No idea, all I see as options now for Paypal and credit card.

Ooooohhhh… That’s a thing? Let me guess, I have to pay to publish my ChatGPT-authored “research” proving that cats are actually aliens?

Only if you donate. Otherwise bad news, Signal.

As a pacifist, he might simply have not been thinking through optimizing a killing machine in depth, and it was more of a lark of a design.

I’m not a writer of TeleNovelas, so I bet I might not think through every aspect needed to make one awesome either. Doesn’t mean I haven’t written 32 pages of “La Vida Delirante” where 5 women make a pact to leave the circus to marry rich men so they can live comfortable lives, except they picked the guys randomly and no one can commit to anything and are always switching men. But they are pursued across fabulous vacation destinations by La Reina Apestosa, a Romani sorceress attempting to lure the 5 women back so she can sell their souls to the devil in exchange for the love of the lion tamer at the circus.

Was this part of a survey where they get the “survey says” answers on Family Feud?

Is there money in writing crap “research” papers like this?

I would be fine doing this under a pseudonym. But I know UFO researchers really have to hustle a ton. So maybe not?

Formally, it’s the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Mon Mothma is the Alliance’s Chancellor, which is a sort of association of rebel cells spread across the galaxy. So she’s sort of elected by the leadership of each rebel cell.

Then on the starship side, it basically seems like anyone with a ship gets promoted to general and promised back pay once the Republic is restored. It’s sort of a gamble, but it beats smuggling spice and contraband.

It’s toned down since 23andMe was new, but I absolutely know people that will regularly call themselves by whatever European group they think gives them character.

I always ask if they have an EU passport.

2018-2019 is when they officially turned the corner and decided to focus only on ad revenue. But the SEO abuse dove it into the ground by 2014ish. They were making money enough to expand by orders of magnitude into other areas, so they simply didn’t want to tweak their search or strategy and kill their golden goose that funded things like Good Drive and their shit social network and loon, etc.

It is, but it’s a use case that has a shitload of money behind it.

Do you know why we have had reliable e-commerce since 1999? Porn websites. That was the use case that pushed credit card acceptance online.

The demand is so huge that firms would rather stumble a bit at first to save huge amounts for a bad but barely sub-par UX.

Depends on the person. My spouse and I, along with 5 or 6 friends, use a variety of key words from a couple shared languages to talk about things when we don’t want other to understand. Mostly haggling or talking about sales stuff to discuss if we like something or think it’s too expensive when a human is hovering right there. So I can give body language of disappointment while saying “this is great.”

That sounds boring AF.

I don’t hate Arch. Or Vegan diets. Or Crossfit. Or colleges outside of Boston, either.

But the people…well…

Brace yourselves for being told on MSN and Yahoo about the hottest new toy this Xmas! If you don’t buy it, you might be arrested for child abuse!

Anyone know what Linux distro? I assume Ubuntu…

Rural poor checking in.

I’ve lived in a camper, and then in the back of a convenience store my patents ran. Eventually upgraded to a doublewide. But I went to a rural school with like 40 kids that were all also poor. One kid and his family were miners living in a series of vans upon blocks by the mine. My best friend and his family lived in a half used rundown motel, the other half too broken down to bother living in. The richest kid was a rancher’s family that lived in a barndominium.

So every family on TV was rich to me, but it was TV, so I figured it was all fantasy land anyway. Star Trek wasnt real, either. I had seen a “normal” school before 3rd grade, but by high school and college, people that thought Nickelodeon (which I didn’t see until college anyway) shows were relatable at all just seemed like space aliens to me. I was likely more the space alien to them.

Sorry if it seemed smug at all. The “My my” was more being happy that the Fdroid app repo is pulling it’s weight and a valuable resource that fascists seem to over look.

“Yeah, exactly. Mexican.” -Kristi Noem

Don’t insult this cat!

My, my. Look at all the open source, privacy focused period trackers in the Fdroid store.