Given that a lot of far-right crap has sprung from /pol/, which in turn hails from the messageboard where autism is both a pejorative and the new normal, so it’s not a surprise that somebody who’s in that social media bubble would leap straight to autism.

It’s a Fast Radio Burst, not a Fast Rectal Burst.

If you completely ignore the slightly subjective hatespeech angle there’s still plenty to go at. Alex Jones is the master of defamation, as evidenced by the lawsuits he’s lost for defaming others e.g. the Chobani yoghurt company. Every resource I can find states that defamation is explicitly not protected as free…

Ah, the Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg school of aeronautical engineering. I’ve never heard of a piston aero engine having a clutch, it’s just something else to go wrong and there isn’t that much drag from a stationary propellor if your engine blows up. Did these guys use a complete Hayabusa engine and gearbox unit?…

I think ‘assistant’ bots usually use female voices or characters cos they’re perceived as friendly and nonthreatening. It might be a cultural throwback to assistance roles having typically been filled by women but I guess that companies the size of Apple are going to spend cash on researching what kind of voice people…

Hah, twin engined, that I didn’t expect. Have fun keeping the prop speeds synchronised.

Has that thing got the radiators in the TAIL?!

I’m in the UK and having worked with an in dev teams I have never heard of anybody using modafinil. I’ve never worked without anybody chattery enough to be on it either. The closest experience I have is of one guy I worked with trying some banned Russian drug on himself though I can’t remember the name of it. Even the…

This is what I thought, it’s not his puter that was hacked...

This is what the ‘marketplace of ideas’ actually is; it’s an attention economy. All the news orgs are desperate to retain their audiences and the easiest way to do that is by telling their audience what they think they want to hear.

US presidents have long had a bit of a cult of personality around them but, in previous presidencies, it never seemed like there was an excessive amount of actual cultists in the personality cults.

She said she got “redpilled pretty hard” over the last year

IIRC, playing dumb was also The Shrub’s default setting.

An interesting symptom of this is the ‘Deus Ex was right’ youtube videos popping up.

It’s where all the 4-Chan nuts went to after 4-Chan started modding them HARD at all.

As for the Russian influence, I have no doubt it happened and their preferred outcome was a disunited UK and EU regardless of the win or loss (a close result suits them best).

U.S. Army Spec. Yea Ji Sea has served in the armed forces for more than four years. She was part of a program that grants immigrants citizenship in exchange for service. But in the wake of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies, she has been discharged and may end up in ICE custody. The ACLU has sued the…

“Why does the building regulation god hate me?”

Japan’s birthrate just got a bit lower.

They could call it the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.