Mutual combat wasn’t uncommon when I was a kid. When two men were sick of each other’s shit, they would fist fight. They wouldn’t fight dirty. When the fight was over they’d often shake hands, and be done with that conflict. The wounds would heal within a couple of weeks. Emotional wounds from harassment and betrayal sometimes never heal.

I would like to change my bet to 4 pence please.

I used to have a VPN subscription, but most of the places I really wanted to block just blocked me instead. Lots of important services didn’t work, and it was a constant pain. So I just let the subscription expire when it ran out.

I’d bet good money that a skilled malicious actor could find out exactly who you or I am within a single day. Most people don’t even use anonymous email addresses, and any admin log showing their email address, combined with an IP address, would make tracking then down trivial.

It depends entirely on the tech stack it’s hosted on. If it’s hosted on an elastic server then it can support more people than there are in the world.

I couldn’t really say, but certainly not 1-4 decades. I guess I thought it was a year or two.

America was changed from the nation of my youth two decades ago, and has become more unrecognizable every year since. Like this excerpt, it’s always small incremental changes, changes you sometimes can’t even pinpoint. You’re called reactionary, or crazy when you point them out. When it’s undeniable such as the Edward Snowden events, people can’t hand-wave it away, so they turn on the person who told them, angry that their sheltered reality was shattered, then they promptly shove it down and cease to think about it further. The populace cannot be counted on to oppose these changes, especially when they’re kept intentionally on the brink, always fearful for their own security, and perpetually distracted. We have ignored history, and now we will repeat it.

The source is Thanos supposed IQ score.

Everyone likes tech. Does she understand it?

I’ll bet you 4 shillings he wasn’t!

PS, idk if that’s a lot of money or not.

You can’t own refracted light!

Rare enough? That’s the understatement of the millennium. We know of exactly one planet with life of any sort.

Trump would definitely surrender our country to them for some extra cheese on his Big Mac.

OR, it’s just destroying ours, and the advanced civilisations want nothing to do with us. If you had a utopian society, would you want anything to do with us?

Okay, that makes it more understandable that he tried to kill himself, and then mastered the piano and several other things.

That’s not how it worked. He killed 50% of gut bacteria by killing 50% of the hosts.

We learned Pythagorean theorem in 7th grade when I was a kid 30 years ago. I think they learn it even earlier now.

My advice would be “shut the fuck up and listen”.

And musk, and about a dozen other names including Biden, Harris, and Bernie.

Things are about to get a whole lot less regulated too. I hope you like poison in your drinking water!