IvanOverdrive

Not dad joke. Far too adult for a child to understand and actually funny.

Use your words. Tell her you don't want to and why.

This is great! Now we don't have to let any immigrants in. Instead we can have them do all our menial chores remotely with this robot and we don't have to give them citizenship. Everyone wins! Huzzah!

And my guess would be a fraction of those warned would phone the scammers back to find another way to pay them. Some folks can't bear to know they've been tricked.

This just confirms the worst case scenario for me. This might be posturing, but it's far more likely ByteDance can't reveal how much command the CCP has over the data.

One book that did it well was Nine Princes in Amber. It worked because the readers got to discover the "real world" along with the main character. Without it there would've been a shit ton of exposition of a detailed setting that didn't rely on Tolkien at all, one that the MC was already familiar with. Although it might have been fresh in 1970 and overdone since then.

Am melon. Trust melon. Give melon money.

You're right. Guess I've got Covid on the brain.

Fun fact: Orson Well's last role was Omicron, the planet sized transformer in Transformers the Movie. Since he was a method actor, he ate so many peeps he became the size of a planet.

lemm.ee is already defederated. Didn't even have to do anything. I think I chose the right instance.

Edit: defederated not federated

REPORTER: Where does your data come from?

CTO: Bitch, are you trying to get me sued?

Number go up mean safe go down.