Not the original commenter, but I've heard that may just be a Paris thing which I think you're hinting at. I've personally been to Paris and had the expected negative experience, but in my singular visit to Montreal (not actually France), the people I talked to were very open to people trying to speak French. Heard that the Montreal experience is closer to the norm and Paris just kind of sucks.

Not your standard celebrity, but John McAfee was a hell of a trip.

It depends on how broad you are with the definition. There are a lot of uses for an NPU that aren't hosting your own chatgpt analog.

Text is at least different, this is the source: https://comicartprints.square.site/product/king-thanos/357?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=3

Also here: https://www.instagram.com/joshbrolin/p/BgM6aYCB2Jq/

Burning still has too much of a negative connotation.

They'll pressure to expand more on banning books in schools, public libraries, pull public funding and restrict government aid payouts for universities unless they follow suit. They'll let states decide that they can ban books for sale online unless the site forces an age check. They'll give responsibility for the age check system to a corporation that is expected to do a lackluster job and wash their hands of it when there are complaints. Maybe some day they'll step in to 'fix' it resulting in taking it down for maintenance and restructuring and then they just... never bring it back up. They'll have a system for brick & mortar stores too, but it will be so excessive that few will bother.

They definitely are, more and more, it's the same as every popular movement. They pad the propaganda with legitimately good advice and some controversial but easily supportable facts. That makes the more controversial items easier to swallow.

Wobbly Life is a pretty good one. It has online capabilities but no chat, communication is limited to a very small subset of emojis.

It's at least kind of notable that we seem to be losing a lot of the ones that pretended to be on our side.

Know you're joking, but just think it's funny to point out that one of DOGE's first acts was to try to kill the direct file system the IRS maintains to make it easier for some people to file their taxes. I feel like that one didn't get a lot of coverage.

No one wants to impress Jodie Foster anymore.

There were 2 confirmed assassination attempts on Donald Trump last year and potentially one more where an armed and suspicious individual was trying to get into a location where Trump was but the individual claims he wasn't planning anything malicious.

Wikipedia reports ~8 more incidents during the years where he was involved in his first presidential term.

I think Biden only had the one with the box truck.

Man, that rumor may have spread nationwide, or else I think I knew that guy.

The Pebble platform doesn't make it super easy to monetize itself beyond hardware sales. There's no reason to make a watch like this from a business perspective. Plenty probably could, but no one with the resources to do it properly wanted to make something similar.