United Healthcare announces mandatory patient conversion to Buddhism.

I’ve had good luck with eD2K/eMule for older shtuff.

That doesn’t work well automated torrent setups though.

Also, YouTube frequently is the answer for many documentaries and straight-to-video shtuff

As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.

BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.

Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.

It’s not about whether they’d eat complex proteins.

It’s whether mirror bacteria and microorganisms could out-compete existing bacteria and MOs for the basic un-mirrored building blocks of life, e.g. sugars such as glucose.

Without mirror predators, the mass of mirror bacteria and MOs would increase and increase, while there would be less existing life.

Existing higher-order organisms such as plants, fungi, and your digestive system, that depend on the existing bacteria and their existing products, would have less consumable food in the midst of indigestible mirror crud.

Time to buy shares in VPN providers?

I suppose it’s impossible to entirely rule out contamination, but the scientists involved are trying their best, and science is always “as far as we’re able to determine at this moment…” never “that’s the truth, and that’s that.”

RPCS3’s website says GoW3 has problems with this emulator.

https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=God_of_War_III

This title is currently not considered “playable”, as the hardware requirement is too high. But it can be played from start to finish with decent performance on a good CPU, especially if you use the game’s patches.

Ban non-union delivery and non-union warehouse distribution centers.

I did find an APK on some outfit called apkvision.org, installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓

Predicting he’ll call Mexico an “American protectorate” or some other bullshit before/during/after he invades.

Yes.

To be fair, $1.9 billion + $665 million in civil penalties is a good sized fine for laundering $881 million (that the Feds know of).

I’m sure HSBC won’t make that mistake again, unless the profit motive overrides the risk again.

Flud looks proprietary and has ads.

Libretorrent works just as well and is open source.

Only if they follow up by shutting down gun stores because they’re aiding and abetting terrorist organizations by knowingly selling ridiculous amounts of arms that ultimately wind up in terrorist cartel hands.

“Quotations from Mao Zedong” the official name, and PRC nationals probably get deducted social points credits for calling it anything other than that.

But the fact that it’s published as a “little red book” fails to escape the obvious reference, if you’re familiar with Chinese history, and the Cultural Revolution.

One quotation from a French newspaper, even a respected one, doesn’t change that.

In fact, given the Chinese Communist Party’s control over education, I question what the “Mandarin speakers in Rednote” actually learned about the Cultural Revolution and its awfulness. Likely a similarly filtered version to what the Japanese today learn about what the Imperial Army did in WW2.

The picture of people across the globe doomscrolling religiously through the “little red book” on their phones without knowing where it came from is subversive(?), ironic(?). I can’t think of a good word right now.

The irony of the name which translates directly “little red book” is it’s the indoctrination document for Mao’s Communist China

Mao’s “little red book” of his quotes and philosophy was especially visible during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, where Mao’s followers became like a cult, reading the little red book every day, destroying historical artifacts and archaeological sites, property of alleged non-Maoists and non-conformists, and imprisoning the professional class in camps for “re-education” as farming peasants. Local massacres of “undesireables” as well as mass starvation from failed farming policies, led to millions of unnecessary deaths.

Think Communist Taliban taking over a country the size of China.

https://www.kinolibrary.com/clip/1960s-china-people-reading-the-little-red-book/555

Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.

I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.

At which point my opinion will be “Eeeenh?”

Not when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.

Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.

Does that sound like a good way to get facts?

Totally not a genocide. No way, uhuh.

/s