This perspective is extra trippy because the port of Oakland and Naval Air Station Alameda are both so incomprehensibly huge on a human scale. You have an awareness and feeling for how big a city and skyscrapers are, so to see them in this perspective get made to look so small and so close to these expanses of concrete is mind bending.

I think these are the first hearings where they could say these things directly in many months. Remember that the fascist party controls congress and doesn’t want these hearings to happen.

Yes, they aren’t changing course, but Discord certainly did not say “most” in the announcement and it was a single sentence in a long article about age verification and content gating. They should have been far more upfront about their inference method being the primary one in the first place. This was a communication issue and not a reader issue.

It’s also possible they decided to tune their inference model to be a lot more, let’s say, permissive so that there isn’t a huge backlash of people getting asked to provide ID when they’ve been using the service for nearly a decade or longer.

Sharkord to replace Discord? Sad. Lame. Possibly worse than Stoat.

Nah you’re right, it’s definitely better than Stoat, but both are F-tier.

You know the people who had the files this whole time are the same people that would be the ones doing the arresting right?

How many of these releases do we need to have to realize that the truth being either exposed or rumored doesn’t change anything.

We had the Panama Papers. There was the Snowden leaks. The Chelsea Manning leaks. Hell, the fucking CIA admitted they were secretly drugging civilians with LSD just to see what would happen.

If you are surprised that this time is any different, you aren’t paying enough attention.

Keep dodging.

This “landlords are purely evil and rent is stealing” discourse doesn’t do any of us any good. It’s dishonest and makes people with sense not want to join your cause. If we actually want to make housing better and more available, we can’t be wasting our time throwing with this.

Her job is to do what she’s doing right now: achieving real tangible improvements. Your job is to get more people like her in positions of power so what’s achievable is closer to the outcome you want.

Yelling about ICE in the streets and on the internet doesn’t do anything. Getting a deal done to defund ICE so that can’t keep terrorizing the country does do real good. It would actually save lives. Far more than I bet you’ve ever accomplished.

Look I’ll be honest, as a renter, I’ve not heard a realistic alternative that I like better. Do I think landlords should be better regulated? For sure. Do I think housing should be a right, and free, high quality housing should be available everywhere to anyone who wants it? Yes, please!

I like the option to rent a place that’s even better than what the baseline option would be. I like that I can move around as I need to. I like that I can get a bigger, better, or just different, place when I have the funds. I like that I never have to deal with broken appliances or roof repairs and get to pick the type of place I want to live in.

You’re intentionally leaving out that the landlord maintains the property and appliances. That’s no small thing.

There are absolutely bad landlords who will do as little as their tenants will allow them to, for sure. Landlords aren’t like cops though, the continuing existence of bad landlords is not enabled by good ones like how “good cops” do.

Up voting for good discussion.

Yes but it is frighteningly easy to identify users from post history if someone really cares to do it. You either have to never comment about anything personal, including providing your expertise since that can be somewhat unique, or mix in enough bullshit in a way that’s not trivial to separate from the real stuff.

Loving the KOGEP side table / present box / pet cave.

I would still absolutely recommend Andor, despite Disney. It’s produced by Disney but they gave a ton of creative freedom to Tony Gilroy. It’s also pretty much just a prequel to Episode IV anyway, so it doesn’t really have any relation to the prequels or the sequels. It’s a great piece of art on its own, and could easily stand on its own without Star Wars.

It helps to have the context of the views of the speak. Hasanabi is a left guy (I had to double check this).

You’ve got sensors for acidity and alkalinity, but water is almost never truly neutral, so for sure you can taste that. You can also taste/smell a bunch of other stuff in water, like salt, other minerals, or chemicals like chlorine.