Sure. Make it profitable to the hackers to keep doing it.

Pretty easy to imagine. The smiley face is copyrighted.

I dive hard into certain artists when find a song I like, but I find that my interest will naturally shift to other artists. For example, in 2022 Spotify put me in the top 0.01% for Seamus Kennedy because I found a funny song about a “greusome” moment. But I only occasionally listen to him this year. Right now I’m on a Dua Lipa binge because she put out a new good song with a hot music video. Never really gave her a chance before because I thought it was a weird band name. If I get bored and haven’t found anything new I’ll dive into something older too. Got on a Vengaboys and Limp Bizkit kick lately too.

I was kinda hoping ParabolicMotion would show up to this thread.

That sounds easier than remembering the arcane number associated with an accent.

Try this instead if you have a number pad on your keyboard:

Hold alt and type 0233 and then release the alt key.

For my favourite, type : then hold alt and type 0254. 😛

You don’t have to die from a heart attack. But on the other hand I do see your point.

Maybe not during a heart attack.

Holy shit that’s a great bot!

I really miss these hand washing stations we had in elementary school.

Yeah, even Iran blamed the US for their helicopter crash that killed their president because of the US embargo on quality parts.

He once told me that Everything I Know Is Wrong, and then started calling me and, Dumb and Ugly.

I think your post said “5 seconds ago” when I wrote my reply. Just lucky that I saw it I guess.

And no worries. I loved the Animatrix, but the part where Morpheus is telling Neo about the real world is one of my faviourte parts of the movie so I had to say something.

The Animatrix may have had that line, but it was first said by Morpheus in The Matrix.

Morpheus: You’ve been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today… Welcome… to the desert… of the real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.

Neo: AI? You mean artificial intelligence?

Morpheus: A singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines. **We don’t know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. **

It’s really different though. The politicians are expected to be working at the national capitol during normal sessions. While they are ‘campaigning’ in that they’ll be trying to score sound bites and such for the media, they’re not allowed to spend money on regular campaigning until the election season starts.

How many rallies for president haver been held already with the election still 166 days away? How much money spent? It’s utterly exhausting.

I dunno, with the American system you have like 2 year long campaigning cycle for president. There’s almost no break and it’s exhausting. In Canada when an election is called the campaign is only about 6 weeks give or take a week.

Also, if the government becomes dysfunctional, it can be dissolved and a new government elected. The US system doesn’t allow for that flexibility.

The article did link the research article so you could have read it instead of jumped to conclusions. In this case fertility rates are being defined as rate of infertile couples, or couples who cannot conceive. Specifically, the worry is that the global sperm count is declining, and that the decline is accelerating.

My first thought was ‘zombie work’ was a phrase for a job where you don’t have to think at all while doing it. Say a factory job like picking up rolls of tape and putting them in the tape dispenser.

Who knew that GeoGuessr was actually training people for a career in emergency services?