Pretty much any website of note can expect to come under constant DDOS attack these days, particularly one as, ah, controversial (read: absolutely filled to the brim with hate speech and lies) as this one will no doubt be. This is why CDNs like Cloudflare with built-in DDOS protection are such a critical part of the…

You joke, but that’s really why I don’t play competitive online games at all. I have moderate depression and severe anxiety. The substances I take to manage those things negatively impact my ability to react to extremely fast-paced gameplay, so multiplayer twitch shooters and MOBAs are just frustrating and demoralizing…

I’ve seen a number of induction stoves and burners that let you set the temperature of the pan down to the degree--not sure how you can get more granular than that.

Shit has been trending that way since at least Gingrich’s “revolution” in ‘94, by my reckoning, but it really accelerated around 2010 with the racist backlash to Obama’s presidency, the dark money explosion from Citizens United, and the Tea Party astroturf campaign. That’s also when social media really took off and…

Doesn’t really matter anyway... we would’ve had to get 4 Republican Senators to flip in order to stop this bullshit, and we all know that’s basically impossible with today’s GOP. We already got Murkowski and Collins, two out of three defections I thought were even remotely possible. Collins only did it because she’s…

Yeah, no kidding. I went through two bottles of wine on election night in 2016, and then I had to deal with existential dread and my shitty Trump-supporting coworkers’ gloating while nursing a nasty hangover...

the Democrats have plainly shown that they’re collectively unwilling to upend, regulate, and legislate all the ways that this current political shitstorm was fed into existence

Facebook already has a competing app, of sorts, but it hasn’t gained much traction because they’re trying to shoehorn it into Instagram as an “alternative feed”. Vine’s issue was that they never really figured out how to monetize it, and then Twitter lost interest. TikTok is already a much bigger and more global…

I actually loved the two pre-coma seasons where they were selling drugs and running a detective agency... those were fucking fantastic, maybe even my favorites of the whole show. The coma seasons just haven’t done it for me, though. As weird as it sounds (given that it’s an absurdist cartoon about spy hijinks), I just…

I lived in Santa Fe for 5 years, and now live in Albuquerque. This is just tragic, and unfortunately, entirely predictable in a state with the kind of challenges we have. People think of Santa Fe as a town for the rich, because it’s the capitol, and if you’re just visiting, all you’re likely to see is a bunch of cute…

Q has over a hundred thousand likes. Unfortunately all too many people believe this BS.

Yeah, you’re right. I do recall that being the case. I work in IT, so I’ve done a fair number of transfers myself (we have company-deployed iPhones). But I’d forgotten that requirement.

Why would you have to update the iOS version to do a data transfer? AFAIK, iOS doesn’t even prompt you to update during the initial setup process. It certainly doesn’t force you to update just to sync one’s data.

Their new line is that he didn’t actually kill 190,000 people, but more like 10,000. A wild misinterpretation of a single line in a CDC table went viral, which is apparently all the evidence these idiots need to decide that only 6% of the people who’ve died of COVID actually died of COVID. They parrot a bunch of…

The best thing about reading Dune for me was having absolutely no clue what the fuck was happening until halfway through the book, when everything gradually began to fall into place and the true scope and purpose of the story was revealed. It’s an experience I’ve rarely had elsewhere, because most SF and fantasy books…

I know the Justice is just quoting the Politico article here... but this is just the latest in a long line of articles from Jezebel that somehow don’t manage to apply the same language they use every day to describe the sexual assault of women to the sexual assault of a man. Rape is rape, guys! They of all people…

Which is why they really shouldn’t put things like this on the ballot. It’s a human rights issue; we shouldn’t hold referendums on human rights. The legislature needs to do their job and pass a law to end it.

Compare and contrast to Slate’s headline about the same speech: “Biden Nailed it Down”. Their article managed a bit of nuance, noting some things they didn’t like about the speech without the backhanded compliments and petulant whining about irrelevant nonsense. I increasingly go there and to Vox to read a…

I watched a video the other day (can’t remember which one, sadly) about water woes in the western United States, and how basically the only reason Phoenix, Las Vegas, etc. haven’t already run out of water is that our water efficiency standards have kept pace with growing populations and dwindling rainfall. Our…

But see, that would constitute destruction of evidence and/or obstruction of justice, which are separate crimes that can carry hefty penalties. You’d be better off just burying that shit in the woods where they’d never find it (also a crime, maybe, but far more difficult to prove).