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This is adorable

I've only known tiny vintage communicator for 5 minutes, but if anything happened to him, I'd torpedo the planet

I mean, yeah, when one party wants to put Jesus in the government, make being gay illegal, and deport nonwhite people, I'm not interested in being friends with anyone who supports that mission statement. I'm intolerant of intolerance.

I am paying a to-my-door delivery service to deliver things, to my door. I shouldn't have to specify that I expect people to do the entire job and not just the easy part of it. If they don't want to do the entire job, that too is a conversation for them to have with the company, not me.

Wowww, they have borg cubes! Two kinds! Good consolation prize!

What the heeeey? This looks awesome, where did you get that!

Personally, I'm crippled, so even getting to the front door is a process. If a driver calls me and says I need to come down, I tell them no shot, I paid you to bring it to my door, so either bring it to my door or refund it.

If drivers are not getting paid enough to bring deliveries to people's doors? That's a conversation for the drivers to have with the company. The company says they'll bring it to me, and I expect the service I pay for.

Prison workers are not paid enough to care. If Bernie Madoff says "I'll give you $20 to not stop me from monopolizing the hot chocolate powder", well, $20 is $20.

Is it a bit vague?

Ultimately, ray tracing was used for most graphics elements, allowing for more realistic lighting.

[Reviewers cited] its use of ray tracing

Source article: "Ray tracing is so crucial to Teardown that the world goes black if you turn it off"

I think it's pretty clear, tbh.

Another for Vivaldi. Technically it has a "gimmick" but that gimmick is having a very customizable UI. If you don't want that, just don't use it.

You will need to install ublock though, since its onboard adblock isn't great.

I actually tried this after seeing it on QI, and it's wayyy better than it has any right to be. Hit the toast with butter and pepper, use super soft bread for the sandwich, and I'll eat that any day.

My view on the matter is that access to abortions falls under the umbrella of the right of bodily autonomy; specifically, protection from being medically exploited. Which by your phraseology would make it a "negative right".

My go-to comparison is, perhaps oddly, bone marrow donation. Someone with bone cancer is likely doomed to die a horrible death, unless they can find a compatible donor who will consent to share marrow with them. For any given recipient, only a few people at best will be a viable match. Maybe only one. But that person has the absolute right to refuse. You cannot be forced to use your body for the health of another person without your consent.

Some people would say, that's not comparable to pregnancy, and that having sex/getting pregnant is in itself, somehow, initial consent. But, at least here in Canada, they stress heavily that you can withdraw consent at any point during the procedure. They also explicitly let you know that, at a certain point in the procedure, the recipient's bone marrow will have been irradiated, and that if the donor backs out at that point, the recipient will die, but that they're still allowed to do so. The right to bodily autonomy means any ongoing use of one's body requires their continued consent, even with a living, breathing human person on the scales. Morally is certainly another question, but the diagram of law and morality is not a perfect circle.

If I'm protected from being the life support of any person, surely that covers an unfinished fetus.

Everyone else has already covered webrings and directories, but there's a couple things missing imo. Or maybe I just came in too late.

Back in, I want to say 2003 or so, I discovered this absolutely incredible browser extension called StumbleUpon. It was like a crowdsourced version of those contemporary curated link pages; you gave it a list of topics you were into (ranging from vague things like "art" down to really specific things like "), and when you pushed the "Stumble" button it added to your browser, it took you to a random website that matched one of your chosen categories. In turn, when you found a website that wasn't in the database, you could add it by checking off what category/ies it fit into. I spent hours a day hitting that button and being taken to random new content, and quickly became the clever one in my friend group by finding all the best "cheezburgers" and "demotivationals" and "image macros" lol. Hell, I'd still be using it now, if they hadn't shut down like five years back.

And let's not forget Geocities neighbourhoods! Every GeoCities site was a "house" in a metaphorical "city" and at the bottom of their page, you could move between "house numbers' to visit their "neighbours". So if you found a good site, but got bored, you might check out who's nearby. Cities were loosely themed, but didn't enforce topics of any kind, so you might go from a Sailor Moon fansite to a college student's tutoring homepage to a shrine to a dead loved one. You always found fascinatiing stuff eventually.

Not 'how tf (the fuck)", an expression of shock, but "How? tf? (transformation)?", a question of the precise mechanism of this transgender breastfeeding scene.

Presumably, they assumed the person in question was a trans woman, (which may not be the case, it may be a trans man, I do not know), and wondered if this was a case of them being physically transformed into a female with functional milk glands, or just handwaved. (Because, while trans women can lactate in real life, it usually requires an experimental drug regimen.)

I read this, and from what I can tell, he explicitly said they believe they need to kill every last member of Hamas, and a different unrelated person wrote an essay about how they need to kill all Palestinians?

I didn't get it, and I'm 29 from Canada

I got a refurb Thinkpad T495s at a business sale, and I was astonished to realize they still have the nipple mouse

PWOMM

Extensive moderation and copious bans

Consensus is a kind of testing for truth, but truth itself. Hopefully, people will believe true things in aggregate, but sometimes your peers will agree on an untruth.

A philosopher would say that there is no truth, or at least we can't be sure we know it. After all, what is "truth" when everything you perceive might not even exist?

An educator would say there are some things we can know for ourselves, like what "too hot" feels like or what "tasty food" is, some things we have to rely on experts for, like "how far away stars are" or "what the earth is made of", and some things that aren't objective at all and so can't be known, like "who deserves this" or "what is immoral". These are all kinds of truth.

That's probably true, but perfect can't be the enemy of good. Getting everyone who currently uses the worst method (a single global password) to use a better method means that better method has to be easier than that, and as things lie right now, most security researchers agree that the method most likely to succeed is removing roadblocks, both client-side and server-side, to make password mangers even easier and more secure (whether you want to store it locally or not is really up to you, and again, it is already an option). We're not talking about people who already try to stay secure, or care about the exact details. You and I already know we care about security and do our best, presumably. The crucial thing is to onramp Bob Q. Public, the middle manager whose password on everything is rover73 because he loves his dog, and any solution more complicated than remembering one password and clicking one button is going to be too much change for him to get around to doing it