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I want to see desktop

Some kind of VNC setup

For a Windows user RDP is familiar and fairly high performance experience. I’m a fan xRDP for Linux desktop users accessing graphical desktop in Linux. Its not hard to set up in Linux either which is nice.

Further, electronic hearing aids can butcher sound with a goal to produce understandable spoken word alone. Music can sound like garbage depending on how severe the hearing loss is in the person and what functional hearing remains.

People who are deliberately racist aren’t going to stop

They may not change their minds, but they do change their actions.

and the people who are biased will just keep being biased since that’s not racism in there minds.

If these people are exhibiting racist behavior they think is acceptable, and those around them admonish them for that behavior, it can affect change.

I don’t know how old you are, but we’ve already seen the pattern of societal behavior change from social pressures and awareness.

In the 1990s it was very common to use the word “gay” as a slur disconnected to that person’s actual sexual orientation, but merely as an insult as though being gay was a bad thing. It was common in the young and adults. However, you don’t see that today. If you use the word “gay” as a slur, you’re seen as homophobic and its a large social turnoff to all but the far right.

“Stop Littering” campaigns are another example about using social pressures to change behavior.

This clip from the TV show Mad Men was shocking to the audience when we saw it, because we couldn’t believe they could be so thoughtless to litter like that:

How did that change? Campaigns like “End Racism” at NFL games work to affect change to make that a reality.

Was it thermal expansion? It was probably thermal expansion.

Its a message that society won’t accept racism. As in, if you are acting racist, you are a problem to society. Its the “only YOU can prevent forest fires”. Its a call to personal action.

Removing that message from the field when it was there before does the reverse saying “Racism is a-okay!”.

There is no meaning. There is no punchline. You go until you stop, then you disperse back into the cycle of life and death never to be the same again.

This is true, but these type of statements are often formed as though the “you” is the first step. It misses something important. All of us are made of borrowed stuff. The water in our blood was some other animal’s piss at one point. The skin we’re so proud of were many times over leaves, dirt, shit, creatures, bacteria, algae, decaying carcass, pond scum, and then leaves a bunch more times. Each one of us are not the beginning of this, and we not the end either. If you want to go back even further, we’re all made up of the same smashed together hydrogen atoms that make up the ground we walk on and the surface of the sun.

To think we are chosen or individually superior to others is pure hubris.

So respect the lives around you, refuse to add suffering to others, give everyone a chance to experience happiness in life where you can help.

This so much!

it’s just that their online persona

This is the bit right here that is most important. Someone online isn’t required to represent everything that they are there. In fact, appealing to a specific audience usually means tailoring yourself to a persona that appeals to that audience and subtracts anything that would offend them, as you want to retain them.

I imagine this is a big component of being a public figure or celebrity. You have a specific image you want to project to the world. Bill Cosby had a public image of the clean comedy (and eventually) father figure, while is private life included things that were very much different from that.

There was a video game back in the 1990s (Magic Carpet by Bullfrog) that was first person shoot that had a mode that would run the game in that “magic eye” 3D. I could only see it if the player was standing still, but you should see if you could see it 3D in real time. I’ve never met anyone that could.

You’re cheating by reading the “to do” list of Project 2025.

Are all these actors from the various Trek shows really going to be on board?!

https://startrekthecruise.com/the-crew/

but the quality of stuff from Amazon lately I might even cancel that.

Do it. You can still get free shipping on orders over $35 which further acts as a disincentive to buying things. Our household canceled Prime when the ads came. It was rocky at first just because we were so used to being able to order and get something quick. However, the shipping times kept increasing (no where close to 2-day) and the cost of Prime kept going up. Ads was the last straw and we dropped it.

Look at the cost you’re paying for Prime and consider how many orders you’d have to place to break even (using the Prime membership money just to pay for shipping when you need it faster, etc).

if they are stupid and scrape serially. the AI can have one “thread” caught in the tar while other “threads” continues to steal your content.

Why would it be only one thread stuck in the tarpit? If the tarpit maze has more than one choice (like a forked road) then the AI would have to spawn another thread to follow that path, yes? Then another thread would be spawned at the next fork in the road. Ad infinitum until the AI stops spawning threads or exhausts the resources of the web server (a DOS).

I remember Service Merchandise! That conveyor belt delivered magic.

I’m waiting for the ultimate reductive customer experience. These drug stores will eventually block off access to the shelves and aisles entirely. Instead, the front point-of-sale area and places where people used to wait in line with their purchases will be turned into a new blocked off large vestibule with floor to ceiling transparent glass. In there (where customers can access) will be kiosks which can control tele-presence robots that will let customers “walk the aisle” to look at product on shelves:

If you want to make a purchase, you press a button on the kiosk and pay for it, then a human worker inside will fetch the item off the shelf for you and drop it in a transaction drawer where you pick up your item:

A future DOGE finding will show that ketchup is a luxury that American taxpayers shouldn’t be funding for any group of people under any circumstances. /s

Surely this is a sign of the coming apocalypse.

Even torqued the drain plug to within spec.

Did you replace the crush washer or just give it the side eye and say “yeah its good enough for another go” and put the original back on.

Drivers should choose the names of FIA officials that instituted this, and start using those names as swear words.

“Oh man, that was a big meal. I got to go drop a Sulayem.”

“Sainz was outside the racing line and then cut me off on the inside. That was a Sulayemy thing to do, and he knows it”.

If you can’t have everything, you’d prefer nothing? Isn’t that the same logic that got us a second trump term?

That would be good for Lemmy.