What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing

If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount

If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible

The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick

That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload

The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented

It is a mixed bag, but the people who can be saved don’t think these things are related - they think ICE are going after criminals

They don’t think ethnic cleansing is the answer, they just think this is about crime

No, see that has meaning… This doesn’t. No information is contained in 6 7, there is no concept or reference or anything to it

Well in this case, you’re going to have a hard time trolling Trump supporters on the fediverse

I think memeing at the right is one of the few acceptable uses of Twitter at this point

No, this is totally unconnected. This is just a run of the mill win, this was inevitable

It has nothing to do with how the Senate snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in exchange for nothing

It’s a meme where you say “6 7”, optionally with a hand motion like you’re weighing something

There’s no meaning. That is the full context. Any situation where you do any part of the meme is a valid use of the meme

And that’s why I personally find it uniquely annoying

You can’t rehabilitate these people. What you can do is make them feel betrayed so they point in the right direction, then later shame them back into keeping their racist bullshit buried deep down

They’re never going to fully accept that ethnic cleansing is wrong, or even that it wouldn’t accomplish their goals, but they can be made to understand it’s not socially acceptable to share those opinions

And doing that makes them even think about it less. But deep down, people who cheer these camps and ICE raids will always be deeply racist and lacking in compassion. This isn’t ignorance, this is naked desire for an enthnostate.

That degree of racism will always be there, and must always be kept under the surface by social pressure

Geopolitics works on several layers, getting progressively less public as you go down

If their objective was to strike back hard enough to be a deterrent next time they’re attacked, why would they announce their intentions before they had the missiles ready?

This announcement does a few things. It reassures the Iranian people that they won’t let strikes on their country go unanswered in the future. It is a show of strength towards Israel, because they know that the global political climate will protect them from war with Israel for the near future

And possibly most importantly, it’s a departure from nukes. They’re announcing the intention of pursuing alternative means of defense

The timing of this makes me think they’ve negotiated their way back in from the cold. This might have been planned all the way back at the strikes on their enrichment sites - they were strangely accommodating of that whole event, but it would make them look weak if they immediately said they were giving up their nuclear ambitions

FYI, ddg initially used Google, and FYI, you’ll get slightly different results because it’s more complicated than that

But none of that was the point I was trying to make. I’m referencing the quality of Bing from a few years ago

Uh… There are open source search engines. They’re about on par with ddg or qwant, nowhere near even Bing from a few years ago

The crazy thing is, most narcissists would be kneeling down next to him, screaming for help and going “it’s going to be ok buddy, I’ve got you”. It’s such an easy moment to take control of

His brain is just cooked. He’s grumpy because he got woken up and it’s not time for him to talk. He looks pissed

It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

Well that’s a misleading title

Yes, but not spiritually

Teflon doesn’t react with basically anything. It won’t stick to anything but itself, which makes manufacturing difficult, initially we could only make pure Teflon pieces

Every other kind of PFAS is super toxic. Some part of the molecule is reactive, usually very reactive so it sticks to things, and the rest won’t react to anything. That causes nasty problems in biology

Teflon itself isn’t that much of a problem because even if it’s around forever, it doesn’t react with anything… The byproducts of working with it are what are poisoning people and causing all the problems

Anything coated in Teflon are going to have the nasty shit under the Teflon so I’d generally avoid it, but the real take away is that chemical companies are just dumping this shit into water sources knowing it causes super cancer

No, that’s the opposite

You can season nearly anything with oil. Except aluminum, which needs a Teflon coating or it gets nasty very fast. Except Teflon is non reactive to nearly everything

Except pfas. You can dissolve Teflon in pfas and spray it onto aluminum

Go back to 2022 and run your search then

How? An airtag isn’t going to work from inside you, and they’re going to search you. They also like to bounce people around to make them hard to track, so that tracker is going to end up wherever the person was processed

This just isn’t practical with current technology

He’s not a genuis, he’s smart but very arrogant, he’s intolerable when you get him next to an actual subject matter expert

But he is right about Pluto. We either would need to add a half dozen+ more planets, or demote one into a new category. And Pluto would currently be in the bottom of that category - it’s barely large enough to fit in the new category, so it’s not a matter of where to draw the line

And in his words, if Pluto was between us and the sun it would grow a tail, and that’s no type of behavior for a planet to have

Yeah, pretty much. Cooperation is our natural state, we act a lot like a eusocial hive species when you watch from a distance