"But most significantly, Microsoft has made Recall a feature you must opt in to using rather than opt out of using, and it's possible to remove it completely."

Important bit

My partner and I make a point of pointing and laughing at every single cyber truck and owner we see

You know valve isn't Microsoft right? Those are two different companies with different agendas?

Steam asking for consent for a survey doesn't make up for the lack of consent in updates pushed by an entirely different entity

gestures at butterfly

is this praise kink?

There's an axiom I don't know the provenance of:

"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"

It's not about the truth to them it's about making the scary unknown go away so they can get on with their lives. Nevermind the fact that their ignorance is causing their own demise and that of everyone else....

It takes an emotional shock, most of the time, to break that kind of deathgrip on a false reality

You've got it backwards. For most of history it was the other way around. We got to see a brief tantalizing glimpse of it in the 'oughties and naughties, and then the people who's lifestyle depends on an exploitable workforce got scared and decided that was enough freedom for the peons

What do we use when they start checking the trees with metal detectors?

I don't think cinder blocks would work as well

Sorry my dude, it's a classic now. A really really good one!

Nobody in here gonna mention Scene Queen?

Same for dogs and cats, but that's a hard sell

Going to shamelessly plug my custom bashrc setup which has a ton of little scripting helpers and a few useful aliases. Remember to clone recursively if you want to try it out. (Still very much a work in progress, but it's getting to be pretty robust)

https://GitHub.com/pyr0ball/PRbL-bashrc.git

You can't mention nohup without at least mentioning kill -9 or pkill to slay the monster you created you madman

Ye'olde worm-brain is another example

You'd enjoy Tech Ingredients too I bet

That makes little sense. Why would blue collar workers support Israel’s genocidal bombardment campaign?

Sadly because of the higher incidence of nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia among such folk which means they don't care enough or are outright in favor of turning brown people into skeletons

Having had a partner who gaslit and had basically a personality disorder, I could absolutely see someone getting driven to do what she did. You start to doubt your own ability to distinguish reality, to be able to trust yourself or anyone else. Constant fear and anxiety will make anyone go a little nuts

No hate! Just need to make sure people know so they don't create a bazillion threads without realizing it, or how to stop them effectively

I'd recommend Stephen Baxter's "Ring" novel as a primer on cosmic strings, domain walls (the shell-like mass described here) and using wormholes for time travel.

Basically covers all of the funky science described in this article

Agreed. My favorite is still Raft

Are you singing at your cat?