The sad thing is that product, and the car product too, are actually halfway decent. They are just tied to, and enrich, a jaghole nazi shit.

It’s honestly annoying.

To hunt and murder dissidents

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

It’s absolutely a villainous overreach by a government that’s gotten a little too comfortable trying to control people while bending over for large corporations.

There does seem to be language in it which might limit it to things that have "user accounts" or "user profiles" which could exempt other stuff, and I didn't see anything which says this information has to be stored anywhere outside of the device itself so it could be worse. But it's still horrible.

It’s worse.

(4) Operating system.--The term ``operating system'' means
software that supports the basic functions of a computer,
mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device.

That definition sounds like firmware to me. So *all* electronics not just smart ones.

I’m going to hell for asking this but: could a large number of hearing assistance devices in one room cause feedback?

I wouldn’t think so, since a room full of folks w wireless earphones don’t, and they aren’t entirely dissimilar in how they function, but I still do wonder.

I had completely forgotten how much I love this city at night

Decided it was good weather for a walk. This must be that grass people keep wanting to touch.

Oh, my favorite Bible verse (wrong answers only)?

"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again Ivanova will PERSONALLY rip your lungs out!"

Meanwhile on Mastodon:

boat.horse/clock/index....

I will never take a better picture in my entire life and that’s okay

a man in a u.s. army uniform has the name ward on his uniform ALT: a man in a u.s. army uniform has the name ward on his uniform

Sure they weren’t knife hands bro?

I now have it framed in my kitchen

I am forced to wonder how many of those without a favorite are also people who believe dinosaurs didn’t exist

Cats are neat

That is 100% what I had in mind but I wasn’t sure it’d work!
I can do this! Yay!

I understand the basic concept- juice, thickening agent, spice, maybe water - but I’ve never actually made it

I’ve got to learn how to make gravy

Whatever bloats your stoat.

Do it

I know we rightfully have agreed the Flash movie never happened, but having Michael Keaton explain fluid history using cooked spaghetti was fucking ART

The past being fluid, to me, is explained most easily with: what did you have for breakfast 26 years ago today?
Maybe it was cereal, maybe pop-tarts. Doesn’t matter, so it could have been both.
I’m explaining it poorly.

I’ve thought about that a lot, and the working model I’ve built for that story has time essentially “looking” like an hourglass; the past and the future being two cones, the present being the point where they intersect.
It folds in “chance” or “probability” as a second time dimension.

Or is it more that what we consider history is also fluid, and we’ve reached a point where we can more easily track the changes since we’re documenting everything. As in you didn’t change universes, the universe itself changed.

I’m curious about the mechanics behind slipping. Is it just your consciousness, or is there a physical aspect? If memory is mechanical, as in it’s stored in the meat, the there would have to be some physical component.
What happens to the you native to here? So you swap, or are they overridden?

I’d like to think Gen X are slightly more literate than that.

My laptop has stickers again. Hurrah!