I believe there are all sorts of restrictions on what sources they are allowed to buy from. This is also supposed to be “punishment” so they don’t want the prisoner to feel good before they die.

Most pharmaceutical companies won’t sell the state the drugs used to properly kill someone. Rather than stop executing people, the state tries to make do with whatever they can get their hands on.

Yes, air conditioners are pretty much replace only nowadays. You should just be able to get another C&H inverter and just replace that part and keep the indoor unit you have.

https://cooperandhunter.com/

That would be amazing, not only for Flock cameras but also for the cash grab red light and speed cameras.

But Heaven forbid you marry more than one person, because then the government might send you to jail.

If you were a civil war veteran and you died, you could pass your military pension on to your wife. Because of this, it wasn’t uncommon for an elderly man to marry a young girl so she would get the pension. Often the girl would do basic chores for the elderly man in exchange. Because of this practice the last civil war widow died in 2020 (she married a 93 year old veteran when she was 17). A certain amount of the attitude is a weird cultural relic coming from this practice.

In a world with infinite resources where these things require no labor to produce, you would be right. Sadly we don’t live in that world.

I assume any VPN integrated into a browser is useless at best. Anyone know specifically the problems with it?

Every election is the most important the same way each breath you take is the most important. If you stop, you’re dead.

Amy Acton may not support trans athletes, but she still supports broad anti-discrimination protections for trans people in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

Vivek Ramaswamy does not support trans athletes, has advocated for bans of gender affirming care for those under 18, said he would “ban genital mutilation or chemical castration”, and said “transgenderism… is a mental disorder”.

I don’t know about you, but the former seems less harmful than the latter at the very least.

Where do you think Gaza is located?

Palestine, aka not Iran.

Did you miss the Biden administration and every administration before?

You mean the Republican Eisenhower administration that participated in the 1953 Iranian coup? Or when the Republican Reagan administration shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988? Or when Bush’s Republican administration lied to go to war with Iraq as a proxy war with Iran? Or when Republican Trump administration started the 12 Day War With Iran in 2025? Or when Trump unilaterally went to war again with Iran in 2026?

That was really the moment that solidified for me that a significant portion of the people of this country are irredeemable.

Red party: “I’ll blow up an Iranian girls school”

Blue Party: " I won’t"

Guy in hat: “I only care about Gazan children”

Guy from a party formed almost entirely of former Confederate states is shocked to find himself surrounded by white supremacists.

It’s about the volume and the public’s faith in the system. If you’re getting stolen from once a month, you’re going to start questioning if the convenience of online shopping is worth it.

My argument was never that AI would make cryptography obsolete. My argument was that it would make digital payments obsolete. No matter how good your encryption, the weak link is the human. Somewhere along the line someone is going to have a password that is their favorite sports team followed by their anniversary. Someone will reuse the same password over and over including a site with exploitable security flaws. Someone will release a security update with a vulnerability to a zero day exploit. These are the things that AI are great at sitting there and waiting for.

The comparison between the cultural change that made divorce more acceptable is apt. The shame associated with divorce was so intense that tolerating a certain level of abuse was preferable. As the shame faded, the abuse threshold people would tolerate lowered. The same is happening with abuse by parents.

I feel like the elephant in the room here is adoption of cultural wedge issues by the right and the adoption of political identity as a personal identity of the older generations.

Even one time pads can (and have been) broken because the keys used to encrypt them were not truly random.

https://medium.com/@allyson.english/perfect-secrecy-the-one-time-pad-4ce82b0b1a64

You are right about the heat death of the universe thing. The thing is processing power is always growing. Encryption algorithms have a lifespan. 40 and 56 bit encryption keys are obsolete as they are now easily broken. 128, 192, and 256 are the standard now. 512 bit encryption is being played around with. Throw in developments in quantum computing and who knows what will be secure in coming decades.

Twisted Metal

Starsiege: Tribes

Half Life 2

Fallout New Vegas

Skyrim

Honorable mention to old school WoW. It was the people I played with who made it great.

My girlfriend and I were on vacation with another couple, sharing a hotel room. For privacy we banged in the bathroom. I picked her up and fucked her against the wall. Hot, a good time was had by all.

When we finished though, we were shocked to see a lot of blood smeared all over the wall. Apparently the tile had scratched my girlfriend’s lower back up. She didn’t feel it at the time but it made a huge mess.