Wouldn’t say I buy cheap shit, not Apple (I’m not Musk or Bezos rich), but flagship Samsung and pro earbuds, Logitech trackball, jbl speakers, and headsets from Bose and Jabra. Now the BT receiver for the stereo, that was cheap Amazon garbage. I’ll give you that one.
I’m talking phones to cars (for hands-free and music), mice to desk and laptop, earbuds and headphones to both, keyboards to anything from computers to fire TVs, BT speakers, adapters for older receivers… They all suck. Multiple phones, devices and cars. (although the 2012 Chrysler was the worst so far, and the 2021 Subaru is better)
I will die on the hill that Bluetooth always has and always will suck ass. Pairing sucks. Latency sucks. Random-ass disconnects suck. Fuck Bluetooth in the neck sideways with a rusty screwdriver.
The big advantage of brrrp is simplicity. Pull trigger, things go asplodsy and/or turn into pink mist. Close air support, which the 'hog kicked ass at in the sandbox, needs to be reliable and simple. With the proliferation of GPS jamming technologies and other countermeasures, simple and cheap should carry the day.
I don’t know if anything is as physically survivable as the A-10. Certainly not some modern composite that will be grounded for fractures after taking small arms fire. Also, the boots on the ground love the support provided by the A-10, as do the congress critters whose bases are in their districts.
Just rambling thoughts from a village idiot, not looking to start a fight
“They hope it will replace the A-10”
Aaaahahahahaha "Lets give it no BBBRRRRRRRPPP, a low service ceiling, use the engines as shielding / flak generators for the pilots, and hope to sell it as an A-10!
Ugh - thanks for that jerkoff-to-rosecolored-performative-patriotism-earworm-garbage memory. >:(
Put the snek and slogan on a pride flag!
Is it significant, statistically or otherwise, that 2/5ths of the named people (not counting the linked list b/c I’m lazy) are either certifiably insane or confirmed pederasts? (both in one case?)
If you told me that Kennedy shared his brain worm with Kanye, I’d not be the least surprised: “yeah, that tracks.”
Just the one shithole country, actually
Is it the governor or the legislature/board of canvassers?
Same thing we do with .local - “click here to proceed (unsafe)” :D
Set up my work’s network waay back on NT4. 0 as .local cuz I was learning and didn’t know any better, has been that way ever since.
I think, not to put words in anyone’s mouth, that this person is looking for Greek or Roman Senate-levels of debate on the philosophies of democracy and an “elevated discourse”. I’d imagine they think all this we’re concerned with (you know, the future of democracy in the U. S.) is pedestrian.
Kind of: “iam14andverysmart” material.
See, I think some advisor said “we gotta say something about this DoJ antitrust thing with Google and take credit for it.” And Dementia Don the 34-time convicted felon who can’t be assed to pay attention to anything that isn’t attached to his daughter’s chest, heard: “Google wants justice” (or something; I can’t get my head that far up my own ass to see things from his PoV)
No, I just straight-up messed it up. Electoral-vote.com
Yeah, I’m a fan of web 1.0. Everything went off the rails after that. ;)
I think the bigger issue this time is the potential for distributing the violence to smaller markets, so to speak - polling places, county clerk’s offices, secretaries of state, even state houses when they vote to certify their state results.
Gotta plug electoral-vote.com Aggregators of ev polling. Lefty as hell in commentary, but dead neutral in the math.
Credit @saigot for catching my screwup, edited to correct url.
https://neal.fun/password-game/