Well, that’s pretty much how the entire crime and punishment system is supposed to work. Do the crime, get got for it, others hoping to do the same thing will hopefully think twice before doing so in the future.

Therefore I think it’s completely fair that this script gets flipped on the fascists who are pretending to be “law” enforcement.

Thus far these bozos have demonstrated a pattern of showing up without uniforms, with masks on, refusing to identify themselves, show badges, or produce warrants.

This is needless to say an incredibly stupid thing for them to do, especially if they plan to also go around kicking in people’s doors. I personally know an old man who got off the hook for shooting a state cop in my area who tried the same. I think the only hope the Dummkstaffel here has of making a charge stick against a homeowner who blows one of them away will be to somehow make it Federal, because otherwise I think the state courts – especially in blue areas – are not going to treat any warrantless door-kicking by nonuniformed armed men who refuse to identify themselves very kindly.

Edit to add: You’re also not protecting your “property” in such a case, you are protecting your person, which is a very different thing both legally and ethically. If the alternative is that you’re going to be whisked away without due process to a death camp in El Salvador, your only rational course of action is to stand and fight – especially in your own home.

All true, but I am going to be that nerd and point out that there were indeed commercial devices with lithium ion battery packs in them in the mid to late '90s, especially so in the late '90s. By 2000-2001 you couldn’t escape the damn things in cameras, disc players, PDAs, etc. So yes, it did take relatively forever for the technology to become commercially ubiquitous, but not that long. (And yes, the first couple of waves of Li-Ion batteries were indeed crap, and had all of us geeks clamoring for gadgets that still took AA’s for a while.)

Your video player “can” account for latency if you configure it correctly which I imagine the majority of people don’t do, and simply put up with it. Ditto with your music playback always lagging 1-2 seconds behind your control inputs. I have never used a media player on any platform that automatically figured out audio latency. Maybe the iDevices do if you pair them with Airpods, I don’t know; I don’t own anything Apple and I never will.

It also matters for music production, and makes life a lot more pleasant for audio/video editing. Plus, latency is just annoying in any setting.

And also no latency. Even expensive Bluetooth headphones and earbuds have crap latency. The systems that don’t are either proprietary and not widely supported (e.g. aptX) or expensive 'phones-and-dongle arrangements that must always travel in a pair and still don’t compete on latency with a pair of dollar store earbuds.

This serves as the perfect illustration as to why whatever brand of kissing Trump’s ass anyone may be doing or have done in the past will not save you when he decides to turn on you. Rupert Murdoch is probably the number one person on Earth most responsible for getting Trump into office not only this time, but also the last time. And the fact that he did so means absolutely nothing to Captain Cheeto who is big mad at him right now. The Trump regime absolutely will attack and discard anyone – anyone – who has been deemed to have outlived their usefulness.

Business owners. Racists. Farmers. Factory workers. Proud Boys. Conservative pundits. Trump doesn’t care about you. He only cares about himself. Trump will not protect you unless he thinks doing so will benefit him today. Tomorrow? The day after that? Eventually he’ll be done with you, and he’ll make up a way to declare you his enemy, and he’ll come after you. And nothing you did for him before will matter. You’ll be in the exact same El Salvadorian gulag or whatever as whoever he was mad at last week.

Fascist regimes need a constant supply of enemies to pretend that they’re valiantly fighting against, and when the run out of the last batch of enemies they’ll make up a new one. That new batch of enemies will likely contain all the people who they claimed were their allies during the last go-round. There’s precedent. As it happens, plenty of it. Absolutely oodles of examples.

We’d love to, but manufacturers keep trying to force them down our throats. And when we express a different prererence or use case a bunch of trolls feel the need to pop out of the woodwork and tell us that no, we’re actually wrong and our use cases don’t actually exist.

How about you all don’t worry about what headphones other people are using?

Those entrenched in power and business incessantly whine about “fertility” because they think their capitalist edifice requires constant growth to operate, and constant growth requires a constant increase in both workers (at least until they replace us all with robots or ChatGPT) and customers, or a the most basic level a steadily increasing supply of people from which to extract wealth via some means.

Since apparently nobody can be content to just make a consistent but flat – and more importantly, sustainable – profit forever, this necessitates a continually increasing population until we eventually find what the real limit of the planet’s human population actually is and the whole thing collapses. No one in a position to do anything about it is willing to hit the brakes now because the majority of them have deluded themselves into believing that it’ll either never happen, or if it does they won’t be alive to be left holding the bag at the time. This constant trumpeting of braindead “fertility crisis” propaganda is a transparent attempt to delude the rest of us into thinking we need to contribute to keep the meat grinder going.

The collapse of humanity, or at least human civilization, will probably not be instigated by there being too few people. People are great at making more people. We’ve been finding creative ways to do it for a very long time, and despite everything the global population is still increasing at this very moment. Rather, it’ll be instigated by there being too many people to sustainably support.

Zoomer Parker will not lug around an SLR camera in the next reboot; he’ll simply be a drone operator.

I have. My former bank disallowed reusing any of your previous passwords, and also did “clever” things like flagging you for using sequences of characters from your old passwords as well.

All provisos that revealed that they were storing passwords (including old passwords) in plain text, because there’s no way they’d be able to make those determinations if they were irreversibly hashing passwords correctly.

TL;DR: They’re no longer my bank.

Hell, most of the major labels post tracks themselves to sponge up that sweet ad revenue. You can just use the tool of your choice to download the audio straight out of it if you decide you want to keep it for later.

I also haven’t forgiven them for trying to sue people for simply watching the Geohot video, or removing alternative OS functionality from the PS3, or for trying to reinvent MMC/SD memory cards in a different shape and charge more for for them. Hell, I still haven’t forgiven them for SonicStage.

I won’t buy anything from Sony for any reason. I don’t care what it is. I made damn sure my most recent camera purchase wasn’t a Sony, no matter what the reviews said. That’s because they pissed me off 20 years ago and haven’t demonstrated any improvement in behavior since. Nerds have long memories.

This is because vendors need to price things at their replacement cost. What they sell you a widget for is not what it cost them in materials and labor to make (or buy from their supplier) that widget, it’s what it’ll cost to produce/procure the next one they need to put on the shelf to replace that one.

The main gripe I’ve been getting from my suppliers lately is that none of them actually know what the fuck is going on with the tariff price increases because every day it’s a different number that’s coming out of the dickhead’s mouth. The plan is as ever to just pass the cost along to the buyer(s), but nobody can plan ahead because no one can get a straight and consistent answer on what the added costs are going to be.

More likely it’s happening because the password change field silently truncates your input and the login field doesn’t, or vise-versa, because whoever designed the web page or system is stupid.

If it’s a double cylinder knob or handleset, i.e. keyed on both sides, you can indeed close the door with the mechanism in the locked position. This would obviously be impossible with a deadbolt.

Those are quite rare these days because they have the potential for the exact same failure mode as what has happened to OP. Typically you only find them in commercial settings, and I’ll bet you a nickel you’ll get flagged on your fire inspection if there is not another means of egress from the building. I don’t know where they’re located but I’ll further raise you a dime having the door arranged this way is illegal in their locale.

In a normal house you could just use another door. Unless he has a balcony and rappelling equipment (or a ground floor balcony), it’s unlikely OP has such a luxury.

I’d be concerned about some joker coming by and swiping the keys in the meantime, though.

To be fair, “domesticated” cats are as well and no doubt to the same degree. It’s just that due to their size they’re not in a position to do much to you.

I certainly get randomly attacked by my cats whenever they get a bee in their bonnet, or want something, or are bored, or because it’s Tuesday, etc. The rest of the time they’re chill.

I just don’t like stepping on thistles in bare feet. Everything else is chill.

This entire article is an irresponsibility stupid thing to put on the internet. It lacks the asterisk of “in North America” at the top because all it contains a is a list of halfassed ways to determine if you’re looking at a viper or not, and for the most part rattlesnakes (which are pretty damn distinctive to begin with). True, many venomous snakes in North America are indeed vipers including copperheads, our several aforementioned varieties of rattlesnakes, and cottonmouths.

But the most deadly of the snakes found in and around North America and indeed the rest of the world are not vipers; they’re elapids or colubrids, which display few or none of these alleged telltales.

For instance, here is a coral snake which is an elapid and one of the few snakes you’ll encounter in the continental US that can absolutely kill you stone dead with its neurotoxic venom.

Take note of the:

• Lack of triangular head
• Round pupils
• Fangs not visible
• No rattle
• Banded pattern
• Fairly blunt tail

…And it also has at least two very similar lookalikes which are not dangerous to humans, namely the milk snake and the kingsnake. So, are you absolutely sure which one you’re looking at before you touch it? A better idea is, don’t touch it.

And outside of North America this is even worse advice because the rest of the world is absolutely rotten with deadly non-viperid snakes.

There are a lot of exceptions. Most of them, as it happens.

Vipers have that “neck” and a wider head than their bodies. Elapids typically don’t, and can be extremely venomous. In fact, the most deadly venomous snakes in the world are elapids including cobras, taipans, and black mambas.

Tl;dr: Rarely wise to step on snek.

When they say “repopulate,” what they really mean is “reproduce faster than the brown people.” As usual it’s racism all the way down.