[man] “or maybe they just come here to die”

[woman] “that’s awesome”

Oh shit I never realized Peggy from KoTH was Kathy Najimy!

It’s more insidious than that: by adding it to all even when they don’t use AI, they give cover to people who are vibe-coding. “Nah man, I totally wrote it myself. VS Code just puts that message on everything.”

All leveraged buyouts ought to be illegal, not just this one.

When are judges finally going to start putting ICE officials in jail for contempt?

I knew about the game but not the thought experiment that inspired it.

Does at least once per flight really count as “infrequent?”

I replace my 911 rotors and pads once every 6 years?

Tell me you’re wasting your 911 without telling me you’re wasting your 911.

The only single-point-of-failure is the brake pedal.

And even then, only on cars with those stupid electronic parking brakes instead of a proper mechanical emergency brake.

Some of the most common large animals in the world are only so because they’re livestock. Otherwise, they might’ve been extinct by now (compare cows and aurochs, for example). Between that and funding wildlife conservation through hunting and fishing license revenue, having, let’s say, “fraught” motivations like that is not unusual at all.

If you want a nice new electric vehicle, (any vehicle really) in the US today you’re going to have to buy a spy mobile. No way around it.

Nobody has to drive a “nice new vehicle.” If your job is advocating for privacy, you should set a good example by driving an old car. (Or moonlight as an urbanist and ditch the car entirely, for that matter.)

To an aphid, an adult ladybug is probably even an more intimidating predator.

Indefinitely.

They need to be on Mastodon specifically.

However, my concern with kids is that they will desperately want to use the platforms that their friends are on and they will hold it against the parents (and alternative platforms) if they are forced to make do without the big tech ones.

This is literally my greatest worry as a parent.

That doesn’t make UBI a bad idea. It makes allowing the ownership class to continue to exist a bad idea.

“…and eat bison instead!”

Calm down, Ted Turner. \s

Edit: welp. That’s a bit too calm, Ted!

…you say about a comic in which the human character has a hoodie and a cellphone.

The sad thing is that Sony is multinational, and they weren’t prosecuted in Japan or anywhere else, either.

Their audience is the kind of person who still buys paper magazines, so…