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I know nothing about parrots, but you want a cat. A bird that sits in the corner and squawks occasionally is not affectionate or interesting, and intelligent is debatable. But a cat who will come curl up in your lap or who is amenable to snuggles pretty much at will is going to be much more comforting.

It's cool, there were IDF fighters hiding out there, that totally makes it justified. /s

Also, please allow me to be the first to say:

Goldman Sachs wants everyone to use AI, just not against them. C'mon guys it's no fair! :P

Honestly I use discord for this because of the more immediate responses when I'm feeling lonely. I'm in a couple of medium-sized communities that have members around the world so there's pretty much always someone on.

• ublock origin, first last and if necessary only extension you really need
• dark reader
• youtube shorts block - converts shorts links into regular video player with actual fucking seek/volume controls
• youtube sponsor block - I pay for my bandwidth, I decide what gets downloaded.
• privacy badger

Couple things...

The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.

I've been a nerd since the 80s and I'll have you know I'm a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.

That's not patriotism, that's oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.

I dunno if you're old enough to remember the Cold War, but both sides having nukes definitely did not stop the US and Russia from fucking with each other, shooting down aircraft, bombing shit, and especially spying and sabotage. All it stopped is open warfare, but even then it's debatable since we had several proxy wars.

They wiped out multiple levels of leadership, nuclear sites, missile sites. This is not a warning, it’s the opening salvo of a full on existential total war.

Yes to military leadership - at least two high-ranking military leaders are known to have been killed in this strike so far and probably more will be announced soon - and maybe to the missile sites. But not so much to the nuclear sites: experts say damage there is limited.

That's twice now they've threatened to attack US bases and twice they haven't done it, this is starting to seem like a negotiating tactic rather than a threat.

The frontline is everywhere; there be no shelter here.

-Rage Against the Machine, No Shelter

What do you imagine 'destroying the web' looks like if not killing off huge swaths of websites that relied on traffic/ads to sustain themselves? Do you imagine a man has to bleed all the way out before we can say he's going to die, or is it sufficient to look at the severity of the wound to critical systems in his body and determine that he is probably going to die?

Yeah, I used ABP for a while and got occasional ads, didn't discover uBO til later.