Before I looked closer, I thought the one on the right had a bunch of medals pinned to it like a North Korean general.

Rafiki whacks you on the head with his staff.

Go talk to a therapist!

Was going to comment at the top level, but I wanted to share my thoughts here.

The OP is a really talented writer (I assume in this day of AI) and their ideas have been pretty top notch, even if they are getting some form of assistance with the writing. I genuinely think once they have a body of work, they should launch a website to monetize their efforts or parlay this into future opportunities. Assuming that’s what they want, anyway. The talent is there.

Yeah, but how is making them cool going to help?

“NASA confirms that their new GPS satellites are totally rad. They launch them to space via half pipe!”

(I’m joking.)

Read this

That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.

Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.

Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.

That’s horrible. I love it.

Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.

There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.

I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?

This is so pathetic and stupid.

This isn’t aimed at Russia or China, whom the article calls out by name.
This is a dick measuring contest with Iran and North Korea.

I mean - he made the announcement in South Korea.

Diplomatically, Trump (well, his administration) has stated to learn that befriending and allowing tinpot dictators to humiliate the U.S. is non-viable. So they’ve moved to cold-war era tactics of arms races and implied threats of nuclear holocaust.
They, of course, are focusing on smaller nations that while powerful in their own right, aren’t actual threats to the U.S. global hegemony. Not that I support continued U.S. dominance on the world stage, but it’s a weird priority.
Maybe by the end of the admin, they’ll be caught up to Clinton, who realized the best way to apply pressure was economically and via international partnerships — assuming the U.S. has an economy and international partnerships to leverage by then.

I have no memory of this place.

The social contract is that we do not tolerate intolerance. If someone is intolerant or they tolerate intolerance, they are violating the social contract.

If she’s calling for tolerance of his views (she is), or is clear that she’s tolerant of his views (again, she is), then she’s breaking the social contract.

As his wife, she would know his medical history, and would know if he underwent a personality shift. As a politician, she’s expected to represent all of her constituents and have sound judgement, especially in matters of conflicts of interest.
There’s no more story to know or no mitigating factors. Throw the baby out with the bathwater on this one.

It was a TCL Alto 9+.

A quick internet search reveals that this issue was known about at least three years ago.

Another model, the 8i was reported to have a root password of “12345678” - which is partially how I got the idea to start seeing if I could gain root.

I personify my ADHD symptoms as “the goblin”

The ADHD goblin steals memories, tells me to eat when in bored, tells me that every minor rejection is a major judgement against me, and all the other symptoms I can’t think of right now.

I commented elsewhere, but I once had a soundbar that just had a no password ssh login. It was one of those ‘connect to your WiFi’ to stream music through models and for whatever reason, after connecting it to my WiFi, it continued to broadcast the publicly joinable setup network.

SSH was open to both the unsecured and secured networks, so anyone within WiFi distance of the device could have gained root control of it. Or if I had a sufficiently weak network setup, anyone online could have taken control of it.

A few years ago I noticed an annoyance with a soundbar I had. After allowing it onto my WiFi network so we could stream music to it, it still broadcast the setup WiFi network.

While dorking around one day, I ran a port scan on my network and the soundbar reported port 22 (ssh) was open. I was able to log in as root and no password.
After a moment of “huh, that’s terrible security.” I connected to the (publicly open) setup network, ssh’d in, and copied the wpa_supplicant.conf file from the device to verify it had my WiFi info available to anyone with at least my mediocre skill level. I then factory reset the device, never to entrust it with any credentials again.

Definitely. I over-explain things. My “I can’t believe…” is that I was offering a statement that was in any way positive about Epstein.
Really, I wanted to opine on the vile nature of people with no morals who use technology to launder suffering and exploitation into investor dollars, and your comment was a great setup for it. (But I did get your joke, and I thought it was a good one.)

My strategy is to just go as slutty as acceptable for any vague character.

I’ve gone as sexy cowboy, sexy plumber, underwear model bitten by vampire (the bat onesie is too hot, so I just kept taking it off to reveal shiny metallic reptile print underoos), Dionysus (just a very shiny white piece of fabric wrapped into a skimpy toga and a staff, plus I kept offering to refill drinks), Slutty Jesus (Same as Dionysus, sans staff). More reserved looks have included fully clothed himbo firefighter, and before what’s-her-face went crazy, a very dapper Sirius Black.
This year I’m going as Luigi (the video game character), which is not explicitly sexy, but I’ll probably wind up taking off the shirt at some point. (I poured all my inspiration into my wife’s costume this year. She’s going as a dragon. She’ll be in a leotard with scales, a horned face mask, a cape, and various body chains and chainmail accessories. She’s going to be the bomb. I’m so excited.)

Oh, no - it’s not just making your morning darker! By making you wake up earlier in comparison to the natural rise of the sun, which shifts you farther outside your natural circadian rhythm than capitalism already does, you experience an effect similar to what people on the trailing edge of time zones experience, at least for a time. These include higher incidences of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and breast cancer. Oh, and increased rates of suicide.

…yay.

Edit: I love that every time I wade into the DST debate and present evidence that DST is garbage and we should all be starting our day later, I get downvoted or argued with by some person who thinks that because they get more sun in the evening, they are a better judge of the right approach to health than peer reviewed science.

I don’t think it’s individual evidence, really. I suspect it’s probably more the bot farms and pressure campaign. Those carry a lot of water for the illusion of continued group consensus.

Free?

McCarthy spins faster