I don’t think you can get me to turn off something faster than by telling me that it was made in collaboration with conservative American Christianity.

If by “poll”, you mean advertisement for their search engine, then yes. Yes, they are.

Not that I want AI companies to have an easier time developing their products, but this is a far better arrangement than the wholesale theft that companies have been using for their training data up until now.

It does not.

Anything that transmits a signal can be found, just get that out of the way immediately. The only way to be 100% untraceable is to never transmit.

Mesh networks, however, are pretty safe. Triangulating the origin of a mesh transmission will just lead to the repeater node which, admittedly is a pain in the dick if they kill the repeater and the network goes dark, but it doesn’t lead directly back to a person, just a box they stuck on a cell tower or up on a hill somewhere.

I don’t know about now, but when my parents were in school it was definitely very common. There is still no law against corporal punishment in private schools in the US, and only 33 out of 50 states have laws against it in their public schools.

Nationwide walk-out (of wherever you are) next Tues (Jan 20) at 2 PM, and then at 3 PM a nationwide walk-in to all local Congressional offices.

We’ll see you there, right?

Free America National Walk-out

If we don’t want to be lumped in with fascists, probably time to get rid of them, no?

America endorses pedophile MechaHitler.

I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Yeah, but you’re not anti-book. It’s different if you just don’t have time / energy right now. There are literally millions of people who just…like, don’t believe in it.

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I just watched it last night! I need to watch it again, but I don’t know if I liked it as much as Poor Things. The cast was electrifying on screen together, but the end threw me. I almost think it would have worked better as a standard woman against her captors movie. Still loved it, though. 9/10 even with my nitpicking. I love Yorgos Lanthimos’ work.

Not cool, dude. There are very few words I self-censor, but that’s absolutely one of them.

33% of high school graduates never read another book again in their lives after graduation.

Let that sink in.

228 million adults in the US, and 75 million of them are committed to never reading.

Sounds a lot like the voting block for a certain orange fascist…

No problem! Hope you like them

…is it safe?

Ack ack…ack…ACKACK!

Not aliens per se, but Sunshine is great. Awesome ensemble cast headed up by Cillian Murphy on a journey to the sun.

Annihilation is an excellent sci-fi/ cosmic horror centered around our perception of alien “life”, and will it even recognize us as life when we meet it. Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac.

The classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Admittedly more notable for Kubrick’s filmmaking than the plot, but still a mind-blowingly cool movie.

Enemy Mine for the other end of the spectrum, about a human and an alien learning to work together / overcome their innate xenophobia.

It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a half a tank of gas, half a packet of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.