Being in prison sucks though. No matter what. I mean Norwegian prisons are very clean and remarkably comfortable, and Japanese prisons have top notch food (freshly cooked and with fresh ingredients). But I would rather not have the choking lack of freedom in any of them.
Every fucking time.
I was in university at the time. My economics prof had a habit of writing the Dow Jones on the white board every class. The day the crash happened I said ‘wow that’s a massive drop’ to which she replied ‘this is on par with the crash of 1929…’
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Don’t forget the savings and loans crisis in the early 90s.
The hole in the ozone layer is recovering due to the bans on CFCs in the 90s. Climate change deniers deny this and insist that it is something that would have happened anyway…
I still remember when crackpots thought the world was gonna end in 2012. When that time came. I just looked at my cat and said ‘hey kitty, we’re still here!’
Oh god the red eye in photographs…
Anyone who isn’t actively killing minorities while yelling racial slurs is now a leftist commie autist.
I have no idea how anyone can still think the left and ‘globalists’ are in power when all the shit for nearly 50 years has been increasing authoritarianism and fascism.
I love the end of the world reference.
Yeah I remember those. Where I grew up that style of ring pull was the dominant style.
One reason why that style was retired in many places was to reduce waste. When you had a ring pull tab that peeled off, most people threw that away separately. I remember seeing those tabs being thrown all over the place.
This reminds me of soda/beer can designs. You know the hole in the ring tab? I used to believe it was there only for it to provide better grip for your finger when opening it. Turned out it was also there so you can fit a straw and have a way of stabilizing it.
Most people had no idea about that.
Always announced never implemented.
Trump is like an idiot bully who insists he commands ten big thugs! No twenty! No thirty and with guns! No thirty with guns and grenades and a tank!
They mean nothing.
But they are providing ample opportunity for places like China to show that they DO have real power.
Cheese and onion. They go well together.
I dunno… that looks like a nice simple sandwich.
I was an Angry Video Game Nerd fan back when he started in 2006. Early youtube, with its 500 character limit and 5 minute limited videos was a different place all together. Fun silly videos and quick ‘angry’ retro gaming reviews.
Most people back then didn’t have any production values. They were just people talking into a cheap Webcam or cheap camera and uploading it. What they lacked in production value they made up in authenticity and sincerity. They weren’t working an algorithm, they were truly speaking from the heart.
I can see some purpose in having a ‘smart’ toilet for monitoring health. Your pee and poo can have some value in seeing if there anything that needs to be dealt with medically. But even that is difficult to do. For one thing, it must still function ad a toilet first before anything. Meaning it uses the simple mechanical flushing and refilling and stopping when it is sufficiently full.
However for this the analysis and storage of data must be 100% at the user’s control. If they want it gone. It is gone. Irrecoverable. Any update must be done via USB or other connection. No wifi or internet.
And even then the analysis can be off for obvious reasons. People need to scrub their toilets and some keep it clean by having one of those pucks in the tank that sanitize the water. All of these can interfere with any results out of a medical setting.
Adams’s law.
Dude, it is still a prison. Saying ‘yeah I could use a highly regimented living space for a while’ is one thing. But a prison is still something else.
Workhouses in Victorian England were very harsh places, sometimes even harsher than the prisons of the time… but they were not prisons. If a workhouse inmate wanted to leave, they could up and go at any moment without anyone stopping them. Because it was not a prison.