The German words on the sign in the background support your observation

Completely agree. In fact, if he dies before then, it’s likely to have the opposite effect.

The problem is definitely bigger than just him. That doesn’t mean that the world won’t instantly become a better place once he’s dead.

I do hope that there’s some kind of mask off, smoking gun situation (that doesn’t require any more suffering than has already happened) that causes his followers to realize they have been deceived and prevents them from voting so stupidly again. I realize how unrealistic this sounds, but it is my fantasy.

After WW2, Germany taught its citizens the truth about the atrocities that Hitler and his party committed. A nationalist party didn’t start to get a foothold there again until the population that lived through the previous one had almost completely died off. That’s 80 years of progress and growth that could hopefully get the US back on track. If we can stop things now before they get to holocaust/world war levels, maybe next time the fascists take hold, it’ll be even less catastrophic than the current situation in the US. A few more of those cycles and we (as a global society, because clearly everyone reading this will be long dead) can get to our Star Trek utopia.

Lack of empathy is the core root cause of SO MANY right wing causes. It kills me because empathy itself is the core teaching of Christianity. If they were actually good Christians, they would live their lives undo the credo “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Anyway, I find Satanists (TST, specifically) and Leftists far more empathetic.

I mean, Eagles Of Death Metal are a band.

I’m definitely gonna need a translation of this into something comprehensible to those of us that only understand classical computing. I get the evolution of binary and logic gates from mechanical computing, to vacuum tubes, to semiconductors, to nanometer miniaturized transistors. I understand (but could not possibly write) how machine language has increasing layers of complexity and eventually becomes human interpretable instructions. I understand shared cache and multiple cores and how that formed a generational leap over clock speed.

I have no idea what the fuck this article is talking about. At all.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/9ncjw2/ooer_missus_spotted_in_shropshire_by_my_cheeky_mum/

This Reddit post from 2018 appears to be the same sign from a different angle

The issue isn’t storing each individual ID, it’s all of the networking operations that are done and total things that are stored/cached per user in each chat. All of those things are handled and stored as efficiently as possible. Sure they could set it to any number, but 256 is a nice round one when considering everything that is happening and the use cases involved. They have user research data and probably see that 128 is too close to a group size that happens with some regularity, but group sizes very rarely get close to 256, and 512 is right out.

Not sure how regional it is, but in Southern California, I’ve heard cajón mean both box and drawer. It might be a specific type of box? Like a wooden box made out of pallet wood.

Yes?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35486811/british-airways-sex-dungeon-orgy-milan/

I was 17 in 1998 when they started this promo. We had hockey practice the same day as the hamburger deal. My friend/teammate would borrow his mom’s minivan and we’d pile 6 of us and all our gear into a Ford Windstar. After practice it stunk so bad, we’d roll down every window we could, which wasn’t any behind the front row. We would hit up the McDonald’s drive-thru on the way home and buy as many burgers as they would sell us. The maximum was 20, which always seemed crazy when we initially hefted the heavy bag into the van and started passing it to the back row. Turns out 6 teenage boys have no problem putting down 3-4 of those dinky burgers and we rarely had leftovers, just piles of wrappers that never all made it back into the bag. The nostalgia of digging through piles of paper, trying to find the last burger at the bottom of the bag is something I haven’t thought about in years. Thanks for reminding me!

I’m really amused by how these were seen 100 years before ViewMaster.

Cornell, who has led the Minneapolis-based retail chain since 2014, received $9.9 million in total compensation for 2024, an 87% drop from his 2020 peak of $77.5 million.

What the actual fuck? Why are humans being paid $10m A YEAR, let alone over $75m?!

Yes, it’s generally a good idea to annoy the people who now have your data.