Why does anyone think the squiggly red line signals something that's always optional at this point?
Plus, there are contrarians everywhere.
Fair enough. I was suggesting that Michael Okuda didn't have utility in mind when he made it because that's not what he was hired for.
Edit: In fact, I just read that he was under directive by Roddenberry to make something minimalist to suggest technological advancement. In that sense, it was prescient.
It was enough of a Nazi salute for the head of France's far-right party, who are Nazis, to cancel his planned speech.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/21/steve-bannon-jordan-bardella-nazi-salute-cpac
I don't think that's fair. Plenty of people in this world do not know much about computers or the internet or anything in that area and just need a printer. So they go to their local big box store and there's the HP printers and they're a good deal, so they buy them.
Consumers do not get what they deserve when companies treat them like shit just because they don't have certain knowledge.
He has almost no filter and I think if he was a secret KGB operative, that would not be a secret by now because it would have just come out at random at some point.
He's extremely malleable, loves rich people and authoritarians, and will agree with almost anyone who kisses his ass. So it's pretty easy for Putin to just wrap him around his little finger.
There is no difference in that sense. That doesn't mean the truth is fungible.
Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.
That is putting it very mildly.
"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”
He said that in *checks notes* 1971.
Worse, it was in response to criticism to an article he wrote that was justifiably criticizing Israel at a time when it wasn't so popular to do so. And when he was accused of the old "you're anti-Israel, so you're anti-semitic" nonsense, he decided to go, "hell yeah I am!"
I don't think this counts as a conspiracy theory. What he is doing is right out of Project 2025 and it is exactly for the reason you are suggesting.
It's not a conspiracy theory when they're doing what they said they were going to do. Trump's weak disavowal doesn't really count since everyone he's surrounded himself with was and still is an active proponent.
So from what I can tell, here is all of the places Trump has threatened either directly or indirectly to send the U.S. military since taking office in January:
Greenland
Panama
Gaza
Canada
Ukraine
Mexico
Did I forget any? I realize the U.S. has one of the biggest militaries in the world, but I think maybe he's going to stretch them a bit thin?
It's no longer misconduct if it's approved of at the highest level.
Some people cannot do a lot of active campaigning for health reasons. The person you just asked that question to is one of them. I just thought you should know that.
A lot of them claim that they're fine with girls playing on the boy's team because somehow the boy's team is open to everyone (Air Bud rule) but the girl's team is just for "real" girls because they have an inherent disadvantage. And this is from people who claim to be feminists.
I know what you are talking about. It is not the topic of this post. That is why you are getting downvoted.
You asked why you were getting downvoted, I told you, and now you're trying to argue with me about it. Which I am guessing is also going to get you downvoted.
Also, stop responding to me multiple times and in PM.
Because this is about the Democrats and Section 230 and you're talking about growing food.
Hagrid was played by human actor Robbie Coltrane. You can tell because he looks and sounds exactly like Robbie Coltrane.
(The late Mr. Coltrane was apparently a dick... so I guess being cast in Cracker was apt.)
Probably because that's completely off-topic.
Your intentions are noble, but people do not appreciate that.
But let's be honest- if you're white, you're probably safe.
This is going to trickle down to the grade school level. Because there is no shortage of perverts who are willing to "save" the girls from the evils of possibly playing sports with someone with a penis by inspecting their vaginas.
Phoenix Children’s Hospital is indefinitely halting all hormone therapy and puberty blockers for its patients. Here's what families are saying.
Hormone therapy and puberty blockers.
Weirdo frat bro has buyer's remorse
Watters made an on-air plea for a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts.
> Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the Trump administration be “less callous” when implementing when laying off federal employees after a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts.
President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that people born during the Civil War – and even before – have been receiving Social Security checks.
>On Sunday, White House adviser Elon Musk claimed his “Department of Government Efficiency” found that more than 20 million Americans over the age of 100 have been receiving checks from the Social Security Administration. He alleged the figure included people who were born in 1875. The billionaire shared a screenshot of a spreadsheet he said was from the SSA’s database. > >Speaking at a conference of investors in Miami on Wednesday, the president reiterated Musk’s baseless claims about Social Security and appeared to add some embellishments of his own. > >“But listen to this – 3.6 million people are on Social Security rolls from the age of 110 years old to 119,” he said. “Do you think there are really that many? Those people are seriously old. But it gets worse – 3.4 7 million people are on Social Security from the age of 120 years old to 129 years old, 3.9 million people are on Social Security from 130 years old to 139 years old.” > >Trump later added that there are “3.5 million people from the age 140 to 149 years old” on Social Security, and that “1.3 million people are on Social Security from age 150-159. And over 130,000 people are on Social Security over the age of 160 years old, ok? Including 1,039 people. Think of it. Over 1000 people, between the ages of 220-229. And one person of 240 years old and 249. And the record topper, there is one person on Social Security who is 360 years old, which is approximately 110 years older than our country.”
Also, the 1337 hackers at DOGE don't know anything about COBOL, apparently.
> The challenge with COBOL is that it doesn’t have a standardized way to store and work with dates — unlike most modern programming languages. Instead, many dates in COBOL must be coded to a reference number, often using an international standard, Rege explained. > > The most common reference date number is May 20, 1875, under an international standard known as ISO 8601. That means if someone applies for Social Security without a birth date, they may be recorded as 150 years old in the database depending on how a programmer troubleshoots the issue. > > Programmers can overcome these limitations in COBOL’s functionality, but they may also opt to use 1875 as a placeholder for unknown dates if it aligns with the database’s purpose… For example, when the federal government began issuing regular monthly Social Security payments in January 1940, recipients needed to be at least 65 to qualify, meaning they needed to be born in 1875 or before. > > Those who crafted the Social Security database may have, therefore, set 1875 as the default birth year for anyone who lacked that information at the time.
You'd think at least Big Balls would know some COBOL.
How is my bedroom being heated?
I'm staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It's a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment's living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.
I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.
And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don't feel cold or anything.
I am mystified. How is it being heated?
Trump’s lawsuit and the FCC’s investigation into the network come as Paramount Global is being sold to Skydance Media, a deal that requires FCC approval.
Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that.
A report from the Commons' women and equalities committee says age discrimination is widespread.
And to those MPs, I have only one thing to say, "ok, boomer."
Musk's security clearance has been a hot topic in the media as his DOGE team has gained access to sensitive data across the federal government.
> In response to the reporters’ filing on Elon Musk’s security clearance details, the network received an email that read, “Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team.” Musk’s security clearance has been a hot topic in the media as his DOGE team has gained access to sensitive data across the federal government.
Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys · Seicyou Terauchi Bushi - 1967 (Full Album) - Japanese Surf Rock inspired by the Ventures
Takeshi plays some of it like a regular Ventures song and gives some of it a very Japanese twist.
Unlike your standard heavy vehicle in reverse beeping, the bin lorries here say, "stand well clear, vehicle reversing," then a loud beep, over and over when they go into reverse.
It's nice that they're so polite.
Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?
He would say, "the power is yours!" Then he would fly away. Where did he go? Is there like a PlanetCave he just hangs out in and crochets until all the rings get used?
UK vs US homelessness
> Blackburn with Darwen borough currently has seven rough sleepers on its streets the council’s leader has revealed.
Three weeks ago, I was living in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Terre Haute has a population of less than 60,000. Blackburn and Darwen has a population of over 150,000.
Terre Haute has an estimated 500 homeless people.
It will get down to 1°F/-17 °C there on Wednesday night.