This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Mass Hannibal Event should be a black metal band name or something.

listening to Army of Me while enjoying this meme for the full effect

Read the title first as Vulcans are like Orions, and it made sense because Shrek is green.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel

there are significant resources deployed to shape Israel’s image favorably, especially amongst the US public

Ukrainian militias have been shelling Donbas for about 8 years before 2022.

when it’s just the two of you in the empty cube, and you end up sharing the same alcove

a bit more Mariner than Tendi, but it’s close and varies according to material conditions

I think the correct answer is sharks.

Damn this inflation!

This would be such a good horror comedy. Watching slave-owners getting eviscerated by gorn:

freeware mods continue to be the cradle of game development innovation

Pretend we are playing a game within a magic circle that separates us from all the normal rules you have been taught.

Are the LLMs a testing ground for groomers? This is pretty disturbing to contemplate.

the mask of civility is the thin veneer that liberals use to hide their agenda

it’s related to the difference between materialist and idealist perspectives

if you claim to uphold lofty ideals, then you can just claim the material failure to live up to those ideals is an oversight, mistake, accident, victim-blame etc

this is also why plausible deniability is a critical aspect of many operations, it was those few bad people that caused the bad things, not the institutional structure that is dedicated to lofty ideals

Volunteered in 1943 too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea

During the campaign, conventional weapons such as explosives, incendiary bombs, and napalm destroyed nearly all of the country’s cities and towns, including an estimated 85% of its buildings.

A total of 635,000 tons of bombs, including 32,557 tons of napalm, were dropped on Korea. By comparison, the U.S. dropped 1.6 million tons in the European theater and 500,000 tons in the Pacific theater during all of World War II (including 160,000 on Japan). North Korea ranks alongside Cambodia (500,000 tons), Laos (2 million tons), and South Vietnam (4 million tons) as among the most heavily-bombed countries in history.

In an interview with U.S. Air Force historians in 1988, USAF General Curtis LeMay, who was also head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, commented on efforts to win the war as a whole, including the strategic bombing campaign, saying “Right at the start of the war, unofficially, I slipped a message in “under the carpet” in the Pentagon that we ought to turn SAC lose with some incendiaries on some North Korean towns. The answer came back, under the carpet again, that there would be too many civilian casualties; we couldn’t do anything like that. We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too…Over a period of three years or so we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population of Korea, as direct casualties of war or from starvation and exposure? Over a period of three years, this seemed to be acceptable to everybody, but to kill a few people at the start right away, no, we can’t seem to stomach that.”

Sahr-Conway Lanz, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of American foreign relations, has written extensively about the legacy and impact on American discourse on the international norm of noncombatant immunity. He states:

“During the war, American military and civilian officials stretched the term “military target” to include virtually all human-made structures, capitalizing on the vague distinction between the military and civilian segments of an enemy society. They came to apply the logic of total war to the destruction of the civil infrastructure in North Korea. Because almost any building could serve a military purpose, even if a minor one, nearly the entire physical infrastructure behind enemy lines was deemed a military target and open to attack. This expansive definition, along with the optimism about sparing civilians that is reinforced, worked to obscure in American awareness the suffering of Korean civilians in which U.S. firebombing was contributing.”

The song was inspired by Korean war veteran that John McCrea met in a bar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Rgsihd6WM

my brain at 3am: 6 hours of sleep is plenty, I’m finely exhausted enough to stop

my brain at 9 am after drinking coffee:

my brain at noon: STOP BOTHERING ME ASSHOLE!

Why does piracy need a business model? Sci-hub etc already exists.

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

You deserve condescension for your willful ignorance and lack of humility. That’s just how the world works.

tacky Cardassian fascist eyesore

this is the way