Would you accept lies and obfuscation instead?

I don’t like what people are focusing on.

I’ll change the subject.

Now I don’t like that people are talking about how I bungled some part of the distraction.

I don’t like what people are focusing on.

Repeat.

They may have been mentioned/featured in things that last longer than the bows. Statues, pottery, writing on stone tablets.

Also I think they find skeletons with flint arrowheads in them sometimes too.

So it can be pieced together from lots of small, even partial data points.

But we find new stuff all the time that changes what we thought.

They found a 4000 year old bagless vacuum cleaner the other day.

That last one was a joke.

It’s possible. I did it.

Apparently that alt parks account is super weird and q-like.

They had “140k” members counting protesters (they claim). Seems made up.

For now I’m sticking with the low-but-verifiable numbers. Otherwise we leave ourselves open to being ignored the next time (on numbers/data).

He absolutely did not submit the urine of one of his army of children.

For sure not.

My.local library has been getting refurbished for a couple of months.

It’s really thrown off my ability to do paperwork, as they were the only people around with a working printer.

I actually had to fix the printer at work. Horrible stuff.

If they only get to use their toys in specific cases, they’ll pretend it’s always that case.

Right now the key words are “insurrectionist” and “terrorist” and “illegals”. They say the keyword, they suddenly get the loopholes.

It wouldn’t be a stretch to say they suspected “illicit” materials just so they could gear up for their hero LARP.

For short-term wins I’d go with Neal Asher’s “Polity” civilization as at some point in the 20th Century, the AI just decides to take over and become benevolent rulers.

No societal collapse required.

But also a higher risk of enslavement by giant sentient crabs. Your call.

Agreed, but honestly either is ok. I’d prefer the Minds ruling me to humans too.

The main thing that would scare me is the Megadeath scenarios from the Idiran war.

But that seems like a pretty rare thing. Also, they seem to be a lot better at the sex and drugs thing than ST, as well as how they handle crime.

Coming after these guys is Neal Asher’s Polity. It’s like Culture “lite”, And the robots are a bit less “extra”.

And also that honking/screaming at the car is (even more of) a dick move now.

Imagine creating this and imagining you were making a point.

Came to Lemmy while my disk manager is processing my new partition.

If it goes well, I’m switching today.

So, probably some time early tomorrow morning. Because I’m not great with reading instructions.

Edit: it’s still processing. It feels like it shouldn’t take this long to partition…

They’re not going away, they’re just going to be more persistent with their cold calling, and more infuriating with their call answering.

When the voice assistant came out I remember one of my coworkers showing it off to another.

To which the other coworker just said “hey Google, text Mom saying ‘you’re fat’”.

Because of that I’ve never had any voice tools connected to anything I own.

When I dual booted Ubuntu about a decade ago it took an afternoon and needed a lot of extra command line stuff to do anything.

Last night I installed Linux mint and it took about two hours. Most of the time was me rebooting my ancient laptop though.

On a newer (less worn out) machine I could probably do it notably faster.

Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we’re not a representative section of the online community.

Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.

I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.

Gentrification came for flavortown.

Rent is now $4000/mth. No loitering.

A lot of contracts have an exclusivity clause. So in that case they’d be vulnerable to breach of contract lawsuit.

I like the look of the stencil/shape left behind by a removed logo.

Feels rebellious.