StringJunky

It's real enough. Just look at the spec of a modern tv. Our dear respective governments conceived of Fallen Angel around 2017, which was an exercise in remotely accessing and controlling smart tv's. The brave insider who shared this is now doing 40 years for treasonous acts in the US. The actual outcome of the exercise, is irrelevant in my eyes, as it clearly demonstrates our governments have the proactive intent to undermine whatever privacy we have left.

Some TVs have 5 or more microphones in them, listening for keywords. Ditto other devices.

He'd sell his kids if he thought it was worth it.

Apparently so, reading later, it seems people who challenge these types of judgements pay interest from the day after the court case. He can't use campaign funds on this either because it's not a political matter.

Leave the battery out of the device overnight. AFAIK ip addresses are only temporary and if your device is absent from the internet for long enough, it will be assigned a new ip.

Trump's down for another judgement of $350m-ish. The judgement summary:

Heroic... no less. Vladimir Kara-Murza will not be far behind, I think. He's had the poison treatment as well. People like these humble me.

Embedded in that idea, is all the associated waste that we can't afford ecologically.

It's that very poison that actually animates the MAGAs. Most people would turn away.

"It's not rocket science - it's much more difficult" goes one of the inside jokes. The link gives a run-through of the chip making process and issues. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-chip-production-why-hard-to-make-semiconductors/

Hopefully, people are forewarned after learning the historical antics of the FAANG founding CEO's and how they got where they are. I have read recently that, collectively, Western-cultured minds are not naturally tuned to the demands, complexity and intensity of large scale chip manufacturing. We don't seem to do precision and conformity as a form of cultural second nature, like the Eastern Asians. They are doing this stuff today, and not us, for a reason, methinks.

Each individual fertilization event is unique and each pollen spore will provide its own genetics. A dozen different pollen varieties on a single tree will produce that many types of crosses.

The operative word is some, like us here, but in my everyday life it is very much the exception, it seems. I think most people don't shift beyond a certain age. I think part of it is due to hubris and boredom in thinking they've "Seen it all" and therefore switch off to new concepts. If you don't look for new things, the world will appear to stay the same.

Never seen these before: ice flowers in Norway.

There is truth in this. When the 20-30 somethings sound like aliens, it's probably time to get out of the way.

Here we say "Northerly, Westerly, Easterly, Southerly". The convention seems to name them where they come from i.e. the source.

The actual subjects are 81 and 77 years old; Biden and Trump.

The oldies are on the warpath. We are talking about octagenarian level here.

I'm 62 in a few days. I'm about 50 in my profile pick... forever young. It should be noted that those protected characteristics cannot affect ones ability to do a job, but advancing age can and does.

Oui. If an OAP expert wants to carry on they can be consultants rather than executives. And it can all go into oblivion with cognitive decline. I've been close to someone's parent not too long ago with Alzheimer's. It means nothing if it's not accessible anymore.

That looks like a conjugation of two oxymorons.

Regardless of the state of Biden, Trump must be avoided. But we can't ignore the impression he's going on Diane Feinstein's trajectory.

There's physical competencies as well. Slow is slow and that could impact on response times if the pres needs to be elsewhere in short order for a critical situation. Stubbornness to ones reality at this level is not desirable. Just spotted this:

Per a comment @iNow made: Rather like not being able to hear a particular musical note. Your brain just joins the ends in the gap of the musical scale together and carries on oblivious. Your brain papers over the sensory gaps.

I would agree that GOP do it more often, but I have read here and there that the Dems aren't averse to it.