Morticians hate this one weird trick!

Edge case here: my hands are constantly dirty with things I don’t want to get on my phone (relevant hobbies include machining, gardening and calligraphy). A smart watch means I can check to see if a message is important (ex: kids/partner attempting to get ahold of me) and I can answer calls and texts just using my nose/tongue + TTS. I never understood why they were such a mainstream accessory, but they are very convenient in some circumstances.

(Edit: I just remembered another use case, my partner is medically “a dingus” and constantly loses their phone as a result, but habitually is always wearing their watch. Upgrading them to a smartwatch has meant our relationship no longer suffers the daily turmoil of tearing apart several rooms looking for it. Again pretty niche, but a wonderful QoL improvement)

Oh you’re fine, given the severity of the disinfo around this one (people here in the US are already calling for retaliation over the supposed deportations, rather predictably) I just wanted to clarify which part was true, and then I did that with the most pre-coffee phrasing possible.

I didn’t say anything about the deportation of american citizens though, since I couldn’t find a legit source. I think I snagged the quote from OKAY (for some reason, maybe I was high?). The quote is at least accurate in its contents.

But seriously, thank you for the follow up about the deportation being BS.

Yeah, sorry about that. If it helps, they’re kinda in charge of the US government right now so most of those groups have lost their funding through their own spectacular incompetence! So at least there’s hope! But not very much!

It’s just now how it works though, most government firewalls wouldn’t even deliver the emails. It’s a constant pain in the ass to get legit emails in from non-government sources, even promotional marketing spam has to jump through a bunch of hoops to not get filtered (by which I mean they just pay off microsoft to get on the approved list, fucking thanks microsoft…). Fortress & Friends have very little chill and have been made even more paranoid in a bid to mitigate phishing. This is why there’s so many proxy services or even just outside email servers set up for us government correspondence (plot twist, butterymales is sop big shock I know)

Idk why they’re bringing arrogance into it, but you’d get caught using official email for personal projects in like… a minute. And if it’s official work, why would they risk exposing themselves instead of going through one of the million us gov email proxies?

I know it’s the whole point of them doing this shit but it’s getting so hard to cope with the constant fucking around. What in the fuck are we going to do? At least for now they’ve realized how spectacularly stupid this move was, I guess.

As much as this comes amid a flurry of “screw the US” sentiment (and fair play for that), this move also included thirty other countries and has been a long-standing political issue in Namibia. It also was announced months ago and went into effect two weeks ago, and we’re only hearing about it now for some reason.

This bold decision, spearheaded by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is framed as a move towards establishing reciprocity in international relations, asserting that if African citizens require visas to enter the United States, then American citizens should also be subject to the same requirements when entering Namibia. The President emphasized that this policy change is not an act of aggression but a matter of fairness and national dignity.

Smart move, especially with the recent mineral finds in the country. Hope they don’t get obliterated for having the sheer audacity to not bow to imperialism.

That sounds like part of the problem though, which since I’m part of the solution clearly means that responsibility isn’t my responsibility.

But conveniently I can just declare myself to be part of the solution! What now, society?

Listen if he doesn’t have to care about the truth neither do I…

Tbf I’ve had several cats that went -bonkers- for broccoli…

iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into ‘it eats corpses’. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.

edit: here’s a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Corrie

Yo we don’t care when americans shoot american children, why should we care if someone else wants to get in on it? No way to prevent this. ('sides, with a name like Omar Mohammad Rabea the kid had to have been brown)

Short answer: It’s a turn of phrase the Incel movement popularized as a dehumanizing dogwhistle.

Long answer: In current American English, “Female” and “Females” are highly formal terms and really are only commonly used in situations like law and academic discourse (this is true of “male” and “males” as well, though there’s much less cultural baggage associated with those terms). People who use them in casual conversation instead of the much more common “Women” (or the diminutive, “Girls”) tend to be the kind of person that uses formal language to emphasize their own intellectual superiority over the common masses, and in particular all the women who won’t have sex with them. In fact and almost invariably, this is presented in the form of explanations about why nobody wants to have sex with them, and the cultural forces that are causing it, and why deep down it’s the women’s fault they can’t get a date, and it just all goes downhill from there.

edit: clarity

This… seems… highly theoretical.

… seven toes??

Fun background info: Trusted Representatives don’t actually carry their shard of the key (to prevent exactly this scenario), they have (iirc) a keycard which allows them to access the secure storage medium where their different pieces are stored.