Black Lives Matter may have peaked in 2020, but it started in 2013 and held many major protests in the mid-to-late 2010s (that’s why it was able to be so big in 2020: the organizational roots were already well-established in numerous cities across the country). The Wikipedia article on the movement does a thorough job exploring its history, which I’d highly encourage anyone unfamiliar with pre-2020 BLM to explore.

“More than 10 years old”

As in when the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum and nationwide attention?

It’s not America’s fault that Australia has no frickin idea how to properly size its states

I was wondering where the animal abuse charges were in all this.

Or simply use a Ziploc bag. Or a reusable resealable bag. Or a chip clip. Or a piece of tape.

Who is Carl and why does he suck so bad?

Besides the fact that this exact story had been posted multiple times when it was actually breaking…?

How did you miss the Great Salt Lake / Dead Sea parallels???

Okay but like, search is really bad now. Beyond just “welp, a bunch of bad actors figured out SEO, nothing we can do about that!” bad. At this point I wouldn’t discredit the idea that it’s something Google’s intentionally doing.

Here’s an actual photograph you can use for this thread, instead of that cgi/ai slop monstrosity

Tariffs have reduced exports, particularly to Canada, which was the largest foreign buyer of American wine.

Uh sure, it was the tariffs, and not the widespread Canadian boycott of American alcohol.

This article is from almost two weeks ago.

I’ve been using “Simple OSM Viewer” (on Android). Is there a reason for me to switch over?

Tbh I’m a bit overwhelmed by how many OpenStreetMap-related apps there are.

Not mentioned in the article: 20- and 30-somethings are broke, and a night out is crazy expensive now. Plus legal weed is waaaay cheaper than alcohol.

MFers read Speaker for the Dead and didn’t get that Jane was an annoying little shit.

(Haha just kidding, AI bros can’t read.)

Why does the girl have a Klingon forehead growing out of the crown of her head?

This is a ridiculous YSK. They recalled a fraction of a percentage of all meat sold in the US, and it was all from a specific supplier.

Corrected!

Actually Star Trek: Lower Decks covers the issue of using AI for nefarious purposes. In the series finale, an enemy Klingon superimposes video of a Starfleet admiral over herself making a message ordering the handover of a Klingon asylum seeker (second-in-command smells something fishy and hides the asylum seeker, until the video is confirmed a fake). Then in the comic Shaxs’ Worst Day, the head security officer, Shaxs, uses the holodeck to recreate the bridge of a ship he just commandeered to pretend to be the captain he just killed while communicating with evil universe Starfleet command.

It should be noted that Lower Decks was made in the last decade, and not only incorporates a lot of contemporary social/technological issues and concerns, but also is a comedic reflection on the Star Trek franchise, and freely calls out things that have made fans go “huh?”

I always enjoy seeing these. Why do they inevitably get so many downvotes?