I wonder what was the trigger for that…

Like: “Look at those women for the medical trial! They are all straight 10s, we have to get to the bottom of this!” or “My ex got this and she was ugly as hell. I wonder if that is the reason”

Ah, that explains a lot: the name is cursed

And why is that? Perhaps because productivity rises while salaries stagnated? Because the 1% bleed the rest dry? Because all laws and tax codes are written for the wealthy?

No, it’s because of immigrants (somehow)! /s

UwU :-P >_< Ü

I didn’t mean a specific state, I just wanted to imply that terrorists backed by a state - with the money and connections that encompasses - would have the means to do this.

I currently don’t see any state that would wish to cripple the internet. That would hurt indiscriminately.

Perhaps in the future, before a planned attack, to sow chaos. So China or Russia perhaps.

Perhaps North Korea, but I don’t think they have the power or knowledge to do something like that and China would get mad.

In case someone misinterpreted the meme: these are all single points of failure that can take down large parts of the internet.

If a rouge state manages to take down any of these for a more then trivial amount of time, we would suffer enormous amount of financial damage

It’s not that expensive if you use them as slave labor and ignore their human rights… Well, still expensive for the tax payers, but who cares for those peasants? /s

Dude, 1k/week is “I don’t have to work anymore” money

I’m neither trans, nor would I look good in that (fat, old, bald, hairy, ugly man), but for that amount of money I’d do it. It’s just clothes, who cares?

WTF is fairness cream? It better not be what I think it is, because I won’t put my thing in there!

And how did no one think about a fallback in case of a outage? I bet some of the tech people thought about it and management said: “No, we don’t want the consumers to have a functioning unit without internet access. We need the data!”.

Btw. same with the new Windows 11 setup. There’s no technical reason for a computer without internet access to deny the installation.

A lot of historical figures get mentioned by contemporary writing of that period- the more important that person is the more information can generally be found. Yet Jesus who, even if you ignore the miracles, should have been an important spiritual leader wasn’t mentioned.

There is next to no evidence of Jesus Christ unless you count Christian sources, which have a bit of a bias.

The Romans for example were big on book keeping, yet no mention of Jesus can be found.

The existence of Jesus is possible, but far from certain - of course that’s something Christians don’t like to hear and the Christian church actively fights.

Well, it’s even quiet possible that the sculptor used his own hand as a model… And why not? Is it really a problem if the statue has man-hands?

It’s supposed to be a symbol not a penthouse model!

Yeah, a friend of mine did something similar to me once. Called me ugly in a roundabout way. I don’t think she even noticed. I can’t even blame her - it’s true after all. Still hurts.

Congratulations, it’s a goth!

Breaks are unpaid because that was another way to minimize what workers have to be paid.

Businesses always look for ways to pay their employees less and only change practices when forced.

Without strong unions and support from politicians things tend to get worse and worse.

Too bad that we have neither.

Oh it trickles down. Just not money, but at least it’s warm and golden 🙏

Won’t somebody think of the shareholders!

Every time someone pirates a game, a shareholder is a little bit further away from their third private jet!

How can you sleep at night?!?

Never watched it. Was she canonically gay? That would have been quite progressive for the time.