pretty sure in one of the GI Joe films there’s a ship that can only be controlled through Gaelic voice activated controls

he got kicked out of an award show for getting his wife to strip naked

who said that quote

just curious

is America still going up the rickety ramp or has it already begun the full plummet

Isn’t koba the name of the bad ape in planet of the apes

Parody is dead

next person to answer a human question with ai slop gets blocked

god damn

eggs here are like £3 for a dozen

not even

Not gonna lie, ai has helped me a fair bit. It’s so good for job applications.

There’s a mobile port for it now

literally witnessed this happen multiple times

some people are curious

then they try it and realise their attraction doesn’t go that far

Whatever needs to be redacted will be redacted. The worst files were burnt or never written down in the first place.

That applies to more than just JFK.

It’s that, but it’s also that relative to the 80’s and 90’s, America has gotten less racist (actually and symbolically). It’s a very low bar, but it’s always shocking looking at media from those times and seeing the shit people used to not even bat an eyelid at on TV. A time before widespread bodycam use (yes, I know, there’s still a lot of dodgy bodycam business), before every citizen had a camera in their pocket, before the news would spread like wildfire on the internet, or a video of some professor saying the N word, or whatever.

America is an incredibly racist place, and the system - laws, media, whatever - has undoubtedly done their best to dismantle black radicalism, but America has also got to a point where it is less justifiable than it was to have an armed militia in the name of civil rights. The police are bad now, but they used to be magnitudes worse.

It’s the same reason we don’t have radicalism in general anymore - the usual factors like repression and surveillance, but also because many of us have our needs just about sated, and have the illusion of free speech. Conditions necessitate militia style resistance - the conditions currently do not necessitate such a thing (to the wider population).

As soon as the imperial profit tap runs dry, living conditions will go down, people rise up - as soon as the state represses them as severely as they used to, the time of militias will be born again.

In all fairness, Russia censoring it is also just progressive posturing, and it just so happens to back up their foreign policy goals. They’re right, but not really for the right reasons.

idiots

nope the problem started with Trump and then it was okay and now it’s just about to start being a problem again in 3 days

Yeah, the startup fee, plus cos it’s in relative infancy I dnt think it’s worth it yet if you’re not a true enthusiast. Hopefully it takes off a bit.

Those thinkpads are still out there, but yeah, a little redundant in performance in 2024. T580 with the Thunderbolt dock and all the other upgrades was an absolute mini machine, but for the price it would cost to kit it out these days, I guess I’d probably just get whatever I could find that doesn’t have fucking everything soldered in. I feel like the next era of DIY computer shit is gonna revolve around desoldering. Pain in the arse.

Mm, yeah, that was all I really found. Not heard great things though - feel like in the coming years if it takes off it’ll become a solid product for the price. System76 was recommended too.

What’s a good laptop these days? Is there anything modern that’s as customisable as the old Thinkpads (T580? Something like that)

In a lot of ways, Britain did the first ‘woke’ capitalism. Ending the slave trade on their own terms has turned out to be a two hundred year masterstroke in letting themselves off the hook, while retaining control over all their colonies (for a good extra century)

Then the war happens - all they had to be was less racist than Hitler, and they needed manpower anyway, so they enlist the whole commonwealth into their ranks.

Post war, they encourage immigration to Britain not only to rebuild the country, as the classic Windrush narrative goes, but also because if they don’t, the commonwealth will side with the various communist revolutions going on. Winston Churchill is even quoted to have said so.