In this day and age, I think most babies are born out of wedlock.

Around 40% in the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/out-of-wedlock-births-by-country

Influencers are cancer.

He campaigned on peace

And he’s a habitual, compulsive liar. Anyone stupid enough to believe his talk about peace is a fool.

Hard to imagine FIFA being capable of embarrassment.

Refusal to comply is violence. “Stop hitting yourself!”

Every award is going to be more grandiose and ridiculous.

Always projection. As long as it’s their guy doing it, yay team.

It’s WWE politics.

Settle down, Hector.

Gladly.

The discussion about whether a DDOS account has anything to do with Russia solely because the IP addresses used are Russian fails to take into account the fact that Russian state actors and affiliated parties have previously done it that way. That includes attacks against sites that I work on. Not only DDOS attacks, but lots of vulnerability-probing attacks have come from Russian IPs as well (though not all, of course: China’s a close second on that leaderboard), and in one investigation of those, our security team was able to find a forum where the attacks were being coordinated. The discussion was in Russian. That doesn’t mean they were state actors in that case, but Russia’s not the kind of place where freelancers are allowed to operate against state interests for long. So maybe volunteers for the motherland, maybe mercenaries, maybe someone with a more formal relationship with the state. In that particular case, we stopped investigating at that point, since our goal was to harden our system further, rather than worry about attribution.

So yeah, you’d think that in the interest of good comsec, they’d go to the effort to obfuscate the origin of their attacks, but they don’t always. Maybe they’re sloppy, or they don’t see the need, or don’t want to incur the minimal additional complexity and/or cost.

Also, the Daily Beast is no paragon of journalistic integrity, but they’re more a mixed bag than a never-credible source. Case in point: Michael Wolff’s podcasts for them, which occasionally contain worthwhile insights mixed in with the tabloid gossip. I rank them a little below Times Radio, which also has a mix of clickbaity crap and occasional sound analysis. They’re certainly nowhere near the gutter that the NY Post or the Daily Mail inhabit.

Anyway… mea culpa for having downvoted rather than joining in. I was in a hurry, about to head out the door, and should have instead waited until I had the time to comment.

Bad idea, Germans.

Come to England! It’s always good to see Korean visitors.

A ghoul who will suffer no consequences

The future is unwritten.

She probably goebbels orange rim.

Who pays attention to what that yapping head on a stick says?

Just another lackey flooding the zone with bullshit.

Suicide is always an option.

He’s a worse person than the de Witt brothers. Seems fair.

The Daily Mail is a shit source for additional reasons besides AI, not least for historically supporting Hitler and Oswald Mosley. Goggle “Hurrah for the blackshirts!” for further context.

Power-mad mods is one reason I ditched the /r/.

“Hanged” is an obsolete usage that persisted in legal contexts because people who practice law tend to be pedantic bores. It goes back to the 1500s. “Hung” is first attested a century later.

It’s one of the uncommon cases where an originally weak English verb (hang/hanged) morphed into a strong verb (hang/hung) in later usage.

The protests were mainly writing with chalk on the sidewalk outside.

And don’t blame his parents, the rest of his family seem to be decent human beings. Parents have less control over how their kids turn out than most people believe. It’s all on him.