Fox News would argue otherwise.

But in all seriousness, look at the past 100 years and all sorts of “white” groups have been marginalized. It used to be that the Irish and the Italians were both dubbed “not good enough” back in ”the day”. That’s part of why “Columbus Day” became a holiday originally.

These days? Yeah, not so much, but you’ll still see some vitriol towards Eastern Europeans for instance.

But you’ll also see Italians decrying immigrants and how the foreigners are ruining things, and missing the plot.

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2026/10/08/another-south-dakota-republican-lawmaker-is-facing-a-criminal-charge/

It’s a decent book. 3.5 for Goodreads is actually pretty respectable.

The problem is that it’s a decent book from Varley, the guy who wrote Titan/Wizard/Demon and Overdrawn at the Memory Bank. Hell, he wrote the whole of the Eight World “series”. He’s won the Hugo 3 times. Average is a disappointment.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13542400-slow-apocalypse … A scientist has developed a cure for America’s addiction—a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he didn’t consider that his contagion of an Iraqi oil field would spread to infect the fuel supply of the entire world…

The biggest critic seems to be the article writer, who are posting quotes by “critics” who are just random redditors.

I saw how they created the SHA-1 signature string, it was something like: “THAT_PART1_STRING(35235nnASaf12) + APPTOKEN + UDID + MYPHONENUMBER + SECURITY_IMAGE_ID”

That string, i think, looks like a “pepper”. A salt is unique per user and stored in the database; that would’ve prevented this. The pepper should never be hard coded either.

Yup, they’re building several new churches near me, and I’m in the ‘burbs in Texas.

Do you want gray goo? Because that’s how you get gray goo.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/iphone-handoff-one-number-two-phones/

But The Apple documentation (https://support.apple.com/en-us/127274) mentions that your iCloud gets synced between both devices, so now I’m confused what the purpose of this is

Your sister is going to have a crisis of conscience/faith at some point, since she’s definitely in the wrong career/line of work if she’s a nurse that doesn’t want to help people. If she’s just there for the paycheck, she’s still in the wrong line of work because they don’t get paid enough for what they get put through.

Interestingly, iOS 27 has a new “2 phones can share 1 number and you can swap between them” which didn’t seem to make a lot of sense.

Waiting for the admin to blame Biden in 3…2….

Tariffs.

Not technically - it deadens your sense of smell, which affects your sense of taste.

I would say chili peppers can do that, though.

Grinder was down, so…

There’s always one. /ThreeStoogesSlap. Stupid autocorrupt.

These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.

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Long Island Iced Tea became Long Island Blockchain

Fair enough.

We lost at the Alamo. We did not lose the war, but we lost at the battle.

The Americans lost at the Alamo. It’s why the call is “Remember the Alamo” (and how Santa Anna killed everyone there)