“literally unusable” is a common tech meme about people blowing tiny bugs out of proportion. You see it pretty commonly in video game discussions (like “literally unplayable”) when there’s tiny amounts of texture clipping or text alignment is barely off.
On your second point, the Mayor Clinic states explicitly that masks protect the wearer from getting infected by other people. The NIH says the same, as does the CDC. Besides that, N95 masks were quite difficult to get during the pandemic. I never saw them for sale. The closest I found was KN95, which are made to a more lax standard and difficult for me to breathe through.
Good addictions, though? Set yourself up for success, get a few of those.
This is what I tell myself every time I find out the hard way what documented parts of Visual Basic didn’t make it into VBScript.
Nope! You don’t have to pay a cent to the Catholic Church to receive communion.
Most sensible Russian legal decision:
Here’s the article. According to the story, there were two people panhandling and using drugs; they were asked to leave. One threw a rock at the employee’s car window, shattering it, and then threatened to shoot him. The video also says the person was shot because he lunged at the employee. I hope the truth comes out and the situation is handled appropriately.
Unfortunately for the gunmen in this example, their guns will wear and tear. A crucial part or two will fail and not be replaceable. Then their entire strategy of “kill everyone else” will fall apart. And that’s aside from the fact that human societies have always flourished because we have worked with rather than against each other.
The irony in the “prepping” movement these days is that it was never intended to be this thing about having an inexhaustible supply of resources just for you and your family (if you’re still on speaking terms with them) to live off of when the nukes fall.
It’s not about sitting in your attic and picking off starving people who are looking for a meal while you sit on a cache of food and ammunition.
It’s supposed to be about being a useful person in your community who can help each other weather the worst in life. You will get much further in a disaster if you have skills than if you have stuff. You might have an entire Home Depot to yourself, but it’s far too late to learn carpentry when the rain starts to fall.
What do you want, Mr. Ghost? Do you want us to stop making new technology and simply use what already exists, consuming more power and time than is necessary? Do you not want people to be free to buy what they want with their own money? The singularity people are stupid, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
One of my closest friends nearly committed suicide because of how miserable Walmart made his life.
I highly doubt JD Vance’s mother is responsible for the fentanyl crisis. /s
I mean, if a guy posted the same stuff about Joe Biden, tried to break into the White House with a pistol, but was stopped before he could pull the trigger, would you call that an assassination attempt? I sure would - he wanted to kill the guy so he went there to do the deed. What other reason would someone have to hide in the bushes on someone else’s property with a gun for 12 hours?
Dude was apparently waiting in the bushes for 12 hours. You don’t do that if you’re not waiting for someone or something. The Second Amendment doesn’t give you the right to camp out on someone else’s property with a gun.
AOC’s original tweet is replying to one about Jill Stein.
I mean, capitalism is silent on the matter as well.
North Korea: Such a great nation, there’s no need or ability to ever leave.
Fedora on the other side of the world and the other day is a good time to go to the gym.
The $6/hr was less than what would cover the cost of continuing to drive for Uber Eats.
Slay the Princess in a nutshell.