Humidity is currently 91% in Yangsan.

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

I live in Plymouth; there was no city communications about this nor did I see any issues. So, I assume there were no physical disruptions to service.

Don Jr is a paid "strategic advisor" to both Kalshi and Polymarket, and the private investment company he's partner in, 1789 Capital, invested millions into Polymarket. Reportedly the Trump family owns stock in both companies.

The corruption and grift has become so blatant that nobody even bothers reporting on it anymore.

Do you think it's likely that the people who work on memory optimization and the high-performance Javascript JIT compiler are the same people who put together a fun little time-wasting homepage puzzle?

Firefox and Mozilla have definitely suffered from whiplash over the years when it comes to priorities, but when I get annoyed I try to remember that Firefox is still an open-source project that accepts contributions from everyone. Sometimes there will be features added just because it was an itch someone wanted to scratch or a fun idea they wanted to try out. A little puzzle like this that you can easily turn off doesn't harm anything.

One of the side-effects of an open project like this is that you have a variety of different goals. Some will be boring bean-counter stuff, some performance and features, and some just fun. That's okay.

Besides, Chrome has had a dumb game embedded in a browser error page for over 10 years and nobody lost their minds (or if they did, nobody has missed them).

The only thing I've found worth bothering with at Starbucks is their "blonde" roasts (what everyone else would probably call "medium"). A blonde americano or a Veranda batch brew (I think they still technically offer a pour-over, but none of the employees are capable doing it) are the only things I'll get when Starbucks is my only option.

Pike Place is worse than gas station mystery brew that's been on the warmer for 6 hours.

Wrong. Any progressive tax system is a "wealth tax" and the only thing it's a radical departure from is the steaming pile of shit that Rotten Ronnie left for us in the 80's. Go back a little further and you'll see tax brackets as high as 94% during the 1940s.

A wealth cap is simply a progressive tax system where eventually you reach a 100% tax bracket. Frankly I don't see any reason this is inherently a bad thing, especially when you're talking about the top 0.01% hoarders of wealth. Not that it matters much, since none of the people it would possibly apply to actually take a normal salary income. Part of any effective changes like this has to include capturing the real way that these people acquire and store their money, which will never happen.

Or corporate profits, which have more than doubled in the last 10 years.

A drone is a good idea, actually, but I wouldn't use a laser. An actuated squirt gun filled with epoxy or some other nearly impossible to remove liquid would be easier and work just as well. You could even use regular paint if you wanted to hedge and avoid "destruction of property" charges, instead just be a nuisance, forcing them to waste money and manpower to clean the camera lenses.

The biggest risk of being caught is probably a correlative search, using other nearby recording devices to try and figure out the common suspect who was near all of the destroyed cameras. This is one of the big chilling effects of any surveillance state - even if you aren't caught red-handed in the act of something, it becomes trivial to collect enough circumstantial evidence to build a case against you.

And eventually they'll create drone no-fly zones around every single Flock camera. The drone dead-zone map for the country will look like Swiss cheese, with 50-foot circles scattered over every single city and road.

Depends where you live.

Here in the UK, most employers started insisting on payment to bank account years ago, and cheques stopped being used at retail when the cheque gaurantee card scheme was shut down in 2011, but they are still used in other contexts, particularly for one-time payments. Traditional high street banks still issue and accept cheques, though I've heard that some no longer hand out chequebooks by default and some of the challenger banks are more problematic.

I understand in the USA, Canada and France cheques are far more widely used than here. OTOH many European countries are much further along the path to getting rid of them than us.

I had one breakthrough DMT experience where I saw 'the machine elves' (I just saw what I describe as fast-moving fractals that I 'felt' were beckoning to me); but, we have matching experiences w/the other primary psychedelics: I only had relatively minor on-top visual distortions with even the largest doses of LSD (1500+ mcg) or mushrooms.

That said, everyone is different. I know that some of my friends absolutely lost their fucking minds on a few tabs of LSD and, purportedly, experienced wild hallucinations that I have to trust were real to them but haven't ever experienced myself.

Exactly. I have a pi-hole and it's great for helping block ads in Android apps, but it misses a lot, especially in web pages.

Reminds me of the old APK HOSTS FILE ENGINE spam we all used to love seeing on Slashdot. Everyone (rightfully) gave him shit for it, but Pi-hole is exactly the same thing. Blocking based solely on domain names hasn't been sufficient for 15+ years and as great as pi-hole is, that hasn't changed.

FWIW I use Firefox (Beta) on Android exclusively and can count the number of crashes I've seen in the last year on one hand. I use a half-dozen addons, including uBO, but I do keep a modest open tab count (usually fewer than 12) and rely more on bookmarks.

The only real issue I see with mobile Firefox is possibly battery and memory use but it's improved drastically in the last 5-6 years, so if you're looking at comparisons online make sure to check the dates (AI summaries love to use ancient data). Some of these resources no doubt go to support uBO, and that's a worthwhile tradeoff.

Incredibly well-said.

I would just add that, you do need to sweat the small stuff.

I've seen a number of people claim that a problem with "the left" is that they get upset about every single "little" thing Trump does and that they should just ignore the "small stuff" and only worry about the big problems. Demolish the White House for a ballroom? Insignificant. Put his name on everything? Small potatoes. Pardon thousands of convicted criminals, including some millionaire and billionaire donors? Doesn't matter. Accept a $500M bribe in the form of a luxury airplane? Who cares.

The problem is that grift, corruption, autocrats, and authoritarians always start small. They push the limits of norms and convention, then the edges of the law, then "small laws" that don't meet the criteria for "high crimes". A broken constitution and subverted free society is built on the bones of the "small stuff". If you wait to fight back until the big critically dangerous stuff is happening, you've waited too late and have already lost the farm.

Slippery slope may be a logical fallacy but it's modus operandi of people like Putin, Trump, and yes, Hitler.

Trying, but all I can picture is a brown man wearing a tan suit, and some people getting really upset by this for some inexplicable reason.