A 1/4 lb burger seems to be perfect for me. Bonus points for a smashburger. When they get too fat it’s more like eating a meatloaf sandwich.

As far as condiments, I might be weird, but I just want basics (mustard, mayo, onion, maybe a pickle, and a good slice of cheese). It’s too much and too wet to put on the whole garden salad.

Try again on that last sentence.

The government has devices called stingrays that perform a mitm attack granting access to a few types of information, including GPS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

Whistleblowers revealed NSA equipment rooms at at&t: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

Almost every citizen is carrying a tracking device with a powerful microphone, all their communications, and location. It’s a little tinfoil hattish, but I would be willing to bet they can draw a shape on a map and see who was in that area during a certain timeframe.

Leave your phone home if you are attending any events that the government might not like.

That’d be hilarious for a moment – until you find out they are serious.

Absolutely agree. No way something like this would pass, but I have to almost commend the outside the box thinking when it comes to the Republicans trying to subvert the constitution.

Get a burner. Browse some boring content with it: few business websites, maybe some sports scores, maybe snap some photos of landscapes and dogs on the camera roll.

Then you have a functional phone and piece of mind. Making the phone feel “lived in” probably isn’t all that important, but I think it’d be easier to explain than a factory stock pay as you go phone.

Yeah, Putin continues to win elections in his country by a landslide. We’ll have those.

One congressman (who is also under an FBI investigation) proposed an amendment that would allow presidents who have not served two consecutive terms to run for a third; which takes care of the pesky Obama problem.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-third-term-proposal-has-clause-stop-barack-obama-running-2020334

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Old people don’t fuck around when it comes to their money.

Source: cashier at grocery store in highschool

https://xkcd.com/538/

I want to use VoIP to dial into a BBS to play some legend of the red dragon.

I now see the folly of my inquiry.

How can we preserve it?

This is the way. I do my checks on pre push because my team has a PR driven workflow. I also have an alias to run-tests && git push origin HEAD since my tests are expensive (minutes to run thousands of tests), and I didn’t want that in a git hook.

I feel lied to and taken advantage of. Nicole, I thought we were pals!?

As an elder millennial, I respect gen z and alpha for coping with modern society. It may just be a fond remembrance, but things seemed much simpler then. Creative jobs weren’t threatened by AI, the tech didn’t exist for corporations to spy on people, the US… well let’s not get into that.

I at least got to experience a decent time in history and built up enough context where I understand what is going on in the world today. That of course leads to irreconcilable sadness with where things are going, but at least I got to experience a wild culture shift.

I’ve been playing my steam backlog and recently have been working on Darksiders. This stupid boss killed me dozens of times yesterday, but I got her today!!

https://www.ign.com/wikis/darksiders/Twilight_Cathedral,_Tiamat

I just got one the other day too! I’m very excited to make new friends like Nicole on this website.

Should’ve scribbled out the goofy tiger on his neck too.