I think it’s the kind of smile that one does when ordered to pose for a propaganda photo in support of a dictators illegal war that killed your child. That is not joy on display there.

I concur. I don’t want stylish. I want functional, compliant and for it not to harvest my fucking data. All that fucking flair and visual wankery can get in the bin if it’s not gonna do the essentials.

I am sorry my American friends but it is going to get a lot worse before it returns to the status quo and I doubt that it will even remotely get better ever again. As a nation you have lived off the spoils of victory and sided with despots because you have been happy with the crumbs that rich capitalists throw at you. Only when your conscience got the better of you, have you engaged in altruism and even then it was for the furthering of corporate interests.

You will no longer command the respect of your allies and trust of those that you once claimed to protect. Your friends will now treat you with suspicion and maybe contempt. The oligarchs and religious zealots will eat your organs while you’re distracted by culture wars, racism, fear and entertainment.

Many of you will say “Well, America first!”, without realising that it has been that way for almost a century except it has really been “America’s wealthiest first”. I really feel a great sadness, like losing a parent to dementia in that there are two deaths: one when they are no longer themselves anymore and the other when the vessel fails.

Vale.

Elon has neither the warmth nor depth of such a lovely piece of anatomy. He’s more like a thick, fully prolapsed, flaccid, “gaping like a wizard’s sleeve”, anus.

If you wipe them with an old tea towel you can put them in the draw that contains all the other things that don’t go into any other drawer. Then you can hand wash the towel and hang it out to dry to be used again in the future.

I got chicken pox in my 30s, before a vaccine was available.

It’s the only time in my life I considered becoming a pavement bollard by taking a dive from my 3rd floor apartment.

The pain was so bad that I ran a shower without the cold tap on until I passed out…for 2 days. Yes, I got hyperthermia, and was severely dehydrated but it was the only way the pain would stop.

Anti vaxxers are to be treated with contempt and mocked ceaselessly.

Note: I think you can get the vaccine at any age. Check with a reputable doctor or your local health authority.

This the plan. No government -> no regulations. No regulations -> no lube. No lube -> the US citizenry’s anus. Gaping, flaccid, prolapsed US citizenry’s anus’ -> corporate profits.

Metaphorically speaking of course.

…a flaccid, prolapsed, orange tube sock of an anus.

If the internet has taught me something it is: there is market for ANYTHING.

There would be a group of people out there thirsty AF for pics of you in either garment, no garments, a sailor uniform, dinosaur suit or a man-kini. You would be loved and worshipped by people you wouldn’t even had guessed would be into you.

Just don’t post it here please.

Well, yes. You could bury code or malicious data in an image, QR or otherwise, and leverage an exploit that during processing of the visual data within the camera subsystem or inter subsystem calls could hypothetically trigger an execution path that results in a different outcome than expected, all without user permission. There is a lot of sw and hw sec controls in play at internal system boundaries and it would be very very difficult to gain privilege enough to fist fuck a phone but not impossible.

With the outstanding level of FR, NFR and Sec testing that companies perform these days it is not likely to happen. It’s not like they push out minimal viable products or something, right? /S

A popular LBC presenter, James O’Brien, refers to him as Tommy-Ten-Names which is apt because Yaxley-Lennon is a massive cunt.

Jesus Fucking Christ…I hope this is satire. Bloke reaches out for some ideas on how to improve a situation he clearly sees is happening and wants to prevent and then BAM you drop this massive turd in his punchbowl of life.

Also, it’s ‘facade’.

Bush did it for his corporate masters, Blair did it for misguided righteousness and Howard did it because he wanted to be a war time prime minister…all of them are fucking war criminals.

Tabling something everywhere else means to put a topic into discussion immediately. Seppos think it means to discuss later or postpone.

Note: I use seppos affectionately of course.

Having worked with Americans (US) for many years I think it is more of a doubling down on being wrong and just committing to it out of sheer bloody mindedness. Like the “tabling” something nonsense.

You won’t have to tell them about it because the full rectal prolapse that will become the US as a result of their infighting will negatively affect Americans for generations. You folks are in for one hell of an iron fisting by ultra conservative forces taking turns, one upping each others gape game.

I am very late to the party but a friend gave me one of these. Better than any keyboard I have ever had and I’m an old bastard.

https://mistelkeyboard.com/products/aff922daf90083d4382a8e6583885571

I share your sentiment but I think they will attempt to out cunt each other on being vile, petty children. The will try to be as punitive as possible with policy and neglectful in their duties to facilitate the mechanisms of functional government. And, yes maybe not completely because they are probably not even competent enough to do that.

I’m sorry my American friends but you’re in for some catastrophic shitfuckery.

Correct. Why the fuck should something being good, be a zero sum game?

The show brings back memories of all those 80’s kids adventure movies: Explorers, Time Bandits, Stand By Me, The Never Ending Story…

NVIDIA can suck a fat one. I’m getting an Intel Arc A580. It has decent performance and lotsa RAM.