Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.

sometimes with a better PR team

Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.

Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.

Something can be breadlike without being bread, in a similar way to how whales are fishlike without being fish.

The dictionary doesn’t dictate how words should be used; it reports how people use them. Consulting a dictionary is a way to find out how “lots of people” use a word.

Cake can also be in layers with ingredients inbetween, making a sandwich.

It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.

A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.

Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution

And now you’re-a-peein’?

Straight squirrels have polish ears

Hear, hear for the examined life!

I can’t believe you’d do The Betty Hutton Show dirty like this. The nerve to think that Goldie’s Playground is better than the classic that is Goldie Goes Broke!

I lay my shirts flat on a side table. Much quicker than hanging or folding, and still prevents wrinkles. Socks, underwear, and jeans I don’t fold, but I separate into different piles that go in drawers and shelves.

In my experience exhaustion makes the dread spiral worse

As Aladin put it “Got to eat to live, got to steal to eat”

Yep, the loggers want the forests to keep producing trees

There’s a YouTube channel that shows videos of people drowning and being rescued so you can see what it looks like: https://youtube.com/@LifeguardRescue

The Michaelangelo approach