The best thing that could happen to the UK is that most internet sites just didn’t bother and stopped serving the UK. Kind of like how some US sites decline to serve up pages to European visitors because they couldn’t be bothered to be GDPR-compliant.

Unlike Europe though, the UK isn’t big enough to matter all that much. So if a large enough number of sites stopped catering to UK visitors, the authorities would quickly backpedal.

The problem is, they’re a bunch of talentless clowns with nefarious intents and access to your sensitive data.

I don’t use them. I make the effort to remember my passwords - or rather, my recipes to recreate any complex passwords.

The only safe storage form for your passwords is your noggin’. The next best thing is probably a password manager - although that depends on how trustworthy whoever coded it is - but it certainly isn’t as secure as using your brain if your brain works properly.

Also, something else that goes a long way to making any password secure is 2FA. If you can, use it!

The National Parks.

I guarantee you, for the amount you pay in your taxes for the upkeep of YOUR National Parks, you get orders of magnitude more beautiful land to enjoy than the acreage you could possibly purchase directly.

Before Trump fucked it all up that is, of course…

That’s not true: electric buses are a great success in Europe. They qualify as ride-hailing and as electric vehicles 🙂

What’s not doing well is the antisocial ride-hailing electric transportation model that requires one huge vehicle per person so that person doesn’t have to sit next to someone else.

I use CalyxOS too. But Google doesn’t like it and they’ve taken steps to stop us.
So, enjoy the freedom while you can: the big G is coming for it.

I doubt it’s true because it conveniently and easily shows up on social media at exactly the right moment. In other words, it has fake written all over it. But the MAGAts have no critical thinking abilities so they’ll fall for it in a New York minute. I can’t wait!

I doubt any of this is true, but I’m stocking up on popcorn to watch the MAGA halfwits lose their simple minds over this. The spectacle will be riveting!

I would say Trump. The problem is, ridiculous come from the Latin for laughable, and fascism is no laughing matter.

Next in line would be Dubya. He was a bit less fascist - although Gitmo detainees probably beg to disagree - but more amusing.

So I vote for Dubya, despite the fascism.

Wait until you get older and one day you’ll realize the kids are looking at you funny when you talk. Then you’ll realize you naturally talk “oldtimey” and your youth is gone.

Enjoy not being an old fart while you can and don’t wish to become one ahead of time. Trust me on that one, it’s not groovy.

the worst parts was when he had an itch,

Yeah. I don’t struggle with the pain so much: I have it, but it’s mostly like electric shocks, and somehow it feels like a TENS machine. So as long as it’s not too intense or too long, I’m okay.

But I really struggle with itching.

I just lumped itching with phantom pain because it’s easier to explain to people who don’t know.

Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain.
Then nausea.
Then tinnitus.

A large part of why they’re the worst for me is that you can’t do anything about them.

It’s only a debate in the US, where obscurantism and magical thinking are rife. Most other developed countries have moved on and done a pretty thorough job of purging religious nonsense out of the curriculums, or at least contain the nonsense to keep it out of young minds who deserve better.

Poor little Grok is just trying to make Daddy proud…

Most people who say “Not my president” are Americans who feel ashamed. Nobody else in the world feels the need to say that because they have no reason to be ashamed.

Not my president

Sorry but he is totally your president. You can’t be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.

You as a nation voted for Trump. He’s your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.

I don’t keep up with everything he does

You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it’s time to flee because it’s too dangerous to stay in the US.

The downside is: you work for Fuckerberg.
How much is your good conscience worth, is the question.

Tarantulas are insects ferchrissake… They have the nervous system of a guitar amplifier.

I’m very Jesus-like

You mean you’re cross?

Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.