"Won't somebody think of the Gestapo!!???"

I mean, defining the cheat sheet limitation in such a way for Math students is really just asking for it ...

Having an LLM therapy chatbot to psychologically help people is like having them play russian roulette as a way to keep themselves stimulated.

If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.

Is it just me whose reaction was "So?! What's the big deal?"

Don't get me wrong: good for her for having a big booty. It's just that I don't have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked, nor am I myself shocked or otherwise impressed by her crouching position emphasising said big booty.

For me the whole thing is a kinda normal teen/young-adult showoff pose, hence no big deal.

With modern advertising techniques, adverts mainly work by psychological manipulation - putting a name in your mind, making you associate it with an emotion (for example cars are "freedom", perfume is "lust"), induce fear of a non-existing problem and then sell you a "solution" and so on.

It's like being the focus of a crowd of untiring salesmen who are slick manipulators with training in Psychology and with no ethics at all.

That's how it is every day in every place (even the comfort of your own home) in the advert heavy world we live in if one doesn't fight to keep that shit away.

I lived in the UK for over a decade until Brexit, and frankly I think that by the time I left they were one of the most far-right countries in Europe, just in this English-upper-class style of posh words and the oppression done "elegantly" via extreme "rules" rather than the direct violence of the (not posh) populist far-right, - people are still made to hurt for the crime of being poor, and the system is designed to hurt anybody who would defy the local elites (just notice the conviction to years in jail of of Environmentalist demonstrators for blocking a road) but all the Ts are traced and Is are dotted, all prim and propper - so people from the outside don't really notice how so very close to Fascist Britain already is.

("It's the Law", say the far-right muppets over there, same as Nazi enablers would say in Nazi Germany.)

Rules on social security explicitly designed to make it likely that people make mistakes (this allowance apparently changes depending on a person's weekly income, which floats if you're in insecure employment, which is exactly the problem of the working poor, and it's down to the recipient to figure it out precisely, down to the pence, with no help) and then punishing them disproportionatelly hard for the error is exactly the style of "by the rules" hurting of people for being poor (and human, hence making mistakes) beloved by the Posh Fascists and their followers (of which there are many, as proven by Brexit which was the product of a campaign of Racism and Nationalistic Exceptionalism).

One should be have been assuming since Windows 7 and automated online updates that the Microsoft key used to sign OS updates is in the hands of at least the NSA (and hence probably the Israeli equivalent) and they can push whatever they want to your computer as an OS update, bypassing all protections.

In fact the same applies to Linux updates of certain distros - if they're maintained by a company based in the US they can be forced by FISA courts to provide the signing keys to the US Government.

More in general, just go read about FISA courts and their secret court orders - companies based in the US or hosting things in the US can be secretly forced to just "give the keys of the Realm" to parts of the US Government.

Since things like the Patriot act one should be treating companies based in the US as just as untrustworthy as companies based in China.

(By the way, some other supposed Democratic countries have similar or worse systems - for example the equivalent of FISA courts in the UK have things like secret court sessions were the side which is not the State is not authorized to have a legal representation, see most of the evidence or even know the decision of the court).

Have people already forgot most of what came out in the Snowden Revelations?!

USD denominated bonds are by definition 100% exposed to the USD and it has been falling consistently (with but a single dead cat bounce) against other major currencies since Trump took over.

International investors are probably avoiding the Dollar (and hence Dollar-denominated assets) in favor of other currencies.

This would also explain why Gold keeps on beating records almost daily: it's sort of a "traditional" currency hence benefits from outflows from major currencies.

If this turns into the end of the Reserve Currency status for the USD, expect massive problems in the US with Inflation and servicing the massive US National Debt (if Treasury auctions have lower demand, Treasure yields have to go up in order to sell them, which is equivalent to say that interest rates on US Government loans go up).

It's the Find Out stage that follows his Fuck Around rather than any sort of him being bullied.

When extremely wealthy and powerful people knowingly ruining the lives of tens, hundreds of thousands or even millions, them getting some well deserved opprobrium from everybody else, that's Fair Consequences, not bullying.

I have noticed that the chances of success increase if one "forgets" the ever so slightly in squares or things like bicycle handlebars.

I get the impression that perfectionists have to purposefully make mistakes to count as humans in these things.

Yeah, but Rednote censorship is bad because ~communism~ whilst Twitter's censorship is fine because it's the 100% Capitalist Free Market situation of a billionaire buying (using, amongst others, money from a Petro State) a privatelly owned forum for exchange of ideas and then shutting down any ideas he doesn't like.

/s