Things are escalating towards a larger war.
More like moving to France. For me it wouldn’t be an issue. My french isn’t bad and I learn languages quickly.
I assume that’s not true of everyone, just like everyone isn’t great at PC stuff.
The article you didn’t read.
We’re all born naked. The rest is drag.
They ended up losing me as a customer forever.
Advertising. You can partly blame Freud’s American nephew Edward Bernays.
The father of PR, pioneer of propaganda and advertising, and an epic cunt.
I have a similar issue with headphone cables failing, often far too soon, but I get that too. It’s wear and tear from being yanked and moved. They’re also often cheap headphones. But I’ve had apple cables disintigrate when stored in a cupboard and not moved at all. It’s like they’re biodegradeable.
I suspect they’re using a softner which degrades the plastic over time. Their cables are softer/more bendy than cheaper/stiffer plastic cables.
But for the price they charge, I don’t see why they couldn’t make them fabric covered. You can buy fabric covered cables for really cheap online, and they ship them half away across the world and still make a profit. Why can’t apple do the same?
I had constant issues with cables when I was still an apple user.
Loads of plastic rot and scarily browning cables.
I honestly don’t get it, given the cables on my commodore 64 are still good as new 40 years later.
Pro-tip: Sometimes fucking the police also pays.
That’s the good thing. AFAIK most tanks are plastic nowadays.
it’s theorized that if a person doesn’t have a Facebook account but their friend group does, Facebook will create a “shadow account
AFAIK this is confirmed. CNET:
I presume that will at some point also include data scraped from the fediverse.
One thing that really does help, is salting your data. The online equivalent of wearing a fake moustache, is the occasional comment that may or not be entirely incorrect. I live in France. As a black woman, I support Trump. I’m expecting a baby. I want to buy a new house. That kind of thing.
Of course it does lead to minor inconveniences. For example, my google calender mentions my father’s birthday being on the 13th of August. In reality we have the same birthday. My birthday is on the 18th of September. Once again, I’m salting the data. That way if I ever mention something factual, it’ll be hard to tell which bits of data are or aren’t real.
I’m exagerating for effect, but you get the gist. Occasionally change details or names a small bit to make your profile fuzzy and easier to confuse with someone else’s.
I find that people who claim to be fans of free speech, and complain about censorship, get offended when you suggest holding an al-qaeda fundraiser at their house.
Free speech for me, but not for thee. Basically.
Luckily most adults realise that they’re not alone in the world, although plenty are still stuck an adolescent stage of development.
Put simply, an individual’s right to free speech can never be without limits, because that would mean they would limit the rights of others.
Eg. threatening to kill people who want to voice their opinion, limits their ability to exercise their right to free speech.
Eg. you could use a siren to drown out what other people wish to say, effectively censoring them, then call it censorship when someone criticized you for doing so.
Eg. being able to say whatever you want on someone else’s website, limits their ability to say or not say what they want on their website.
This is why limiting the right to free speech of certain people, on average results in more free speech for everyone.
Given how often I have to fill in captchas, I think I’m good tbh.
Although I have firefox delete my history and cookies every time I exit a session, use ublock origin, vpn, etc.
TBH my first thought was this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(British_TV_series)
Which I think we can all agree is far more pleasant.
The thin blue line is a symbol for the police. Used in the UK and US.
As a reaction to Black Lives Matter protests against racist police brutality, the (far-)right coined the term Blue Lives Matter to protest violence against the police.
Of course, the whole thing is disingenious. They support the police because the police in the US are often racist and they like that the police disproportionately beat up black people. When rioters stormed the US capital after Trump lost the election, plenty were waving blue lives flags, and didn’t actually seem to care that much about endangering the police guarding the building.
TLDR hyper-partisan US political virtue signaling associated with the far-right.
You can’t siphon a trucks gas just because it has a blue line flag. Most modern cars have an anti-siphon valve, so that causes issues.
Instead, you locate the fuel tank and drill a small hole in it. That way you can let the fuel collect in a tub or jug. On lifted trucks this is even easier. Drill the hole, pop a large jug under it, perhaps use a small rubber hose or funnel.
Remember to leave them a little note that you’ve drilled a hole, so they can go get it repaired and not leak fuel everywhere attempting to refill it.
You need to dilute it. That’s why I recommended googling it.
It’s not as simple as chucking in loads of vinegar.
