At this point, you can’t even participate in several aspects of society without a smartphone. A lot of concerts and the like have digital-only tickets. You can’t even get cheap McD’s food without using their stupid app; their deals are all digital now.
How do you feel about vanilla extract?
Being undereducated on power dynamics in situations surrounding statutory rape does not mean he wants to fuck kids.
He’s an ass, but he’s not a pedophile.
It’s pistol-sized, pistol-shaped, and it fires projectiles. It’s effectively a gun. The projectiles just happen to be self-propelled instead of having a casing with gunpowder.
Eh. There IS a gun that works worse at close range, but it is very much not in production and its ammo is very, very hard to source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet
In that sense, you could say it’s a dead gun.
There is one… but it’s incredibly rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet
Technically it fires very small rockets.
off to the local furry meetup I go!
I can’t help but wince at the thought of not seeing the spider before plugging in the ethernet cable…
LLMs have made it so that it takes longer to determine whether content is bad than it takes to make bad content. The solution SHOULD be to demand that people examine the content themselves and turn it into high-quality content, but that’s not going to happen so long as it is possible for anyone to submit pull requests. The only solution that will actually work is to restrict who is allowed to submit content to your projects.
all of this is just bullshit meant to distract you
I personally doubt this; Trump is an egotistical moron who is behind the times and doesn’t like listening to any counterarguments. Battleships are cool, thus battleships are effective, and the USA was stupid to stop making them, and they should make them again, and by the way, they should slap his name on it because he’s so smart and also a good military leader and better than Sleepy Joe. It doesn’t need to be a distraction to exist.
I would be willing to suffer permanent damage to ensure everyone I have ever cared about has all the money they need to thrive.
Those were only two examples of an accelerating trend. But you’re right; if something is actually a necessity, you can largely get it without a smartphone. Society is doing its utmost to make them a necessity though, and it drives me nuts.