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This is at least in large part how the locking down of smartphones began. People either weren’t around yet or don’t remember how much of a wild west smartphones were for malware, scams, etc. when they first reached mass market uptake. There was a while there where companies were blocking smartphones from their networks because of the security risks.

It took Apple and their closely integrated/walled garden approach and insistence to sway the perception. And that’s what other manufacturers then decided to emulate.

I think that the nukes did certainly affect Hirohito’s willingness to accept a surrender, together with the Soviet attack on Manchuria. There is little evidence to suggest though that it was the population’s sudden lack of support for the war effort or an attempted revolution that forced Hirohito’s hand. As such I don’t think we can even consider the nuclear bombings to have had much effect on the population, which is generally the point of terror bombings - to break the population’s resolve and force them to depose of their leadership.

Terror bombings don’t work full stop. Even the nuking of Japan didn’t result in the populace giving up, and there’s ample evidence to suggest that it was at the very least the combined threat of the Russians shifting focus to the eastern theatre as well as the nukes that caused Japanese high command to conclude that their current losses would be infeasible to sustain. And even that wasn’t without internal controversy and disagreement.

I can see absolutely no way this could not go wrong.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/ I presume? Looks like fun, thanks for the suggestion.

I will gladly sacrifice my sanity to play that. Sounds like a ton of fun tbh.

The trusting one is very clearly an invitation by one of our cats to rub her belly. In fact, if she flops over like that and you don’t rub her belly right away she will vocally object to your inaction.

Her favourite belly rubs are extended both-hands affairs, and she demands them just about every morning.

Yeah, you’re right. I was looking at the fin layout, but forgot to check the mounting system.

Your pixels to text capabilities are clearly superior to mine. I stand corrected.

I am 90% sure this is an Intel system judging by the cooler.

This is a great idea.

I’m using Thunderbird with IMAP to my own email server for my new email, but I can totally see something like that working to make the transition work. Thanks!

It does, but that still means Google has access to all my accounts related email until I move everything over. I suppose it’s a good backstop though, thanks for the tip :-)

This would be me if only there was some way to easily determine where I have used my @gmail address in the past 20 years. I have already set up another address that I own myself and have moved a bunch of stuff over, but I don’t want to lose access to the rest of my accounts tied to my Gmail address.

Although I suppose I could go through my Keepass and list all logins that use my gmail, then chip away at that…

Always upvote RATM. If only people actually woke up when they first started yelling at us to Wake Up, we could’ve avoided the current mess.

Holy shit this is hard to read, what a grotesque dystopia the US has become.
I am at a loss for words to describe just how completely fucked this situation is.