The biggest thing is it let's you use your phone instead of just the handset.

Yeah especially if this info about the US knowing about the attack and intentionally playing dumb as a distraction bears out, then it's possible they've already drawn their line in the sand and there's no going back now. But who knows, TACO amirite??

Likely. I think we'll see a lot of drones and big missiles and carpet bombing type stuff before any boots hit the ground, if even at all.

I don't disagree; it certainly wouldn't be a walk in the park the way Desert Storm was portrayed as, but all the middle east excursions so far have felt pretty phoned-in and half-assed, like they never really had a good enough reason to full-on invade anywhere, just station a bunch of troops to conduct police actions and target the specific and relatively small groups (while naturally casualty-ing huge numbers of otherwise un-involved civilians, of course).

Those felt like they were invasions sold as being based on the pretext that there were some dangerous people in an otherwise neutral country that had to be rooted out, or the state apparatus as a potential threat with enhanced capabilities (chemical weapons, well-organized individual bombers etc).

I worry that the actual state launching actual clear-as-day attacks (justified though they may be in reality) would be such a juicy pretext to not just send in some troops to occupy, but to really start crazy bombing at a new scale we haven't seen yet. If they consider this a full WW2 level mobilization, I'm not saying they would win, but at least the conflict is going to be way bigger and more intense and direct than anything we've seen in a long time outside of the eastern bloc.

Again, it would be a huge shit-show no doubt, and very possibly unsuccessful, but I think the cost to human life will be on an entirely different scale than we are used to in the last 30-odd years (which has already been catastrophic, obviously).

And of course on top of all that, just about everybody involved is nuclear equipped, so anyone that's feels they are losing too badly could always just...

Maybe we need an app that can aggregate all your disparate phpbb2 memberships and notifications. Beeper-style.

My score or ranking or whatever was several orders of magnitude below that, so it's unlikely we ever matched lol.

I've had both over the last few years, and while the cooking experience is not all that different tbh, the one thing that bugs me about my current glass-top electric stove is that the surface is so flat that my ever-so-slightly warped carbon steel pan doesn't sit flat and rocks all over the place and doesn't heat evenly. I've basically been unable to use it since moving here, and it's my favorite pan. :(

But if I had my choice, I'd ofc go induction, but between the other two I'd still go electric, just for the fumes alone. But I'll probably be way less hot on the idea of glass-tops in the future, that's for sure.

I mean I guess? Seems like the people you'd want to be blocking in the first place are the exact type of people you'd expect to have a whole clown car full of obnoxious burner accounts in the first place. And FB and IG make more sense because those accounts are (at least theoretically) real id linked - you're not supposed to be able to just go make more accounts on a whim, and you're setting the privacy on posts to only show to mutuals. Just seems like the flimsiest protection imaginable.

And yeah obvs bellend does this stuff to help his impressively stupid followers, and it's definitely dumb, but I'd be a thousand percent surprised if he hasn't made the engineers over there work insane overtime hours just to hardcore his account with godmode viewing and posting powers. Hell, we saw the code for white(!)-listed hate speech filter bypass for him and his buddies, so they're clearly not above it.

Just seems like a really surface level thing to worry about that doesn't really affect any degree of safety or privacy. Still, stupid, yes.

Haha I literally read this line and thought, "Jesus who do you think you are, UlyssesT??".

Anyways, welcome back brotherino.

Yeah probably from a naive approach I'm sure it would wear off pretty quick. If you just happened to find a way to wiggle a muscle in your body or brain that triggers feel-good, I'm sure it would get old pretty quick. But with some guiding philosophy and intentional practice, it really can keep feeling good! (not always or every time, obvs, but it's still in you! Try again!)

Congratulations, you have a conscience, and are therefore unsuited for management.

It's just yummy, and the flavor is way more intense. I brew and drink some pretty fancy coffees sometimes, but even still I don't really care about the differences between anything above mid-tier, so that's where I usually live. It's just nice to have something to sip on that hurts ya back, ya know?

Though admittedly, I'll sometimes go for a brown sugar shaken espresso monstrosity, but those are on pretty rare occasions, and usually when I'm already making one for my spouse anyways.