A lot of America is truly that racist. Sometimes overt, but often subtle (e.g. "I don’t hate black people, but crime rates don’t lie).
There are pockets that are generally decent, but these are increasingly imperiled by growing external threats from the national government and bigots that feel empowered to act on its behalf.
Probably several years of education and/or practice
Well they’re sure not going to pay for it if it is.
The first part is short for my initials, (Zebra Ignatious Kavanaugh) the second part is for where I was born (Zambia, After Khristmas) and the 25 is for 2025, the year I was born.
That one’s impressive because they actually took footage of a real dog and edited it out so well, it doesn’t look like anything is amiss when Shrek is pasted over it.
It’s the way they dispose of grease, I believe. I think there are less regulations in the US than elsewhere. That or the minimum wage workers just don’t give a shit.
Yeah but closer to the eastern bloc you’re likely to hear the term “vatnik” used instead.
A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.
Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.
I think it probably doesn’t matter what he wants, it only matters that the data exists at all. If the owner is not giving permission, that’s one thing. But I’m inclined to believe that those American 3-letter agencies aren’t the sort to ask permission.
All it takes is one disgruntled systems engineer who thinks they don’t get paid enough. An agency comes knocking with a sizable offer of cash, and they’ll get the backdoor they want.
Well someone has to build the datacenters!
E2E encrypted messages in Matrix contain more user metadata than alternatives like SimpleX, nothing scary but a MitM is able to see origin points, destinations, and times of messages. Server to server, if you’re using E2E encryption, it relies on trust that the other server is not compromised.
And it seems Matrix.org is not the best at security disclosures: https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/#matrix-response
Just my subjective opinion to add, but I think they also succeeded at making the open world itself feel more puzzle-like, as opposed to the general set dressing it provides in a lot of RPGs. Being in a cold/hot/mountainous/wet/etc area is meaningful for the impact it has on your ability to explore.
I feel like it just gives a better sense of engaging with the environment, as opposed to engaging in the environment, if that makes sense.
Nothing federated is private, mind. Even with E2EE on in private rooms for specific messages, Matrix still relies on a constant information feed during use that can be used to deduce who is messaging whom and when, even if the content of the message itself is encrypted.
This is why it’s important to seed your online activity with deliberate false identifiers. That way, no one with bad intentions will learn that I work for the ICE office in Santa Fe, and always attend church every Sunday (when football isn’t on, of course).
I would argue though that it depends on the space you’re in. Conservative bubbles are astroturfed as fuck to inspire fear, sure, but it’s supposed to assure people that they are in the “in group” and there is a justified “other” to vilify and take the blame everything bad in the world. They have all the answers, and all you need to do is share on your socials and vote for the right person.
But I guess I’d consider political doomscrolling (which it seems like this is more veering towards) to be a separate phenomenon, which is not entirely immune to astroturfing either, but does not have it as a prerequisite. That discomfort is usually just the product of anxiety among people who realize they are not in the in group and are sharing their concerns.
Yeah I didn’t look that hard, was the first video I found that was sub 3 minutes. They’re all just marketing reels, no one else seems inclined to just upload a quick video on how teleprompters work.
Yeah, they’re still reflective enough to mirror the text when viewed from the right angle.
Here’s an example from YouTube so you can see what it looks like from the perspective of the one speaking:
Teleprompter. They’re mirrored on one side and reflect a screen with a script scrolling below them.
Yes, the right wing who goes out of their way to make the internet feel as “America First” as possible, that’s what I said. Again I ask, how does that not make Americans feel comfortable in online spaces? Unless you’re referring to one of the “wrong” kinds of Americans that the right-wing doesn’t approve of, I suppose.
There’s a major problem with these in parts of India, where certain painkillers that are often administered to dying people for palliative care are toxic to the carrion birds that are supposed to consume them. So populations of the birds have been dwindling and many of these towers are full of decomposing corpses that are left to rot a lot more slowly.
Other than the fuel needed for the incinerator, I don’t see what’s wrong with plain old cremation.