There’s no way they want to eliminate bot traffic, it would kill 2/3rds of their traffic instantly. So this just means, “bots that aren’t paying us.”

Been awhile since I saw ol’ Dookie Chute, glad he’s still fucking insane.

I had a dog who developed seizures. Low dose phenobarbital solved the issue thankfully. It was a little inconvenient because he required regular liver tests and also, phenobarbital being a controlled substance, I had to buy it at a regular pharmacy. But other than that it was fine, much better than the seizures. He had no issues until he died (years later) of unrelated problems stemming from old age.

I’ve actually been there. This is hilarious, but the serious side is that their county doesn’t have the money to spend on this kind of shit.

When people say the USA doesn’t have “real poverty” I always think of the two barefoot kids I saw carrying buckets to the creek. Or the partially collapsed rat’s nest/lean-to “cabin” that I was sure had been abandoned for decades, but then had smoke coming from the chimney in winter. Half the walls were plastic tarp and scrap metal. That’s Adams County.

The town of Portsmouth is right next door in Scioto County, and it was ground zero for the opioid epidemic in the USA. The first pill mill was right there. Last time I was there on any sheltered stretch of the river you could find addicts living in tents. The librarians carry Narcan.

But they raid Afroman’s house looking for weed.

I remember her ex-husband lost some political run (in part) because it came out that he took her to sex dungeons basically against her will.

People just don’t understand the scale of these global systems, which is understandable since the numbers are incomprehensible. They think what they see in daily life represents one cell of a giant organism, but its more like one atom.

“Chili’s! The closest place to the mall where you can make the DTs stop!”

“A guy who likes to keep an empty stomach until the hard part of the day is done.”

“Garlic”

“Sapper Morton”

So oracle eats its seed corn to build even more fucking data centers rather than accept the risk evaluations of their lenders.

Man, what god damn geniuses over there. I bet they can’t wait to have their ghost writers felate them over this decision in their future “autobiographies” that will be for sale at the airport. Oh wait, silly me, there’s no ghost writers anymore!

I just searched for parts of the js an apparently this is some kind of anti-scraping javascript detection courtesy of F5 Networks.

Here is someone complaining about it on some forums.

That’s why I hate the “give the government a master key” metaphor for weakening encryption. You aren’t making a master key, you’re making every lock worse. The “master key” is just knowing how to exploit the giant flaw you’ve now created in every lock, and if that knowledge escapes every lock is now worthless.

Knocking “shave and a haircut” now opens every door, let’s hope nobody else figures that out! I know! we’ll lock that information inside this “shave and a haircut” safe!

Make sure there’s absolutely no wind. Those one-handed clamps and temporary lumber for bracing really come in really handy. You’ll probably also want to get the foundation totally complete first, so you can then get the structure all assembled in one day. A lot of metal structures are essentially membrane structures, which aren’t strong until they are complete, so you don’t want to leave it overnight partially complete.

Looking at the picture on the box, you’re really going to want some help, or a tractor with a loader, or something. It’s possible if you are supposed to assemble trusses and then lift them into place that will be really difficult by yourself.

I was thinking Khorne wasn’t appropriate for the USA because Khorne cares about honorable combat. Then I thought Nurgle because we’re all fat and sick and because of the ivermectin brain-worms shit, but no, Nurgle is actually an avuncular and loving god in his own way. Tzeentch actually plans stuff and thinks ahead.

I think its a Slaanesh cult. The elites are all pedos, the propaganda is obsessed with genitalia, the populace doesn’t give a shit as long as the treats flow.

After-credits scene in 28 Years Later: the rage virus doesn’t really exist and the UK is just like that.

Yeah I think the future of what you describe is Chinese. They are already making autonomous electric tractors, but its early. Tractors are kind of uniquely suited to carry big heavy batteries and never get too far from the charging station. There are smaller autonomous vehicles that can do simple tasks like mow, and of course all the good drones are Chinese. I don’t know if they’ll make it open source, but they may not be openly hostile to users like western corporations. Deere and company won’t just have a fee, all the telemetry, controls, everything will be tied into their own proprietary cloud shit, mandatory reliance on the dealer network, coupled with warranty service, etc.

Hopefully it’s possible that even if a Chinese vehicle doesn’t have FOSS software it’s compatible with FOSS route planning software or diagnostics, or whatever. Maybe it’s not FOSS out of the box but if you flash it, it won’t brick itself because your binary isn’t signed with their private key, or some shit. The lack of dealer would suck and of course, the government could just ban Chinese ag equipment when the check from Deere clears.

These people are trying to reverse engineer Deere tractors, but there hasn’t been an update in a few years. Maybe Chinese or Indian tractors? The Indian government has a track record of telling ag companies to stick punitive IP restrictions up their ass, but I’m not sure if any right-to-repair mandates would extend to foreign subsidiaries like Mahindra USA.

They exist, they’re just more corporate and centralized, and inundated with basic tech support questions due to the huge install base.

Like this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/windows

If you dig deep enough in there you’ll find administrators talking about powershell hacks and devops and group policy and stuff like that. There’s probably people who are “passionate” about Windows, I’d imagine, but since it’s closed source there’s only so much you can do without being literally an employee of MS. The people I’ve met like this are kind of smugly defensive about Windows because they’ve invested so much training and knowledge into its arcana, but it’s not exactly “passion”.

The catch there is word gets around and eventually migrant labor stops showing up at your farm. One of the reasons farmers are pushing so hard for relaxing oversight on H-2A visas is because having workers locked into your farm gets us a lot closer to Saudi style indentured servitude compared to having a “free market” migrant labor force. I’m not sure what visa Uline is using, but I bet those workers are trapped.

If that’s true the sequence of events will be something like:

• Trump demands the ship be sent immediately because he doesn’t understand what “dry dock” is.
• Someone in the chain of command who understands how bad that is uses proper channels to politely call for a small delay.
• That officer is immediately fired. Right-wing media starts rumor they are a trans immigrant when a document from 2012 is found where they listed pronouns.
• The officer is replaced with a 26-year-old toadie who has a background in podcasting about flat earth.
• Toadie immediately sends the ship.
• Ship sustains heavy damage from corrosion because it wasn’t painted yet, or some shit.
• The hospital ship spends 90 days sitting off-shore in Greenland. During this time it treats a handful of patients who, it later turns out, got paid to be there and aren’t even citizens of Greenland.
• Ship returns to USA to actually do the refit, where it turns out the damage is now catastrophic.
• Jared Kushner receives contract to build replacement ship, named “USS TRUMP 12” because we have 11 other USS TRUMPs.
• The money changes hands.
• The ship is never built.
• This is only reported by Common Dreams.

edit: fuck it, made it more elaborate.