I’m calling this now: It’ll be even worse than you think, because “investigating” everyone this way would require a completely unrealistic amount of effort, because you’d have to review possibly decades worth of social media activity right then and there when the prospective entrant is standing at the customs desk. Nobody could possibly do that.

So these idiots will just use AI to do it for them, and as we all know full well the AI will return Earth-shatteringly wrong results pretty much all the time.

There was a specific version of the AOL installer back in the late '90s that would still let you install it and sign on even if you declined the EULA. It’s doubtful that anyone noticed or cared, but a friend of mine noticed it and I’ve pathologically tried clicking “no” on every EULA prompt ever since just to see if whatever piece of software will let me in anyway. Every once in a while I find one that does, but it’s pretty rare.

I imagine in this case somebody fucked up and just copy-pasted the “yes” button on the form without bothering to change its action in addition to its text. Who knows how that would stand up in court, and probably nobody’s ever had the opportunity to find out anyway.

Heyoo!

Them as are amused by the fan directed cursor may also enjoy Bubble Ghost, which came out on several retro platforms including the Game Boy.

I’m even more pissed that my old Motorola flip phone could dial by voice on the device, but my current pocket supercomputer running the latest Android can’t do it without recording my audio and sending it to a server somewhere to be processed in the “cloud,” and doesn’t even work if I’m standing somewhere with spotty data service.

I did this to my boss once. I noticed he was using one of those ghastly low-throw 'boards that show up with all the cheap entry level Dells and Amazon refurbished pieces of shit, and unlike on a real keyboard the profile is the same on all of the keys on those, regardless of which row they’re on.

So I rearranged all of his letters into alphabetical order. For good measure, I created a custom keyboard “language” layout that actually make it type that way, too. He put up with it for nearly an entire day before giving up and asking me for a different keyboard.

Actually…

I just had a poke around in the supply room. I still have it:

It’s a shame nobody’s heard from Angle Grinder Man in a while.

I knew I carried that damn katana around everywhere for a reason when I was a teenager.

I keep plenty of stock of this stuff and use it on plastic screen covers and bezels, plus it also does wonders on motorcycle helmet visors, sunglasses lenses (provided they’re not mirrored), and the Slipstreamer fairing on my Honda Shadow.

It does a credible job of defogging plastic headlight housings as well, but it takes a lot of elbow grease and a bitchin’ long time.

Or, “We’re salty because people have the audacity to comment on the threads in our little circlejerk sub!!!” I get this one on Lemmy occasionally, too.

Well, guess what: your shit made it to /all. If whatever lunatic thing you just posted can’t withstand public scrutiny, don’t post it to a public forum on the internet.

This is exactly the thing.

Whatever the dress may be in reality, the photo of it that was circulated was either exposed or twiddled with such that the pixels it’s made of are indeed slightly bluish grey trending towards white (i.e. above 50% grey) and tanish browny gold.

That is absolutely not up for debate. Those are the color values of those pixels, end of discussion.

Edit to add: This entire debacle is a fascinating case of people either failing to or refusing to separate the concept of a physical object versus its very inaccurate representation. The photograph of the object is not the object: ce n’est pas une robe.

The people going around in this thread and elsewhere putting people down and calling them “stupid” or whatever else only because they know that the physical dress itself is black and blue based on external information are studiously ignoring the fact that this is not what the photograph of it shows. That’s because the photograph is extremely cooked and is not an accurate depiction. The debate only exists at all if one party or the other does not have the complete set of information, and at this point in history now that this stupid meme has been driven into the ground quite thoroughly I should hope that all of us do.

It’s true that our brains can and will interpret false color data based on either context or surrounding contrast, and it’s possible that somebody deliberately messed with the original image to amplify this effect in the first place. But the fact remains that arguing about what the dress is versus how it’s been inaccurately depicted is stupid, and anyone still trying that at this late stage is probably doing so in bad faith.

You’re an adorable little urchin, Max.

I’ve never seen naptha (i.e. Zippo lighter fluid) do anything to any painted or finished surface, nor any of the plastics I’ve ever tired it on. I’ve been using the stuff in that context for decades, to the extent that I literally purchase it by the gallon. (I also use it in my lighters, because painter’s naptha is like 2% of the cost per volume of brand name Zippo fluid despite being the same stuff.)

WD-40 contains nonvolatile oils that will leave a difficult to clean off residue behind and if you use it on anything porous it will soak in and possibly stain the surface while being functionally impossible to remove without using yet more solvents. For that reason it’s not really a great way to get stickers off of things, especially things that you’d like to remain non-greasy or may need to stick something to again at some point in the future (paint, tape, etc.).

Naptha will evaporate entirely on its own given enough time, and you can even use it on paper and printed surfaces (excluding inkjet printed things, in my experience, which it will smear) with no harm done after it fully dries.

I have a strong suspicion this crowd would have voted for their fascist candidates regardless of whether or not Americans had gun rights at the time. Fascism (not to mention other broadly similar strains of right wing authoritarianism) has managed to rise in several places throughout history and all over the world, without the specific assistance of our deep south gun nuts.

Tons of liberal supporters are also in favor of gun rights. It’s just that nobody’s catering to them, because they’re less lucrative of a voting bloc than racist rednecks.

I await with interest your explanation as to how and why private gun ownership “caused and supported” the current unlawful government, considering that the government is perfectly capable of obtaining its own guns and supplying them to its goons without our input or intervention. And has been doing so for a little over two centuries. Furthermore, gun laws are deliberately structured such that the police and various government forces throughout the country enjoy considerably less restriction (or even none) on the type, number, and nature of guns that they’re allowed to own and use. Even if the individuals in question are retired or no longer on active duty.

A 12 ga. slug probably won’t, but these typically also weigh a full ounce and will be packing 2,300-3,000 FPE or so. Even if it doesn’t penetrate, the presumptive target is likely to wind up flat on his ass and not in a position to get up in a hurry. Imagine getting hit by a dump truck that’s about 3/4" in diameter.

Modern body soft body armor can usually be counted on to be designed around stopping pistol and maybe intermediate cartridges up to 5.56 or 7.62x39, so whatever big game chambering you have in your Fudd rifle is likely not to be too impressed by it. Just to throw some perspective out there.

It’s possible some of these dweebs could be strutting around in level III or IV plates but this doesn’t seem like a strong possibility. The chump in the picture certainly isn’t.

I think these morons are putting on a big old show to make themselves look tough but they are absolutely not acting like they really expect any resistance.

Microcenter, Newegg, B&H Photo and Video.

Well, the one in the headline is so hilariously far out of scale that it could probably fire actual life-sized F-35’s like missiles from its wing hardpoints.

It’s the regulatory environment. Same reason all the Surrons and Cakes and so forth that are road legal in Europe aren’t road legal here.

If these things don’t show up with FVMSS compliance certification, correct manufacturers certificates of origin stating that they are on-road motorcycles, valid and registered VINs, complaint with all NHTSA requirements and certified to qualify as either a “motorcycle” or “motor driven cycle,” it doesn’t matter how many lights they can strap onto the thing. It can’t be imported or sold as a road legal vehicle in the US, period. Even if it could be legal due to having the required features and equipment, if the manufacturer didn’t do the paperwork it still isn’t legal. And that’s before you get into the asinine state-by-state laws that will refuse to acknowledge any vehicle that does not fit into their narrow definitions of motorcycle or moped. You know, the ones I’m always complaining about that keep smoke-belching two stroke 49cc mopeds legal but not a Surron. You don’t have one set of regulatory hurdles in the US, you actually have 51.

Just to put it into perspective, Zero already sells full size electric motorcycles here and they rack up something like 3,500 units sold across their entire product range in a good year; these chump numbers still manage make them the highest volume electric motorcycle seller in the country. Meanwhile, Harley Davidson sold 94,930 machines in 2024. (And if anyone cares, Harley only managed to shift 614 Livewires in 2024.)

They’d sell about four of these, most likely utterly failing to recoup whatever expense they generated in getting them imported. Urban commuters who want affordable in-town transportation will just select from the bevy of available electric bicycles that require neither a plate nor a motorcycle license. I imagine most buyers of these would be rich kids or their parents who expect to use them purely in the dirt, or the type of punk who would happily ride a Surron dirty everywhere anyway; neither of these demographics are particularly interested in road legal compliance.

And they sure wouldn’t sell one to me, because I refuse to buy any product from Zero, ever. They tried to pull the subscription and pay-to-unlock hardware features stunt on their electric motorcycles several years ago, and that demonstrated that they’re not a trustworthy company.