Comment Defined as? (Score 0) 15
Does "AI slop" actually mean something, other than "something I don't like"?
Comment Lovely ... (Score 0) 80
.... to load a
Just weird to see what has happened to people's brains over the years.
Comment Re:The climate is going extreme (Score 0) 59
yet people still claim (and some maybe even believe) that climate change is a hoax. Do something before it is too late. I used to think that it would affect my grandkids, not me (I am 71), but I am now not so sure - this Summer has been hot!
If "something" means getting back to going nuclear, and also figuring out carbon scrubbing solutions, then sign me up.
But if "something" just means "random emoting and demonizing", then no thanks.
Comment Finally! (Score 1) 41
Proof that "TV rots the brain", lol!
Now excuse me, while I go watch another Gilligan's Island.
Comment Re:Just out of curiousity (Score 1) 91
A video on their website. Looked like even with the battery cover off, there was a thingie you had to screw to fasten the battery in.
Again, not a bit deal at all. Didn't look any more (and probably a lot less) onerous than the screw for a battery cover on a children's toy. Hm, maybe I just answered my own question ...
Comment Just out of curiousity (Score 1) 91
Why do you have to actually screw the battery in?
Not a big deal (given the alternatives today), but I remember swappable batteries, and you just had to pop the cover off, pop the old one out, pop a new one in.
Comment Re:How about take that retired Win 10 box . (Score 1) 40
How about take that retired Win 10 box, download the git documentation, install Linux on the box and setup your own server for your LAN?
You could.
Just like for your music collection, you could hit 300 used CD shops, rip them all, have your own backup system, etc. etc., etc. Sure.
Yet somehow, Spotify exists
Comment Is that ... (Score 1) 150
... before or after the skunk pot, the shiny hubcaps, the $300 sneakers, and the $2000 iPhone?
Comment Um (Score 1) 150
Buy now, pay later" loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card.
I'm not sure how to break this to you, but "making payments on something" has been around forever.
Comment Re:US trajectory (Score -1, Troll) 165
Russia's been a brutal kleptocracy longer than I've been alive. It's slapped a fresh veneer on a couple of times, but that's about it.
And one that was the darling of the American left, for most of its modern existence.
Comment Re:To What End? (Score 1) 165
Does China gain some actual advantage or upper hand if they are first, or even only on the moon?
Is there an advantage to having a base (essentially) "above" your enemies? Er, yes
Comment The obvious (Score 1) 165
It will matter de facto who is living there. We can use all the windy words that we want, but the reality will be who is actually living there.
Comment Re:Sad, and but learn the right lessons (Score 2) 141
The left will see this as primarily about racism
Oh, it's about racism. But it's about pro-black racism.
This POS would have never floated to the top had he been pasty white.
Comment Re:shameful clickbait (Score 1) 141
story has absolutely nothing to do with 'news for nerds', but editors know it's going to generate lots of vitriol and clicks.
shameful shit.
A fake-ass Cambridge professor has nothing to do with news for nerds?
Comment "At center of plagiarism row" (Score 1) 141
"At center of plagiarism row" here = "absolutely unquestionably guilty of plagiarism and lots of crazy stuff".
