Em Adespoton

Well this will be interesting; I know there are UK parishes that have had these options unofficially for years.

Wow… I know people who were on a waiting list for getting a 2024 RAV4, and just got it from the factory last month.

Yes… but most of that lobby money is American, and is currently otherwise occupied.

No thanks.

Well, elephants were domesticated eventually, so it’s theoretically possible. But if I were cut off between a moose and a bear, I’d take my chances with the bear.

I owned Adobe CS 4. CS 5 and 6 had nothing new I needed. When my OS no longer supported CS 4, I purchased Affinity Suite; it still works great with no subscription or cloud hosting.

Back when the iTunes Music Store still existed, I took advantage of their feature to convert my library of audio to digitally mastered DRM-free 256 bit AAC. All my recordings of tapes and LPs replaced by professionally remastered tracks. Since then, I’ve supplemented with tracks purchased directly from the bands I’m interested in, plus some lower value stuff from YouTube.

In fact, the only cloud service I depend on is NextCloud, which I host myself, and which lives behind a VPN.

I run my own JellyFin server with all my DVD rips hosted on it. That’s a large part of my streaming video that I’d want to watch more than once.

Probably not a huge number of people do what I do, but enough to keep people employed who still make products you download once and enjoy forever.

All my podcasts appear to use the AAC spoken audio profile? It’s much smaller and cleaner than MPEG layer 3 audio.

I have a stack of Verbatim blanks I bought years ago just in case they ever stopped being sold; I’ve actually used quite a few to create daisy disks and audio CDs.

—Ð (I figure they may need a shovel now)

All cutlery is rather inedible as soup.

I studied AI in the 90s.

It’s been studying me for over a decade now.

A mix of greens in a bag, often with a pouch of dressing and a bag of nuts tossed in as well.

That would be DEI — they’ll get to that office based on merit alone. /s

While I applaud CIRA for stepping up here, what’s the reason/benefit of using CIRA’s tool over one of the ones that already exists? I mean, my router even has the SpeedTest one baked in.

Musk will just replace them with some cadets who worked for him as interns.

I couldn’t see the US electing Trump a first or second term either, but here we are.

Was this written by AI? The headline word salad contains all the buzzwords.

We did flames last time.

This time it’s wind and water.

The question on everyone’s mind is:

Why did Xi set it to go off so long after he left?

There’s shipping on both coasts though, as well as direct flights. Those should be able to avoid US interference.