Everything up to the $20 bill should be replaced with a coin.

I remember the day that the Old Internet died for me.

I saw my buddy was online on AIM, and I messaged him looking to shoot the shit. But he had just gotten a smartphone, and was logged into AIM on his smartphone, and it was not a good time for him to be shooting the shit because he was out and about doing stuff. So he was like “what do you need? I’m busy”.

Which is not something anyone had ever told me on AIM before. If you were on AIM you were by definition bored and looking to shoot the shit.

I guess we grew up too.

We can accurately point out that the technologies of the iphone (processors, cellular telephony, cellular data, GPS, touchscreens, bluetooth, cameras, etc) were not invented by Steve Jobs.

But his company took those parts and put something together that a few billion people decided was far more valuable than the sum of those parts. And they all decided to start carrying all these tools and using them fifteen times per hour, when they didn’t before.

It’s really hard to argue that’s not innovative.

Is there a way to get it to route around current traffic?

Apple took slightly longer but as of this morning it also has the wrong name for Lake Ontario

I switched from beer/wine to Kirkland tequila because it’s cheaper

I never have this problem of people giving me AI responses to my questions.

What I do have a problem with is people who do this:

https://nohello.net/en/

Russia’s invasion if Ukraine , for example, makes perfect sense if you’re a dictator surrounded by yes-men blowing smoke up your ass about your amazing military strength for years (while they take the military money and spend it on yachts in the Mediterranean)

I really doubt Putin would make this particular mistake twice though

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None of us can possibly know for sure. But I suspect Russia discovered a trove of leaky US intelligence info was passing through their country, and they told him to either

A) stay in Russia, tell us what you know, and do what we tell you

or B) be murdered.

Does it excuse Russia’s invasion? No.

Bottom line right here. You are going on quite a bit about stuff that has absolutely no bearing on the most important issues of the day.

Russian war crimes in Ukraine have killed about 4 orders of magnitude (10,000 times) more people than the incident you mention here. And you feel it’s important and relevant to discuss the reburial of one guy who died a half century ago. Your priorities are severely misplaced. The main tool of propaganda is not the lie, but the emphasis, and your emphasis on small things in trying to distract from 10,000 times bigger things is wildly out of whack.

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Ukraine has a Nazi problem? Oh man, that is horrible!

Do Ukrainian Nazis invade rob and murder their neighboring countries? That would be a really bad thing for Nazis to do.

How many seats in the Ukrainian parliament are currently held by Nazis?

One major reason that Nazis are bad is their propensity for invading, robbing, and murdering the people of their neighboring countries.

Republican nominees lie to the Senate to get approved.

A ton of produce looks unappetizing, goes bad and has to be thrown out.

If you become skilled at writing articles to even slightly plausibly blame the outcomes of Republican conservative policies on Democrats, you can develop this into an extremely lucrative career.

Ok, so in your country the debt registry functions as a credit score to warn lenders about deadbeat borrowers

Without a credit score, how does your country deal with wealthy people repeatedly borrowing money and not repaying it?

I am hard pressed to find anyone irl who would be impressed by this but I made a spreadsheet that converts hexadecimal into float using only standard excel formulas.