Th4tGuyII

Honestly I get your frustration. Feeling like you’re being hidden away…

But I think you’re taking what you’ve got for granted. It sounds like your family is fairly liberal and well-meaning, but that doesn’t mean her’s is.

Even in the west, religious conservatism can get nasty real quick (especially for woman), so I can absolutely see why she might be scared to tell her family.

She probably doesn’t like hiding you in the shadows any more than you do - you should be careful putting your feelings over her well-being.

An agreement with Russia isn’t worth the paper its written in. The Kremlin lies as easily as it breathes.

In theory Nitrogen suffocation should be incredibly humane. Nitrogen gas is incredibly dangerous in the workplace exactly because the human body is incapable of noticing it displacing air. It can kill you without you even noticing until you keel over dead.

Problem is when you shove a mask on someone’s face and pump nitrogen into it, that’s not what you’re doing…

That doesn’t displace the air the executed was breathing, because the air has nowhere to go, so it just mixes with the Nitrogen gas. The O2 gets used up and CO2 builds up until they die, which is basically normal suffocation (which is incredibly inhumane) with a side of Nitrogen gas.

To do it properly, you’d need to a much bigger chamber so that the air in the executed’s lungs would be easily displaced, or a way to filter the CO2 out of the air they’re breathing… But who’s got time for that, when you can just torture prisoners with something that should be humane and pretend you have no idea why it “doesn’t work properly” /s

LLMs are made to mimic how we speak, and some can even pass the Turing test, so I’m not surprised that people who don’t know better think of these LLMs as conscious in some way or another.

It’s not a necessarily a fault on those people, it’s a fault on how LLMs are purposefully misadvertised to the masses

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.

That’s exactly what a journalistic organisation is meant to do Jeff, especially now when the world is increasingly being filled with mouthpieces that regurgitate what their owners want them to.

An organisation that puts out only one opinion, or is only allowed to put out one opinion, is nothing more than a mouthpiece.

Its a shame to see the Post becoming just another mouthpiece.

Exactly. If anyone thinks Russia will stop at Ukraine, they’re a fool

I wouldn’t say it’s just more important, I’d say it’s a moral imperative to support Ukraine’s fight for it’s sovereign land over keeping buddy-buddy with a government running rampant with corruption and Russian puppetry

Terrorism, according to the United Nations General Assembly:

Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.

Luigi certainly didn’t bring the public into a state of terror, if anything quite the opposite - so I suppose the real question is do we class Health Insurance Executives politically as a group of people to incite terror onto?

I’d argue that a group of people who would happily sign away someone’s life if it meant them getting richer don’t deserve that kind of recognition, but I’d bet the courts will say yes because their rich friends want an example made of him.

I’ve been using protonmail basically since its inception for money-related stuff (due to it being secure), and the one time I’ve had a fraud flag appear while using it was due to being on a VPN at the same time.

… But I’ve had that also happen when I used to daily drive Gmail, so I can’t imagine the Proton part made the difference.

Obviously anecdotes aren’t very good evidence, and maybe in your experience it was your email - but if that is the case, I’d be weary of any provider that automatically flags non-“big tech” addresses as fraudulent. That likely means they’re rather lazy about their cybersecurity.

Working in a field were I have to perform a lot of these types of tests, you’d be surprised how many look like Covid tests at a glance - always look at the labelling.

Also, in this form factor you’d pee into a container and pipette a very small amount into the test using the (usually) accompanying tiny pipette.

I’d do another test to be sure, but even a faint line can indicate a positive result (similar to Covid tests of the same form factor)

It ia very much an English speaking world thing, but I wouldn’t say US-centric as we have basically the same greeting in the UK.

Yeah, that wouldn’t fly as much here either - if somebody asked how my day was, I’d be inclined to think they want a summary at least.

As others have pointed out, the problem is “How are you?” on its own is generally a greeting not a question.

As such the answer is largely irrelevant - so while it doesn’t have to be outright lie, the answer shouldn’t be longer than a single statement and shouldn’t make the other person feel like they need to be concerned.

If you want a slightly less beaming answer you could go with “Alright”, “same old, same old”, “same as always”, or “Eh, could be worse”, or any of the other suggestions already made.

For her part, the chancellor told BBC News that she thought “sustainable aviation and economic growth go hand in hand"

As said in the article, the technology to reasonably decarbonise planes doesn’t really exist yet - so the only path to “sustainable aviation” is to reduce it to the point it can be properly offset by other decarbonisation efforts.

That makes these two concepts almost entirely mutually exclusive without proper planning, and just slapping multiple airport expansions down then saying “It’s fine, we’ll plant a few trees at some point” doesn’t fucking cut it.

I’d be honest. Life is as much (if not more) about luck as it is skill.

There are smart folks out there who have spent their entire lives working hard, probably made decent money, but will never be rich because an opportunity they were equipped to capitalise on just never arrived.

By that same score, there are people who stumble onto or are born into opportunities for wealth that most people will never see by sheer happenstance.

My only impression of him being that he enabled your wife’s cheating, I’d hazard a guess he was born into his opportunity - and while that doesn’t diminish his own efforts, its not a fair comparison to make. Apples to oranges and all that.

On one hand, its nice that they actually responded, because even that can’t be taken for granted nowadays.

On the other hand, they spent more text on telling you they’re holding onto your data (and trying to milk you for more) than they did telling you the thing the email was about!!

It’s easy to say don’t fight back when you’re not the one getting beaten up and mugged

It’s not over-analysis of subtle body movenents, it was a straight up Nazi salute

Was my first thought. The only reason special characters would ever matter in a password is if you’re storing/processing them improperly

How the fuck do people keep giving him more money??

Most of his ventures are dumpster fires, and SpaceX only runs well because he doesn’t touch it.