Apparently if we just mass text Russians "LGBT propaganda", they'll block the service.

But they aren't using money they've accumulated. They're borrowing this money.

Finally. My chance to be modded as pedantic...

Half the people have a below-MEDIAN intelligence.

(Sorry, all. Couldn't resist.)

Do you write 1 million as 000,000,1 too? Try most significant to least significant: Y-M-D.

It's got to be cheaper to pay some schlub who needs work to sit in a cab and doomscroll all day in case the truck breaks down than to pay someone who took the time and effort to get a CDL.

I think I have successfully avoided putting real world money into the video game fashion show industry. And stories like this remind me I made the correct decision. I play a game for fun. I could care less if my character looks the same as someone who just started.

In other news, the sky is still blue. Except where it's now brown and grey.

8-10 episodes per "season" seems to be the new standard across all streaming services. It feels like a cruel joke to people who knew 26 episode seasons were once a thing.

If it walks like an authoritarian, and quacks like an authoritarian...

These AI companies are throwing fortunes at employees working on their function. Start throwing that money at the people creating the body of knowledge.

I set up friends and relatives on local accounts. One of them was going to pay the $30 instead of upgrade (6th gen i5). He mostly just uses Libreoffice, a scanner, and email. I should offer to support him on Linux for $25.

Asif anyone in their right mind would use a format with that acronym.

Made the switch when the Macos install got severely borked. Almost certainly something I did, but multiple recovery attempts failed and I wasn't interested in paying some genius-in-name-only too much money to fix what I barely had a use for to begin with.

As I recall it was the caustic opinions on the questions asked that drove people away.

How do you take a criminal seriously if their name comes from one of the later cash-grab Toy Story movies?