I don't take the standard deduction, I'm just one of those odd people with a mortgage. Perhaps you should look into what accountants or other odd people like me call "itemizing" your taxes.

Everything you just said has already happened and been that way for a year at least. IMO we're very likely already halfway through the recession.

Did you know that AAA (which is heavily religious and insists that you state that you have no control over your life or addiction and you must transfer your addiction to religion) is literally no more effective than nothing whatsoever?

Well then, I'm definitely not going to renew my membership!

As it is currently, I only use my windows 10 bootup to play games, and do personal/social media stuff on. I do all my real work and "computer usage" on a Linux distro. The surface area for getting exploited is fairly small given what I'm using windows for, no good reason to switch until I absolutely have to, and even then it is likely to be at least a generation past windows 11 and timed when I eventually do age off my hardware.

Wish I had points to give today. But yea exactly what you said. Have a hobby that deals in rare old stuff, then come to terms that rare old stuff is expensive. You either make your own, or pay someone else the price it's worth.

I tried the "new teams" last month and the biggest pain was the changed the direction of the posts with newest on top, with no setting to show this the default way. The biggest question is WHY, why change something that everyone is used to, and is consistent with all other collaboration apps. Personally I'm staying on old teams until this is at least a configurable option.

I'm sure she as well as her dead constituents will vote in 2024.

obviously they are holding it wrong

Web browser? you mean search engine? Editors don't even read the summary much less the article these days.

Old people who happen to be scientists, make a post on their political website.

I had never heard of this engine till earlier this week (new game uses it) and now it's in a new article. Brotatoe was the game, still in early release on steam, I was looking for something fun, and mindless for the Steam Deck.

I think the problem is not "a single man posting tweets on an internet website" but rather who then takes, repeats, and uses that information to their own ends, no matter how seemingly benign or intentionally hyperbolic. I am not worried about one man, I am worried about the most ardent supporters of one man or person, and the sycophants who will drive them to violence if it works to their benefit. Just because it's twitter doesn't mean that it doesn't or won't have the same intended effect as any platform or medium used to call for violence or intentional misinformation, probably the opposite due to its widespread adoption.

Jim Jones didn't use Twitter.

I haven't logged into /. for over a decade but this comment is such an absurd oversimplification of US history as to be a complete falsehood. You may have missed all mention of the US Civil war aka the "War between the States" aka the "War of Northern Aggression" (depending on who you ask) at a time what "all ideas" did not, in fact, work together. Many times not only do all ideas not work together, they are quite often antithetic to one another. You cannot sort of agree on slavery (civil war). You can't kind of agree on invading a country (Iraq). You can't bargain on the occupation and rebuilding a country (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam)

So no, the United States has been wrought with political division perhaps since it's inception with some exceptions, as joining in common cause after a domestic attack (Pearl Harbor, 9/11), and it is that propensity for division that many people and entities use to their advantage, whatever that advantage may be. Perhaps something like attempting to overturn the results of a free and fair election?

This is a really simple case of the majority of images are slanted towards societies perspective on beauty and sex. As well as the training for the AI being targeted at making useful results. When you take that training bias and then tell it to generate things with "negative weight" you are essentially asking for it to move away from all previous tags and attractors in the network. It's not surprising that it ends up in related spaces often.

To a paywall.... links here always lead to a paywall