Meanwhile, they have no problem thumbing the scale in Brazil’s current election by refusing to remove disinformation

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/08/brazil-election-disinformation/

Fascist fucks

This is probably a dumb question, but as someone who has never fucked with SSH, is there anything that I need to do to my basic Linux install to make sure randos cannot do what you just described (without permission)?

And conversely, there’s nothing more disappointing than a promising sci-fi or fantasy story that doesn’t care about internal consistency

Ada Lovelace is the godmother of them all

We’re creating alien beings

No we’re not, shut the fuck up

Just an insight into someone else’s imagination.

Which is exactly why it can be interesting to discuss?

Edit: to add to everyone else saying “it’s fun,” it’s not just about that.

For me, it’s important that fictional stories (particularly outlandish subgenres like sci-fi or fantasy) must have internal consistency, unless I lose my ability to suspend disbelief.

Sometimes that means checking that the internal logic the author is using makes sense and stays consistent.

No thanks is the best because it’s pretty universal.

“Do you have a loyalty card?”

“No thanks”

Answers both the initial question and the, “would you like to sign up” follow-up. Saves everyone time.

See, this is the kind of hack (if that’s what it was) I can get behind. This is a military target of a nation that is currently at war. Fuck up their food supply all day every day.

But what is described in OP is just shitty.

There’s nothing funny about wasting this much food

Hey that’s not a real strawman! That’s Old Man Harris!

And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you damn kids

That makes it ok to destroy it all. Great logic.

I would bet my next paycheck that you absolutely can do it that way in Boston.

3 seconds on Google found me this (not a grocery store, more like a farmer’s market with vendors): https://bostonpublicmarket.org/

Search things like “bakery Boston Mass” or “deli Boston Mass” or “Italian market Boston Mass” or “Polish market Boston Mass”…

And you will find places that sell various things and they’re often found in the vicinity of one another.

Neat. I guess I never bothered to look into it haha

2008 was nearly a decade ago. People will always need shelter. Is it really that surprising that the market recovered over the years?

But at what cost? Who owns those properties now? Private investment firms.

I remember living in a South American city and it was absolutely wild to walk a few blocks to gather everything I needed for the day–bakeries, butchers, roadside vegetable vendors…

You can still do this in many (most?) US cities (at least the ones I’m familiar with).

You might be fine with that, but he could have just subsidized private groceries for the exact same effect and saved a ton of money (it just sound worse to do that).

Yeah, that would not be the “exact same effect.”

And to like (at least) half of the people in this country, the thought of a private solution is the only acceptable one. It absolutely would not sound worse to them to do that, they’ve been tricked into thinking that’s better for them.

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really has minimal to do with the final product. From what I can tell you can’t just 3d print a gun from start to finish

I’m pretty sure you can. It might only work once though.

Basic guns aren’t really all that complex.

Gotcha

Wait what? You have a phone that you use specifically (and only) to call into radio shows??