Are we just going to ignore all the jobs that were lost when the economy crashed? Not just in the U.S. either.

All because there was an inordinate amount of really bad housing loans that banks KNEW were bad, and just continued to give the loans out.

If you’d like to learn more about this, Inside Job is a great documentary about this.

What are the odds of incoming drama in this post about tankies? I’ll say -110.

For anyone interested in what they used:

“Individuals assigned to the olfactory enrichment group were provided with an odorant diffuser (Diffuser World) and 7 essential oil odorants (rose, orange, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender; from The Essential Oil Company, Portland, OR) in identical glass vials that each fit into the diffuser. They were asked to turn on the diffuser when they went to bed, and the odorant was released into the air during the night for 2 h when they first went to sleep. They rotated through the different odorants each night.”

I like it. Still has some classic glitches, enemies jumping high into the air after you kill them, grabbing weapons out of a locked container because part of the gun was sticking was sticking out, you know, Bethesda things.

I found that it looks really blurry if I don’t have it on Ultra settings, that’s my only real complaint.

Never underestimate a kid with free time

This news article doesn’t have the dates announced, but bloomberg does.

I didn’t want to post something with a paywall.

Update: I have now learned about archiving, the correct article is posted

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

I believe they’re referring to Multicultural London English.

I am absolutely not, you can trust me.

On a completely unrelated note, do you know where I can get schematics for 3-D-printed guns?

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/20/world/luna-25-spacecraft-moon-collision-intl/index.html

We’ve just had more information come out, and it appears you’re right about the rushing! I’ll eat crow on that

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I’m trying to have a discussion about innovation in space, something that goes beyond Russia, and has a clear history.

Sorry I didn’t bag on Russia enough, I thought you guys were doing a good enough job of that already without me

What? It clearly states in the article they knew it was risky… I would consider that rushing.

Glad it was unmanned. There’s enough senseless death in the world.

If you take a look at the lunar missions for space race, you’ll see many of them happened within a year of each other. It’s a wonder there weren’t more failures!

Compare that to today, where it took almost 20 years of planning for the Hubble telescope to come into fruition.

You shouldn’t rush things in space. This is just the latest reminder.

Thank you for the context!

I don’t even like IPhones, but aren’t they one of the most private?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute#:~:text=The Apple–FBI encryption dispute,public access to strong encryption.

I’ve lived In rural areas in the U.S. all my life. Internet is always atrocious because the only ones that provide services out those ways know that they have no competition.

Luckily, I’ve had a great company come in and now have fantastic internet after they set up the infrastructure, but I still think about those days I had to use Windstream.

I used to think censorship worked. Now I think that just encourages troubled individuals to find an even worse echo chamber somewhere on the internet.

I don’t know what the right answer is regarding some of the parties in these lawsuits, I just see more and more stuff get censored and it never seems to get any better.

https://www.viralityproject.org/

You’re allowed to have your own opinion, but here is the link to the actual research, which I thought was pretty interesting!

One of the points was about how Covid-19 conspiracy theories were just rehashed talking points of old. I won’t spoil the rest