“If you think the world’s top scientists are trying to kill you, then why would you listen to any expert about anything? They’ll save you from yourself when you’re wrong anyway. Would you do the same for them? That’s why they’re trustworthy, and you and your sources are not.”

Malwarebytes probably cleared some session data. That list of accounts lives in your cache, not on Gmail. If you use the trial premium it may even do this by default, but I always use free no trial.

Fountain pens. They don’t make custom alloys of gold specifically for their nibs any more because they’re not ubiquitous. An old “wet noodle” italic Parker or Waterman is a writing experience to behold.

That takeaway from Hasan’s rhetoric sounds like the most bad faith interpretation I’ve heard since… Well, every time legacy media interviews Mamdani.

This is the state of a constituency which thinks progress is impossible without leaving the marginalized behind. The failure in expectation is the leaders’ faults too.

These and I’d add Crutchfield, Sweetwater, and Best Buy has good sales.

For components, the standard Mouser, Digikey, and McMaster-Carr

Peter Jones - Kilkelly (Ireland), it also has an interesting backstory

It’s very sad, but indicative of the time.

Dells latitudes are more repairable than the average, but I’ve had pleasant experiences with some gaming acers, HP omen, and XPS laptops. Mostly deal with Dell latitude and precisions though

Including themselves as mandatory in the service isn’t exactly a win for right to repair. Dell batteries cost us about 65 dollars or less and they ship them directly to us with no certification requirements. They also offer extended warranties up to 3 years on batteries and 5 years on components.

For laptops the battery replacements are easy to do usually. Apple is the only one who’s devoted their whole brand to making it impossible to repair full sized devices. I’ve replaced about 15 random dell laptop lithium batteries in the last year.

Artificial stem cells seem like the next thing to really revolutionize medicine.

Quantum computers for brute force hacks seems doable in 100.

Eye tracking pointer devices will likely be more convenient than mice within a dozen or two years. This will probably be widely available for people who are paralyzed first.

Diamond processors are always 10 years away, but I think we can do it in 100. This would revolutionize the amount of power we can put through a chip without worrying about cooling.

Quick charge capacitor replacements for standard rechargble batteries

Low yield fusion plants. I’d like to think of them as capable of high yield, but it’s much harder than initially thought. Some ideas are quite promising for low yield.

Nobody would gaslight a teenager as part of their authentic display of sorrow. This guy is a piece of shit who was hoping you wouldn’t care and needed you to feel a certain way to cover his bases on not being reported… imo

That’s a shame, I didn’t realize how culturally isolated they were. I appreciate the redirection of my black and white analysis to a more nuanced one. I would always research a topic much more if it wasn’t specifically about my general vibes on it.

How do you feel about Qatar’s labor abuses such as confiscating passports?

I see that https://rch.qa/qatar-labor-law-can-your-employer-legally-keep-your-passport/ shows this is now strictly illegal, but also understanding how employer employee power dynamics affects legal systems I’m dubious of real change having happened.

I won’t believe it until a journalist is added to the group chat.

As far as I’ve seen, they’re not matching Modi’s Hitler vibes, but you likely know more than an ignorant outsider. I mostly just hate fascists and see India as incredibly problematic.

Maybe just the power dynamic. India is far more powerful, although they both have nukes.

Qatar as a labor exploiting oil nation, yep.

Pakistan I don’t associate with those things. I mostly associate them as the good guys in the culture war with India that causes Indians to come on to America social media and post the most deranged broken English shit you’ve ever heard about Muslims.

The US has already destroyed any good will with Iran with endless sanctions. They laugh at new sanctions because there’s nothing left to sanction, just like Fidel Castro. The entire point is to inspire more Islamic terrorism as a distraction for all the rights we’re losing.

I use both, but I actually prefer the button fly. When you bust through the bathroom door and gotta take a piss, you’ll appreciate being able to unbutton them all instantly with one hand as opposed to the zipper which will break or jam.

Can’t make this shit up

Every once in a while the bank ceo would show up, so a lot of his buddies would show up and do banking business. Lots of times that meant they’d be cashing checks bigger than 10k and then having absolute bitch fits about us needing their social and profession for the CTR. Without skipping a beat, they’d go get our do nothing ceo and then he’d come out and accuse the teller running the transaction of sucking at their job and to just do it and put his initials on it. We’d then call our lower level boss and she’d say, “Just run it through with these details from the last time this asshat showed up” and We’d never mention that we still did all of the reports to our CEO despite being told not to.

Idiot would have got the bank shut down by the government if anyone actually listened to his nepo-grandpa ass.