I was going to binge purchase off Temu at one point - inexpensive junk stuff to tickle my fancy. But in good conscience, I just couldn’t. It’s wasted money on stuff I don’t trust made by exploited workers or knocked off patents that ends up in a landfill.

Would I confidently let my kids play with the toys and tchotchkes? I don’t even buy stuff for them from Amazon cause of all the counterfeit and toxic crap. I know some consumers have to be extra price conscious. It sucks that they’re relegated to crap quality products that are less durable and essentially more disposable (not to say that better quality junk isn’t disposable junk in modern times).

Have to bump it up a notch. The ongoing war headlines were getting kind of stale.

I used perplexity pretty exclusively for a while. Especially for work. Both have their place and use cases but when I’m looking for something truly specific or nuanced, it’s DDG and a manual search.

Okay, Grandpa Joey. Let’s get you back to bed.

I’d probably jump off a bridge for Jon Stewart but I’ve been having a hard time with the show since he returned.

He’s always gestured and paused a lot but he’s been overrelying on it lately and you can feel the audience hesitate before catching the joke. A few of his interviews, he’s barely let the guest get a word in. They also do him dirty with his way too tan makeup that ends far enough below his hairline that you can clearly see the difference.

Don’t get me wrong, he’s still witty and vocal about things that matter but it’s not the old Jon.

I dunno, I’m just getting old.

At the rate we’re going, history books will be banned before we know it.

I experienced the same at “regular” beaches out in Greece. Topless women and Speedos were just as normal as any other beachgoer. It was really rather relaxing thinking back to it now.

Someday I hope to build up the courage to visit/participate a nudist beach. It seems far more comfortable and “normal” in Europe than in the States from my travels. Remarkably humanizing.

ChatGPT+ has been a revelation. We’ll see what happens with iOS 18 too.

They’ve got a really active and dedicated community on discord. I returned mine before this story broke for unrelated reasons but it really is a neat little device that fits a very specific niche. Outside of that bubble though, almost no one gets it and that’s their biggest problem.

Between this and Israel, the American military industrial complex is well fed and well employed. “More war” they say

I visited a few out of mindless curiosity and ignorance. I have no idea wtf I read and now the FBI is after me…

🤨 when did Reddit overtake Twitter? Reddit used to be a niche destination that you’d barely see it in comparison to the other big name sites.

Now imagine if it had been Coach Beard 😏

First half of that comment got 1.5 eyebrow raises out of me.

Was definitely thinking the same about sensors or programming though. Would’ve loved to see the end.

That finalized my decision to not self-host. I’m savvy enough to set it up but not enough to keep up with maliciousness like this. I’d never even considered a deliberate CSAM attack as a possibility - I thought it was just something (atrocious) users might inadvertently post.

Looks like I’d finally get my back to crack in that one spot though

Imagine time-traveling. Even for 5 secs. That would be a hell of a sight.