I guess it was the tissue box as a hat that threw me

Ohhh, I didn't get it was Manamana

Might need to workshop that one a bit more for the older crowd.

Survivor bias is probably the most pernicious, prevalent, and hard to avoid bias I can think of.

I love every word of this.

I Underestimated The Risk Of Arguments: The Bluesky Story

You really need to attack under the waterline or hit it with a serious, fuck you anti ship missile to do enough damage to risk that kind of catastrophe. And the underwater thing would not be an accident, and I expect any ASMs are being husbanded against the day they need to be shot at troop ships.

balloon animals

It's 10pm, do you know where your FBI Director is?

Backpfeifengesicht if there ever was one.

And also, it seems implicit in the Lebanon cease fire demand that Iran claims the ability to restrain Hezbollah, believed the US had same over Israel it was intentionally not using, and was acting accordingly. If Iran is proved to have no power to restrain Hezbollah, Iran loses quite a lot too.

I don’t claim to be a knower of anything on this, but it at least appears the Israelis feel the metaphorical Trumpian rock they built this house on turning to sand with the tide, or there would be no cease fire in the first place.

So is Epstein or Trump Stupid Lucius that keeps coming back when you thought you killed him.

And, like target doesn't even really matter. You could DDoS the White House site and no one would care, because who actually uses the White House site? Who'd notice? Randos used to DDoS World of Warcraft every patch day because it'd get people to scream and they'd laugh. Size is the point.

It's been awhile since I cared about that kind of thing, but the target generally never mattered. I assume Bluesky is Cloudflared to hell and gone, so I'd bet it's not a sheer data torrent, so it's something more complicated, but still easily automatable. Usually you just give them a target and pay

This isn't exactly the glory days of DDoS-for-Hire, but I expect it takes having some cryptocurrency and a modicum of Internet knowledge to be able to search for the barely hiding vendors to get a DDoS turned on someone these days.

There are reasonable arguments that parties need to be way more powerful. I won’t go so far as to say they’re currently toothless, but if you can’t stop someone from running under your banner, that’s pretty damn close in effect.

The compost bin probably counts as a side quest on its own

Alternately, find a really thin, probably relatively stiff brush (I don’t know if these exist) and draw the lines with the black like it’s a pen. Probably in the end a combination of both.

With the important caveat that I do acrylics, if it was me, I’d probably do the whole silhouette in black and then color over that, and when you get to what you want to be a black line, you “shave” the black off with the color like you’re using a wood plane as you get near the line

Sorry, maybe I’m just finally getting old, but I have no clue what a hedonic recession is supposed to be. Is this midlife crisis getting rebranded?

As a rule I find the “omg Trump is dying, just look at him“ stuff to be more than a bit absurd, but he really does look amazingly unwell recently. Looks like my grandmother just before we found out she had lung cancer.

Everyone knows Pope Leo has been advising the Chicago Bulls front office for years, and it’s a scandal none of us should stay silent about anymore. He’s been coasting on blessing the Jordan era Bulls, and it’s long past time he got replaced as the spiritual advisor for the team. Shameful.

Looking forward to giving any of the pieces of shit that set up in Hungary that flee back here like rats off a sinking ship a nice Masshole welcome.

Trump is a family annihilator. This war will not end until Trump is no longer president, however that might happen. murder suicide

I see Caffeine 2.0 is working well. Shame it’s all in the service of Big Spider but results are results.

Old friend of mine is very Italian and was constantly mistaken for being Mexican. Fucking constantly. Never really grokked it myself, but it's a thing.

I‘d wager the biggest panic source Is that big company IT departments, for entirely understandable reasons, would rather saw their arm off than rush an update to production systems if given the choice, and this is going to force it everywhere, all at once. Y2K panic level out of the blue.

Which is an example of how being Super Cereal about security can blind you to big problems in your systems. The quick meeting is likely messaging from the Fed/Treasury to watch out and honest query about what the fuck are you all doing to prepare for this, and not so subtle hints to cooperate on it.

Once, over a quarter century ago in another life, I freaked a major bank out so much they pulled themselves entirely offline during an entirely planned basic assessment with vulnerability scanning tools they knew about and paid us to do, simpler because I ran two tools at once to get it done faster.