Honestly I thought it was appropriate. Aang, a freaking teenager, has an entire mini arc about the moral canundrum of having to kill someone while the fate of the entire world rests upon his shoulders. They also established how strongly it was against his religion to kill anything, and that he’s a vegetarian.

Obviously it was a copout in that they can’t show a character being directly killed in a spectacular enough fashion for a series finale on a children’s show, but ultimately weakening the big bad evil guy and taking away all of his power, politically, physically and emotionally. That’s a great place to end it and so very in character for Aang

Elsewhere in the thread someone shared one of the originals where text that’s mucked up in the above meme is clear as day. The crazy artifacting must come from some bizarre compression or automated touchup by an editing software. Maybe automated upscaling?

My thinking was in terms of a malicious website, if it does a fake redirect to a fake bank webpage it will then be able to harvest your bank login as well, which is worse than a credit/debit card being harvested

Sounds like a good opportunity to redirect to a fake version of the bank’s website.

Honestly I think the best solution is a revokable token from your bank that you can give to a merchant. One token per merchant, make it easy to revoke as the user sees fit. If you see a charge on the token from one merchant by someone else it’s immediately obvious that token and possibly that merchant was compromised

Insurance being operated by profit-driven organizations runs into many of the exact same problems as for profit healthcare and oh look, more private insurance fuckery!

Wouldn’t that instead make it an act of insurrection or warfare? It would be funny to see insurance companies spin claims related to weather disasters largely caused by climate change as an act of insurrection by the oil companies

Ah so that’s why they’re going bankrupt now!

My wife had a forgotten bill get sent to small claims instead of actually contacting her. As soon as it hit the small claims court system she got inundated with ads from law firms offering to represent her

They say it doesn’t but my real world experience is that you have to re-register every year or three. But it definitely makes a difference in the legal spam callers at least

That’s honestly kinda funny but also very useful!

He actually did! Kamala bated him by inviting people to observe the insanity he says at his rallies and observe the people leaving the rally before he’s even finished speaking, so he took the bait and instead of responding to the question that was asked, accused her of having fake crowds at her debates followed by ranting about Haitian immigrants in Ohio stealing and eating people’s pets then argued with the moderators saying he saw people saying so on TV!

Associated Press has a cut down clip of it at the top of this article but the whole exchange was wild of you dig up the full segment https://apnews.com/article/haitian-immigrants-vance-trump-ohio-6e4a47c52b23ae2c802d216369512ca5

Edit to add: he also at another point said something about “[Kamala] wants illegal immigrants to get sex change surgeries in prison” which would be very based but unfortunately is obviously false, and at another point misspoke when talking about IVF and said “I’m a leader on fertilization”

Part of that is OWIs weren’t initially categorized as criminal offenses but purely traffic offenses, so people didnt face any significant jail time to detox and potentially realize their need to break the addiction

who on earth is listening to hi-res wireless audio and not a song off of Spotify, YouTube, etc?

I generally agree with you but as someone who can’t hear the compression in a good quality mp3 I can definitely hear when Bluetooth is using an older audio encoding protocol because it compresses the music to hell and back

About 10 years ago I used headphones daily, now I do so just frequently enough that it’s irritating to realize I need to purchase a dongle just to do so and go “well I guess I’m not listening to music/podcasts right now”

What I learned when working for a phone manufacturer is that the headphone jack usage varies by product segment. Cheaper phone users use the headphone jack far more frequently than premium phone users, so they’d keep it on the budget models but drop it on the higher end models. They also did similar with NFC and wireless charging which was interesting…

2020 kinda accelerated the existing trends and got a majority of people willing to watch films at home instead of in theaters. Before that enough people really enjoyed the theater experience that it wasn’t too much of a threat to the business model

There’s also a more modern terminal-based browser called browsh

I got that reference!

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For public facing only use key based authentication. Passwords have too much risk associated for public facing ssh

Here in Wisconsin we had a heat index of over 100 for about a week not even 14 days ago and today the high was 65. I broke out the sweaters and fall gear today and it was a nice change of pace