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I wouldn’t buy another piece of Motorola/Lenovo garbage for any amount of money.

“Exactly how big of a bunker do I need to ride it out?”

Like, you knooooow, whatever.

As well as the near-hourly updates on scam calls, and the individual with clipboard that was suspiciously ringing the front door bell.

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The scene with the witches on the viewscreen gave me a lifelong fear of looking out of windows at night.

Didn’t they blame tight pants for the 6 bending?

He got caught in a time distortion and wound up on Earth in the early 21st Century. He was able to survive by becoming a construction contractor in Star’s Hollow Connecticut.

TNG Season 1: “We have a Chief Engineer?”

Interesting. I remember questioning the Apollo class when they showed up on Unification, mostly because (at the time) they looked so much like TNG-era Romulan warbirds that I wondered why someone would think they were Vulcan. And prior to First Contact, we hadn’t seen a Vulcan ship in canon (that I can recall). It makes more sense though if they developed annular (or annular+nacelle) designs.

guesstimates the number of people between CA and my house
Whew! I think I’m safe

If money is your god, then no-one else can be.

I’m with you OP. All of this controversy the last couple of months not only sent me to decentralized social media, but finally made me pull the trigger on FOSS hosting projects. Currently working on selfhosted cloud storage for photos and documents. I already have my phone’s camera backing up to a RaspberryPi server in my living room, instead of to Google Photos.

The end goal is to decouple as completely as I can from Google - and the spider’s web of interconnected and interdependent online services - to something that I own (or at least have a measure of control over).

The downside is that it’s been a long time since I was in the server game. The learning curve is more like a vertical cliff face.

One thing Disney is known for is relentless legal pursuit of IP theft. Oh, and cartoon movies. Sometimes they do that too.

Tuskens finally take revenge for Anakin’s attack, Ben sees his opportunity and blames it on Stormtroopers, Luke wipes out the Empire based on a false flag.

Withings Scanwatch is cross-platform. No need for a branded device to use it, does all the usual tracking stuff plus afib detection. One of the reasons I chose it was that it looks like a watch and not a toy. Also, depending on how you use it, it can go for days between charges. Most of the similar “brand locked” devices seem to only go 1 or 2 days max.

I can’t say I agree with the potty talk, but the man makes some good points, I tell you hwaht.

The original idea for Youtube was “make your own tv shows” so it wasn’t really intended for highbrow entertainment, infotainment, etc. Then they started promoting videos that were longer format, so the “watch my sister go splat trying to jump in the pool” videos got replaced by how-tos, unboxing, and explainers. Then tiktok came along and Youtube is trying to turn itself into “watch my sister go splat in 60 seconds or less.”

It’s sad that with the concentration of developers and creatives at their disposal – not to mention the financial resources – they can’t innovate something beyond tiktok. Instead of tagging along after a trend and wind up looking like an old geezer dressing up like a 16 year old.

The uncertainties of existence make people seek out an authority to provide safety. Unfortunately, that authority needs to make difficult decisions without the normal emotional fallout that would cause most people psychological harm, so the ones most suited for it are sociopaths. Sociopathy (a tendency toward lack of empathy, including – in some cases – even the desire to cause others psychological or physical pain) is an aberration. Perhaps it’s even a disability in the sense that persons are not “neurotypical” and therefore require special consideration. Unfortunately, the culture greatly rewards sociopathic behavior, so not only do they gravitate towards positions of power, they are sometimes propelled toward them.

So, in short, you’re right.