Even if there are not hits, there WILL be counter ordinance fire which uses up interceptors that we have a deindling and finite supply of… This whole thing was idiotic straight from the start. You don’t start an optional war with limited resources when a potential future conflict will require those resources. The rumors of China moving on Taiwan in 2027/2028 have been a thing for a while. Instead of having the reserve capacity for a peer or neer peer conflict, the US spooged them all out and gained nothing.

The Cheeto’s voters don’t care. Brooks also called that.

Edit: whoops, that was NOT the right gif… My bad y’all. Fixed

Mmmm refreshing h2s.

I bought one of these from Flirc but never used it.

A totally valid option I had not considered. Imo, the solution needs to be controlled by a standard remote. I tried for a couple years to get my family to use a media pc that used a media keyboard and no one would touch it. I turned it into a server and streamed to emby and now they will use it but only after I showed them it works even when the internet is down.

No doubt. The market is shriveling up for people who want a new tv that isn’t garbo. Outside of commercial displays which are like 3-4x as expensive and have lower image quality, I don’t know of anyone making dumb tvs in a 55" plus size. Yes, you can opt not to hook them up to the internet but in a house with non-tech people, its a huge hassle to get them to want to use anything other than the built in apps. Even diy set top boxes running on a pi or shield are not as user friendly for kids or grandparents.

I basically left it vanilla after switching the launcher and borking the updates. We use emby for our home streaming but I am always looking for extra functionality

I will 100% jump over to it if that does turn into a thing

Oh cool, I’ll have to checkout those other tools!

When I lived at my old house, the interstate (a mile away or so) switched from sodium lights to LEDs and the light bleed was bad enough that I could have done precision yardwork at night. Even with blackout curtains, I could see the outline of my door at night. It was miserable.

I have a HiSense TV and use ADB AppControl to disable/remove the telemetry or forced updates, and Projectivy Launcher to get a home screen/launcher that doesn’t show ads. Both are free and work really well. I don’t see trash on my homescreen anymore.

For sure don’t bring kudzu.

I won’t say you are wrong but I can still be pissed about this and expect/demand better while recognizing that there is a longstanding historic pattern of shitty and shortsighted behavior directed by incompetent and morally deficient corporate stooges against the better interests of the people they are supposedly representing.

If it helps, they were never meant to protect the US homeland. Logistically there is too much coastline and not enough batteries. You have the same amount of protection as you did before.

Absolutely shameful that the US started a pointless war, without congressional approval, then burned through a known limited resource that could have been gone to protect lives as protection from unjustified aggression. Instead, some chucklefuck decided to BE the aggressor and waste these protecting bases from retaliation that wasn’t coming until he stirred up the shit.

China and Russia are laughing their asses off right now. Attacking Iran was idiotic for any number of reasons but long term, burning through a resource (missile interceptors) that requires stockpiles for be functional, while also not increasing production in any meaningful way is absolutely insane when the rumors are that a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan could occur as early as 2027.

Not to mention, Ukraine has been begging for these munitions for the last 4 years while they were actively being attacked by Russia (unprovoked Iight add) and we basically told them “sorry we don’t have enough to share” before we went and wasted them on an illegal attack that didn’t need to happen…

The next two books in the series got weirder because of the character’s ages… That part doesn’t hold up.

I read this thread title 4 times before I finally saw it said poverty and not poultry. The chicken and egg line made some sense with my misreading…

For context, there is a BUNCH of potential issues with OpenClaw. This recently happened and then ARS used fake ai quotes of the author when publishing an article about it.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

Statistically speaking, if that happened, the company’s carbon footpring would go down…