This device is now mandated to watch TV or browse the internet in Germany:

No but… Would you want to be known as the owner / inhabitant of Epstein Island? Would you enjoy staying there knowing its past?

The island doesn’t give a shit. But you and other people might.

280000 square meters of prime real estate, with palm gardens, mountains and tropical climate.

and bad memories, bad reputation and generally bad juju.

If I owned the place, I’d sell it quick: I just don’t know how I could be there and enjoy it, knowing who was there and what they did.

so, no Quinoa?

Most people who say “Not my president” are Americans who feel ashamed. Nobody else in the world feels the need to say that because they have no reason to be ashamed.

Not my president

Sorry but he is totally your president. You can’t be in favor of the democratic process of elections and then distance yourself from the outcome.

You as a nation voted for Trump. He’s your president. You own the consequences along with all Americans.

I don’t keep up with everything he does

You should, if only to know when the ICE Gestapo might come knocking at your door or when it’s time to flee because it’s too dangerous to stay in the US.

I’m very Jesus-like

You mean you’re cross?

Using Copilot even as a mere coding assistance is insane, if no other reason than you’re sending all your code to Microsoft, and you also let them monitor your work habits in uncomfortably intimate details.

I don’t mind offensive or off-color jokes.

But here’s the thing: the more offensive and off-color, the better the joke had better be to be worth the offense.

This is not a good joke. You’re just being offensive.

I fail to see Discord as anything other than IRC with too many emojis and primary colors for the short of attention span, implemented as a humongous pile of Web 2.0 nonsense, with Big Data surveillance built in.

Privacy and resource comsumption issues notwithstanding, the few times I’ve had to use it to connect with people in certain communities that could basically only be found on Discord, it was unbearable to this gen-Xer: it’s just as fast and as shallow as IRC, but somehow I feel the extra symbolic and color overload would have triggered a seizure if I was epileptic. It’s maddering.

Oh well, maybe I’m old.

When you use the Discord app, you use a browser - Chromium specifically: Discord is an electro app.

In other word, if you already run a browser that burns hundreds of megabytes of RAM, disk, and requires tons of CPU do display simplistic things, as browsers do, you might as well use it to access Discord instead of running a second insanely wasteful browser disguised as a native app.

My experience with Discord, period:

That doesn’t make you divine.

I was onboard until I saw the “divine being” and “holy tongue” bits. I’m a technophobe, not a religious nutter.

Also, as cars designed by immature adults go, it might just look better than the real thing.

Google does not automatically mean bad

Yes it does.

Google does everything with an angle, and that angle is putting you under surveillance and collecting monetizable data on you.

Google has (or had, maybe?) fantastic products. They’re truly great! The translator, the map, Youtube… But they’re great for exactly the purpose of luring you into using them, so they can abuse your privacy with them.

Google products are trojan horses: they’re irresistible but their true purpose is nefarious.

He who cares about privacy even a little bit and uses Google DNS servers doesn’t really care about privacy.

ZZ Stop

TeSSla

It’s all a matter of perspective. I’m an optimist myself so it goes:

• Before drinking: Hey it was a great day, Let’s have a drink to finish it off nicely
• After drinking: Hey it was a great day but I wish I didn’t have to ride the bus home