These are all very cute, but Junior really loves their stocking.

That’d be the enormous heels, the raised arches, and empty looking toes. He looks like he’s wearung a particularly ridiculous pair of highheels with a pair of fake shoes wrapped around them.

I wonder how many times we can get the money?

I very much doubt there would be a secobd time, or that you’d get to enjoy your split of the initial bounty. They’re trying to turn the population against each other, and already vanishing people. This isn’t rule of law stuff, this is “decades later their remain were found in an unmarked mass grave” stuff.

The best documents would be birth certificates for each generation, but there was a massive fire at the Dublin records office in 1922, which destroyed a lot of genological records from before then. If you have any information about where in Ireland your great grandparents were from, you may be able to find local records however. Things like parish registers and birth records for sone denominations were stored outside Dublin, so you may be able to find them, although it’ll probably mean going there, or hireing to go there, as most of those records haven’t been digitised.

Weirdly, staring at a bright light is one of the things that’s almost guaranteed to put me to sleep. A phone screen works pretty well for that.

Fire the start, didn’t we?

It’s Yoda admitting to arson.

This is an important point to remember. Before you go to sea, you should always curse your legs, that who or whatever has them will continuously dance until they drop from exhaustion.

It might backfire a bit, but look at the desperate expression on that whale’s face and tell me it’s not worth it.

9 out of 10 wolves recommend this meme!

I did notice your username, so I suspected this might not apply to you, but maybe it’ll be helpful to someone.

All I can really offer you is ‘good luck, hang in there and this too shall pass’, which is probably not a lot of comfort.

Not everyone will be able to move, it’s true, but a lot of countries have provisions for reclaiming citizenship if you can show that an ancestor (usually only in the last couple of generations, but not always) was a citizen.

For instance, Ireland: if one of your parents was an Irish citizen, born on the island of Ireland, you can claim citizenship and a passport with minimal paperwork. If your parents weren’t born there, but a grandparent was, there’s more paperwork involved, but you can still get citizenship and a passport.

Once you have a passport for an EU country, you have a lot more freedom to travel, and settle, anywhere in the EU.

Many other countries have similar systems, so, if you do want to leave, it can be worth studying your family tree to see if there are any recent immigrants.

In many way I think that would be preferable to the invasive data grab approach. At least you can remove the bracelet when you leave. Unfortunately, I suspect they’ll just do both.

Take your upvote, a hearty groan and an eye roll, and go! (go find more terrible puns pls)

It rather depends on what you mean by “encrypted email provider”. Proton don’t do anything magical, incoming emails arrive unencrypted and they just encrypt them for storage. Likewise, outgoing emails may be stored encrypted, but aren’t encrypted on the recipients end. In both cases the email is unencrypted at the remote party’s end.

If you want encrypted email between you and someone else the solution is GPG encryption. It’s not too complicated to set up, but does involve both parties using it, so you’re probably not going to get your bank on board, for instance, but it works between friends. The other big advantage is that it works with any email provider, “encrypted” or not. The very nature of email means that the headers need to remain plaintext so that the mail can be routed, but even proton can see those on incoming or outgoing mails.

Contrary to popular consensus, I’d say that hosting your own mail infrastructure isn’t too difficult if you are willing to make certain compromises. Hosting incoming mail is a case of deploying one or more SMTP servers that can only receive email for your domain and store it on an IMAP server. All these components are well documented (I like postfix for SMTP and Dovecot for IMAP). Register these servers as the MX records for your domain, and you have incoming email. Spam filtering is a separate issue to look into, but quite doable. Outgoing mail is slightly more tricky, but there are various well trusted SMTP relays you can use for that. I have used Amazon’s SES service successfully, and I’m looking at SMTP2Go, as they seem to have a free tier that woud be well suited to a personal email setup. Remember, the incoming and outgoing servers do not need to be the same, which seems to be what trips a lot if people up. You do need the appropriate SPF and DKIM records for the outgoing servers on your domain though.

Looking at a timeline of cases against various AI companies suggests that’s not quite the case. This page had a good overview, showing how cases are being resolved. Some of the recent notable outcomes involve the German courts finding OpenAI violated copyright laws, OpenAI being forced to reveal internal communications about trying to hide a massive dataset of pirated books, and a class action suceeding against Anthropic, but there’s a bunch more.

Whilst I see your point from the advertisers perspective, ie, misleading the consumer can be profitable, it also makes it all the more necessary for advertisers to be forced, ideally through legislative means, to disclose asset theft. That way they’re all on a level playing field, and are disuaded from lieing about it.

That fact that most “AI” output is garbage is not directly relevant, but the sourcing of the training data and lack of human oversight are.

Whilst slop is slop, and should be pilloried as such, cheap, lazy “AI” slop shoild be labeled to indicate that even less attention was paid than usual, and that it was created from stolen assets. This last part is probably the most important part.

“Oh no! We’ve been hit, which has caused a power surge, and all the bulbs on the bridge blinky-light 3000 computers have exploded, hurling nearby crew members to the floor!”

It was brilliant.

They really do seem determined not just to be as evil as possible, but to be seen as as evil as possible.

Rather than using link shorteners, or whatever share.google is, you could direct link to xkcd 3133.

Why do you think siblings would hate each other? Giving them the mental and emotional tools to interact kindly and calmly with others will also ensure their reltionship is positive.