In exchange for the bribes, Adams took actions that appeared to benefit Turkey’s leaders, including expediting the fire safety inspection at a consulate building and not releasing a statement on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, according to the indictment.

I’m kind of shocked that a (friendly) foreign government would buy a mayor for these seemingly trivial things.

Of course, they completely ignored how things went when hurricane Irene knocked out power to the region. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t fun but folks were generally okay.

Reminds me of that big NYC blackout. The news was covering it like the whole city was going to fall into chaos with neighbors attacking each other and everything. Mostly it was just people chilling in the dark hoping to get their power back as soon as possible.

Unlike the Steele Dossier, which was both fraudulent and discredited…

What? IIRC, the author only clarified that a bunch of it was likely rumor. How does that make it fraudulent?

Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.

Ferrari? More like the passenger train of computers.

We (the US) off-shored our manufacturing labor to China because of cheap labor. We were able to continue to reap much of the benefits of this production with our intellectual property (trade secrets, patents, etc).

China will inevitably catch up in the IP game and have been quickly doing so, often through corporate espionage, sending students to study in Western schools, and just from experience building most of these physical goods.

It’s IP theft and seen as cheating. And will erode the US IP dominance faster than we’d like.

I’m pretty on the fence over it as an American personally. IP laws in general are kind of bullshit but also, we’re on our back foot economically because we have no infrastructure to build anymore. And if we no longer have the IP dominance, we have zero economic leverage.

And all that’s ignoring all the governmental and civic espionage that has other uncomfortable implications.

What I expected:

It is very privacy friendly […]

What makes you believe that? The most information I could find about this is that it doesn’t “save your session data.” The Orbit privacy policy also seems a bit bare, and I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or not.

Either way, you’re still sending data to a third party service to process. Might be worth it for some people.

Been playing the point and click game Star Trek: Resurgence. It’s barely a game, but it’s nice to do something with your hands while watching.

“We need ways to prevent people from bringing weapons onto our Metro buses and trains, and the sooner we can find solutions to prevent tragedies like this, the better,” Hahn said.

TSA 2: Cruise Control

More information about the privacy preserving ad measurement feature and how to disable it if you wanted. Mixed feelings.

My favorite part of milsim is the sim.

Earth-bound cardinals are basically 2 dimensional vectors. Not really helpful in intergalactic space.

A lot of their targets are public people. For instance, targeting the employees of a defi company.

A photo of my balls would help in that case too but it doesn’t men I want to give it to them.

Need me a cyberpunk detective game with real verbal interviews.

Okay, back to doomer it is…

With the discontinuation of the Malibu, the only remaining gasoline-powered vehicle in Chevrolet’s lineup is the Corvette, following the cessation of Camaro production last year. Earlier this year, GM introduced a hybrid

That’s, actually pretty positive news. I’m a little shocked.

ZDNet? Haven’t heard that one in a minute.

Technically it reduces the window for a successful brute force.

That said, it comes with serious drawbacks. Mainly making them impossible to memorize, so then users end up just writing them on post-its and putting them on their monitor. Or other equally dumb things.