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Mostly made of meat.

  • He's not totally wrong in the first one. You can buy phones that are more ethically produced than Apple ones. There is a choice to get something better, even if it's not perfect. In the second one there is no choice to get a different one, but there is a choice not to buy one at all. In the third one there is no choice in any way.

  • What do you think it's saying? I'm assuming it's that the guy is using a flawed argument in situations that make it increasingly obvious, with the third one being utterly ridiculous that he thinks it's a gotcha.

  • And Philippa Forrester fondling axes while wearing tight leather trousers. Dear god.

  • I see it as being a progression of that argument from being right in the first one, debatable in the second and completely wrong in the third.

  • Pedantic correct. The best type of correct.

  • I always thought that programs had to be compiled to be classed as programs.

  • Technically, half of those are scripting languages not programming languages.

    Anyway my favourite is Bash because I'm weird, even for a nerd.

  • It's fast though.

  • A sublime combination of Diane Morgan and Charlie Brooker. Absolutely the best comedy to appear in the past decade.

  • It's not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that's not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery. I haven't seen a "best viewed in Chrome" for a decade or two.

    Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

  • I think when you have an elderly cat, you have to just concentrate on what will give her the best quality of life for however long she has left. In our case the root cause of the ear problem that caused the scratching and the hematoma was never found because we felt that subjecting an elderly cat to an operation would cause her more stress than just living with it. The vet gave her antibiotics and pain killers, and put her on a low dose of steroids that she took for the rest of her life. The hematoma turned into fibrosis and although it looked horrible, the ear stopped bothering her once she got used to it.

    With hindsight it was 100% the right decision, and she lived her best life for another 18 months, right up to the last day.

  • Bless her. We had an elderly cat with an ear like that. It looked horrible but it didn't bother her, so we didn't put her through the stress of operating on it.

  • To a more secure alternative, obviously. There are other options than Apple and Google.

  • So despite all the tough talk, they just roll over and capitulate. The only way to protest this is to move your stuff off Apple.

  • If text-to-speech doesn't work, then is it not discriminatory against blind people?

  • Poisoning AI with backdoored code is surely a real risk now? I can see this getting quite nasty.

  • Because they know their target audience, presumably.

  • Jinx says hello.

  • There are alternatives to Youtube. Use them.