The gendered bullshit goes both ways. For example: men’s clothing is way more expensive than women’s for some reason.

Of course it has nothing to do with the main sponsor being an Israeli company.

They don’t really care about Israel being in the competition, they are about the money they lose when the sponsor pulls out.

That’s Andromeda, our next door neighbor. It’s about 2.5 million lightyears away so the arrow is a little bit off.

A door-to-door salesman knocks on the door of a farm and a small boy opens the door.

“Hi kid, is your father at home?”

“No, he’s in the hospital”

“I’m so sorry, what happened?”

“He got run over by a tractor”

“That’s terrible! Is your mom at home then?”

“No, she’s also in the hospital.”

“What happened to her?”

“Got run over by a tractor as well”

“Then who’s looking after you?”

“Well, my aunt and uncle did until they got run over by a tractor”

“How horrible, so you are here all alone?”

“Yes. Everyone’s been run over by a tractor”

“So what do you do here all day all by yourself?”

“Not much, just riding around on a tractor”

Cloud tax is real.

In astrophotography, when you buy a new piece of equipment you have to pay the cloud tax. That is: after receiving your new gear it will be cloudy so you can’t use it. The number of cloudy days is directly related to the value of the new gear you got. If you buy something expensive it can be months before you can use it.

Try doing 190 kph on the Autobahn in a car the size of a rollerskate, it’s plenty exciting (i.e. scary as fuck).

Pulp - Common People

Tea for the tillerman is a must have on vinyl.

Scorpions - Wind of Change

Edit: fixed link.

Catch the wind by Donovan

Father & Son by Cat Stevens

Morning has broken also by Cat Stevens.

Walk don’t run , personally I like the cover by Chet Atkins best but the original is by Johnny Smith.

Between his age and his health, he shouldn’t be buying green bananas let alone take on multi-year projects.

I was raised catholic and went to a catholic primary school. We went to visit the local church with our school class in preparation for confirmation, I was maybe 7 or 8, dunno, it’s a long time ago. During these visits the priest would explain things about he church, communion, etc.

On one such occasion he showed the altar lamp and explained that the light represented the real presence of christ in the church. If you don’t know what this is, it’s basically an elaborate lamp with a red light inside it.

My nerdy little brain spent the next week trying to figure out how this “christ detector” light worked (mind you, this was way before the internet so I couldn’t exactly google it). I had all kinds of designs worked out, like there being a hidden button and the priest asking christ in prayer to please keep the button pressed, things like that.

The next week’s visit we were a little early and I caught the bastard putting in a candle and lighting it himself. I would have accepted him putting in a candle and it lighting on its own (although that would only prove the presence at the moment of lighting the candle) but no, it was just the priest lighting the candle. This whole christ detector lamp was a huge scam. That got me thinking as to what else they were lying about…

Nothing really happened, I basically stopped going. My parents made me go at christmas a few times but that was basically it. Religion is not really a big deal in my country.

Why would an all-knowing god need to test anything?

People actually want their music service to determine what they listen to?

I like Apple Music because it basically acts as a music library where I can add every album I want to my collection. I pick what I listen to myself.

You used to be able to look at a computer and see exactly what kind of connections it supported. Now there even are computers where the supported features are different between ports that look exactly the same. It’s not just “does this laptop have DisplayPort out”, but you have to figure out which port supports what. It’s SCART all over again.

You used to be able to tell your mom to just put the cable into the hole with the same shape, often they were even color-coded. Now try to explain over the phone which of the 5 identical-looking cables she should use and in which of the 4 identical-looking port it should be plugged.

That is objectively worse.

It’s an even bigger mess now. At least with proprietary cables you could see what a cable was for and what capabilities a port had.

Now you see a USB port, but does it allow charging and in which diretion? Does it have DisplayPort alt mode, thunderbolt, which USB version does it support? 2/3/4, USB3 gen 1, 2, 2x2? Is it 480Mbit, 5Gbit, 10Gbit, 20, 40, 80 or 120? Same goes for cables, what features does it support? No way to tell from looking at the cable.

It’s a bit disingenuous to only report the negatives sides to this.

Sure, AI will take your job, pollute the environment and flood the internet with fake news to manipulate the population and make things worse for the ordinary citizen. But that’s just one side of the story, things are not as black and white as they are claimed to be.

Have you even considered the upside of this? AI will generate amazing short-term profits for the shareholders. They may even be able to buy a fifth home or a third yacht. If you put it like that, it suddenly doesn’t seem as bad, does it?

/s

What the hell are you on about, they added a new piece just last month.