Sim copter let you load your Sim city saves too! Man I forgot how much fun that was.

Today, The Onion ate.

I used to work for a company that would put temporary cameras out to record particular intersections or stretches of road. It was all temporary traffic safety studies, not an active search or dragnet surveillance, so my conscience was mostly clean. It was still wild to see how much technology can be quickly put out to record and track drivers.

On top of cameras we had Bluetooth sniffers that would get put up on every leg of a 4way intersection and just collect Bluetooth hardware addresses. It doesn’t identify you, but it is able to tell which direction you took at that 4 way because your Bluetooth address only showed up on two of the boxes.

One of the more surprising methods for hiding cameras were those big orange traffic barrels. When they stack on top of each other, there’s a 6-8in gap between the tops where you can stash stuff. If you ever see two of those barrels stacked on each other, look for a little window cut out near the top of the top one. There might be a camera sitting on top of the bottom barrel and hidden by the top barrel. They’d point it to capture back license plates, so you don’t see it when driving towards it.

I’ll pick up the pedantic torch. Trains are made of train cars, I’d argue each one is a separate car or vehicle even though they’re strapped together.

I feel like The ISS ticks a lot of the boxes for a vehicle though, how big is that?

The judge can settle out of court for 2.3x10^73 rubles.

Vance looks like the kind of guy that wouldn’t tell anyone if Trump died, and would pass off some AI video of Trump talking every once in a while as proof he’s still alive and running things.

This isn’t an argument or even a discussion. You’re just beating a dead horse and the rest of us are sick of seeing it.

This discussion exists because dumbass Russian apologists won’t shut up about it

I encourage you to google the paradox of tolerance, because you sound like a Fox News propagandist saying ‘so much for the tolerant left am I right?’

Russia made its bed. The response from the US is exactly that - a response. Even the most tolerant society will HAVE TO be intolerant towards intolerance in order to exist.

You can understand this or not, I really don’t care. But at least someone attempted to explain to you why you’re getting buried in downvotes.

Did rough math elsewhere, you would need around a million piles of cash each the size of planet earth to come close

Just don’t install it alongside Windows.

So I can get close enough to airdrop photos of my penis to the president of the United States. What did you think I was going to use it for?

Where’s the fundraiser to buy Georgian protestors a few bayraktars?

How’s that Kool aid taste? You’re not even worth debating, it’s clear you’re a lost cause. Keep believing this, and let the rage build inside you.

This was part of the fictional operating system in the book Little Brother. I think it inspired similar features in a particular real life Linux build too

Lol tell that to Tina Peters.

At tesla its not an unveiling until musk puts a brick through it

I love the way Russians carry over their curse-as-punctuation into English. I don’t know russian enough to really describe what’s going on that well, but they usually toss the blayt on the end of a sentence, but it feels different than how we do in English. Like, if we say ‘this fucking guy’ it’s very different than ‘this guy, fuck!’ There’s a lot more anger to it, right? But you can catch Russians saying in english ‘this guy, fucking…’ when they want to convey the feeling of ‘this fucking guy.’ I love it every time I catch it.

Maki roll

Lol Russian soldiers on US soil? The US military would do good to hang back, avert their gaze, and let the US citizens handle things how they see fit. Plausible deniability and all that