Telling people to “give up hopes” is just a terrible word choice, even if the thing you’re asking them to give up is solidly distasteful.

So many more positively phrased options-- “commit to peaceful nuclear programs”, for example. We got a real wordsmith in here, boys. Better keep Smith AND Corona lubed up and ready.

Israel has done a very effective job of selling “we are the Jewish community” so governments tended to handle them with kid gloves for fear they would be seen as trying to replay tbe Holocaust.

Unfortunately, it went the other way. Decades of blank cheque support let them act with impunity and eventually deliver their own genocide.

I worry this tarnishes the image of Jews elsewhere, who are going to get blowback resentment for the livestreamed horrors. Chuds don’t have the nuance to figure out that their neighbour who has never set foot in Israel but places a menorah by the window probably didn’t personally slaughter infants, and there are surely peiole who will profit from magnifying that unawareness.

It’s actually not the worst name for a srreaming service, considering Philo Farnsworth was a key developer of modern electronic-scan TV.

RCA also managed to try to sell a complex premium home A/V setup called Dimensia.

Because progressive neurodegeneration is just what I want to think about when buying a VCR.

But there’s something in there I bet

I read an interesting piece that said that they got enough “dad takes the son there to try to shake off that rainbow aura” traffic that a lot of the waitresses recognised the pattern and learned to be supportive. Unexpectedly wholesome.

Still less disappointing than visiting Dick’s Sporting Goods.

The worst part is wasted opportunity. You had 5 years on the rest of the US EV market and a perception of having at least the best charging infrastructure. Valuable assets.

You spent 10 of those five years on a wankpanzer, FSD (Full Speed Direct-into-pedestrians), and a lorry nobody’s seen, when you should have focusing for the day you’re competing with the Electric Civic and Escalade coming down the pike.

What you should have done, while you had the tyrant’s ear, was to pull a Dodge Colt/Geo Metro. Precision-craft some legal shell game setup that lets you import competent EVs and sell them as a “domestic brand” to bypass the residual “I don’t want a Chinese car” attitudes and some tarriffs. Then you’d at least have a stream of desirable products goung forward instead of the current quirky-but-not-in-a-fun-way Tesla range.

I sort of wonder if the next generation will still romanticize Japan in quite the same way. We’re past the peak trendy-products era of Weird Sony and the Toyota MR2, anime is no longer a secret exotic thing, and it feels like if you want “15 years ahead of us optimistic techno future”, you could easily slide in Chongqing or Seoul instead of Tokyo.

I think I’ve heard “Prompt fondler”

Y’know what? I don’t care. Maybe it’s happening, even in the dramatic worst-case way it’s portrayed here, but is that the biggest/only story in China? It feels sort of credibility-stretching that a country of 1.4 billion people and a top-two global economy is entirely cantilevered around the idea of oppressing a tiny minority in the rural corner of the country. I’m fairly certain there are at least nine people in China who can go an entire workday without contemplating how to wipe the Uighyurs off the map. Maybe as many as twelve!

The US is no longer in any sort of moral leadership position to point fingers on human rights, if not for the last few decades, then certainly in its El Salvador phase. The only reason Western media remotely give a damn here is because they’re desperate to slap an asterisk next to the growth and real economic advancement of a country that promises to outpace them imminently.

Hamstudy.org is good to cram the license questions, and you can get a basic 2m/70cm band handheld transciever for less than $100 (well, you could pre Random Tarrif Gameshow Time)

In 2006, it was the least hot garbage choice though.

If your software supports authorize.net, you can often use some other gateways with a drop-in compatible API by changing the endpoint.

You can get a 3.5mm to quarter-inch plug adapter for a couple bucks. Older headphones had them in the box.

The one thing I can see is if you need some 27.1 audio format or S/PDIF out. I have a 10-metre optical cable between my PC and my stereo and a lot of the cheapest mainboards don’t have optical out.

Have you tried Johnson’s Spray Crab?

Recommendations? Ideally with physical releases?

There’s a huge shift in male role models over the past few decades, and it always felt to me like the people who could never fit into the old militaristic, athletic “conqueror”-style mould saying “we’ll invent our own definition of masculinity” than a direct, fully-bought-in progression.

This will leave people behind-- the ones who can’t find new “appropriate” idols or aren’t impressed by their achievements. The Linus Torvalds version of conquering the world is hardly the Genghis Khan version.

Maybe we need to find a way to broaden the modern pantheon to figures that can resonate with a traditional audience.

They’d need to change the law banning living people on coins.

Surprised they haven’t pushed to slap Reagan on the dime to displace FDR.

Matbe there’s a synergy there: Romance novels that teach theory.

“He doesn’t love you, he only loves your surplus value!”

It’s a remarkably new symbol though, only introduced in like the last 10 years or so, compared with $, £, or ¥, or even € which have much longer track records. Many fonts lack it.