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it shouldn't be so hard to buy a simple black or white metal frame with a simple black or white mat that has an 11x17 opening and that comes with actual glass and not the shitty plexi/polystyrene plastic. why is this always a terrible hassle every time i have something to frame

i wonder how much of the privacy disconnect in massmarket product development is the view of not human beings with privacy rights, but just rows in the accounts table/user records.

times square 4k webcam. 4am on a weekday, cold, rainy, middle of a pandemic. *not one person in frame*, which is eerie as hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRe-514tGMg

Google hardware, like the Chromecast Ultra, has a mandatory arbitration/no class action clause in the activation TOS. Opt-out must be within 30 days of device activation, and is only for the arbitration bit.

every 4 days smoking kills more USians than covid19 has so far, which is to say, more than all of the US deaths in vietnam in ten years

omg! this is amazing

https://twitter.com/foolallthetime/status/1250124158073266184

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/good-morning-america-will-reeve-no-pants-trnd/index.html

normalize pantslessness

sometimes i wonder what the name of the “get assange called a rapist in a headline” CIA operation was. other times i wonder about the codename for the bluffdale database that contains the table that aims for 1:1 unique row mapping with every living human

i have been thinking a lot lately about the second-order business contraction that happens next quarter, after the nail salons and dog groomers and restaurants stop paying their suppliers, and those go unprofitable or have to scale down to survive.

i really hope my extrapolation here ends up being totally inaccurate and that everything will be fine for small businesses once it's safe to reopen, and no cascading failure occurs.

why did jerkcity get renamed in 2018?

shortest WH briefing so far on friday, which was shoot bleach day + 1. none over the weekend. today's is cancelled, with vague promises of additional ones this week.

it's sort of amazing what's happening in the US federal government right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/us/politics/coronavirus-trump.html

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/27/21238082/whatsapp-forward-message-limits-viral-misinformation-decline

censorship up 70% on whatsapp. you are not allowed to challenge the existing mass media gatekeeping by forwarding messages too broadly!

look at this wrong-ass shit

https://tenforward.social/@guinan/103517310423050739

https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html

does the increased vent production time now elapsed mean the next time we have uncontrolled community spread (in 4-8 weeks, by my clock) the curve doesn’t need to be as flat?

so, the fact that you cannot fire up a VM and fullscreen it (save for an obscure keyboard shortcut) and use it *exactly* like a local machine is a bug. input latency, video latency, sound latency, host WM integration... these are all still broken. you can't just fullscreen it and use it as your daily driver and forget it's a VM, and *nobody* seems to mind that. that's crazy.

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

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