It’s by a Chinese company, and collects telemetry on its users via Umeng+, which is a Beijing-based analytics company. Even though it’s open source, the code is large enough that it’s hard to tell if there is anythinf compromising in there from the Chinese government, and/or whether/what data collected by Umeng+ is making it to the Chinese government.

Thou was singular subject and thee was singular object.

https://activeenglishcee.blogspot.com/2020/10/thou-thee-thy-thine-ye-meanings-usage.html

I remember as a kid the teachers were desperately trying to make “he or she” a thing and told us the singular “they” would never be acceptable.

I’m personally glad that movement failed.

Republicans have always been fans of turning real things into incorrectly used buzz words. “Identity politics” means “changing the status quo to include others,” and so only applies to Democrats. “Catering exclusively to bigoted white Christian nationalists who openly want to establish a theocracy” doesn’t count by that metric.

“We’ve never been the party that was about checking boxes or identity politics, but the difference is we have women that are qualified to be chairs, and I don’t know why there wasn’t one who was able to become a chairperson of a committee," she added.

Translation: “I never cared that my party discriminated against other people, but now they’re doing it to meeeeee!”

Second, the lawsuit argues that Cahall included the books in her classroom library because of her “sincerely held moral and religious belief” that all children — including LGBTQ children — should be treated with dignity and respect. In suspending her for not maintaining a classroom library that is consistent with “the values many hold” in “this community,” Cahall asserts that the school district is “aiding, fostering, or promoting one religion or religious viewpoint over another.”

Hell yeah. Use the religious nutters’ own trump card against them.

1. Lol no.
2. Yeah, he clearly was making a statement.

It was during this time that Kelaia’s bullies visited her at the ICU. They took and later posted pictures of the unconscious Turnery in an outrageous mockery.

What the actual fuck?

Maybe you should check the article?

This should be considered an act of war, but I have a feeling the US government will just kiss Israel’s ass again.

My bad, I thought you were making a joke about Pika saying “planned obsidence” instead of “planned obsolescence.” I did not realize you were making a genuine inquiry.

Planned obsolescence is when businesses intentionally design a product to become useless after a period of time.

For example, imagine a high end camera company that also sells replacement parts. They change their lens shape every model, and only keep the most recent models’ lenses in production. When an older model’s lens inevitably breaks, the customer cannot buy a replacement, and thus has pressure to buy s new camera, and the company hopes that most customers will buy from them again.

We see this in tech with smartphone companies only giving OS updates for a few years, causing older phones to go end of life, so even if the phone is fully functional it needs to be replaced. Again, the company hopes the customer will again buy from them rather than going to a competitor (who is likely running the same scheme.)

OP suggests Microsoft’s TPM requirement is there to force new computer sales, which will include a purchase of a Windows 11 OEM license bundled with the PC.

The planned obstinance lawsuit.

Seriously, I’ve had way more printer issues on Windows than linux.

That fits with polls suggesting Americans are becoming more politically polarized.

This just in: NAZI court continues being NAZIS.

Trump taking notes for his second term.

If you’re not already an organ donor, now’s the time to become one. Better to have them do some good rather than just rot in a bag.

My fond memory of that scene was finding the head crab immediately, and smirking as I started killing them. I ran out of ammo, No worries, all I had to do was reach into my backpack and… oh shit, the flashlight is on my wrist!

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Steve Martin and John Candy at the top of their game, along with a sweet message.

As someone who likes spicy food: People who eat spicy develop a tolerance. We literally can’t tell how spicy it is under a certain threshold.