When I see police shootings like this, I always wonder how unarmed British cops would handle such a situation. I’m against defunding the police in general, but defunding their gun budget I think would go a long, long way.

Wow. ELI5 on Lemmy is way different from ELI5 on Reddit.

I use 1930 as the base year. So the $20 USD bill is actually the new $1 bill.

That has never worked for me. People actually upvoted my wrong code and said it was correct when I tried this.

An autistic teenage hacker banned from having a computer used a fire stick in a hotel room to hack Rockstar games. I think any given 14 year old war driver can hack these devices and listen to your conversations. If the government will work their butts off to install a tap on a landline, how can they not use an Alexa.

At the very least, there’s a teenager in your neighborhood listening to every damn thing you say. If you have cameras in your home, they’re watching you.

Violence is what the baddies do. Follow Albert’s Path:

https://youtu.be/kf0ZvY2usbY

That’s the way it is with any disease. If you hobble into a party with a compound fracture and turn all the conversations to that, it’s going to make people uncomfortable. They’re not doctors. They don’t know how to deal with it. It’s not that they think you’re lesser. I have a dozen physical ailments plus bipolar disorder. The best thing to do is not to focus on it. If you can’t do that, you need meds. And they work. Trust me. Go to the doctor and get treated.

Linux will never become popular till it’s as easy to use as something like VLC. Download, install, and it runs everything. Until this happens, Linux will never take over no matter how unbearably shitty Windows becomes.

You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide?

Chatbots have been around since the 70s. They’ve always been able to coach people to commit suicide. The problem isn’t the software. It’s the wetware. People used to somehow manage not to get talked into killing themselves by their Commodore VIC 20.

For singles bars, it’s so people can get close and talk in each other’s ears and have a private conversation.

They’re like wearing a hazmat suit to go swimming. Plus, my wife gets offended when I wear one, thinks I think she’s cheating on me. When I told her that it’s to protect her, that didn’t help!