I guess that technically counts as a public sex forest then

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

The primary concern of the people in charge of the Democrats seems to be to keep the left contained where it can’t actually affect policy and threaten the interests of stakeholders. As such, any fightback will stop short of empowering grass-roots organisers, and prioritise ensuring that grass-roots enthusiasm can be safely diverted to the benefit of stakeholders.

That should lead to a groundswell of donations to the Democratic Party, which the leadership can use to primary AOC and The Squad with some well-picked AIPAC-endorsed corporate stuffed shirts. Then they can have a straight run for those who miss the old Republican party of the Reagan/Bush years

* Yiddish has entered the conversation

Had the world settled on German, someone might be making a similar argument that the world dodged a bullet by choosing a language with phonetic orthography and words composed of logical building blocks rather than a mess like English

A key reason English became the preeminent language of scientific and technical communication, and thus the source of keywords in programming languages, is because German (the other candidate) fell out of favour due to the two world wars. So, were it not for Prussian militarism, our programming languages may have instead been based on German (along with most scientific literature being in German).

Haskell would be reserved for drug offenders

The sentence should scale with the crime. Nonviolent burglars and minor frauds could be taught Python, more serious crimes could get Go, whereas the most depraved offenders could be sentenced to C++

There was a modern handheld with this form factor maybe 8 years ago named the Gemini. It shipped with a version of Android, though could be flashed to run a Linux, if you didn’t mind not knowing if will wake up from sleep. I still have one sitting in the back of a drawer.

Nazi lives matter a little. You can tally them up to keep score.

Someone get the kid a link to a suitable Fediverse instance

Fuck Nintendo.

The Canucks won’t stand a chance

As a Scientologist, he’d have a lot of experience huffing his own farts

If there was a risk of that, he would have to make sure there isn’t a next administration.

Well, I did Nazi that coming

It goes on vibes. Historically I’d have said anything with an 8- or 16-bit CPU (NES/SNES, Megadrive, the surfeit of home computers before everyone standardised on beige-box Windows PCs). Nowadays I’d say anything slow enough to be emulated reasonably using present-day technology could be said to be retro, so PS2 would count. If video output is analogue PAL/NTSC, that probably also counts.

What they smelled like, meanwhile, was stale cigarette smoke