The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.

Israel has used explosives in communication devices for assassinations before. In '96 a West Bank bomb-maker was killed by 15g of explosives planted in his cellphone.

Parody is hard when the truth is more absurd. Kim’s granddad had his favorite actors kidnapped and brought to N.Korea to make movies for him.

You guys realize that CPAPTACHAs are for training AI? You’re solving the problems robots have trouble with to help them improve. First, we helped digitize millions of books for Google, now we’re helping Tesla cars recognize stop sighs and crosswalks.

They played us for absolute fools.

artificial variety

lol sounds like forced diversity. So the imitation stuff is woke!

I wonder how many times she’s had to explain what an answering machine is.

No, it’s stop innovating, build a monopoly, never change. The automotive industry (in Germany and the US) is just blue collar wall st. : too big to fail.

Stop talking “free markets” when the competition is taxed at 40%

You know, it’s perfectly OK to group voters by identity, so long as that identity cannot exclude “Normal” people. Soccer Mom, Six pack Dad, Middle class, working poor, labor, Small Business owner, Rural, Urban, and Suburban are all perfectly fine to promise these groups political power. But you do the exact same thing for queer people or black people and that’s identity politics all of a sudden.

China wants to subsidize the transition to EVs in N America. N. America would rather tax their own citizens and risk inflation to protect the profits of capitalists.

And don’t fucking dare tell me this is about jobs. Because if we were on better terms with China, the capitalists would move the factory there.

Is this one of those pranks from when Twitter let you impersonate companies?

Even Shin Bet calls these people terrorists.

Bookstores in Iraq will never be the same.

Why is duplicate files a problem?

For the Taliban, women are sexual slaves whose sole purpose is to be baby making machines

What a backward society. Under that thinking, a post menopausal woman would be useless.

Annon is just the typical internet media critic. They’ve probably written 10,000 words about the writing of “The Acolyte”

This is a bad take. Sometimes fiction is the best way to understand history. Furthermore, since authors are people in history, the often provide something more valuable than the outcome of a battle or the death of a King: the ideas, mood, and cultural of normal people in historical context.

Traditional Histories are crippled by survivor bias and are centered around elites.

This statue looks like it lost it’s hands at one point, and was repaired with a pair of gloves and plaster of paris.

I don’t really get it. Sure, the exposed prongs would be energized once you plugged one side in, but if you plugged the other side into a second outlet (assuming you didn’t cross live/neutral), nothing would happen. (those two outlets were likely tied together anyway)

A religious coworker complained about women jogging, I reminded him what Jesus said to do when your eyes cause you to sin.

There is nothing more American than being in traffic. You’re never more in touch with a systemic failure, yet we blame it on the choices of individual drivers, all the while unaware that we’re part of the problem.