RIP Aaron Swartz

This isn't right - this all assumes he gets to keep his money. Now take $1500/month in rent, $200 in food, SS, sales tax, etc.

Machine sewing isn't that much more expensive, and it's a VAST improvement over hand sewing unless you've got plenty of time, and lots of boredom.

My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don't know anything about vpn, etc.

My brother is one of these idiots, I dunno how they got him. He's not part of the militia group but dipshit thinks a local radio tower that just went up is part of the weather control system...

I've been slowly filling my wife's Kindle Oasis full of pirated books over the last 2 years. I got it initially because it had internet service everywhere and I could just email her the epubs to simplify loading things.

A couple of weeks ago, even though airplane mode is always on for this thing, (so no wifi either) -- this thing wipes something like 400 books from her library overnight. Granted, they were all pirated, but they're doing some nasty stuff there. It looks like there's renewed effort to combat this.

Sooooo, I sold it and bought her a Kobo Libra Color. Now, I just have her open up https://send.djazz.se/ -- give me the 4 digit code, and I can upload books to her that way. Goodbye Amazon. Don't let the door hit you.

The problem with overeating, is once you need to stop yourself, it's harder to - because you still need to eat. You still need to keep doing the thing that you've got a problem with.

Imagine if to "stop smoking", you had to smoke 3x a day?

That's why eating disorders are so damn hard for people.

China is Authoritarian Capitalist.

Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

AI to remove jobs from workers. 1000%. That's what the hype is now. Capitalist see workers as an expense. They're working on getting rid of you any way they can.

If JEJ granted voice rights, then that's peachy. Nobody owes someone else that job. Sounds like JEJ locked it down.

The idea that actors are required to be hired is kind of nonsense. Every industry has had to deal with less people required to produce the same amount of output. At this point, JEJ voice of Darth Vader IS Darth Vader. I can understand the studio wanting to retain that. Replacing voice actors is often jarring for the viewer.

You can blame the courts for this one. They basically ruled "Apple isn't a monopoly, because they don't even LET other people compete in the first place". (which is about a bass-ackwards as it gets but whatever)

Google saw this and went "shit..." so they're rushing to implement the same thing.

I want a japanese kei car. They make the mazda look like it's a monster truck. Something like the Daihatsu Copen.

Linux is going to shit when this man dies. He has such a stringent quality requirement that he's quite possibly the only reason Linux is the behemoth king that it is today. Humans are lazy, unqualified, and the fact that this man tells it like it is so often, and so brashly is why I will continue to use Linux; because I can trust that this guy keeps all the garbage out.

Did bush actually have time for what's claimed here? He was mostly about removing rights from Americans in the face of a sham war. I don't think he actually had much focus on tax breaks for rich people...

Obama continued that ritual, removing even more rights from the American people under the guise of "safety". And Obama could have shoved Universal healthcare through but didn't - he watered it down in the name of "bipartisanship", but then ultimately nobody voted for the bill on the right anyways. If that were going to be the case, he should have just rammed through what the American people NEEDED; but he didn't -- because he wanted MORE MONEY FOR RICH PEOPLE (insurance companies)

Hell, Obama bombed more brown people than any president before him as well...let's not pretend he was an angel.

Whatever you do, steer clear of meetup.com - all of their social activities on there now are scientologists thinly veiling their seminars as get-togethers.

This is why I watch kurzgesagt so I can have EXISTENTIAL crisis about things that will never actually affect me like the sun burning out, or the universe going completely dark, instead of more worldly crisis.

Joke's on you, I was already stupid to begin with.