The biggest issue for me is VAR not overturning it during the game. I get the on-field ref having to make a decision from behind the play at full speed. He might have thought he saw something bad. But the whole point of VAR is to tell the ref there was something off that needs to be looked at.

That said, Oliver should have started with a yellow and asked VAR if he should look at it for a red. It was ridiculous to start with straight red for something that looked in real time like a normal tripping. In slow motion you can see there is slightly more to it with studs on the upper foot, but it’s still a yellow. But the stats show Oliver has it out for Arsenal. I hate the Gunners as much as any right-thinking person out there, but when Oliver has given Liverpool 0 reds in 50 games, Manchester 1 red in 53 games, and Arsenal 7 reds in 54 games then you have to look at that as a crazy outlier.

In Los Angeles restaurants are still closing regularly

We drank so much prosecco on our first trip to Italy. Everyone talked about how much gelato they ate the first time they went to Italy, but we were sitting there poppin bottles on the balcony every night.

Try different prosecco. There is a wide variety of quality… though then you get up into champagne prices.

He meant the Democrats rigged the last election, which means he was available to win it this time around and be pres during these Olympics and World Cup.

Why do people seem to think I’m saying that Meta was blocking conservatives?

Because your literal words were “the same article but about how meta was blocking conservatives.” Please tell the class how saying “meta was blocking conservatives” does NOT mean “Meta was blocking conservatives.”

That was not about government censorship. That was about the government being able to discuss with corporations what harmful things should be self-filtered by the corporations.

Also, since those things the government in that lawsuit wanted filtered were false and harmful misinformation related to election security and COVID, it seems conservatives equate harmful and fake shit as “conservative.”

Or, and hear me out, it’s because people don’t have as much free money these days and Champagne is getting more expensive? Just throwing that out there.

Also, it could be related to the overall drop in wine sales, which is also correlated with an overall drop in alcohol sales. Younger people both drink less wine as a percentage of their drinking and drink less alcohol altogether.

He’s a useful idiot who hates one thing so much that he will ignore any and all good things bad about that thing, and will ignore any and all bad things about something that isn’t that thing.

I really enjoyed the entire series. It was such a unique setting and story.

Depends on what you mean by “commercialized.”

My neighborhood has Waymo cars driving around all day every day. I can even pay them money to book a ride in one, like a Lyft or Uber. So in that sense, full self driving is commercialized.

Will consumers be able to buy a level 4 car in the next 1-2 years? No. While governments have given limited approvals for large-scale testing of self driving cars, the hurdles to selling anything like that to your average moron is far in the future. Governments will have to legislate all kinds of shit, including who is at fault in accidents and where they are allowed to drive. Insurance companies will have to figure out how to write contracts and how much to charge. And all of that ignores the technical challenges of getting it working properly and consistently in consumer vehicles.

The headline says dying, not dead. And the article is about new methods of ID verification, some of which are already in place. I fly for work a lot, and I rarely have to show any ID nowadays. Clear gets my ID from an eye scan and gives that to TSA. Delta and Air France use my face scan at the gate instead of checking my passport when I fly internationally. The only check for my passport now is when I drop off my bags.

I’m guessing it was a different brand if you remember the details that clearly. The fake vent texture is making me think Magnavox for some reason.

https://crtdatabase.com/crts/sony

Doesn’t look like Sony made a 42". They did make a 43", which is what this story is about, but it was only 480p not 1080i. The largest 1080i CRT they made was the 34".

You do realize, don’t you, that the majority of Taiwanese do not want reunification? Well, I mean, they want reunification with their party in power and don’t want CCP-controlled reunification.

In one poll, 63% said they would personally fight if China tried to force reunification. In another poll, the VAST majority wanted to maintain the status quo. Some of those want to keep the status quo and decide later, some want to keep it forever, some want to keep it but start moving toward independence. In that poll, only around 2% want reunification now, and only 5% want full independence now. In another poll, 49% wanted full independence and 27% wanted status quo, while only 12% wanted reunification.

Some credit should go to the person who actually wrote that song, Mac Davis.

As much as I hate using cash, I understand that the credit card companies charge ridiculous fees to businesses and also that people with very low income don’t always have access to digital forms of payment. Maybe Sweden does better with equipping their entire society with digital tools, but in the US I don’t think we are ready for a fully digital payment society.

My memory is hazy, but I’m pretty sure Mozilla was a package and most people just didn’t install the rest of the package. Everyone called the browser Mozilla because they didn’t use the other parts. I could definitely be wrong, though.

Trillian was definitely part of that war. I remember the daily patches to get things working again.

Trillian was not Mac only. I’ve never owned a Mac and used Trillian almost exclusively from 2002 until roughly 2009?? I can’t remember when the transition from IM to texting happened for me, but it was around then. When I was running Linux at home I would use Gaim, which was developed by a friend of the main Trillian guy.