Even IF that turns out to be the truth, that just means that the people yelling about China in 2020 happened to be right out of sheer coincidence, like a broken clock. They didn’t come to that conclusion through science / critical thinking but xenophobia.

Science should always be open to criticism.

Science is not “moderators on social media”.

Well, yeah, I can see why people are amused. I personally just don’t care all that much because they’re not exactly important, is all :)

So a simple lolcow exacerbated by belonging to a group of people that (deservedly) has image problems. Alright then.

Unnecessary.

Do I need to know who that is? I tried looking up the name but all I can find is gossipy yelling about the two of them and Coldplay so apparently this seems to be some big deal but in general I don’t think it should be the public’s concern if someone has an affair (exceptions apply).

I would assume most windows in the real world would be “3D windows”?

But anyway, fuck it *lüfts your entire house so you get a Zug*

You make a compelling point.

Yeah, wouldn’t installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would “turn off [OS] for the last time”?

Additional information for innocent bystanders: Frau Klöckner and Nestle REALLY like each other. Do with this what you will.

Different situation altogether.

I don’t really care whether you benefit in any way from my picture, published or not, for profit or not. If I don’t want you to have it, you don’t get it. What gives you the right to take my picture? Besides, why do you even want it if you’re not using it for something?

Oh good. That is reassuring.

I’m okay with a shorter season and that ending as long as it doesn’t lead to more Kirk. The man’s been dead for 31 years, let him rest.

“Let me put it this way: I certainly wouldn’t say no [to a follow-up show set on the Enterprise]”

I would.

You can use public spaces all you like, you do not get to use my face however you like.

remove even more of our liberty to use public space (which is supposed to be ours).

I mean, your freedom to record in public ends where my freedom to not be recorded in public starts.

So you’re saying the solution is to write a description of the thing you want the word prediction machine to write of description of.

The downvoters disagree with the use of generative “AI”.

I can only assume this is shortly before non-descript guy on the right realises Budget-Karl on the left and creepy guy in the middle have horribly deformed hands.

My younger sister had one of them but I’m just old enough to have had an actual stereo with speakers set up in the corners of my room. They seem to have gone out of style now that we’re all consuming sounds on our phones (I’m including myself here). Now get off my lawn before I ramble more.