Yeah solar power is much more affordable these days. I live in a vehicle so I have a 500w panel on the roof charging a 200ah lithium battery. I only use a laptop and steam deck, but could easily upscale. The whole system, including the victron controllers & shunt and the 2k inverter came out around £700, but I’m pretty sure stuff has only got cheaper since I bought it. I have way more power than I need in summer, though there are maybe two months in winter when I have to charge everything in daylight. I could always add a small wind generator if I needed. Renewables are totally feasible these days

I guess also they have an eye print that will identify the scammer if they’re ever caught.

Give it another decade and we’ll be crouched naked and shivering in a puddle of piss, weeping and eating worms. While the rich fly high above in their private jets.

Doesn’t seem to have gone that way in Israel.

Yeah, when I had a heroin addiction it kind of used to piss me off when people would talk about addictions to porn and stuff. I’d think they had no idea what addiction really meant. Try going cold turkey from smack. But TBF even though maybe the word addiction doesn’t apply in the same way, it’s certainly true that any compulsive behaviour that’s detrimental to your life is a problem that needs help.

I dunno, I had a kobo many years ago, put an android launcher on there and could use it as an e-ink tablet. Don’t know if you can still do this, but it was pretty handy.

It would be the State of Pedo (Which actually is Spanish for ‘trump’)

Either that’s just a coincidence or we’re living in a simulation.

Oh yeah, I agree. I’m just saying that now that I’m later on in life I have a clearer idea of my interests and an actual desire to learn, as opposed to when I was of ‘university age’. Back then I was only into sex, drugs, and techno. The opportunity was wasted.

State funded adult education seems like a really sensible investment in the future. I’m in my 50s, never did a degree - wasn’t really interested when I was younger. But I’d love to have the opportunity to study now. Can’t afford it, though.

That. . . Is actually pretty interesting.

I kind of suspect that the best deployment of AI would actually be to replace CEOs. It can hardly make worse decisions, and it’s a huge cost saving.

It’s not. I’m in the UK, and ever since brexit (spits) I’ve wanted an EU passport. Pre brexit, I spent several years in European countries, had a home, a job, friends, etc. I’d intended to do it again later in life, and now I can’t. Different countries have varying levels of strictness in what they require, but it’s just not feasible for me.

Yeah, I thought windows was only free if you pirate it? Can’t imagine why someone would want to do that, but people are weird sometimes.

Anyone with relevant experience able to tell me what the kinda grey, silvery thing on the tray is? Maybe it could be fish, but I can’t see any scales? Looks kinda like a large, used condom.

Is there radiation between stars? I’m sure it’s cold tho.

And fweedum!

They should be tied in a sack with a cat, a monkey, and a goose, and the whole thing chucked in the river.

I think time and experience has proved Jesus right - priests should definitely cut off their bollocks.

Jeremy Clarkson rims goats. Fuckin tail-lifter.