THEY WERE ON A BREAK!

The demon is Microsoft’s AI

I think I’ll sit this one out

You know how before the elections we say that it’s not the time to nitpick the Democratic Party because it’s more important to have it win so that the fascist won’t win?

Well, now we are not before elections, which means that now it is the time to nitpick the Democratic Party.

The bar is not that high. You just need to stop digging when the shovel is still in usable condition.

“The growth of dark traffic undermines the ability of publishers to fund the production of quality content, or even operate as a business. We must recognise users are not the main driver causing this.”

And Scott Messer, founder of publishing adtech consultancy Messer Media, added: “Dark traffic is unlike anything we have seen before. It’s demonetising publisher content at scale without user consent.

Are they trying to present it as if poor innocent users need to be protected from the vile ad blockers?

The public transit vehicles that go short distance are optimized for short distances. The ones that go long distance are designed differently. This is feasible, because there is no need for a single vehicle to work both short range and long range routes.

Take busses for example:

• The plastic seats in urban busses are less comfortable than the cushioned ones in long range busses - but this design makes them easier to get into and out of, which you will be doing a lot more when the rides are short.
• Urban busses have less seats and more area for standing and walking. This area allows you to get off the bus more quickly (because there is more room to walk) - compared to long distance busses where once the bus stops at the station everyone who want to get off need to form a line (there is not enough room to not form a line). Short distance busses need this to shorten the time the bus stops at each station - a properly that’s less needed for long distance routes, making long distance busses opt for more seats so people will not have to stand.
• This standing area also means you can stand up and move toward the doors when the bus approaches your station - which streamlines the process. Long range busses are less comfortable to stand at, so you are expected to seat until the bus stops.
• Long range busses have storage compartments, so that your luggage won’t bother the other passengers. Short range busses don’t have it, because it’ll make the stops take more time, so all that standing area is also useful because people will have their luggage with them (and it’ll also be smaller luggage because most passengers aren’t going on long trips)

I’m not clicking on this link. I suspect a yacht is not the only thing that are never gonna be given there.

That would be quite a lot of chest to clutch

He was genuinely surprised. Nobody knows what Trump will do next. Not even Trump.

Maybe the real Epstein list is the friends we made along the way?

How else will they be able to sell overpriced angel togas?

Trump has accountability! He has the best accountability!

Not as mad as the guy who’s lunch you’ve stolen!

Euphemisms are meaningless once the connotation settle in. No person alive in the modern civilization can heart the term “concentration camp” and think “oh, this is not so bad then”.

No, because words have meaning. People also died in the original concentration camps - they were still distinct from the extermination camps.

The entire world is

The big waste of resources is not the 25 separate connections to a high-bandwidth video call. That’s kind of minor. The big waste is these 25 bots running separate LLM queries each.

I’d expect Israel to see the decline at 2024. For Russia I’d expect it to be at 2022. By 2025 these countries probably didn’t see a decline simply because they started from a low baseline.

I also didn’t mind the two extra buttons, and was a little sad when they went away, because they were largely replaced by the joystick buttons, which I think are hard to use properly.

Weren’t the black and white buttons replaced by triggers? The joystick buttons already existed in the first XBox.