He even removed an ear for aerodynamic efficiency.

The monster!

my god grabbing things from jars how has that never occurred to me

Just finished Last Light. The action sections were worse, and the stealth sections were better. The story was a better story, but told in a sometimes tedious way. I liked that there were strong characters and higher stakes, but something about the atmosphere wasnt as compelling. And the final one or two hours or so kind of dragged.

I also have mixed feelings, but I would still recommend. Good overall with occasional very good parts. I mostly wish that the final act was more fun.

If we're a assuming this is implemented by the OS, then a different OS. If implemented by a carrier, then I'd obfuscate my data through a VPN and possibly other tools. I'm already on a different OS and VPN so not much would change.

e: I guess a vpn wouldn't work if this was implemented by a carrier, but neither would a flipphone. At any rate, since the privacy community keeps coming out with tools, it would be a matter of time before a new workaround came out.

Yes, but, from the article: ”GrapheneOS also says governments and banks are increasingly adopting these verification systems for things like payments, digital ID apps, and age verification services.

“Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they’re directly participating in locking out competition via their own services,” Graphene said."

I read an article years ago where the author played golf with him. The cheating was blatant and obvious, but not malicious. Cheating was a given. Trump expected everyone to cheat, and to not do so was foolish. Anyone who didn't cheat was a chump.

I don't think anyone has mentioned "helicopter" yet. It's not heli and copter like you might think. It's helico like helix meaning spiral and pter like pterodactyl meaning winged.

Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign an employment contract or provide proof of internship within one year of graduation; otherwise, they won't receive a diploma.

That's some bullshit

While yes, Happy Tree Friends is probably not for kids despite how it might look

So this is actually real kinda, some men can cum so much that a woman has to size up their pants. It's called bigolspurtz and it's quite sexy. Definitely not uncomfortable.

Just because beer can doesn't mean that beer should.

Even if you look at him in the best possible light, he's an absolute moron. A lucky one, but still. To the day he died, he still believed he'd reached east Asia. And it wasn't a case of not having the information to know better; he just couldn't fathom being wrong.

It's so dumb I have to assume it's satire

It's amazing how long I can stay pissed about how WebOS was squandered. My Pre had personality; it's the only mobile I actually miss (aside from nostalgia).

I think "mating" is more effective. A minor double-take means you're more likely to remember it. Besides, textbook writers should be allowed to fit in jokes where they can; their work seems dry as hell.

I tend to not get excited about the hot new thing in tech. Sometimes the thing has legs, like crypto-currency or LLM chatbots (probably), and sometimes it doesn't, like metaverse or NFTs. But I work in tech, so I know a lot of people - am friends with some people - that tell me that the thing is the future and that I need to get in on it, too. Of all the fads that didn't pan out, NFTs was the most satisfying to watch crash and burn.

I'm never going to be able to use the phrase, “Thank you for your attention to this matter," now.

He's just so, so dumb.

I really wish Randy would shut the fuck up, because it seems like the actual devs really care about this game.

I hear people say that all generations have their dumb numbers, but I don't remember so many establishments having to ban 69 back in the day. Yes, there will have always been something dumb getting popular, but I think it's more willfully obnoxious now, and I don't think I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud.

E: Thinking about it a bit, I think there's truth to it being willfully obnoxious. The rise of social media encourages being more disruptive, causing a bigger scene, anything to go viral. God, now I really do sound old.