🚁 No crew member of the four russian aircraft that crashed today in the Bryansk region survived.
Have a good weekend. pic.twitter.com/ySGf29C1hB
— Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 (@maria_drutska) May 13, 2023
I wonder if there is some reason that those Russian aircraft crashed…like being hit by a big fucking missile?
(I know she knows what happened and is just being funny. Russia winning all over the place!)
Passkeys may not be for you, but they are safe and easy—here’s why.
You can tell there’s a huge propaganda/PR push behind this now — there are articles everywhere — and when anyone objects, more are written. I hope it’s clear that like most things these days, this is all in an effort to gain more control of you and what you are allowed to do online.
It’s also to assist with tracking and the ability to essentially nuke you from the internet if you get unruly. Of course, “for your own good.” Just like with the Mozilla Firefox fiasco, I once again wonder, why do people fall for this shit? And so easily too?
Perhaps I’m an old clueless loser, but it’ll never not be weird to me to hear people say shit like, “It’s impossible to weigh less than an ocean liner! No one can control what food they put in their mouth. It’s genetic!” And such like that.
I just fundamentally do not understand.
Microsoft to start implementing more aggressive security features by default in Windows.
Translation: Microsoft plans to prevent you from doing what you want to do on your own machine “for your own good.”
Of course I expect the usual bullshit that people will tell me about how some large corporation knows what’s best for me and how I use my own computer.
And to that I say: fuck all y’all.
What’s the best food that you ever ate ?
“Best” is too broad, but one dish that returns to my mind frequently is some bread pudding we ordered at a café in Santee, South Carolina, a few years ago.
It’s surprising that it happened in America, really. Bread pudding can be boring, but this was fresh out of the oven, filled with various fruit, made with quality ingredients and cooked perfectly. The vanilla ice cream served on the side complemented it like they were made to be together. If I hadn’t already eaten a full meal before that, I would’ve ordered seconds. That bread pudding was shockingly good, the way only food that reminds you how damn good food can be ever is.
That was one of the best things I’ve ever eaten in my life and demonstrates how you don’t know how something really tastes or how amazing it can be until you get a quality version of it.
"I'm winning! I'm winning!" I shout as I steadily retreat while my best troops are killed https://t.co/sb3DcuCxNS pic.twitter.com/F7IMBajxUN
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 11, 2023
If winning looks a lot like losing, it’s losing.
In 1977, media prophet Marshall McLuhan discussed CIA and FBI surveillance, and then spun it into one of the most mind-bending comments on identity in the digital age I've ever heard. pic.twitter.com/gDWVJa4Anh
— Benjamin Carlson (@bfcarlson) May 10, 2023
Marshall McLuhan’s reputation is well-deserved. He saw much that was inevitable before it occurred and is still more correct and relevant than nearly all digital pundits today. That people still don’t comprehend what he was getting at, mostly, is too bad. Reading McLuhan and Baudrillard can get you 70% of the way to understanding what the hell is going on now and why — and that’s pretty impressive.
Woman asks man for a cigarette, when he refuses she lights his car on fire.
Mom? 😉
(That was still recoverable until he pulled out the nozzle. If he’d immediately taken his jacket off and thrown it over the flame and pressed a little, the fire would’ve gone out in a few seconds. Gasoline itself doesn’t burn — but the fumes do.)
Going thru surgery, physical therapy and basically never being able to do anything athletic ever again to be 6’0 is nuts man https://t.co/WLttpU9aXB
— Cook 💤 (@DLegacy12) May 10, 2023
I’d never do that, but it can be a logical decision when you realize how many women are totally obsessed with height. At 5’5″ going to 6’0″, it means your dating pool goes from 10-15% of women to 80%+. And that’s massive.
Can’t get over how many kids and adults who have only known a relatively filtered Internet – and who have never seen ultra graphic imagery before – are now seeing it for the time on Twitter thanks to that emerald-mining rat bastard.
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 11, 2023
I came up on the internet where there were absolutely no filters of any kind, so in some ways it’s kinda refreshing.
Was just thinking about that absolute dipshit who said there are no real videos anywhere on the internet of people dying.
And then thinking about how I spent part of the afternoon on various Ukraine/Russian war subreddits where I saw, I don’t know, maybe 3-4 dozen people killed. I don’t enjoy those videos but I like to see what miltech is up to these days. And those drones are brutally effective. Damn. War has really changed.
Relatedly, another sign the war effort is not going well for the Russians, no matter what clown-ass motherfucker Ian Welsh claims: in two different videos after a Russian soldier is injured in the trenches, each soldier in question commits suicide — one with his own grenade, and one with some AK-47 variant.
They know no help is coming, medical or otherwise, so once they are injured badly enough not to be able to walk anymore, they just end it. This is not what a winning war effort looks like.
That has been a weird, recent shift. And it makes no goddamn sense because Kat is right — it’s often the very same people making both claims.
The destruction of this part of the social fabric is such a tragedy. Here’s a map of the collapse. (PS: if you reply suggesting this is due to something that started in past 50 years, you fail at basic math (1950 vs 1919) and I will probably block you to preserve quality of talk) https://t.co/znBouPnxI5 pic.twitter.com/jcl2tzxMZj
— Emmett Shear (@eshear) May 9, 2023
When I was eight, I routinely rode my bike to a convenience store three miles away. I also rode (and sometimes walked) to a friend’s house who lived also about three miles away in the other direction.
With that same friend, we’d sometimes wander miles and miles through fields and back roads to get to fishing spots. I guess the most we ever went was about 10 miles, but I don’t know.
None of this would be allowed today.
Google passkeys are a no-brainer. You’ve turned them on, right?
FUCK NO.
Because I am not a dumbass, and I do not do stuff that dumbasses do. This is all about stealing more data with the ability to lock you our of our own stuff at any time. It’s yet more fake “security” to help you “for your own good.”
I was very upfront with my boss, with whom I have a good relationship: if there were any RTO mandate enforced on me ever, I’d immediately quit. I made it clear that I didn’t mean in two weeks, or a week. No, my quitting would be on the spot.
He took it well as he already kind of knew that, but I wanted to make it extremely clear. I have not received and do not expect any negative repercussions from that (in fact, I got a large raise after).
Having a combination of rare skills certainly helps a lot. Otherwise I could not pull such shit off. I feel for those who do not.