(moved to an edit in my OP)

I only read the quote that was posted, which didn’t actually criticize the regime or anything. Sounds pretty tame to me.

Probably anyone over 40-45 or so who reached adulthood before smartphones became a thing. The first iphone was 2007 and it was still a while before everyone had one and the addictive apps took them over. So even if they had cell phones in their teens or tweens they would only have been talking and texting with their friends on them, IOW socially interacting face to face with people most of the time.

Conan thinking: “Let’s see now, how can I make a giant party that’s nothing but a mutual admiration society for a bunch of rich people seem somehow OK to do while people are suffering all over in a world that’s falling apart because our country just started WWIII but it doesn’t affect us because did I mention we’re all rich as hell and just spent 150 grand each on our outfits that we’ll wear only this once?” sigh "I suppose I have to say something because the poors are watching and we want them to keep watching our movies to escape from their dismal lives for a while.*

*clears throat* “Let us celebrate — not because we think all is well — but because we work and hope for better”

“Yeah, that sounds good”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-oscars-cost-10-million-110200586.html

edit: Yall downvoters love those multi-millionaires, huh? What do you find admirable about them? That they’re prettier than the tech-bro nerdy kind of rich? That they only make hundreds of millions instead of billions, only own a couple mansions and just the one private jet?

What if you put “20 bricks or 20 feathers?” without mentioning the word “pounds” at all? I wonder if it would latch onto the same riddle.

You could try talking to older people who didn’t grow up with a phone plastered to their face so it wouldn’t be weird for them.

Then Fox bought it

OMG I didn’t know that had happened! :( When I was a kid my grandmother got me a subscription to it every year for Christmas. It was great.

He should be in prison, instead he gets a nice retirement package.

All those people who keep telling us protesting is useless please explain why republicans in power keep trying to suppress protests. What are they scared of?

Do you seriously believe the next step won’t be requiring certification by a private third party verification setup? Which you’ll have to pay for, probably as an annual fee.

This has nothing to do with “protecting children”. The goal of the Broligarchs is to end general purpose computers that individuals own and have personal control of. They want total control and ownership of everything and to divide the market up amongst themselves. All computing devices must be locked down so they can rent them out to us for a never-ending income of recurring payments of money, information, ad revenue, and dissemination of propaganda to control future elections and keep lawmakers in their pockets and laws implementing their plans.

Right, it’s not automatically recurring. If you get below some number of credits (I forget how many), they notify you (by email of course!) so you have plenty of time to buy some more.

They don’t have to store it.

The fact that it’s a paid service doesn’t mean they have to keep your PID and payment info on file. I use posteo.de for my email, which is a paid service. But my payment info is only used during the payment process and they don’t keep it on file once they receive the payment. You buy like 12 or 20 months and have that many credits. When it starts to get low, you buy some more.

This dog begs to differ!

Hmm, I would say a monkey would be an obvious choice since they can manipulate objects and do all kinds of things, are also fluffy/cuddly, and there’s a potential for two-way communication. Possibly an ape, though it would be bigger–maybe too big and not as cute, and it could easily kill you if things don’t go well.

I’ve seen just a few that I suspected were AI, wouldn’t be able to prove it but they had that vibe–they were personal stories where someone describes something that happened and ask for people’s opinions about it. Some of the lines were very typical AI-cliche sounding to me, and the situations didn’t seem like something that would really happen . So I wouldn’t accuse the OP of pasting slop in for the entertainment of watching people argue about some made-up situation, but I also wouldn’t reply to them either. I’ve read that they’re getting that kind of thing on Reddit so I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened here too.

God forbid we finally get rid of DST and save people from car wrecks, industrial accidents, and heart attacks if it makes you have to adjust offsets once in some software.

*watches downvote counter while all the techies rage-click the down arrow*

That’s how it should be of course. Problem is businesses and companies still follow standard business hours and make their employees show up at the same time no matter if DST is in effect or not.

Yeah given a choice, I’d rather have light after work instead of before. Unfortunately when I lived in Montana, the winter days were so short that I went to work in the dark and came home in the dark. The only light I saw was going outside during lunch break.