sacred billing units applied

I opted against taking a burner phone—a move that some legal experts had advised, in the press—believing it would provoke suspicion, and simply decided to give my phone and social media a superficial clean.

But C.B.P. had prepared for me well before my arrival. They did not need to identify me at LAX as someone worthy of investigation: they had evidently decided that weeks before. […] In either case, a U.S. government officer must have read my work and decided that I was not fit to enter the country. Because Officer Martinez had apparently read all of my material so long ago, he didn’t even know that I had taken all this material down. What this means is that, by the time a foreigner cleans his social media in preparation for a trip to the U.S., as much of our news media has been urging us to do, it may already be too late.

This had nothing to do with recovering any data from the phone. The information was already known to them.

*me

I think Hanlon’s razor applies in this case

For French it’s I

They were behind white genocide in South Africa

Paradox of tolerance

My ZX Spectrum clone didn’t have a “tape drive”, it had a cable that you could use to connect any tape player to it. We didn’t have a specialized tape player for it, we attached the same one we played music on.

I remember when I first saw floppies and how amazing it was to load things instantly instead of waiting minutes for a game to load from a cassette tape.

I’m in my 40s now and I definitely did not burn near as many CDs as my dad did (he was born in '49)

Same in my company. Acknowledging that you’ve seen the message and are looking into it.

Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn’t really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I’m too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.

Never understood why, but it’s called “thick milk” in mine.

Like all Romance languages, number “one” has different masculine and feminine forms, depending on what you’re counting. Unlike other Romance languages, number “two” is also gendered.

Have they stopped airing Zeffirelli’s one on TV? I remember it was always on the schedule during Easter.

👉🧱🙏

Not sure what that distinction would look like. But it should look more honest.

Just look at all MMOs. Everybody knows the game will only last as long as the servers are alive and that all you’re downloading is a game client. Even if it’s a one time purchase and no subscription (e.g. Elder Scrolls Online), its very clear you’re only buying access to the game (usually part of the game content, other parts cost extra), not the game itself.

Sometimes it’s been a while since I last checked the feed and I go for Top 12 hours

Yes, not all people are of the same opinion on what is better. Or even that we need to improve in the first place.

people could just find anything meaningful and it would be equally valid

From an evolutionary standpoint, sure. As long as the species keeps going, evolution doesn’t care how.

But from our own desire of self-improvement, some paths are better than others.