You implicitely mentioned the internet, but I want to make it explicit:

I haven’t had a need for linear TV for over 20 years. News and entertainment, much better to have a choice both in time and content.

Cue the helicopter mom turning right in her SUV, not noticing the crosswalk while furiously texting.

At least her own kids are safe in that tank.

Purging Voter Rolls

Can somebody ELI5 what that means? I’m just a dumb European!

Naked people means lots of people will click on it, even MAGAts, and they’ll see that Portland is very much not a hellhole.

They levied taxes on merchants transporting goods through their kingdom. That happened on border checkpoints where the big merchant routes where passing through. This is how a lot of regions got rich: by being between a source and a big buyer region and taxing the shit out of merchants.

There are places that are still named after having been such tax/tariff points. Or buildings, inns etc. And the New Testament of course.

One might think that the Trump admin wants some states to secede.

We’re talking about a ceasefire here, not peace. Trump is being dumb as usual.

I’d love for the ceasefire to actually succeed this time - hopefully perpetually, leading to actual peace.

But that wouldn’t mean Palestine’s plight is over - that would only be the beginning for seriously working on a two state solution. And not a master and a vassal state either.

Looking back almost a century, somehow I’m not too optimistic.

Trump says

Yeah stop right there

Yeah, it reads like he fears for society but I really think he fears directly for himself just as much 🥂

😂 Reminds me of IRL situations, usually of the type where 3 people side by side come towards me down the sidewalk and expect me to move out of the way. Shoulders bump, and somehow that’s my fault?

I can already sing it!

Not only in Russia, unfortunately. Irreversible damage has been done to Ukraine, and of the reversible not much will ever be reversed I fear.

great reference 😚👌

PTSD

Pre war or post war? Probably both.

TBF that was one of her goons replying to her when she said something like she wasted her time coming here.

Dictator bad, but:

12 years older and he looks better than Trump.

binary compatibility isn’t as relevant as it was 30 years ago

I think this is true. A development that has been slowly ongoing ever since, idk, 2007 or so. Almost everything is available as a web app nowadays or achievable through some compatibility layer or high level language.

Is this even still possible?
And more importantly, would one not be sending all “telemetry” to Microsoft & Partners anyhow?

So is China doing the same Russia is doing in EU airspace?

Is this happening more now or are the media just sensitized, report more on such incidences?

Are both China and Russia taking advantage of a weakening USA, slowly escalating or at least testing the waters more?

First of all I don’t think there’s many full time jingle writers - let’s call them commercial composers, usually also producers at the same time. Meaning they get paid to create music for whatever occasion.

And for those, I’m fairly certain that they analyze music all the time, even while listening to the radio. They know the building blocks (they’re simple), and at some point realize what a catchy melody sounds like and how easy it is to produce one.

So, yes to your first question, though I don’t think it’s annoying to them.