studios with more than 50 employees.

I think it’s laughably ironic that game PUBLISHERS are complaining about someone sitting in the middle, taking a % while contributing little.

However, it also noted that developers have started utilising other platforms including the Epic Game Store and the Xbox PC Games store.

Almost half of those surveyed (48%) have distributed a title to both stores, while 10% have used GOG and 8% have used Itch.io.

So… not a monopoly?

I have terrible sight, and on my TV in my living room, I can tell the difference. But I also don’t cheap out.

Because he has a history of knowing and caring about rules?

YES!!!

I hate that language.

“Donald Trump has lost out on the Nobel Peace Prize”

No. He was never in the running. He lost nothing. Just because he was nominated by some obsequious sycophant, doesn’t mean he ever had a chance.

While everyone else was in competition for the “race”, he was at the starting line shitting his diapers and crying like the giant baby he is.

Pretty confidently incorrect there.

For the cheap seats.

https://www.reagent.co.uk/blog/paracetamol-history-of-a-pain-reliever/

Paracetamol aka acetaminophen, has been around since the 1800s. Tylenol as a brand has only been around since 1955.

So while we all know this link is bullshit, the 1911 defence falls apart based on facts.

I think a better response is show me a peer reviewed study from actual researchers who follow actual scientific methodology and have not had to be retracted.

Ad hominems. The last gasp from the confused or clueless who just can’t admit when they are wrong.

Did you have anything of substance at all to add? I assume not, since several posts now not doing so.