I saw the movie. It was OK. The good guys win, the bad guys lose. Just a two hour episode of the series.

It was low stakes. There was no threat that something irreversable was going to happen. No one important was going to die. No climax.

The overall Star Wars story didn't move forward.

It was the movie equivalent of eating ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I find it funny that a group of people who don't trust vaccines will support injecting various other compounds into their bodies. Where is the logic here?

At one point we just need to let things run their course. Perhaps we just need to stop saving these people from themselves.

I know I sound like a monster, but you can't save people who don't want to be saved. Sometimes you need to let people drive off that cliff if they want to ignore you waiving at them by the side of the road.

If they die, they die.

Wait a minute.

How does a co-founder need a resume?

Do you need to apply to start a company?

Because it's a desperate move.

is the day I go back to Firefox.

I'm not saying Google is a model of a moral corporation, but I would trust them and only a tiny handful of other companies with my browsing data.

Any other middling company, and there is a countdown to when they get breached an my data is spilled all over the internet.

I imagine this will be the case. They wouldn't simply be selling him a landfill. They need to start a new one to take over. That can't be a fast or cheap prospect.

The loan to buy and then subsequently strip mine the landfill would be astronomical!

Who is loaning him this money? Knowing full well that if the Bitcoin aren't recovered, then this guy has no chance to pay for this whole endeavor.

He'll probably have to declare bankruptcy.

If you hand over your phone to police or border agents, you are an idiot.

on purpose.

"Accidentally" my aunt fanny.

Yes, but i learned that it isn't enabled by default.

I had to manually enable it on my Pixel 6.

I left this app and reset all my 2fa three months ago now. Mainly because they shut down the desktop app, leaving me with no backup device.

I'm so glad I moved to better 2fa apps now.

You kid, but you're right.

I had the same question. Where next? Russia? Saudi Arabia?

For an award that recognizes imaginative writing, why hold them in countries that punish free speech?

You are right.

If one is technically competent, you can set up a VPN to your home network to appear like you are still at home.

However this is far above the capabilities of most people.

A supposedly portable service has now been locked down geographically.

Not only the distribution, but the implication that Swift was a willing participant in the acts depicted in the fake images.

Yes, you could create artwork depicting the same things, and we wouldn't really know if they were completely fabricated or posed.

But photographs are generally assumed as a literal snapshot of reality, ie. "pics or it didn't happen". So what happens when photographs are lying?

It's still a real problem for the actual person being depicted in the images.