They're an asshole indicator. These tell me everything I need to know about the wearer and exactly who to avoid.
Indeed. And "Boner Killer" would be too "on the nose," so to speak, though I guess all glasses are the latter.
Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop'
Linguists happier than a pig in dictionaries.
..."Kill 10 Ukrainian soldiers, and you get your game back."
Ukraine is doing something like that... Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral'
System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store.
The number of Russian casualties in September is double the number from last October, in part because the Kyiv government doubled the rewards for killing Russian infantry from six to 12 points, reflecting changing battlefield priorities.
A BBC article, Kill Russian soldiers, win points: Is Ukraine's new drone scheme gamifying war? notes:
Google: Ukraine earn points
SIM-locking should be banned, period. Works well in many other countries. There is no valid reason to SIM-lock a phone, even for 60 days or 60 days of active paid service. It's a net loss to society as a whole. Even though I understand it can benefit Verizon in one case, it also prevented someone else to switch to Verizon from a competitor.
I think people in other countries generally buy their phones outright, rather than via provider payment plans, often at a discount, like in the U.S. and I think SIM locking is to prevent people from switching providers before those phones are paid off - and so the providers don't have to sue to recoup that money. That's probably reasonable, but doing it to just make it harder for people to switch is not. Of course, most phones smartphones probably aren't paid off after 60 days, unless providers have another avenue to recoup the money for the device, so I don't know how a policy works in that case.
From Cell Phone Unlocking:
Locked phones are often sold at a reduced price or as part of an installment plan. They remain locked until all the installments are paid, or for a certain period of time to ensure the phone is used on the network of the provider that sold the phone at a discount.
Even when paying full price for a cell phone, it may be locked for a short period of time, such as 60 days, to help prevent theft and certain types of fraud. Providers may have different unlocking policies for their prepaid and postpaid monthly service plans.
As for me, I bought my three successive cell phones over the last 26 years. unlocked and in full.
And 94% of them are overturned in favor of Trump when they get to the Supreme court, usually on the shadow docket with absolutely no reason given. The system of checks and balances designed to protect you have failed. All of them.
The lower courts getting overturned by a higher court is part of that system of checks and balances. Many people think it's the lower courts that are failing.
Many of the lower court decisions seem pretty solid, reasonable and thought-out, but SCOTUS, especially Justices Alito and Thomas, is seemingly just making stuff up, or misinterpreting things from Medieval England, to support their agendas.
Alito's Roe attack betrays a medieval ignorance of ancient history
Google: alito medieval england roe
Many of their rulings that specifically favored Trump seem like stretches, like the near-total immunity for the President and limiting the application of the insurrection clause for presidential candidates. It'll be interesting to see how they re-interpret things when a Democrat is in the office - I'm guessing 3-6 will then see things differently.
That's gotta really torque Trump off.
"It's more symbolic than substantive," he said. "All the court is saying is
Sure, but companies only have to wait 3 more years
More like "scammer of the year" 2026 will be the year of the AI hangover when reality (and the bill) sets in
Then it's convenient they're all sitting on a girder, from which they can be strung.
Ironic that they chose this image as if their work compares, at least in effort and danger, to the iron workers building skyscrapers in the original b/w photo: Lunch atop a Skyscraper. None of those "AI Architects" would ever have lunch there.
if you're an internet platform you get treated one way; you do the exact same thing and you're a publisher, you get treated a completely different way.
This is a false comparison. ISPs generally don't (get to) pick their customers and don't select, edit, and curate those customers content, publishers do both. Publishers have a direct hand in who and what gets published and when, ISP generally don't. Granted, ISPs could be (more) selective in who they signup, like publishers, but that would be hugely labor-intensive and not cost effective given the scale of ISP customers vs. publishers. Even then ISP wouldn't (generally) get involved in their customer's content - as that would get them into trouble under Section 230 (if I understand things correctly). All subject to Terms and Conditions, your mileage may vary, etc
Trump blocked wind energy projects? He really should find a hobby.
Honestly I'm surprised. With the amount of hot air he and his administration generate there should be turbines at the White House
The R programming language "is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers,"
But pirates love it
Coal
What about all that "beautiful, clean coal" I keep hearing about from someone? Maybe they should try that.
Republicans are also know-it-alls who claim they're "smarter" than scientists and know "what's best" for everyone with zero evidence and zero experience.
Our current President and his followers especially... Usually the smarter (more educated) someone is the more they realize how much they don't know. Sadly, the opposite is also often true. The dumber (less educated) often they know more than they do. See: Dunning–Kruger effect
Trump thinks he knows everything and is the best at everything, which makes me believe this story about one of his former Wharton professors, as reported here:
“Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.
Sounds like some good learnin', but Republicans, "Conservatives" and MAGA don't really want a well-rounded, well-educated electorate who can think for themselves, especially if it would disadvantage those in charge.
In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug.
