ShatteredPrism.

So, it’s a measurement of Gen Z’s heritable environment?

Google has this really deep-rooted problem where they keep accidentally, through no fault or intention of their own, making things people actually like. It’s very upsetting and from all other indications they are doing everything they can to prevent it from ever happening again, and yet it keeps happening. Nobody can explain why. All they can do is immediately cancel the problematic products and services the moment they realize people actually like them.

Well looking through the list of symptoms, it makes you murderous and violent, you never seem to die a natural death, and all you want to do in life is destroy the brains of the woke.

…I guess they’ve already got it.

It’s true, the movie does address this.

No, but it might make you eat somewhat less of everything else, lowering the total glycemic load of your meal. The index just tells you if that food is high in sugars, that hasn’t changed. If you eat less of it, that will help. The olive oil can make up some of the rest of your calorie needs, so you won’t need as much of the high-GI foods.

I guess. In theory.

Hook it up to the TV and use it for big screen web/media/gaming/retro-emulation. Steam and/or Sunshine/Moonlight can be used for low-latency streaming to play games from another PC (in either direction). You can use controllers and keyboard/mouse through either streaming method or bluetooth/wireless. Also handy for occasionally streaming things that don’t have smart-TV-apps, or for services where the only functional apps are service-locked, shitty and/or “Freemium” (most IPTV apps for example). Set it up for Wake-On-LAN (or Wake-On-WiLAN if it supports it). Lots of things you can do with a PC in the living room.

They invented the guillotine, they know the drill.

I’m not saying this is impossible, it certainly is possible, and clearing or disabling the TPM is always a good idea on used PC hardware or even new hardware. And I’m not saying I know if that’s what actually happened here. But I have to put on my “press F to doubt” hat, and point out that realistically it always seems to turn out that like 95% of the time when someone claims they were “banned for cheating and this is the reason why” no matter how dramatic the story, it turns out they were actually cheating, because the kind of people who compulsively cheat at games are the same kind of people who compulsively cheat their way through life by twisting reality into these wild narratives that sometimes they actually even believe themselves. Riot giving a bunch of detailed information about how their anti-cheat detected this guy seems implausible, and meaningless since they won’t unban him anyway. They have nothing to gain from allegedly explaining all that, and if they’re unwilling to unban the person they might as well assume it’s still the actual cheater they’re talking to, and why bother telling them anything at all?

This all sounds like a load of baloney to me. Plausible, believable baloney, but still baloney.

Alright Marlaina, have my angry upvote.

Just so everyone’s on the same page, this is for the oil industry to boil more oil out of the sand and rocks. They might do a song and dance about green energy, and arguably it’s still “green-er” than burning oil to extract more oil, but whether they admit it or not this will support tarsands projects for sure. Alberta’s considered it too for the same reasons: steam-assisted-gravity-drainage is an extremely energy-intensive process. But with the UCP in power they prefer burning coal and oil to get more oil, because fucking the planet and the people on it is a huge part of the joy they get out of life.

They will offer Leon Black as a sacrifice, if they think it will satisfy, suppress or at least mute public anger. It shouldn’t. The only thing that will satisfy me is fucking nuremburg-style trials for all of these sick pedos. There’s more than just one. Release the fucking files. We want every single one.

Even if there are more than ten at certain times, they’ll all die so quickly that if you stick with it (and don’t die) you’re basically guaranteed to end up in the top ten at some point. It’s like a revolving door. Everyone gets a turn!

But, you’re not forced to log in before you can see the prices online, meaning they aren’t changing the price based on who is logged in.

They are. Even when blocking cookies, which most people don’t do or rely on the “helpful popups” that pretend to decline them, they can still fingerprint your browser, your computer, your IP. They grab your WebGL context and profile it until they identify enough unique details about your hardware and how it works. They don’t need you to login to know who you probably are, where you’re coming from, and what price they should show you, and if they’re wrong, they can be probably entirely consistent and close enough to being accurate that it doesn’t matter. If you’re careful and sneaky, you can sometimes see them do this yourself using VPNs and privacy-focused browsers and addons and other tools and by seeding your cookies and ad-data to make them fit you into a different profile, but it’s rarely worth the effort and it’s rarely a productive use of anyone’s time, since they’ll figure out the real situation when you go to pay anyway. Even if they do honor the price they initially offered you and don’t mysteriously error or decline or cancel the order, you didn’t really hide anything from them in the end, you just coaxed a bit of money out of them, they’ll eat the loss and pay for the difference easily with the thousands or millions of others who didn’t notice that their price was quietly jacked up.

I sincerely doubt they’d change prices on the shelves while the store is open, where shoppers could pick an item, and then the price is higher when they get to the check out.

Oh, my sweet summer child, they are doing worse than that. They are tracking how desperate or disinterested you seem to be about prices based on past behavior and even while you are in the store. They will know who you are, they will know your circumstances, and the price will change just for you and you’d better believe they’ll know exactly where you are at all times, so they’ll have systems that can charge you the same price at checkout as they showed for you when you’re in the aisle… if they choose to, or maybe they’ll choose to raise the price at the checkout, instead… why not? They’ll probably profile you well enough to guess if you’ll even notice the raised price, or if you do, whether you’ll actually be willing to make a stink about it. Will they be wrong sometimes? Sure it will! Do they care? You know they don’t!

Of course the really savvy shoppers may be able to dodge all these tricks, maybe even benefit from some of them. But that’s not something that actually bothers them. All they’ve got to do is do it subtly and gradually enough without creating a inescapable PR shitstorm in the process so that other, slower-to-adopt retailers don’t eat their lunch while they rake in the increased profits, ultimately forcing other retailers to follow their lead and level the playing field by doing the same thing (because do you really think people are going to change their buying habits significantly when all the retailers are doing it to approximately the same degree?) instead of letting the helpless peasants-- *ahem* customers force them to back down.

Capitalism dystopia is here, don’t fool yourself into believing that they won’t do it, because not only will they fucking do it, they’re not even bothering to hide it anymore. They aren’t ashamed of it, and they aren’t scared of consequences. There aren’t any. They know there’s probably little to nothing we can do to stop them, and they know that if we do stop them on this, they’ve already got a dozen other strategies in their pocket to try next, and they’ll never stop. There is no consumer protection anymore. Consumers don’t even protect themselves. Every industry is made up by colluding oligopolies or monopolies. They’ve won, they’ve fortified themselves, and now they’re sucking the economy dry, and when they have drained all your wealth and possessions into shriveled, withered husks, if there is still work left to do, they will make you do it to survive. If there isn’t work for you to do, then tough luck, they won’t care if you are homeless or dying. That’s… probably sort of the point, really.

I know the kidnapping is implied in forced regime change in this case, but explicitly calling it kidnapping helps clarify the heinousness of the crime. Probably fair to call it psychological torture, too.

Yeah sounds like something that somebody who was planning to invade would say.

“Russia is not going to attack anyone,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters Tuesday morning, according to a translation of his remarks. “It’s not like that.”

I think the Crips would fuck them up too, honestly. The only times they actually seem to have any sort of success is when they go after vulnerable populations like trans people and children of immigrants and pregnant women. Real big tough guys they are. Very scary and intimidating. Watch how much they puff out their chests about it too.

I have never trusted them, I always considered many of Signal’s decisions highly questionable, and I think they are either pressured into them by the US government, cooperating in what they think are limited and carefully-implemented ways while claiming and perhaps even believing they are fighting the good fight, or maybe they are just a psyop honeypot to begin with. I cannot trust them, and if they truly wanted me to, they would not do so many things that require me to trust them.

I agree most wouldn’t care. Most wouldn’t have to. It doesn’t take that many active insurgents to make occupation absolutely hellish and unsustainable for the invader. The Viet Cong was only about 200,000 strong at its peak out of North Vietnam’s 20 million population, they beat the US pretty brutally. Yeah they had help from the rest of the population and from external forces… (but probably so would we!)

This is good thinking, and you may still want something like this anyway, as there’s always room for additional documentation, but let me propose an alternative that takes this good way of thinking a step further:

Infrastructure-as-code means my code is my documentation. How’s it configured? Look at the code. What’s it doing? Look at the code. Don’t understand why it’s doing that? Use more descriptive names for things and write more self-explanatory code. Is the code out of date with the current state? Stop implementing things manually and make the code run automatically instead so it’s never out of date anymore.

I have complete confidence in my setup and life is easy now. Except when the IAC breaks. But that’s rarely a panic situation, just mildly frustrating.