“What benefit does the Internet connection offer?”

“You can make toast remotely.”

“but don’t I have to put bread in?”

“…”

“don’t I need to be there to eat it?”

“…”

Going to the video rental store with my family and browsing for movies to watch. Shelves with multiple copies facing you, then you realise that behind the front ones are blank, empty boxes to bulk up the display and none of the ones on the shelf are the ones you actually take home anyway. Seeing the 3D cardboard cutouts advertising new releases.

I also miss christmas TV. Getting a 2 week TV guide and going through it with a pen putting a star next to the things you wanted to see. Recording one channel while watching another when there was a conflict. Big movies that were at the cinema 6 months to a year ago being on TV. Popular series making good Christmas specials. I guess the scarcity of media made it more desirable and christmas tv was an event. Now it is shit but not only because of what’s on, but because you’ve already seen the food stuff that’s on, and the Christmas specials are rarer, and not good. Also there’s too much ‘classic’ TV from the 70s I don’t care about. Feels lazy that they rely on filling the program with the old instead of making new.

I’d say she is a social democrat.

… but to most Americans that is far left and thus labelled socialism because America is a very right wing country. Even the ‘left’ in America is basically a right wing party in most other western democracies.

Bad move. I never knew about this aspect of the war until today and it is japan’s protest that brought it to my attention.

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t condemn the way these women were treated and support the installation of these statues. People would respect the Japanese government if they did that but instead they give the impression they are not ashamed of the actions but only worried about people finding it about it.

Anyone who takes them up on their offer to buy a new Kindle should check themselves in for a mental health screening.

They just told all of their customers that you cannot trust a device you buy from them will continue to work in the future. So buy one from a different manufacturer and hope they aren’t as evil

I get that it may be expensive to perpetually support old devices but there is surely a middle ground between supporting them and bricking them.

Even if you have a large library on kindle I hope you have the ‘calibre’ to move devices.

Anti-wokeness can be directly tied to many of society’s current problems. So maybe that means the answer is an indirect “yes”?

I mean if people are going to go around thinking and empathizing with others we wouldn’t be able to bomb the middle East every 20 years, would we?

*The art of excursions

Relax, don’t worry it’s below the all important 50k paedo protection threshold so we can talk about this and everything else for the time being

If James bond is in the mix, what about goldeneye?

That’s what I was thinking. Meta is poison.

Well not taking anything from him, but with so many people involved in a TV production I think it would have come out in some form that dissent was being suppressed.

Banning something is a sure fire way to give it oxygen. Streisand effect

The problem Trump has in doing this type of suppression is that it gains more attention and riles people up more than if he had let the interview air. Sure the interview might have said things he didn’t want to be said, but now he has made this a much bigger issue and he looks weak because he is scared at the mere prospect of some words being uttered.

“To impress a chick…”

It’s about permission. These guys have always been there harbouring their evil thoughts but the system never allowed them to indulge.

Now they have permission.

Maybe I was not eloquent enough, but I don’t object to the research being done. I think though that the result is the expected one and therefore it is not noteworthy enough to post on here. Doubtless this paper with end up highly cited.

I mean this feels like an obvious result. Are we thinking this is ground breaking?

Like comparing 3 ways of making a table, hand tools, power tools or paying someone to make it for you. Then asking which required the most effort.

I mean I know it’s important to confirm even expected results but this feels so intuitive.

I meant that I was being sarcastic in my first post, not you. I was copying what Trump said about Greenland and Denmark landing a boat there and applying it to california to try to show how ridiculous his position is. I was not trying to be factually accurate. I was trying to poke fun at him. It seems it was either not as obvious as I thought or just a bad joke.

Ok, I’m not trying to be factually accurate. I’m trying to point out the idiocy of trump’s comments

Ah I see, you were thinking the sarcastic response to trumps factually inaccurate statement should be factually accurate. Got it.

I mean by what right does California belong to the USA. I mean all they did was roll a wagon onto the land 500 years ago. Who’s to say the Danish didn’t around the same time too?

(sorry indigenous Californians your righteous and original claim doesn’t help me make my point)