No, you can’t stop it. I think people get obnoxious tattoos for the same reason that they start doing hard drugs: they know it’ll destroy them and their lives and make things harder in the future, but they secretly crave that. They want the obliteration, the nullification of the self.
So…we’re importing people from the Third World to do jobs that will no longer exist and sending the few remaining jobs off to the Third World?
How’s that going to work? It’s not, that’s how.
It’s such a dumbass clownish piece-of-shit asinine idea that if you can customize the appearance of your software, somehow that will cause meemaw to send all her money to Nigeria.
First, she’s gonna do that anyway. Second, that increases security basically not at all while preventing knowledgeable users from doing what they want.
Which is actually the point. It was always about control. In the specific case I care about the most, the Firefox developers even specifically said they wanted to control what the users do because they knew the “right” way to use the browser and the “right” way is should look and operate.
Security was just the flimsy excuse. It was always about exerting power.
This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air.
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world.
Qantas releases first images of jet that will fly nonstop from Sydney to London and New York.
Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction.’
The Lonely New Vices of American Life.
Boeing won’t face criminal charge over 737 Max crashes that killed hundreds of people. Of course not. Can’t hold any corporation accountable now could we?
