One person making a drone is far different from China staging an attack.

Highly unlikely.

1988. Text only. You learned Unix or you didn’t go play.

Drones have an incredibly limited range, so any drone attack would have to originate either inside the United States, off our coasts, or within the borders of Canada and Mexico.

I’m 9 years older than my kid sister. We had an agreement, she doesn’t date anyone older than me and I don’t date anyone younger than her.

We both married people in that range.

Internet Creepieness Rule:

Your age / 2 + 7 is the low end limit.

I recognize that Congress has asked for the investigaton, but Congress is also run by low-grade morons.

https://now.tufts.edu/2019/07/18/lyme-bacterium-predates-us-lab-conspiracy-theorists-say-unleashed-ticks-public

"It turned out that the bacterium was circulating in wildlife long before Lyme disease became a known illness in humans. Ticks collected in 1945 from the eastern end of Long Island and mice collected in 1894 on Cape Cod were found to be infected with B. burgdorferi.

This means that B. burgdorferi already existed in wildlife on Long Island—neighbor to Plum Island—for nearly ten years and on Cape Cod for fifty years before the time period in question.  And Ft. Terry, the predecessor to the Plum Island facility, wasn’t even activated by the Army Chemical Corps until 1952, noted Telford."

The robo puppy ads are AI slop.

480i tube televisions… Used to do it all the time.

“I want men to be open with their feelings.”

“Men who are open with their feelings are a burden to me.”

🤔

As long as they aren’t networked, there’s no problem there!

Your business critical system will no longer be supported with security updates which will leave it vulnerable to attack.

I guess, if it’s not connected to any sort of outside network, and has no way of accepting data from media like discs or thumb drives then it’s perfectly safe, but if that’s the case, and it works in isolation, how “business critical” is it?

I like the new one… “3/9th pound burger! And if it’s sold out, we’ll replace it with a 2/6th pound burger at no extra cost!”

The problem wasn’t that they had a 1/3rd pound burger, it’s that they advertised it in direct competition with a 1/4 pound burger at the same price and people were too dumb to know that 1/3 > 1/4 because 4 > 3.

https://www.awrestaurants.com/blog/memories-history/the-truth-about-aws-third-pound-burger-and-the-major-math-mix-up/

They did re-do the advertising… decades later…

https://www.awrestaurants.com/press/press-release/101921-aw-rebounds-from-worst-marketing-fail-with-burger-for-math-challenged/

Portlander here… article is trying to lay the blame on homeless services but completely ignores what else was going on:

FTA:

"By late spring 2021, the city committed to a new strategy that then-Mayor Ted Wheeler said would “reprioritize public health and safety among homeless Portlanders,” ultimately allocating $1.3 billion by the end of 2024.

But although the city spent roughly $200,000 per homeless resident throughout that time, deaths of homeless people recorded in the county quadrupled"

What was REALLY happening was State Ballot Measure 110 took effect in February, 2021, decriminalizing drugs. What then happened was an explosion of open air drug markets and fentanyl overdoses.

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/substanceuse/opioids/pages/fentanylfacts.aspx

“The number of unintentional overdose deaths related to illicitly manufactured fentanyl nearly quadrupled between 2020 and 2022, increasing from 223 to 843 overdose fatalities. (Data source: CDC SUDORS Dashboard: Fatal Drug Overdose Data). In 2022, illicitly manufactured fentanyl contributed to 65.5% of all overdose deaths in Oregon, making it the most prevalent illicit drug involved in overdose fatalities.1”

https://multco.us/news/multnomah-county-releases-2023-domicile-unknown-report-homeless-deaths

"during calendar year 2023, at least 456 people died without a home of their own.

The number, significantly more than the 315 deaths reported in 2022, is the highest since Multnomah County began its analysis — reflecting what health officials believe is the height of the fentanyl crisis that swept our community in 2023.

Of the 456 deaths, 251 were linked to fentanyl, roughly triple the number reported in 2022 and a clear sign of the synthetic opioid’s deadly impact. Overdose deaths in 2023 overall climbed to 282 people, more than double the 123 deaths reported in 2022."

Measure 110 would finally be repealed in September of 2024.

Time? Sure, but I don’t have the energy or focus.

We don’t know that Walton is funding the RALLY, but she definitely paid for the AD. Big difference.

But the guy is wrong saying"WalMart paid for it", Walton paid for it. Again, big difference.

That’s the trouble with social media. If I tweeted something with my work account there’s a whole bunch of policy guidelines I agreed to in order to make that tweet.

Which is why I don’t use a work social media account. :) And when they ask me “Hey, share this on social media!” I’m like “Nope! Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope!”

I mean, he’s not wrong, but when you represent the brand there are all sorts of restrictions and caveats. :(

25 people REPORTED arrested. No idea how many actually arrested. That number won’t be out for days.

25 people reported so far, many more being arrested.