Not mentioned here but there was some other drug, a tranquilizer called xylazine that was being used to cut fentanyl that I heard was largely to blame.

A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…

Oh man I did not need to know that.

Handegg

“Au Feu de Bois” - wood fired

So what role are they fulfilling?

Well, right now, the role of fluffing up Donald Trump’s ego with big silver letters at taxpayer expense.

I feel this a lot in this administration. The government actually is too big and it actually does need to be reigned in and seeing some (not all) of these institutions destroyed or crippled is actually gratifying for exactly the reasons you mention. I just wish it wasn’t accompanied with a side of “here’s some piss on your head, it must be raining.” These idiot cosplaying shitheads are not the right tools for the job.

This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

I think it’s fair to say those rookie numbers don’t reflect reality. The orange turd can’t have his minions saying anything is less than perfect.

Ah yes, the Cox Communications model.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

This statement is gibberish. It makes no sense.

“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.”

A deal with who for what? This is an American talking to a Russian?

What the fuck is this point of this stupid verbal diarrhea?

Strange, I put the same link in one of my comments and a mod removed it.

Removed by mod

I highly recommend to everyone just turning off your watch history on YouTube. You will not be given recommendations and you have to make a search for something in order to get anything at all to watch. Only works on desktop/laptop though. I successfully kept my parents away from all these destructive algorithms (I managed to keep them totally off Facebook, et al), but YouTube got them because you cannot turn off recommendations when using YouTube apps on phones/tablets/TVs - and it single-handedly turned them into right wing sycophants over about a four year period (to be fair, they were already the religious type).

I mean, the core idea of the technology - that a single monolithic file can be broken up into a torrent of smaller packets and losing the connection won’t mean that you lose your progress towards downloading the big file - doesn’t require that you also act as a seeder. Personally, I’m fairly sure Steam uses something like this behind the scenes, as their delivery system, because you can interrupt it and it will continue once you resume.

HAL did nothing wrong.

Oh well if a senator said it then by all means, let’s stop and take notice.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

It’s being handled by algorithms and AI, not people. It requires only a relatively few people at the top of the largest hedge funds and financial institutions, all of whom are benefiting from it. Truth be told, they don’t look at themselves as bad guys and in all honesty, they might not be. Aside from the unfortunate side effect of giving them the power to pick winners and losers, literally everyone benefits from a market that can’t implode.

It’s not like it isn’t being said openly in certain corners of the Internet. Anyone who “breaks ranks” and says it will just be downvoted and ignored as a crank (as my simple comments here can attest). In the meantime, the indices will fluctuate and react to the news giving a veneer of authenticity, yet the march will move ever upward (as it has, manifestly, since the last “real” crash, 2008).

For those who think this is just bullshit, I would suggest that you read a fantastic book called Flash Boys and then contemplate that it was written in 2014. The author, Michael Lewis, had this to say, also, 11 years ago.

The stock market is wholly price controlled by the biggest players via dark pools, algorithms, AI and HFT and that there will not be an appreciable crash ever again because of this. So it’s going to be very interesting as it continues to make less and less sense and we continue to get ever-higher numbers coming from Wall Street.

Edit: downvoted every time man, people really want to believe in the stock market (or maybe they just want to believe it can go down in flames lol). Well that’s cool, the big players I’m sure are glad for your existence. But you’ll all come around.