Ok, but one of the most important use cases is non-local access.

If I’m at home I can just go to the door.

Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.

Let’s see what happens.

Wow, I wonder if that’s the same billionaire Bill Ackerman who’s hedge fund owns forty percent of the New York property firm Seaport Entertainment Group?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-ackmans-strategic-acquisition-seaport-230404410.html

How many millions do you think a rent freeze would cost him personally?

Commercial versions of these systems exist in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/06/shopper-facewatch-watchlist-39p-paracetamol-london

The Gdpr makes these things harder to do, but not automatically illegal.

Surely you have noticed that there is a lot of criticism of the GDPR and EU tech regulation.

Yeah, and some of it is even true.

Also, I want it to go to people outside my org that I email back, not random spammers and salespeople.

For some reason, the only option is to use people in my addressbook which doesn’t auto populate and I never use.

You know open-source doesn’t mean publicly available. It means the person, or in this case the US government, that brought the software should have free access to the source code to edit and distribute it as they like.

So yes, the military should use something functional equivalent to open source to prevent vender lock in and to allow for external audits. They probably shouldn’t give it to Russia or make it freely available online though.

It’s actually worse than you’re making it sound.

Supplements are not just less regulated than drugs, they’re less regulated than food.

BMI works quite well for typical people.

Either you do so much more exercise than everyone around you that it’s not a good fit for you, or you should take it as a warning sign.

If you think it’s muscle and not fat, there’s another test that you might like to try instead which is the waist to hip ratio. https://www.healthline.com/health/waist-to-hip-ratio

But if you want an honest appraisal of your fitness, just do a fun run. The shortish runs round a park with a bunch of normal people. Either you can keep up without killing yourself and everything is fine, or you’re not as fit as you think.

If LLMs just copied stack overflow they’d respond to every question with “Closed as duplicate. Question already answered.”

Because Tesla is a meme stock.

It’s price has always been completely decoupled from the number cars they sell, and depends on musk constantly lying and promising fully working humanoid robots and self driving taxis by next year.

Anyone else feel like life is stressful, boring, and kind of quietly empty — all at once?

This is just exactly how extreme stress tends to feel.

Basically you can’t unwind enough to relax and enjoy yourself, and so the times where you should be happy just feel empty.

You see a lot of stuff about WWII just talking about the boredom.

If the stress is work related, you’re experiencing burnout and it’s time to find a new job.

If it’s US related, you might want to look into emigrating. It’s not an option for everyone, but if you can get the fuck out, you should think about it.

Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

Just to remind everyone that this is always what the supreme court does.

They pick the most fascist outcome, and then search for any legal argument that will give them the outcome they want.

They put that in vice city as a set of missions.

A big shout out to Oxford spelling which mixes American and English spelling and is incredibly hard to find a spell check for. It gives you all the extra u’s and z’s you could ask for.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

There’s solvents that will at least soften, if not remove bitumen, and WD-40 can be used in a pinch.

Maybe try some of that if you’ve not finished already?

If it’s only 300 calories, it’s probably a diet shake and packed full of fiber to make you feel full. You’re better off switching to normal milkshakes.

As you’re vegetarian, I would get really into dahl cooked with ghee. It’s incredibly tasty and has so many calories.

The real trick is the fact that both of these do damage, and you can’t afford to ignore either.

Signaling to the police that the executive branch has your back and will support you when you kill poor black men is going to get people straight up murdered.

You’re in a car. There’s probably a charging port there. Sucks if you don’t have a phone, but it sucked before when you didn’t have change.

Parking has always been a privilege not a right, and if you’re not prepared you’re going to get a ticket.

I get that it’s annoying but if my phone broke and I suddenly had to pay for parking with coins, I don’t know what I’d do either. Everything is cashless now, where would I get coins from?

Yeah but parking has always been bad.

You had to carry change. Meters were always out of order or would just eat your change without issuing a ticket, and the people checking never gave a shit and would give you a fine anyway.

My only complaint is the app, everyone should offer a website or an app, but if you’re going to park there a few times an app does make sense.