Two-ish. The problem is one of them isn't Russian.

UK

I mean ... glass houses and stones.

Brb, taking mine apart to remove the wifi antenna and microphones.

Probably the one that it can be said with certainty wasn't going to:

• Turn ICE into the gestapo and allow them to round up immigrants without due process, put them in concentration camps, and murder people with impunity.
• Pack the supreme court with fascist friendly "justices" who immediately overturned Roe v. Wade
• Weaponize the Justice department and use it against their political enemies ... including attempting to strip a state representative of her citizenship for the crime of daring to oppose them as a non-christian woman of color.
• Weaponize the FCC to control the dissemination of dissent and unflattering truth.
• Do everything in the power to cripple and eliminate essential agencies and services, leading to countless preventable deaths
• Eliminate consumer and worker protections via said defunding/elimination of agencies
• Crow about America's need for less dependence on other countries for goods that are critical to national security ... while eliminating federal programs designed to secure domestic production of those goods.
• Start an unwinnable war, raising the price of oil ... and thus the price of everything
• Open, widespread corruption
• Take steps to remove separation of church and state in pursuit of a theocratic government.
• Destroy every ounce of international good will we had, including trade deals
• "Tariff" goods: raising prices drastically and pocketing the proceeds.
• Intentionally create havoc in the national and global economy in pursuit of profit via insider trading and business deals for themselves and their allies.
• Do everything possible to destroy protections for transgender and gender non-conforming people while bragging about "transgenderism isn't going to be a thing" in the near future.
• Drastically accelerate the scope and power of the surveillance/police state.
• Rule with absolutely zero accountability or consequences.

But hey, it's not like we're hearing the exact same "both sides aren't that different" bullshit that was said in 2008, 2016, and 2020.

I had one living in my bedroom I left alone... until I felt something on my arm, looked over, and made eye contact with it.

She went outside after that.

The test isn't if someone dislikes the movie, it's why if they disliked the movie.

It's fine if someone thinks it was boring, poorly written, etc. It's a red flag if they go off on some misogynistic rant.

If this is how you act around other people ... I don't think the problem is other people.

So we took a bunch of people in their late teens to mid twenties and put them somewhere new and exciting. We're treating them like rock stars. They're all in peak physical form, good looking, and under constant physical and mental stress.

And you're telling me during their time off they're going to be fucking each other? Who could have predicted this !?

I'm fairly certain these people are trolling.

I'd call it emotionally immature.

A surprising number of the people I grew up or work with act like they're still in high school when it comes to social/interpersonal skills -- these people are all well over 30 years old.

I've taken to de-DRMing any e-books I bought from Amazon for that reason.

Also, the "You can only view this book on 3 devices" -- yeah .... fuck off.

Calibre + DeDRM plugin + KFX plugin. Perfectly legal too, as long as you aren't distributing them.

Because his company was (and continues to be) a powerful force acting against consumer rights.

He was also a self absorbed asshole that's still idolized for some reason.

Alright, so I watched the video so you guys don't have to. Here's a synopsis:

Youtube's ad blocking is going to backfire because:

• It caused people to stop using crappy ad blockers that didn't even work with youtube to switch to effective ones that do.
• Drawing attention to "good" browsers and ad blockers, increasing adoption -- including people that weren't using or aware of the existence of them in the first place
• Increased support of the people making/maintaining ad blockers. Spite driven increase in donations, subscriptions to paid ad blockers, bug reports, etc.
• Cites the Streisand effect.
• Analogy of how prohibition led to stronger drugs, stronger booze, etc. If you tell people they can't do something, they're more likely to do it and get better at doing it.
• Cites how Youtube's attempts to block ad blockers is breaking older embedded apps in smart TVs, chromecast, etc. Older or non-tech people are just more likely to stop using those rather than try to fix them -- and thus cut back on watching youtube.
• Believes Youtube's actions are an indication the internet's "free with ads" model is dying -- they're getting desperate to maintain profitability.

1. Forrest had a serious intellectual disability, and she almost certainly felt like she was taking advantage of him.

Red flags come in all sizes. A potentially small one is: "I'm not willing to sit through a dumb but harmless movie even though my partner wants to see it."

A bigger red flag would be "I refuse to see The Barbie Movie because it's woke!!!!!"

People are drawn to and fascinated by taboo topics, and one's experiences and upbringing determine the relationship with those taboos a person has.

Women have personal experiences with creepy/dangerous men, it's a "known danger" they hear about from a young age, and serial killers represent the extreme example of this -- it's not really surprising "true crime" type media is popular with women.

mirror.co.uk

Ah yes, the highly respected Daily Mirror. I am 100% convinced this is a real thing that happened.

We should absolutely have safe housing for homeless people with UBI and transitional programs. We should also offer mental health and substance abuse treatment -- and in extreme cases humane involuntary treatment for people that are a danger to themselves and others.

And none of this should take place in shared, public spaces for the safety and dignity of everyone involved. This is a failure of society and needs to be treated as such. Placing the burden on individuals isn't the solution. Expecting public spaces designed for other uses to pick the slack of a broken societal safety net is insane.

My favorite of all time and winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.

-- Molly Ringle, Seattle WA

To add what other people have said: the sealion in the comic is following them around and being obnoxious. It even follows them to their bedroom.

One aspect of sealioning is continually trying to "debate" someone for something they once said, even if they're currently engaged in a completely unrelated conversation.