If by “poll”, you mean advertisement for their search engine, then yes. Yes, they are.

Hadn’t she already been ordered to stop on multiple occasions? I know if I repeatedly ignored a court order I’d have a cell with my name on it in short order.

Unless he’s fleeing DC a couple steps ahead of a mob with torches and pitchforks, he ain’t worried enough.

Not this year unfortunately. Currently recovering from a spinal injury so my neck needs the year off.

Not that I want AI companies to have an easier time developing their products, but this is a far better arrangement than the wholesale theft that companies have been using for their training data up until now.

It was from when he flopped onto her hood to get a better angle to shoot her in the face.

Raytheon sells the Silent Guardian directly to law enforcement. ICE is the most well funded paramilitary law enforcement agency in the country.

I’d be shocked if they don’t have a bunch of them.

Don’t forget to construct additional pylons.

I absolutely believe it. The US has been working on directed energy crowd control tech since at least the early 2000s. There are tons of videos online of prototypes.

Oh, absolutely. Maybe it’s the current world climate, but this one just feels like they’re laughing at us more than usual while doing it.

Old school death / black metal called Perverse Entity (that honestly hasn’t released something new since COVID) and a dungeon synth project called Anchorite Magus.

It does not.

Anything that transmits a signal can be found, just get that out of the way immediately. The only way to be 100% untraceable is to never transmit.

Mesh networks, however, are pretty safe. Triangulating the origin of a mesh transmission will just lead to the repeater node which, admittedly is a pain in the dick if they kill the repeater and the network goes dark, but it doesn’t lead directly back to a person, just a box they stuck on a cell tower or up on a hill somewhere.

FUCK. YES.

Instantly makes me feel better about having my material listed there.

If anyone’s ever going to be able to crack the secret to widespread adoption of VR, I think it’ll be Valve.

I see what you did there.

Beyblade

I’d say telling the mod they have terrible reasoning is, in itself, pretty piss poor reasoning.

But you do you. Let’s see how quickly you can speedrun a ban.

Something about Amazon selling me a show about a “late-stage capitalist hellscape” makes me feel…not good.

Over $100 billion in research and investment just to go “Nah, nevermind.”