That‘s just how Chinese propaganda operates

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

If I haven’t beaten game one, it’ll be more than a month.

But synchronizing patch releases so you’re not bombarded with notifications would be nice, yes.

In a competent administration, this would be inspiring.

No it wouldn’t. It’s always been a dumb idea to get around public mass transit.

Sucks to be in Texas, the Silicon Valley alpha testing hub of the US.

Linux guy whipping out the “Actually, it’s a feature not a bug” line is very funny.

within three to five years

That’s tech speak for “never”

The technology, developed by Borui Kang Medical Technology (Shanghai), is designed to restore hand-movement capabilities in individuals suffering from paralysis.

Specifically, the system targets patients with quadriplegia resulting from cervical spinal cord injuries, enabling them to regain hand-grasping ability through the use of a specialised glove.

Incredible technology, nonetheless.

But crazy to think this would be a commercial public service any time soon

There should be a law against OS updates more frequent than once a month

Unironically. But only on the condition they bring back Google from 2011

Excited to see smear campaigns that become increasingly surreal and disturbing

Walking up to a game of Three Card Monte and saying “It’s pretty obvious he’s palmed the Queen” mostly just gets you heckled and chased away.

Part of the problem with digital spaces is that you’ve got your person setting up the scam, and then you’ve got your layer of people marketing the scam, and then you’ve got your first layer of suckers who think they are coming out ahead on the scam, and then you’ve got the second layer of suckers who all know a tier-one sucker who just got rich. And then you’ve got the bots and the ideologues and the contrarians and the know-it-alls, all repeating the line that the person who set up the scam encourages them to say.

And it’s over all that cacophony that you announce “It’s obviously a scam”. Then Reddit boots you for violating terms and conditions of the platform.

If there is an authority who recognizes the nft, then it has the utility value of the authority. End of story.

My man has been doomed off by the Anarcho-Capitalist fairy and is currently circling the planet Heinlein.

Etherium was run out of the offices of JP Morgan Chase and NFTs were a gimmick to boost the deal flow of their then-underperforming crypto offering.

It was, by and large, an enormous investment in sales and marketing on top of a ton of insanely shady business practices. Case in point, the infamous Beeple NFT that sold for $69.3M was purchased with Etherium to showcase Christie’s auction house accepting cryptocurrency for auction bids. The winning bidder for artwork was an early crypto adopter and marketer named Vignesh Sundaresan who was flush with these tokens, but lacked any kind of liquid market to sell them into yet. That’s before you get into the Congo Line of largely clueless celebrities going on Late Night comedy shows to plug their online pogs.

It’s trite to say that the whole thing was a scam because… duh. But I think people read this as “just dumb people being stupid with their stupid dumb money” and ignore the layer upon layer of market manipulation and con-artistry that went into making cryptocurrencies what they are today.

The fact that Donald Trump is using them to launder bribes from Middle Eastern dictators and East Asian kleptocrats should illustrate how deep these rabbit holes can go. It’s so much more than just peddling bad clipart to dumb bros.

There’s an abundance of work arounds, for certain. I’ve been using NewPipe for a year or two now.

Mostly just annoying to go through this ritual of jury rigging every new device to use basic Internet services.

The line between TV and PC Monitor is pretty thin. I’ve got my computer hooked up to my LG via HDMI and if there’s a difference between that and my office monitors, I can’t find it.

Increasingly difficult to find a dumb one. If Walmart or Best Buy carries them, they don’t make a show of it.

I believe this is roughly the premise of the Humancentipad South Park episode.

And “was a rapist in FL and a private island”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_N._Straus_House#Jeffrey_Epstein

Gotta wonder why the NY AG is so interested in prosecuting Steam and so blase about pursuing anyone in the Epstein Files.

Americans consistently bemoan violent teenagers until they put on a uniform. Maybe we should start referring to them as Military Age Males.

Actually, that’s not the truth. That’s propaganda from <insert person or group I don’t like>.