“This thing that’s happening reminds me of a different thing that’s also happening” isn’t exactly an unusual sentiment.

IME, it’s very easy to get call recorders on the Play Store, but most of them don’t work.

That depends on the surgery. Gastric bypass notoriously has weight requirements, but a gallbladder removal can still kill you if you’re too fat, and there definitely is a point to doing that even if the patient isn’t going to change their diet.

If you quit, can you recommend me to replace you? I’ll take any remote job, and I can put up with annoying coworkers.

I’m actually half serious. 7 YoE in web dev, mostly backend.

Radiation, obviously

Maybe if you’re severely mobility-impaired, but then you would probably have a device to assist you, so it still shouldn’t happen…

I feel like this is one of the few communities not dedicated to AI where that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s a shitpost, it’s supposed to be low-effort and kind of bad.

Take the adapter off, moron.

Similarly, e.g. two bi men getting married is a gay wedding, even though neither party is gay. The relationship can be described independently of the people in it.

Making fun of Zuck and his chatbots is a good way to bond with friends.

50 people in three years reminds me of the people arrested in the UK “for exercising their free speech” who were actually trying to start race riots. I’ll see if I can find any data on what they were actually saying, but ~17 people a year out of 1.4 billion doesn’t seem like a significant percentage of dissenters. If they were really cracking down on all dissent, I’d expect hundreds of thousands of arrests, not 50.

Would they? Do you know that, or are you guessing based on sentiment floating around online?

Xi’s citizens can at least afford rent. As far as overbearing governments go, I’d certainly prefer the PRC to the USA.

Trump on a streak of rare Ws. No more pennies and kicking Poilievre out of the Canadian Parliament.

Behind The Bastards isn’t a general history podcast, but what it covers is history.

That also removes one of the few advantages of slotted screws, namely that they can use more than one size of driver.

I’m mostly annoyed by the horizontal slipping of slotted screws. It’s bad enough when driving manually, but even a ratcheting screwdriver, let alone a drill or impact, is far faster and easier with screws that have closed edges.

Internal hex and Robertson are both better than Philips. Only slotted is worse. Pozidriv is also slightly better than Philips.

A reasonable person would not believe that that was made by the Presidents, though.

Republicans will talk about it, but they blame it on anyone who doesn’t have power.

Of course not! If they say no, the answer’s no.