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Will we? The forums that there are maybe ten of left on the entire internet, with a combined userbase of maybe a couple hundred people, and which keep getting hacked and wiped with no backups because even the few people who still have the time, patience and money to keep one running don't...

I was reminded again today of a comment I saw on Reddit last year about how AI might be on track to turn the internet into the digital equivalent of a grey goo scenario. The OP was a link to a news article about how a bunch of websites are getting effectively DDOS'd by AI scraper tools, leading...

Fear of being sued by homeless people who have no money to hire a lawyer is pants-on-head insane. The possibility of local governments hating homeless people so much that they'll make up excuses to go after anyone who helps them, sadly, is not.

There's an old joke that starts "In Heaven, all the policemen are English..." I assume there was once a good reason for that.

Well that's the great thing about being a Republican. You can abuse your powers all you want and be confident that the opposing party are too nice to abuse theirs back, even if you get the Supreme Court to say it's totally fine.

I should probably wait to see if Legal Eagle puts out of a video on this, but what exactly is happening here? Trump hasn't been convicted of any criminal acts yet, right? I didn't sleep through that and miss it? Why is it even possible to ask the Supreme Court for a ruling on this already, let...

OK I decided to just look this up myself and sure enough, yes, that did happen. So this organization has been openly run by neo-Nazis for at least three years now and anyone in attendance who claims outrage at antisemitic statements being made there is just doing damage control over what is at...

This feels like the sort of thing you'd have to be epically incompetent at digging to make happen, but maybe that's why I'm not a geologist. I'd love to know where it sits on the scale of perfectly-competent to Homer-setting-his-cereal-on-fire.

Wasn't CPAC that event that literally built their stage in the shape of the Nazis' odal rune a couple years back? Or am I thinking of a different Republican gathering?

Dead simple to scam people who lack the basic capacity to read, maybe. Though maybe that's the idea—like the gibberish in a typical spam email, the idea is to filter out anyone with an ounce of thinking capacity so you can turn around and shame them for being dumb enough to fall for it in the...

Shame they specified children, because otherwise this might have had the side effect of banning hazing rituals.

It's another thing the far left and the far right have in common, sadly. Believing you have to be mean to the Bad People 100% of the time because they're bad and they deserve it, and anything less is cause to believe you're secretly on their side.

Unwittingly?

Another Crab's Treasure had a demo in Steam Next Fest or something last year; IronPineapple covered it in one of his "Souls-likes you've never heard of" videos if you want to see more gameplay. Oddly enough it's described on the store page as the developer's second game even though clicking...

You know that giant dome from The Simpsons Movie? I wonder if we could make one big enough to cover a whole state.

A cop in Alabama was caught calling a neighboring town's department and making false reports. At least six times. The newspaper refers to this as "swatting" but suspiciously avoids saying what happened when the cops showed up at those made-up crime scenes. Usually the point of swatting is to...

So, yes, the heads of the department deserve to be condemned for this, then.

Wouldn't even be the first time. Metroid Prime Federation Force was basically their take on Aliens: Colonial Marines, wasn't it?

"You can't fire me, I quit" is such a cliché that it never occurred to me that there might be benefits to doing it beyond reassuring one's fragile ego. Are there any situations where you can actually refuse to let someone quit so you can fire them? I feel like in any situation where it makes...

This might be the first time a major media figure has used the term "radicalized" like it's a good thing. This brings up an interesting point. The media has a habit of using exchange rates to translate how much something costs in a foreign country, but that only matters if you're writing a...