This idea that the military “fights for our freedom” needs to die. It’s complete horseshit. The last conflict the US military was involved in that could remotely be considered as a defense of Americans (the populace, not the oligarchs) was WW2. Everything since has been neocolonialism and gangster activity. Even prior to WW2, their primary function over their life has been genocide and colonialism. It was the US military that brought the world concentration camps. If there is any hope for Americans, we need to kill the civic religion.

In the US, that isn’t the case. “White” is treated as the default, and everyone else is “othered.” It is short hand for “not Caucasian.” It has changed now, but even hair products for black hair were labeled with signs as the ‘ethnic hair’ section for the majority of my life.

It is absolutely barbaric that this is “standard” in the US, particularly because some religious looney tune was obsessed with children’s masturbation. I don’t care if an adult of “sound mind” chooses to make alterations to their body, but it certainly should not be allowed on children, let alone infants.

That’s the one strength the US has ever had, immigration. So many inventions and industries exist because of immigrants. Most times it was in the face of rampant descrimination, segregation, violence, and attempts to shut them down or take it from them. It was the only part of the civic religion they indoctrinated us with as children that wasn’t complete bullshit.

It’s crazy that there was a whole shitshow about taxation without representation (though the colonists certainly cost money starting shit with native peoples), yet over 200 years later, there are still people taxed without representation.

That’s goofy as hell that the emergency number isn’t localized. I think the idea that pressing a physical button 5 times quickly is faster than having to look at the phone and select options. Idk, though, I don’t use it.

I see. I think the wording threw me off a bit.

I’ve always expected anywhere targeting tourists to be expensive relative to the local economy. That is an absurd price for bottled water, though. My rule of thumb is to never take anything from the minibar. There’s usually a shop within a block or two you get the same thing from at a much more reasonable rate.

I’m a bit confused with the section about “fees.” Are there casinos in the world you get to stay at, eat, and have them watch your kids for free?

Bixby was not llm based, originally, and sometimes updates will rewrite a user’s custom settings. For instance, I had a galaxy on which I made pushing the power button three times turn on the flashlight. An update occurred that overrode that setting by deleting it and turned on five presses to call 911. I ended up accidently calling 911 at 3am (accompanied by a blasting alarm sound) trying not to wake someone by turning on the light.

It costs $100k, operating the vehicle as intended causes parts to fall off, rain will disable it, and it’s incapable of leaving the pavement. Every one they managed to sell has been recalled. There’s no way it dethrones the hilux, which is dependable, cheap, readily available, and well proven offroad, in combat. I know musk isn’t too bright, particularly when his pride is involved, but he’d be a bigger fool than I believed him to be if he restarts production on the cybertruck. Frankly this reads like some backroom “advertising” deal with the Trump administration to con people into changing their minds about or, more likely, to drum up interest among nonstate actors so Tesla can make bulk sales to offload the current stock. “Ooh, the largest airforce in the world is concerned about this commercially available vehicle made out of glue and sheet aluminum with a built in explosive pack just waiting for a detonator!” Product costs money to hold and they’re in the hole bad.

Edit: I misread your comment, apologies.

Honestly, this whole thing is hilarious. My interest was limited to start with after 2042. Now it doesn’t matter because I can’t play anyway (I’m not playing a shooter on console). Furthermore, it’s apparently a pain in the ass for Windows users, too. The incompetence is really incredible to watch.

There’s a similar connotation in the US, basically calling someone reckless. Like many words, it can be used with a positive or negative meaning depending on context.

Hell, the US is all they talk about here on lemmy. I’m not sure they don’t want to join either.

That shit is stupid and dangerous. Also, nothing that jackass said made any sense. If this wasn’t about sexual harassing women or shitting on women’s sports, then why chose the WNBA? Even if that statement is sincere, how could you not be aware that this would cause individuals who do hold those views to participate? Fuck crypto clowns.

There are grid attacks all the time, though many aren’t effective because intelligence is apparently not a marker of the “master race.” It’s in their handbook, “Siege,” a collection of ramblings by a neo nazi too shitty for “mainstream” neo Nazis. This is also why there has been an increase in “lone wolf” attacks over the last 10-15 years due to a republication and digital dissemination. Ultimately, they’re accelerationists, not too dissimilar to Manson, who believe they can start a race war (or at least get away with murdering POC) by turning the lights out.

Maybe we should be more like the luddites, starting with data centers.

That dude looks like the villain from an 80’s buddy cop film.

I prefer regular, but my health prefers low sodium.

The fact that there’s some of them hurtling through space, unrestrained by the common movements of the rest of the galaxy, is really something to think about.