I didn’t say it was good. I said it was better than the despot-creating tactics the Western world has been using for more than a century. You do understand that it can be better than before but not a good thing overall at the same time, right?

To be fair I don’t think much anyone but the parents care for the photos. The number of old photos and albums I see in antique stores and estate sales is staggering. I’m not saying nobody wants them at all, but generally unless you have something very interesting like Dad working on some important civic project or a snapshot of him in theater as a soldier, or Mom as Wendy the Welder or in a foreign country as Doctors Without Borders, most of the generic family shots of christmases and travel get filtered out into the trash.

Also, most all modern ink and paper is non-archival, so it won’t last.

while also extracting resources

That’s what I said.

Even if they are “colonizing”, they’re doing a far better and more equitable job of it than the Western world’s treating them like peasantry to be exploited.

Aw, man I played the heck out of F.E.A.R. It was a great scary game, and the online multiplayer with all the modded maps was great. Wish the 2142 servers were still up. There was an attempt by a group to get the game running without EA’s servers, I tried to get it running but it didn’t work for me.

Some of these countries can’t afford infrastructure at all. Even if your opinion is correct, do you think they’d prefer having no infrastructure vs having some that needs maintenance? And let’s not hold their investment to Western European standards, that’s ridiculous to compare countries possibly climbing out of a century or more of problems both internal and external to what wealthy Europeans have.

Well, sure. China invests in many countries, improving infrastructure and the like, while also extracting resources. The US just pays a dictator who then skims even more off the top while beating up the citizens and forcing them to work hazardous resource extraction for little money.

The tent is barely wider than the door it is next to. Assuming Germany (though most countries will be similar) the standard residential minimum is 90cm door width. Even if you add 10-20cm for a more generous width of the door behind it no adult at 170cm will be sleeping in that tent.

Yes, this is correct. A standard residential doorway in Germany is required to be at least 90cm/~35”. Even if we say this is another European country, the width will be similar. Let’s be generous and add another 10cm/~4” for a total width of 100cm/39”.

The tent is hardly wider than the door it is next to.

No adults are sleeping in that tent.

AI feeding off AI.

This is the definition of “Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.” It’s gonna F everything up.

16000 psi? Could that turn them into something useful? Like diamonds?

Hope the kids (adult(s)?) are ok?

Signed teddy bear, kid’s handprint school art. Hope nobody was seriously ill.

How many times have we heard these opposing party senators say they’re “friends” with each other? They all hang out, wheel and deal, and play their power games at the expense of the country so they can keep their jobs. The rare outsiders get attacked from within.

Yep. Fast fashion with rebellious and pithy anti-corporate statements printed on them.

No.

Blame the abstainers for being complicit in their silence.

And, only 32% of the country voted for trump.

Change clothing. Use different devices to bring down the cameras. Winch, sawzall, whatever. Pawn shops and yard sales can have suitable tools. Don’t give them a well defined pattern.

Billionaires are the problem.

Should be pretty easy to match the text pattern with whatever newspaper that is. Even if it’s illegible. AI would output gibberish and probably mess up the cadence of the text.

I’ve seen enough /morbidreality and the like to know that body armor has a limited success rate. It’s better than nothing, but anything of sufficient energy won’t be stopped, and there’s a lot of unprotected area.

The gravy seals wearing their tacticool wannabe IOTV to the range says a lot about the expected intelligence of the group at the range as a whole.

when he dies lots of crimes will be pinned on him while the evil shadow cabal continues to walk free and wreak havoc.

That’s the truth. The billionaires that funded the reich wing, the troll farms, the takeover of our news and media…they’ll still be out there continuing their destruction.

Social media used to be mostly about keeping up with friends. Now it’s about competing with everyone for money and views.

Big change.