in 2026, by a drunk who gives out whiskey bottles branded with their name

also BLM, israel palestine

and the genocide in myanmar, that was definitely accelerated political action

famously the Arab spring

the guardian isn't paywalled..?

It is if you don't want to allow tracking.

It’s so we all read the same version. AI vuln hype cycle in full effect, changes are made, deliberately.

i fail to see how for profit policing with less oversight would be a good thing for the general citizenry?

but moving to a lower COL area can reduce that amount of public and private services one gets access to, no? network connectivity will, for example, likely be worse out in the sticks

Starlink / amazon something etc etc

i have found a surprisingly large amount of success in uploading an .apk to Claude and asking it to extract all HTTP endpoint used and to display them as a Swagger document. most apps use HTTP(S) to communicate with their APIs, so reverse engineering is relatively trivial

the people in the previous trump admin were perfectly willing to peddle a lie they didn't believe

the people in the current trump admin genuinely believe their own lies

how is it not also your money when using a credit card? It's in the name, "credit" card. you have to pay it off, no? (i have never ever used a credit card)

You are making a purchase ON credit, and unless you are wildly negligent the merchant who accepts payment for the fraudulent purchase eats the costs. You may have to pay the balance owed while the chargeback works through the system but you will not ultimately pay for it.

Plus - like it or not - our society builds your credit based on your use of a credit card. And if you pay your balance in full every month I'm not sure why anyone would prefer paying up front (debit) vs. free financing.

It comes with fraud protection and your money does not move anywhere until the end of the next month. With a debit card your money moves immediately.

As I understand it, debit cards do have some fraud protection too, but even if it's the same (I don't think it is), it's a way different power dynamic if you're begging for a bank to give you money back (debit card) vs just disputing your credit card bill.

In practice credit cards just have way better fraud protections.