A fellow Ultron user in the wild, #1 hacker and cyber-thief browser on the web. How’s your Adobe Reader?

Great, thank you for your research but do you have any audiophile jazz salt?

Seems like the kind of thing a person does when they understand technology well enough to use it badly but don’t recognize that it’s ineffective against anyone willing to type “enable right click” into their search engine of choice.

How much do you want to bet that they didn’t write the JavaScript for that message and it’s just been copied and edited? Probably even right-clicked to do it, the scalawag.

Now the ice cream is in a bowl but I’ve thrown out the package and taken out the trash. Can’t remember what I’m supposed to do with it next.

A member in VAG is great and all but if your quality control isn’t effective and you start slipping, pretty soon you’ll really be in the shit.

Your FSB handler must be the type to reward activity instead of efficacy. Hope that Kremlin monopoly money is worth it.

Everybody’s in here complaining but the app just wanted to show its user the rip in space and time it discovered just down the street.

“…and his small heart grew three sizes that day, to which his doctor responded that he was ‘astonishingly healthy’ and ‘the healthiest grinch ever’. Then he had a massive coronary brought on by decades of fast food and a sedentary lifestyle.”

Hope things go well and your friend is receptive to the message. It might not change the trajectory right away but at the very least, it’ll be something to encourage them to examine their habits. If your friend does seem to take it to heart but has a hard time cutting back, there’s a medication called naltrexone which may help reduce alcohol cravings. I’m just some internet guy though so that’s more of a conversation between them and their doctor, it’s something I didn’t know about before starting treatment but I think it was helpful. Carbonated (seltzer/sparkling) water was useful as a replacement for the alcoholic drinks in my case but if that brings to mind stuff they used to mix together, it may not be an ideal solution.

If they’ve been drinking heavily over a long period, there are also some risks associated with complete cessation so it couldn’t hurt to encourage them to schedule an appointment with their doctor anyway. I’d imagine that’s come up in your research already though.

I appreciate your input.

Least corrupt is a start, I’ll take it over some alternatives. Probably helps that our whistleblowers have a better than average survival/not-getting-disappeared rate and are often seen as heroes by the public. I don’t know what it’ll take to fix the rest of our issues, just hope to see a little less backsliding and more reasonable engagement while working out of this angsty teenager phase thing we’ve got going on.

“American” isn’t a race but the internet commenter love affair with shitting on the USA is kinda played out. We’re not perfect, sometimes we’re not even all that good but it takes a special kind of delusion to ignore our efforts to promote peace and stability over the past century or so.

An easy counterpoint would be things like forever wars in the Middle East, shady CIA bullshit pretty much anywhere they think they can get away with it and other agencies that probably know me more intimately than my proctologist. Generally, I’d agree that there’s a lack of effective oversight and some poor decision-making at play. There’s a lot of work to be done but our slow, drunken stumble is still moving toward a better future more often than not.

A very large group of people are just awful people.

It’s the sort of thing where the term seems like a 90% fit but I don’t know if there’s one that’s more specific. Something like a confirm-threat but a very minor one.

Might be in a different (though closely related) category but this brings to mind confirmshaming.

Have you tried walking into your software’s users’ homes to clear away empty plates and refill their water?

https://piped.video/watch?v=I94w30LszoQ

It’s okay though, you can just clean it up by putting them in “New Folder (3)” and moving it to your other hard drive that you swear you’ll sort through one of these days months years. The creation/modification date should be enough information to clue you in on what’s inside without opening the file and looking, right?

There’s a finer screen that isn’t very easy to see in the thumbnail.