Isn’t most delivery in NYC done by bicycle?

May I ask where you are from that doesn’t have the concept of screen doors?

Which airplanes were spraying over Texas? ADS-B is public information. Show me the flight logs.

Tagged as toxic. /s

Yea but it’s also blue policy choices that are helping here.

And for economies of scale and reliability and flexibility they could start pooling their computing together and then

They didn’t have phones and even if they did it’s easy to sleep through a phone alert at 1am during a loud storm.

This was the reply that really made me think twice about my position.

No, they would have said that if they meant that. I cannot overemphasize just how many Americans truly, actually believe that there are just bands of colored men with rifles walking around in the city streets.

Let me try to illustrate how the word “natural” doesn’t apply here by providing a parallel example. Everyone agrees that humans are animals, but if I went on a vacation to another country and said “I enjoyed my trip, the local fauna were very friendly” it would be wrong/not ok.

Kinda sounds like the beginning signs of nausea. Were you overheated? Hung over? Did you skip breakfast and only have coffee?

There is a world of difference between self-hosting your personal life and, for example, the department of motor vehicles needing servers that benefit from economies of scale.

How often are you staring at the screen of strangers’ phones to the point you can determine what operating system they are using? That’s really fuckin creepy, dude.

No, that’s not normal in New York or San Francisco.

Wanna try that sentence again, big guy?

This reminds me of an interaction I had here the other day. There was an article about ICE kidnappings in San Francisco and someone asked why the armed gangs weren’t doing battle with ICE. There are no roving armed gangs in San Francisco, despite what shitty right wing media fantasies claim.

Racism.

Is it really “alone” if you’re on chat?

This is nonsense. If you buy music on iTunes it is DRM-free and has been since the late 2000s.

This is nonsense. If you buy music on iTunes it is DRM-free and has been since the late 2000s.