Yes, language matters and they used it correctly here. As an intransitive verb it means that someone is not detectable. As a transitive verb it means that someone else made them disappear, which usually refers to being abducted, usually by an official group like an arm of the government.
It has been used that way for decades to indicate when a governement kidnaps citizens to detain or kill them in secret.
didn’t even need the ‘house call’, now did it? just a fucking browser and some wifi. it was purely for intimidation.
Yeah, that’s how facism operates. If you make everyone afraid of being “disappeared” for speaking up, most wont even try. And if no one is speaking up, no one is coordinating resistance and the average person think there is no chance of rising up.
I’ve had both DDG(Bing) and Google give me “no results found” for a query I know with 100% certainty worked a few years ago.
Started with a few words in a row in quotation marks, and it just goes nope. Then you add a bunch of related keywords and suddenly it can find it just fine. And will even highlight the phrase you had in quotation marks, the one it claimed had zero results. Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.
WB spent years courting Spielberg to make a big animated movie for them. Which is why the title screen of this and other shows have “Steven Spielberg presents” at the top, and why they accepted cruder jokes than normal.
Who needs adblock when you’re just oblivious
People who are oblivious as they browse are some of those who need it most. As they easily fall for “promoted content” that is literally just ads.
The same type of people who fall for scams. And older people, although that’s redundant.
She’s terrible, but more normal than McCain.
The main thing is that she would have avoided national scrutiny and pushes for ethics investigations, if she just stayed in Alaska. She was the first woman and the youngest governor of Alaska and early on she had around 90% popularity among voters there.
Then she saw dollar signs and hitched her ride to the far right, and has been laughed out of Alaskan elections ever since, and ended up doing Fox shows and failing to sue the press for defamation.
Yeah, you’d think a guy in that position would be smarter. If you don’t fight facism, you’ve already lost.
Although he could be afraid I guess.
Well technically they’re warming people up for full blown death-camps.
It starts with tracking, then sterilization, then “work camps”, and then suddenly there are hundreds of thousands stuffed into cargo trains on the way to the furnaces. With tons of them telling themselves they should have done something when they first came for…
Your cats choose to listen to you.
Anyone who’s had cats for a long time notice how they are basically like teenagers; They love you and hear you(and have scientifically been shown to reckognize their names, and ignore them), but they like to be alone and ignore you a lot of the time unless they want something. But they will also come running and show affection if they’re the mood for that.
There are some who are more attached and more likely to come running, but generally they’re just a bit independent.
Competent being the key word in that sentence, and not an accurate one based on the last few years of intel.
I know it’s slightly more than 400 years, but: Science, aka. heresy in those days.
Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno; January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600)
He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets (exoplanets), and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no center.
Bruno was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation.
Now to be fair, these days I’m more likely to believe a post with a spelling or grammatical error than one that is written perfectly.
That has been his persona for over two decades.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Bill Maher is the definition of smarmy. He personifies the concept of that smug asshole who pretends to not know common media because he thinks it makes him appear more dignified. When in reality it just makes him look like an idiot to anyone who doesn’t buy his act.
The Real Reason They’re Attacking Universities: Trying to intellectually neuter the populace.
Anyone who thought otherwise have sadly already fallen victim to their ongong actions into crippling eductation and spreading propaganda.
Flash can easily run fast enough to observe the movement of lightning(he can technically go FTL and time travel)
He has some comic-type dimension he taps into, to avoid pesky things like physics. So he could probably launch himself out into space. Although most versions can’t run if he can’t step on something. So he’d be screwed.
Here’s the thing that a lot of long-term linux users don’t seem to understand: If it involves typing out a command in a terminal, or editing a configuration text file, 99% of casual users are already out. It doesn’t matter if they just copy-paste a command or have change a single number in a text file, they literally don’t even want to try, they consider that “too complicated”.
According to the customs and border protection website, there is a max limit of $200 that is free from duty and tax if you’ve spent at least 48 hours there, and it has to be for personal/household use. There are amount limits on alcohol and tobacco.
But if it’s something like a single phone, you pay in cash and open it there and dispose of the packing material. You could get away with violating those restrictions, but at your own risk.
Side-note: The limit is $800 if you go to the Caribbean, and up to $1600 for places like US Virgin Islands
Even when narcissists get embarrassed, they just get angry and blame everyone else for causing the issue. Because in their mind they can do no wrong.
For future reference, it’s ducats.
Ducat was a “trade coin”(not usually a legal/single state currency) that started in the late 1200s Italy, and was still used by Austra in the early 1900s.