Read this

That’s kind of fucked up if there’s not an indication that it’s a replica. Akin to yelling fire in a theater if someone used one of them maliciously.

Perhaps it could be kind of neat as a curio if it’s a highly engineered/beautiful work of art (that is maybe too expensive to use for malicious ‘jokes’). But I’d still want it to have some sort of indication that folks aren’t getting dosed/they don’t have to trigger a response by your local atomic energy officials.

Editing to add that before I picked Krakatoa (fingers crossed on my inability to predict natural disasters), I actually searched for “disasters with no death toll” to use as an example for a potential model without much success. It is in poor taste and my comments are definitely parody.

That’s horrible. I love it.

Wow. A 3d printer, an ultrasonic humidifier module, and a completely sociopathic grasp on world affairs could see the most offensive Etsy store ever.

There’s basically no limit to the depravity one could stoop to in pursuit of money.

I sense a business opportunity, but at what cost?
No, I mean, literally, what’s a steaming Krakatoa worth?

This is so pathetic and stupid.

This isn’t aimed at Russia or China, whom the article calls out by name.
This is a dick measuring contest with Iran and North Korea.

I mean - he made the announcement in South Korea.

Diplomatically, Trump (well, his administration) has stated to learn that befriending and allowing tinpot dictators to humiliate the U.S. is non-viable. So they’ve moved to cold-war era tactics of arms races and implied threats of nuclear holocaust.
They, of course, are focusing on smaller nations that while powerful in their own right, aren’t actual threats to the U.S. global hegemony. Not that I support continued U.S. dominance on the world stage, but it’s a weird priority.
Maybe by the end of the admin, they’ll be caught up to Clinton, who realized the best way to apply pressure was economically and via international partnerships — assuming the U.S. has an economy and international partnerships to leverage by then.

I have no memory of this place.

It was a TCL Alto 9+.

A quick internet search reveals that this issue was known about at least three years ago.

Another model, the 8i was reported to have a root password of “12345678” - which is partially how I got the idea to start seeing if I could gain root.

I personify my ADHD symptoms as “the goblin”

The ADHD goblin steals memories, tells me to eat when in bored, tells me that every minor rejection is a major judgement against me, and all the other symptoms I can’t think of right now.

I commented elsewhere, but I once had a soundbar that just had a no password ssh login. It was one of those ‘connect to your WiFi’ to stream music through models and for whatever reason, after connecting it to my WiFi, it continued to broadcast the publicly joinable setup network.

SSH was open to both the unsecured and secured networks, so anyone within WiFi distance of the device could have gained root control of it. Or if I had a sufficiently weak network setup, anyone online could have taken control of it.

A few years ago I noticed an annoyance with a soundbar I had. After allowing it onto my WiFi network so we could stream music to it, it still broadcast the setup WiFi network.

While dorking around one day, I ran a port scan on my network and the soundbar reported port 22 (ssh) was open. I was able to log in as root and no password.
After a moment of “huh, that’s terrible security.” I connected to the (publicly open) setup network, ssh’d in, and copied the wpa_supplicant.conf file from the device to verify it had my WiFi info available to anyone with at least my mediocre skill level. I then factory reset the device, never to entrust it with any credentials again.

Definitely. I over-explain things. My “I can’t believe…” is that I was offering a statement that was in any way positive about Epstein.
Really, I wanted to opine on the vile nature of people with no morals who use technology to launder suffering and exploitation into investor dollars, and your comment was a great setup for it. (But I did get your joke, and I thought it was a good one.)

My strategy is to just go as slutty as acceptable for any vague character.

I’ve gone as sexy cowboy, sexy plumber, underwear model bitten by vampire (the bat onesie is too hot, so I just kept taking it off to reveal shiny metallic reptile print underoos), Dionysus (just a very shiny white piece of fabric wrapped into a skimpy toga and a staff, plus I kept offering to refill drinks), Slutty Jesus (Same as Dionysus, sans staff). More reserved looks have included fully clothed himbo firefighter, and before what’s-her-face went crazy, a very dapper Sirius Black.
This year I’m going as Luigi (the video game character), which is not explicitly sexy, but I’ll probably wind up taking off the shirt at some point. (I poured all my inspiration into my wife’s costume this year. She’s going as a dragon. She’ll be in a leotard with scales, a horned face mask, a cape, and various body chains and chainmail accessories. She’s going to be the bomb. I’m so excited.)

There is no paradox in the social contract.

Tolerance is mutual. Respect is mutual. Kindness is mutual.

I don’t think it’s individual evidence, really. I suspect it’s probably more the bot farms and pressure campaign. Those carry a lot of water for the illusion of continued group consensus.

Free?

McCarthy spins faster

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Epstein’s johns were vetted (in the sense that they had to be successful enough that blackmailing them was worth the risk of engaging in sex trafficking and blackmail) While Epstein was a soulless monster, he still had an interest in preserving his ’investment’ in the girls because they weren’t completely disposable to his operation. Some techbro bullshit app, wrapped up in contracts and lawyers will just write off missing girls as “they knew what they were getting into” or if some john gets caught, he’ll be a bad apple, and they’ll reconsider their processes, blah, blah, blah.
Being totally real, they’re just going to grow the business until they get to the tipping point of bad press and gullible investment firms so they can offload it for maximum profit.

Coffee plus one of the following (it changes, depending on my whim and ingredient availability):

• Homemade egg bites (egg, sausage or meatless sausage, peppers, onion, spinach, cheese)
• Cereal
• Greek yogurt mixed with a dollop of jam
• Breakfast sandwiches (homemade, prepackaged, or from a local restaurant)
• Biscuits and gravy

And it’s an act of constant, willful effort by yourself and your community.

One neighbor is a rental, they are a large immigrant family and are barely getting along. Property owner lives out of country. Another neighbor thought it would be a fun idea to feed neighborhood stray cats. They wound up creating a very healthy breeding family of raccoons out the run-down garage of the rental. For years their offspring have wreaked havoc in our neighborhood. Every fall I’ve had to call a pest control company to trap the tiny raccoons that are small enough to climb downspouts (the big ones aren’t) and destroy the siding and soffits of my neighbors houses. The cat food guy moved away, I figured out how to occlude the raccoons from my downspouts with ample and unsightly flashing, and along with other neighbors, have built or repaired fencing in in our backyards (mostly because of pets and trespassing neighborhood kids, honestly).
It seems like the raccoon misadventure has finally concluded. I’m now stuck with damaged soffits that squirrels have moved into (on account of a looming walnut tree that lives in a neighbors yard and is so large it overhangs my roof), and a repair estimate that was $5k a year ago, when I had the garage roof redone but wasn’t sure I’d gotten the raccoon problem licked, so I didn’t want to proceed with those repairs. Who knows what it’ll be now. … yay.

Trying to turn it into the center for disease collaboration

Commenting again to say that I can definitely vouch for the recipe. It was pretty good!