Article suggests he spent a lot more time than that

You’ve fallen for the myth of corporate efficiency.

he’s made thousands of dollars

Thousands, you say? Curious to know how much that comes out to at $/hr of effort, minus the costs of licensing and marketing.

Why not make an AI-generated girl using Google Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro

he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting. He turned to Gemini for advice.

Sam says he presented Gemini with a few possible options to help his model stand out, and the chatbot selected one in particular

This reads more like bait for wanna be scammers than a scam on its face. Just an ad for Gemini.

Solar farms in desert areas contribute to China’s renewable energy capacity while also helping to stabilize the landscape. The shade provided by the solar panels reduces the harsh impact of the sun on the soil, creating more favorable conditions for vegetation to grow. In some instances, grass has started to grow beneath the panels, which aids in reducing soil erosion and supporting the local ecosystem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(China)

Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.

And you will like it.

for some reason there are no no RTS games since StarCraft 2

Been rocking out to Plannetary Annihilation: Titans and having a great time.

You’re not a child

Hey now. Maybe they’re literally 12.

Be Me

Log into Highly Competitive MOBA / Team Shooter Game

Rank: Mud

Get slotted into a team of 8-year-olds, Alzheimer’s patients, and people on disability after falling off a ladder at work.

Lose to a team of 9-year-olds, Parkinson’s patients, and people playing the game on a second screen during an office meeting

Oh gee, I wonder how it feels to be The Best Player In FlobsKnight: Cry of Obligation, kicking dirt on little old me!

Win against a team of 6-year-olds, people in a coma, and players with no arms learning to use the control with their toes

I am the greatest FlobsKnight player on earth!

Rank Up: Dry Grass

Quality of opponent improves slightly

Never win again

You can just get another re-keyable lock for any added later locks or replacement lock sets.

All things that are a pain in the ass.

Did you notice your electronic locks all have keys for when they fail?

No, because I don’t have them. I have a fake rock with a key in it and generally don’t bother locking my front door anyway. But I’m lazy and cheap, not terribly interested in changing out all my locks myself or paying someone else to do it for a marginal quality of life improvement.

Still, if you have a need for locked gates, a set of combination locks all set to the same combination or keyed locks with all setup for a single key once again minimizes the need for a bunch of bulky keys.

Sure. And if you’re setting up a security perimeter from first principles, that’s fine. But then you add an interior gate or you need to replace a lock that’s rusted through or yadda yadda life happens, and you can lose the single key design.

Case in point, my front door lock did foul a few years ago. My wife changed out the front door but didn’t bother to sync it with the back door. She didn’t want to bother with an electronic lock because she thought they were too expensive. So now we’ve got a front door that doesn’t match the side door or the garage door. And we only have two keys to the new lock, one of which has been lost almost immediately.

A digital system that I can just sync from my phone would be far more appealing than juggling keys. Or staring at a key dish and trying to remember which ones actually link to which doors.

You still need an interface. Bunch of ways to do it.

I just don’t understand the desire to control everything in your house with an app.

Shrinking the size of my wallet and getting rid of all my keys has an instant appeal. I’d much rather just carry around a single phone-sized multipass than a janitor’s worth of hardware for accessing a dozen different gates and appliances.

I work in IT and I’ve got most of those things.

But it is largely due to the inconvenience of installation relative to just coasting on existing home infrastructure. I also don’t bother with roof solar and home battery backups, a household wide firewall, or anything connected to a raspberry pi. Just implemented Jellyfin over Christmas and my wife regularly throws up her hands at it, preferring Amazon Prime or HBO Max at every opportunity.

For the most part, the cost of an individualized IT component isn’t worth the pain of support. If I was looking for an apartment or a condo, I would absolutely be interested in their building wide IT setup. But the whole point of IT is to deliver at scale. Homelabing can be a fun hobby but it’s a shit-pay second job.

Idk about the valiance of a bunch of those. A couple - banning bump stocks, rescheduling cannabis, psychedelics - were on rails from prior admins. I really don’t know about Project Warp Speed, given how he immediately tore the wiring of the program out in his second term. I guess I’ll spot you the penny.

If I was going to point to anything during his time in office, it was the Afghanistan withdrawal. Except that… glances at the half dozen other wars he started… idk if that gets to count on the balance.

the cowardice of a draft dodger

Literally the only good thing this man has ever done with his life is to duck out of the Vietnam War.

Lots of their electronics options are these really TEMU-tier garbage specs with half a mile of promotional material between the “Buy” button and the details/reviews.

You really need to know what you’re trying to buy, how to use the filters to screen out the crap, and even then its a gamble. Amazing to feel the temptation to just go to Best Buy.

Panama makes some sense, because of the loch system.

It helps to know the history of Panama. Namely, how it exists because an independence group was sponsored by the US to break away from Honduras, because that group would then give the US better terms for using the soon-to-be-constructed canal.

Each ship that passes takes a lot of their drinking water, and they don’t need to bomb ships to stop them passing.

Ask Noriega about that.

It’s crazy how Iran deciding to start taking fees for shipping is a blockade, when the entire national business models of Singapore and Panama hinge on their ability to do exactly this.

Isn’t Speak With Dead going to be easier to cast?

If you believe in democracy, personal rights, and capitalism

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like the other 🎶

🎼 One of these things 🎶 Is not like its brother 🎶

given how much modern ‘conservatives’ hate democracy and personal rights

“This far and no further” politics is a pox on conservatives and liberals alike. This is one of the reasons you see Gavin Newsom fucking around with TERFs in the name of fairness in college athletics. Its one of the reasons why so many people soured on Barack Obama inside his first term.

“Personal Rights” always seem to terminate at the edge of popular consensus.