Finally being able to (mostly) make decisions without undue influence of horniness.

Wow. This forum.

"Ukraine has corruption so..." (Implied: the US should let Russia invade and annex them)

"Russia and the US have some details in common if you blur your eyes so they are morally and politically identical"

"Zelensky sucks"

"How can anyone know what truth is in this topsy-turvy world?"

middle aged cis guy here. Thinking of opening a WhatsApp account to see if it will give me cleavage.

This has got to be the best, most legitimately funny programmer/computer joke I've seen in years.

Thinking one step further: Even if I somehow got into MENSA (unlikely), I can't imagine ever saying, "I see you have a MENSA discount..." ugh.

This goes a bit deep. Seems like it's going to be about customers being too stupid to figure things out, but it ends up for me a story about engineers not accurately anticipating customers' needs.

Remember, kids: Don't do genocide, or else after only two years of murdering people wholesale the UN might say something about it and let you keep murdering.

They have access to it if they threaten/indimidate/blackmail you into giving them access. Dummy phones are a real thing; saw a post today on masto by a company... person (?) who said they keep a stash of clean burner phones for when employees travel through US borders. These are all reasonable, and maybe even CalyxOS's decoy partition (does it still have that?). The larger problem is that few people will use these things, not even bringing a clean phone. And once they start threatening your family and your long-term safety and freedom, it's highly likely you'll give them access, if they know there is any access to be had. Which they increasingly do, because universal surveillance blah blah.

Even Muad'Dib started out small.

Depends on the metric. Direct threat to democracy, increasing violence and dangerr for millions of Americans, harming economic futures for Americans, etc.: probably Trump.

Sheer body count: maybe Bush, but don't forget about all the people who would still be alive or more healthy if Trump had not actively sabotaged COVID response.

Okay I'm back to Trump.

Incels gonna incel

One of my favorite time travel versions in SF is that of Connie Willis: When you try to travel back in time, if you would have changed the timeline by any noticeable amount, you either (a) just don't go--the machine doesn't work--or (b) you go, but the timeline adjusts by like dropping you in Siberia 20,000 BCE or the center of the Pacific or something. Either way, the timeline is what it is, and you can go observe, if you're very careful not to change anything. Your time travel is part of the timeline, and obviously it didn't change anything significant because here we are...