I believe him. They’ll take a single border town with a lot of Russian speakers, then stop, just to gauge article 5. If EU remains unified and responds, they’ll pull back. If not, they’ll grow the harassment.

Never apologize for learning new things ;)

To be fair, Elegabalus was distinctly Syrian in upbringing and religion, and his trans-ness was not accepted by the general Roman public at all. It was one of the main reasons his grandmother had him and his mother (her own daughter!) assassinated in order to crown his nephew Alexander the new emperor.

Confused the “deploy to PROD” with “deploy to staging” again huh?

Eventually, even deadlines and consequences stop being enough and you lose your job/family/home. True story.

I only found out when getting my own son diagnosed and realizing I ticked every single one of his boxes as well. Explained a lot about my youth. And yeah, feeling like you’re some sort of alien who will never belong is unfortunately part of it.

Went through what, three donor hearts? Man was a living ghoul.

It’s Christian fanfic. There is surprisingly little about Hell in actual scripture, definitely not the “hell” we’ve come to expect from modern media. Most depictions of hell originate from Dante’s Inferno, not from the bible.

Ooh, another one of mine is like that! She’s a perpetual kitten. Her meows still sound like mews. I assume it’s a form of dwarfism, but it hasn’t stopped her from enjoying her life or us from doting on her.

(the colorful one on top, her name is Juno)

His name is Jove and he’s 10. Found at a school when picking up our son when he was still in preschool. Imprinted on me to the point of obsession. Best friend you could possibly ask for.

Considering one lives with me, chances are indeed looking good!

Those Epstein files keep popping up in the most unlikely of places.

No, the corporations learned their lessons from back then and they’ve successfully divided us along ideological or other lines, rather than class. In fact they’ve tried to fully erase class consciousness and I’d say they sadly succeeded.

Your time may be endless but your fatigue level won’t care.

Do your cats also have a favorite “toy” (or sock) that they can’t do without? One of mine has a little plush that he brings around everywhere. We keep finding it everywhere, like under the bed covers.

My old job had so many unpatched servers, mostly Linux ones. Because of the general idea that “Linux is safe anyway”. And because of how Windows updates would often break critical infrastructure, so they were staggered and phased.

But we’ve seen plenty of infected Linux packages since, so it’s almost a given there’s huge open holes in that security somewhere.

In the context of AI on both sides? Higher quality models backed by big ass expensive rigs on one side should work for anything short of a state level actor… if your models are good (big ol’ “if” that).

Turns out Harlan Ellison was a goddamn prophet when he wrote I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

If an AI can be used for automatic scalable defense, it can also be used offensively. It’ll just be another digital arms race between blackhats and everyone else.

Cat memes have been a thing since the ancient Egyptians.

Not only UK’s fuckup, also Fujitsu’s.