Meh, unlikely. Gen X doesn’t have the sheer numbers to drive and sustain culture. The Boomers number something like 74,000,000 and Millennials are around 83,500,000. Meanwhile Gen X only has about 49,000,000 so we’re sandwiched between two Generations that are nearly double our size.

For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)

I maintain several multi-wan commercial setups and they don’t have this problem. I obviously don’t know what your setup is but I’d guess something is wrong with how its handling flows / connections. Once a connection is established between your edge and an internet resource that flow should remain “stuck” to whatever wan port it started with and it sounds like that isn’t happening.

Australia got the criminals while America got the prudes.

Eh, you’re assigning an awful lot of malice with no real reason. A smartphone manufacturer already has access to the kind of data exposed in this attack, regardless of whether the headphones were hooked up with wires or bluetooth.

Samsung, Apple, Xaomi, Huwaei or whoever else doesn’t need some stupid BT vulnerability to know what attached devices like headphone are up too. They already have root level access to the phones hardware.

Fascists can create

We really need to get over this idea that it’s only “fascists” using AI to push their ideology. In 2025 you’d be hard pressed to find any National Government, Political Party, or Ideologically based group who is not using a metric fuckton of AI bots to distribute AIGen content in an attempt to sway elections and opinions. The IPIE report on this makes it quite plain that at least 80% of elections worldwide had problems with this in 2024.

At this point blaming this solely on “Fascists” is wilful blindness and a clear indicator that someone is either living in a bubble of single-sided information or is an ideologue themselves.

Unfortunately it’s not a country with very safe windows.

Even the TCP sliding windows aren’t safe!

There’s also the fact that the majority of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built before UHPC, the concrete discussed in the article, was available!

Why? The kinds of UHPC being discussed in the article weren’t available even in the United States until the year 2000 but most of Iran’s nuclear facilities were built between 1974 and 2005. Even their primary enrichment facility in Fordow, which was struck with MOPs, was started no earlier than the mid-2000s as it was still unfinished in 2009.

Basically the majority of Iran’s facilities, even their major ones, are too old to have the kind of concrete being discussed in the article.

A lot of masks only work in the visible light spectrum. It’s entirely possible to “radar” images and remove them.

The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.

He’s a convenient bogey-man, and a huge asshole, but he’s the not the source of this problem.

There isn’t a single county in this country that votes 100% in either direction. So saying that “All of whom voted for this.” is objectively incorrect.

I’m in Wyoming and fiber started rolling out in multiple cities with multiple different providers in each city two years ago. They got to my house earlier this year so I now have a 2Gb/s connection.

I’m confused. The article is talking about “BEAD” which wasn’t passed until 2021. You must be talking about a different program.

I thing getting rid of plastic sacks is good and we shouldn’t have ever had them anyway. They only came into being due to misguided and low information efforts to “Save Trees” by getting people to stop using paper!

Just ban plastic bags completely and bring back paper. Then charge for the paper bags if necessary in order to incent re-use.

They are re-usable but so were the old ones. A lot of people re-use these bags for various things like trash can liners.

Honestly this whole thing went off the rails when plastic bags were introduced. “Paper or Plastic” was an oft asked, and ridiculed, question a couple of decades ago.

The trees used in the manufacture of paper bags come from cultivated forests so nothing was really being saved PLUS if we’d stuck with paper bags it would have boosted recycling, specifically paper recycling.

Well intentioned interference is what created this mess. We should have left things as they were.

The CF98A looks like a SIG knockoff.

When did France start caring about porn?

As explained in the video you can’t run 50 amps ona dryer outlet. It’s 42 amps max.

The same tailscale that announced last week that they are going to start charging?

https://tailscale.com/kb/1251/pricing-faq

Sure, it’s pretty simple really. As wages rise the business has to charge more to cover the increase in cost. As price rises demand falls.

So while the commenters statement “There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.” may be true so is “There is no such thing as a work shortage, only activities that customers don’t think are worth the cost.”