A lot of these videos are clip farmed “backgrounds” with content from the brainy-rotty-er sections of Reddit.

They’re meant to be “cheap” low effort content to get you to watch and eke out some monetization made profitable by quantity over quality.

Bulgaria is in South America, right? It’s like, the tip, right?

(/s, if it wasn’t obvious.)

your bank’s security leaves you exposed to attacks via social engineering.

Confirming someone’s identity over the phone is almost impossible to do these days. security questions are, if you’re not giving false answers (or just random strings, etc), then someone who knows your entire life is able to just bluff their way through them. For most people, that kind of social engineering is difficult (they fail more than they succeed). But for someone like the freakng Pope… yeah. No. That information is out there and it’s easily found.

it’s actually a huge problem that a lot of “older” institutions have yet to fully grapple with, but this is now one of the most common forms of identity theft. there’s ways of getting around it, but that’s not going to something the first-line CS rep is going to be able to do.

It’s because he’s a VIP that they wanted him in person.

Think about.

How do you know that he’s really the pope? It’s a phone call. Maybe he has 28 character long randomized strings for secret questions, but maybe it’s actually his family’s dog’s name. The family dog he uses in a favorite homilies that everyone has heard before, and knows the name of.

Most of Pope Leo’s life is probably among the most researchable in the world right now. Most of the kinds of questions people answer is actually public info if you know where to look.

The answer is you don’t. At least not on the first call in.

Chances are it’s going to get escalated and a more senior team is going to get involved that can verify things and get it done.

But the bank CS rep was in fact protecting him, not screwing him over.

Tesla’s gonna kill some peeps.

I’m not sure ‘hoax’ is the word you want to use. I assume you’re referring to the Manchester Pusher?

The bodies are real, but it sounds like (after a quick search) the authorities blame accidents and such like.

keep in mind, if you’re falling into 3 feet of water, you’re more likely to be injured from hitting the bottom rather than jumping into deep water, and if you’re drunk or something, even if you’re not injured from the fall, you’re still likely to drown. you can drown in a puddle if you pass out with your face down in it.

Both, and I’m not sure I have a hard and fast rule saying when one over the other. It’s probably some sort of soft rule I’m totally unaware of.

But both are correct. (though Nitch is more american and Neesh is more british.)

“Due to tidal forces”

Because, the moon (and maybe the sun, and other planets like Jupiter) are acting on it, yeah?

The earth won’t stop spinning. What’s happening is that the moon’s gravity is slowing the earth’s spin as it drags our oceans towards it.

Once our day is the same as the moon’s orbital period, then the tide will essentially be fixed, which means it’s no longer slowing us down.

And all that energy, for the record, is going into the moon and expanding its orbit slightly.

The problem comes to who’s at fault?

Is it the passenger riding? The car itself? The company that programmed it? The owner?

Personally, I agree, robotaxis should be yeeted out of existence if they can’t abide traffic laws- but a lot of them are being operated privately too.

They should’ve not been permitted at all until these questions were answered, and corporations should not have been allowed to comment.

The good news is there is almost certainly life out there.

Maybe even closer than we realize. (Potentially on Europa, for example.)

step one: don’t be home.

physics is a bitch.

Voyager 1 is likely going to be the first probe of human make to pass close to another star (“Close” means a closest approach of 1.7 lightyears, roughly), Voyager one is headed towards Glease 445. That journey will take roughly 40,000 years, and it won’t have the power to slow down as would be needed. It would require considerably more fuel to make a helocentric insertion.

Sure, it’s possible some more advanced probe is going to come along and ‘get there’ first. but whatever.

The kind of delta-v required for that would also be incredibly obvious. the platform coming from another star would be massive, and if the goal was to stick around, there is absolutely no place in space for it to hide. which means if they come, they’re not coming quietly.

(fun fact, the IRL counterpart to Star Trek’s warp drive is called the Alcubierre drive. It’s just theoretically possible. But, it’s not able to go FTL since it violates causality.)

(also fun fact… it’s quite the opposite. I’ve watched far too much star trek. and star wars. and farscape. and babylon 5 and sg1 and, uhm. lots of trashy b-rated stuff we’re not going to mention.)

Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t try to kill us. Options include:

1. it’s possible they have cultural reasons (genocidal xenophobia, paranoia.

2. they find us annoying

3. we’re just in the way.

4. they don’t even notice us and they’re xenoforming Earth.

5. they’d rather hang with the whales

One thing is certain, though. The only thing special about earth is the life it holds. (Not that it has life, just that that life is unique.) so if they do show up it’s almost certainly not going to be covertly.

Or they try to kill us.

But also possibly convert us.

Then try to kill us.

They don’t, actually.

The plastic on the handle is a thermoplastic. Every time you send it through the dishwasher, it loosens a bit each time. Eventually the handle will become a danger to use with no way to fix. Before that happens, small gaps form which will harbor bacteria.

Also the water spray causes them to bounce around and dull (or in the case of the OP’s ceramic, chip)

Finally, the harsh deferent used degrades the plastic. This won’t have any issues that’ll crop up before the first two become problematic, but it will cake the plastic to turn whitish

Basically, my parents agree with you and also wonder why my knives actually stay sharp.

In general, it’s considered less clear.

However context matters a lot, for example, if some one asks what you did today, they’re not going to get confused by “went to the store.” As an answer, they just assume you’re the subject.

It’s important to note that once in court to testify, they’re going to investigate anyone testifying.

Both the prosecution and the defense. Depending on whose witness they are, one would be investigating to make sure you’re credible and the other to hopefully find something to discredit that.

Further while vigilantism is not necessarily illegal on its own, it’s generally (almost always,) going to involve other crimes.

Vigilantes do not have privileged arrest powers, so at best one is going to have to either work a case (legally,) and then turn things over to cops, or do crime (best the shit/kill the bad guy and pray they got it right.)(they probably haven’t.)

This means that by the time a vigilante takes the stand; they’ve done crimes and even if the entire system lets you … you’re gonna get arrested.

The only way out of that is to get outed and get immunity.

All of that said, if you were a bystander and not necessarily involved, you might be able to testify as your identity and not alter ego. You would have to explain what you were doing there, though.

And you’ll still be investigated… and probably found out.

You’re missing the point.

I don’t care what YOU think he is.

It doesn’t matter what I think he is, either.

It does’t really matter what he actually is, if we’re being honest.

The only thing that matters is what HE thinks he is.

Seriously. If you wanna go back far enough, we’re all African. It’s only our own stupid little divisions floating through our heads that separates “us” from “them”, and Netanyahu certainly doesn’t see white people as part of “us”. You’re right about him also excluding others, as well. Doesn’t matter. He doesn’t see Ethiopian Jews as “us” anymore than he does white Americans.

He’s also an asshole, so fuck him all the way to The Hague.

Also an Ashkenazi Jewish.

which he’s not pushing for white supremacy, even if he likes certain white supremacists (but only so far as it gets him what he wants.)

What? You think racial supremacy is only a white-guy thing?