I do like living in the USA. There is generally a reliability and safety that I haven’t seen in many other places. There are big problems for sure, and being married to an immigrant is worrying at times. We absolutely have backup plans but so far we have not seriously considered leaving.

There have already been several.

Yes, we are still trading on the same five acorns that were originally used as currency. /s

Yes, most of the wealth here is stolen, but the statement that wealth is zero-sum is absurdly inaccurate.

Somehow I feel like they will be fine when the bottom drops out and ordinary people will be the ones who pay.

Thanks I never heard about this one.

There are some issues with that, since someone else could access the phone number in the future. Using a number that you don’t have exclusive access to opens up a security problem when it comes to account recovery, etc.

This looks promising. I Like that it has group video as well. Thanks.

Thanks, I’m going to check this out. Seems pretty straightforward which is good for the family to use

The yacht crowd isn’t really concerned with national borders.

Why are our memories so bad? There are still people alive who lost friends to polio.

As someone else pointed out, x-lax gives you “smooth movements.” they had an advertising campaign in I think the 1980s. The slogan was “smooth move x-lax,” and it entered the vernacular slang for a decade or so. Generally, it was used in a sarcastic way when somebody does something that is specifically not smooth.

It’s used as the punchline here because it is intentionality so cringeworthy.

I choose to believe that this was done deliberately by disgruntled FBI agents.

It was probably just incompetence, but let me believe what I want.

Actual photo of my mind.

There’s absolutely a legal distinction between a drawing or other depiction versus a deepfake based on a person’s likeness.

No one ever asks about the company’s right to repair /s

I hate these old pictures that show the prize but never the meal.

How interesting that digital media preservation becomes piracy when a non-profit does it.

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There are two very narrow bands of people who would pass this test.

That’s pretty interesting. I’ve done some genotyping before, and I’m guessing that they probably check a handful of distinctive genes, not the entire genome.

For example, if they checked 45 binary markers (e.g. positive or negative) that would get you into that ballpark (assuming that they are evenly distributed and not correlated). Of course, there are also markers that are not binary but can have many different variations other than positive and negative.