IninewCrow

How about instead of trying every complicated stupid way to regulate users and especially children … you regulate and control companies and corporations instead.

Wow … I think AskJeeves was the first major search engine I relied on when I first started going online. That and ‘Dogpile’. I remember a friend of ours bugging me to check out a thing called ‘Google’ at the time.

runaway infinite consumption at all costs … aka … cancer

Xmas version 2025.12.25 just got released … next incremental release is 2026.01.25, which will work its way up during the year to the final annual version of 2026.12.25

Of all the people in the world that need or should have it mandatory to have round the clock public surveillance … it should be our political leaders

They claim to be working for the people … yet the people never really know what the fuck these leaders are doing

Guy in the bathroom stall: … I use Mac!

Guys and gals pissing in the hallway, lobby, parking lot, bushes, behind the building and inside the office: … we use windows 11!

This is what I’ve always said about AI and the future of technology … if it’s programmed and being run by racists, misogynists and psychopaths … will it be any surprise if we end up with a racist, misogynistic, psychopathic AI?

That mentality (and I’ve been guilty of it myself) is part of the problem. The belief or perspective that if it isn’t happening to me, near me or in places where I can see … then it doesn’t affect me.

If others are reporting it, showing it, displaying it, talking about it in another part of the country, then it should ring alarm bells for all of us. Just because it isn’t happening to us, it does not mean that there is no problem.

The worry is that once we all normalize this kind of behaviour and control by government and public institutions, eventually over time, the more we allow it all … it will eventually affect us directly as well.

It all harkens back to the poem written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller in Post WWII Germany … ‘First They Came’

If we sit idly by and watch them bully immigrants, then eventually they’ll move on to another minority, then another, then another and eventually it will become the group of people you are seen as being part of.

Personally, I’m a brown skinned long haired Native Canadian. I fluently speak English and I’m as Canadian as anyone that’s lived in this country all their lives.

I’ve also done quite a bit of traveling over the years. My wife and I have been too Europe over a dozen times, Caribbean, Asia and South America.

She’s white and always breezes through immigration anywhere. About half the time, I get held up, questioned longer and a few times taken aside to be searched.

My favorite was arriving for a transit stop in Halifax on our way to Toronto. Almost the entire 300 passenger flight was older retirees … all of them white Canadians. They all got through security, but four people were singled out to be searched … myself, a black couple and an Indian woman … we were the only ethnic looking people on the whole flight. The Indian lady was a second generation Canadian who grew up in Toronto and she gave everyone shit and berated them as they made us open up our luggage.

We delayed the flight to Toronto and when we boarded, they all looked at us like it had all been our fault.

This is the reason why I asked about your ethnic background and sex. Racial profiling is a very normal thing in security and immigration … and most people don’t notice it unless you are part of an ethnic group that is considered questionable.

I don’t mean to presume your political leaning or anything about you or your beliefs.

But are you a white Caucasian male?

Shake your fist harder son!

The difference between a Legal System and a Justice System

Can I come too? Do you have room for uninvited guests? I won’t talk to anyone or bother anyone … I’ll just eat :)

Once you do enough cooking, you start to realize that most recipes can be rendered down to a few basic components and combinations … and it all depends on what region of the world you’re in, what culture, what foods are available and what you grew up with.

Cooking, preparing, cutting and serving a turkey/chicken is fairly simple if you stick to just the basics … and use a digital thermometer to monitor the internal temperatures

Gravy is a bit of a trick but do it enough times and you get the hang of it … if all else fails, have a packet of instant gravy mix handy (it makes gravy in about ten minutes)

Everything else with the Thanksgiving dinner is basically just boiled vegetables … if you plan on anything more complicated than this, then you are spending the entire day in the kitchen.

Dessert can be very simple or very complicated … depending on how masochistic you want to be … but it’s best to prepare the sweet stuff a day or two ahead of time.

Whatever you do … stay in the kitchen and pay attention to everything that is cooking, baking, frying or boiling … if it’s roasting for hours, stay nearby and be ready to act on it if anything changes or goes bad … in your off time when nothing needs to be done in the kitchen, wash the dishes and clean the space, because you’ll be making a mess again as soon as you start processing food again anyway.

If you’re not cooking, you’re cleaning. If you’re not cleaning, you’re cooking.

We used to do quite a bit of travelling ten years ago and we used booking.com quite often. In those early days of booking online, there was a period when you could call the help line and actually talk to someone from America or Canada. And they were always helpful. We got messed up bookings back then and we always got help and figured things out. At one point, we were booking so often, we got to know one or two of the operators we kept talking to in London, Ontario.

Fast forward ten years later and I would not recommend any of them any more. All of them send you to a call center in either South / Central America, Philippines or India and like your comment said, they do absolutely as minimal as possible to do anything and keep you waiting on the phone as long as possible.

None of them work any more and it is far better to use them to shop around for quality, reviews and recommendations … then book directly with the hotel.

Use the sites and services as a guide, then find a direct phone number to the hotel and book directly with them.

What’s more dangerous for privacy?

To even run Windows at all for personal / business / random use.

Top 3 are still the same from previous years

1. 12345
2. 123456
3. 12345678

It’s official: “123456” has once again claimed the controversial title of the world’s most common password — and one of the weakest. That marks six out of seven years this password has topped our chart

You don’t get a SIM

You become a SIMP

It’s not “Gmail can read your emails” … Gmail has been reading your emails for years.

I think they’re programming the ketamine into the LLM at this point