ThePowerOfGeek

Unfortunately for the AI models, about 95% of LinkedIn posts are total shite with no value whatsoever.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined Faceless Employee-Hating Corporation as a Senior wage Slave! I’m really looking forward to pouring my heart and soul into their profiteering endeavors over the next few years until their board lays me off so they can all afford another luxury yacht!

Great point about the battery size.

The Kremlin must have stopped sending out payments to them. The dirty money dries up (presumably due to sanctions?) so Meta finally gets a conscience.

That had one job to do, and they totally screwed it up!

Me too. My initial guess is it’s something along the lines of a Stuxnet infection of the targeted pagers, which had the operating systems do something that caused the batteries to overheat and explode.

But the fact that they all exploded at the same time is very interesting. You’d think that do ing that by overheating the batteries would see them explode at slightly different times due to local environmental variables.

ETA: As others have pointed out, this must be more than just a lithium ion battery overheating/exploding. I read somewhere that Hezbollah inserts a self-destruct explosive into their pagers in case of emergency. And it sounds like the Israeli intelligence forces probably hacked into their network and triggered the detonations. So it’s probably a combination of Hezbollah’s paranoia combined with old school hacking from Israel.

And a connoisseur of covfefe and berders.

She also used the old “look straight at the camera to engage with the viewer” strategy very well. She chose the right times to do that, with the right messages. And she didn’t over-use that technique, so it didn’t get diluted.

I liked the Trevor Noah iteration of the show, and I feel he was maligned unfairly. And most of that came from the fact that neither he nor anybody else (except, in hindsight, maybe John Oliver) could have filled the gargantuan shoes Jon Stewart left.

But all that said, Stewart just has a different knock. I respect the guy tremendously. He’s got integrity, razor-sharp intelligence, and a true gift for comedy and comedic timing.

ETA: missed a word.

Say that Obama has been spotted shoving smaller gerbils up the asses of larger gerbils.

Holy shit, that had me nearly crying with laughter!

I find the fact that the Qanon loonies are appropriating the symbolism of legendary rock band Queen both hilarious and offensive.

Yeah, true. That’s the special ingredient.

I swear this is part of a wider ongoing experiment. “What’s the most comically ridiculous, most bullshit conspiracy we can come up with that the maga cult will believe”.

Whoever is behind it: please stop. We’ve known for a long time now that there’s is no bottom to that well.

How the fuck did she think this was anything close to a good idea?! This shows a profound lack of good judgement, and a huge failure of both respect for her job and for the safety of the crew.

(I know you’re asking a rhetorical question, but I feel like answering so I can share some information with those who may not know it…)

Pfft, of course they are not against it. Most of them (certainly all the right-wing evangelicals, plus the racist bigots, and that large intersection of both those groups) are getting weak at the knee over what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank right now.

Why? Because the ‘Christians’ among them believe the more murder happens there, the quicker their Aryan Jesus will be forced down from his clouds to begin Armageddon. Plus of course, it’s ‘brown-skinned’ Muslims who are being murdered, which they also get giddy about. And if a few Jewish people die in the process? Meh, they wouldn’t care, because in their hearts they are also anti-semitic.

The people who embrace this belief are fucking monsters.

I am totally fine with this strategy. My oldest just got his first phone, mostly so he could connect with his friends and contact my wife and I in an emergency. His school requires all students to put their phones in a container when they enter a class (they also have several charging ports available in each classroom, so students can charge their phones during class - a very considerate feature).

From what I can tell no kids or their parents have a problem with this. My wife and I certainly don’t. It helps instill sensible technology usage habits in our kid. And it gives him more independence from us. And in this case, kids can still use their phones during lunch and before/after school. But just not during classes. Not only is this a very reasonable requirement IMO, it’s an excellent way to get them to interact more.

Framing this requirement as “going back in time” is silly. Certainly in situations where kids are only banned from using their phones in class.

No no, they just accidentally ingest some polonium tea… and then shoot themselves in the back of the head with a shotgun… and then jump off a roof.

No. But they are at a decent level. And they are around the same level as Japan and South Korea. And all three of them are significantly above China in the sport.

Holy shit. That poor lady.

Oh wow, that’s a big step forward in longevity!

Thanks for the quote.

This is encouraging news. But don’t perovskite solar panels degrade much quicker than silicon ones? I know they had found ways of prolonging their life by using lasers to ‘smooth out’ and strengthen the crystal structure of the perovskite. But even with that the last I heard was that they would still only last few a few (2-7) years.