More specifically, he’s literally a traitorous Russian asset.

It always is.

Flat CRTs were probably even heavier than curved ones because the glass has to be thicker to hold vacuum with a less structurally-efficient shape.

Can we have “break up the tech giants” along with it?

Of the movies you listed, Hackers is the only one I’ve seen. Hack the planet!

Even more so when you realize that demonizing “jaywalking” was a corrupt scheme by rich fucks to steal the streets from the people and it shouldn’t be illegal at all.

https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2022/06/how-lobbyists-from-the-auto-industry-invented-jaywalking/

Or better yet, if you’re a government: stop using it yourself and destroy it for being unlawful.

Lack of marketing.

I mean, it sounds like the number of millionaires leaving did go up. It’s just that there are plenty of other ones willing to replace them.

Taking less storage is almost the entire point of a zip file. It only takes more space than the original files in pathological cases (e.g. maybe if you’re trying to compress already-compressed data, like a video file).

Is metasearch really the best we can do? What about YaCy, or something else more like that?

I’m absolutely serious, though: JavaScript should be considered harmful and abolished in its entirety. This is only one reason among many.

(Granted, libraries for other programming languages could have the same issue, in theory; however, programmers of most other languages don’t have a culture of adding dependencies willy-nilly to the same extent JavaScript devs seem to.)

We laugh about AI deleting all the shit, but every day there’s a new npm package ready to exfiltrate all your data, upload it to a server and encrypt your home. How do you protect yourself against that?

Yes, by not using npm either.

If it makes you feel any better, there’s no shortage of Mandarin or Cantonese speakers in the world, so you shouldn’t feel guilty if you don’t want to speak them yourself.

Maybe figure out if any of your ancestors spoke any of these, and learn that instead?

Inb4 “Awesome²”

Yep, top is Aziraphale and bottom is Crowley.

It’s not autistic to enjoy or prefer peace and quiet. It’s autistic to be unable to function without it. If you were capable of grocery shopping before, I wouldn’t worry too much.

I’m convinced he’s nothing but a puppet at this point because of mental decline. He wasn’t always though

That’s right, he was in bed with the Russians all the way back in the '80s, when he was merely an idiot (as opposed to senile).

There’s gotta be a token non-rapist in there somewhere, right?

Considering how incompetent they are, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if a staffer or two missed their Epstein Island onboarding without their supervisor noticing.