It’s almost like they need something mobile they can add weaponry to that could chase and hunt down security threats…

Is it super loud, though? I had a bread machine years ago and I rarely used it because the noise was very unpleasant.

What’s your opinion on duckduckgo on a phone?

My computer is covered, but which app is safe to block ads on my phone?

On my phone it’s not just the ads that aggravate but also the autoplay videos–the ones that follow you as you scroll down. I can’t prevent them from autoplaying.

I second most of these, especially The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

I would add most Kubrick films including Dr. Strangelove and 2001.

Also, Being John Malkovich, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Dawn of the Dead remake 2004

The most recent film I can’t stop watching is Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Theives.

Telling people to go touch grass is the new way to tell people to shut up. No thanks. I won’t shut up.

I hate the current dental setup in the US. They lay you down absolutely flat.Then, they spray water in your mouth, and they never keep up with the suction, and you feel like you’re being waterboarded, because you are being waterboarded.

I’ve gone my entire life never being afraid of the dentist. Even as a child, I wasn’t afraid of the dentist. And now I’m afraid of the dentist.

The dentists act like it’s a huge deal if you tell them you can’t lay all the way completely flat on your back. That’s the most vulnerable position to be in while somebody’s looming over you and waterboarding you.

I’m trying to figure out if they’re doing it on purpose to try to torture us and make us more submissive, I wouldn’t put it past America at this point, our leaders have become so evil. We’re probably going to find out in like twenty years that this was a psy op to torture Americans and see how we would respond.

Just to be clear, I don’t think the dentists are the ones doing this. I think that they’re being taught to do it this way, and manufacturers are making these new tables.

Ay, oh, way to go Ohio

I sideload my own books and then turn off the internet on the Kindle. Other than knowing what books I have, are they still able to monitor all those other things?

I ask because I don’t completely understand some of this internet networking stuff. The other day I turned off my router while I was watching a video on YouTube and the video kept playing with no interruption or lag while I thought I had turned off the wifi in my house. I guess we can’t turn it off anymore? Or was it able to keep playing because it was cached?

I’m not the first one to say this, but it’s actually Operation Epstein Fury.

Or is it Furry?

Find an asian market near you. The ramen is so cheap there and it’s way better than the ones in the supermarket.

This is the way.

Just a few practical tips for those of you wanting to do this, but feel a bit nervous about dealing with the chicken carcass. Disposable gloves are your friend. Pull off every bit of meat you can possibly pull off. It can be frozen and then used for pretty much anything. You can throw it in tacos. You can put it in ramen soup.You can just eat it. You can share it with your dog or cat, if you can afford one.

If you have an Instant Pot cooker, I have the small three quart sized one, it makes it really easy and quick to simmer the carcass and get all that delicious bone broth. The bone broth can also be used for anything savory you’re making that requires water like rice, instant stuffing, Ramen, couscous. You get the idea.

The film, Triangle of Sadness, presents what could go horribly wrong when you take the customer is always right too seriously. It’s both comical and profoundly disturbing.

It’s not just facial recognition anymore, though, they’re looking at all kinds of other stuff, even how you walk.

I can smell earthworms when it rains. It’s gross.

Fast Car is one of those songs that always makes me cry.

I’ve been listening to Bob Marley & the Wailers:

Get up, stand up: stand up for your right

Get up, stand up: don’t give up the fight

In reality, it’s going to screw so much stuff up and do so many things you don’t want it to do, that you’re going end up spending a lot of time just correcting all the mistakes it makes.

And when you’re not fighting to stop it from doing more things you don’t want it to do, you’re going spend your time worrying about what it will do next that you’re going have to fix.

And unless you pay for the most expensive phone and the most expensive tier of service, they’ll probably dumb it down on purpose and your life is going be hard.

I love mosaics and this is a stunningly beautiful one. I stared at it for a really long time.

Me: Is there milk?

AI: You’re absolutely right to ask if there is milk, you’re not crazy, you’re not paranoid.

Me: Why did you bring up crazy and paranoid? I’m just asking if there’s milk.

AI: I’m using a psychological manipulation technique called presupposition.

Presupposition refers to the underlying assumptions that must be accepted for a statement to make sense. It operates subtly, influencing how people interpret information without their conscious awareness. For example, saying, “I know you’re busy, but can you help me?” presupposes that the listener is indeed busy.

Presuppositions are powerful tools in persuasive communication. They shape the listener’s thought process, guiding them to conclusions without direct assertions. This technique is often used in advertising and political discourse, where implicit messages can be more effective than explicit statements.

I really wish trigger discipline was a public service announcement. You know those commercials they used to put on the tv all the time about stop, drop, and roll for fire safety. I wish there was one for trigger discipline.

If you practice trigger discipline, it takes care of most the other rules. In a high stress or excitable situation, if you go into fight or flight mode, the first thing you do is make a fist without even realizing it. You don’t want your finger to be hovering over the trigger when this happens.

I wonder how many lives would be saved if this was repeated enough to be made common knowledge.