Every ash ketchum (us politician) needs their gary oak (third world country they want to bomb more so than other third world countries)

My weird suggestion would be one of the Top Spin tennis games. They are fun to play while having an audiobook, podcast or music running in the background. The multiplayer is fun too

The clusterfuck of the Settings app and Control Panel and whatever else feels like it is deliberately designed to strip users of any agency. Half the things are impossible to figure out without googling. I encountered this recently when I wanted to change the DNS provider.

Volunteers needed:

• to pick crops

Looks a lot more unserious which is probably why they went with that.

Pro life moment

I completely gave up on Spotify once I learned that they have been slowly sneaking in AI generated music into popular playlists so that they don’t have to pay actual human beans their cut. Navidrome and Tailscale is a good enough replacement for me.

Anyone with access to the database could do that but it won’t federate

The Rafales that were bought two days ago don’t arrive until 2026. But there are already 30 or so Rafales in the air force.

They don’t remember it that way. The fact that the costs of hyperconsumption have been externalised for decades because China has been taking the brunt of it is lost to everyone. Like they would see the (now defunct) pictures of the Beijing smog and have no idea that the responsibility for a part of it falls on them too. Instead they used their racist bias to explain the situation.

The image of manufacturing in their mind is probably highly romanticised. They picture a blue blooded American man working hard eight hours a day coming back to his paid off home, his housewife and his 50 or so children.

But what about the smug South Park and Castlevania guy

This is a new type of guy.