Just yesterday I was searching for photos in Brave. Right from the outset without clicking on anything, there was a huge, unclosable banner taking up a third of the screen that was an ad for Etsy or something. I tried to go to settings to change it to how it was before, but I was confronted with another ad in the settings:
“Want ad-free search results? Upgrade to Search Premium™ today!”
Time to finally make that switch to Firefox, I guess.
It’s really not as big of a deal as it seems, especially with swift medical care, which it sounds like they got. Even the US has several cases of bubonic plague every year basically without fail.
Border Patrol has a long history of destroying water stores left out for migrants. It’s usually plastic jugs that they slash open and leave behind to be found by the migrants, which is almost worse to find than just taking the water and USBP knows that.
At least some of these names have to be knockoffs of actual athletes, right? For example, he’s no “Sleve McDichael”, but Steve McMichael was a player for the Greenbay Packers football team when this game came out.
Exact same plot in an episode of Suite Life of Zach and Cody, too, complete with birth certificate footprints to confirm their identities. Although, the episode ends with the mom simply recalling off the top of her head which one belonged to who instead of making any direct comparisons, which always bothered me in an episode about the mom having confused the two in the first place.
There's an ongoing medical study I've been participating in for the last several years. Each year, the questionnaire asks all kinds of crazy questions like if I've ever died or ever been shot in the head, among others. If one is actually unsure, perhaps the answer is actually "yes" lol
Robocop is fantastic sci-fi, but this comparison to reality kind of falls apart right at the beginning with the part of corporations helping rioters. Has that ever actually happened? Is there any real evidence of that at all? Corporations have a long history of crushing riots, strikes, and protests with private security forces, such as the Pinkertons. Large corporations are also frequent donors to police departments and police projects. They’d much rather just buy buildings in the part of town that already has low property values and jack-up the prices to a tenant without any recourse but to move out or pay up, even if that means many apartments will sit empty for long stretches at a time.
So inclusive that he bans without question anyone that the nazi-affiliated Andy Ngo asks him to, anyone seen making fun of Elon, anyone who uses the site differently than Elon wants them to, anyone who exposes wrongdoing by Musk/Twitter/Tesla/SpaceX, and anyone who he personally disagrees with or doesn’t like. So much for being an inclusive free speech absolutist…
How the right thought he ever was one to begin with when he’s been blatantly banning people left and right since he took over is truly a fascinating case study in human psychology, marketing, and perception.
There were still some mammoths hanging around Siberia in 3000 BCE when the Pyramids were being built, long after agriculture was already becoming very prevalent in many cultures.
C’est la vie