When Thor is calling.

Absolutely Genius!

Rest assured, those bombs and missiles and drones will be used on other targets…

Whoever did this deserves to burn in hell.

Not a tornado, but I’ve been on the Autobahn once in rain so heavy that the wipers could not cope with it at the highest setting. Under every bridge crossing the Autobahn, bikers were parked on the hard shoulder. I left the Autobahn and parked for an hour before the torrents ended.

Not experienced personally when it happened, but…

There is that forest valley we pass through on our annual pilgrimage. We have to take a wooden bridge over a small brook there. That water is so small that pilgrims even crossed it by removing shoes and socks and wading through at a time the bridge was broken.

Five years ago, there were heavy rainfalls and flash floods in the area. At the point where that bridge was, the water ran 8m/26ft high. Imagine standing there and looking up the cliffs left and right where once were trees. The bridge has been replaced, but the valley definitely looks different.

In other words, the reasons and explanations were too difficult for the American envoy to grasp.

Of course they know. Do you think that was an accident? Whoever did that knew those things and did it on purpose.

In the US? You never know…

So why didn’t they keep him? They could have sent them back after doing time.

I don’t deny those problems existed. But in comparison to today’s situation on the net, they were basically irrelevant.

Kleptocracy.

I’ve been on USENET back then (I wrote software for it), and it was nothing like the Internet of today. The amount of spam was neglectable, and perpetraters were quickly taken care of. Spam started to be a problem with Sanford Wallace (may he fry in the deepest hell!), and that was an email issue.

And the “expert systems” from back then were not even close to modern LLMs. They used rather sparse resources (even the big ones), they were “hand-made”, single problem oriented, and did not even try to look intelligent in any way. And nobody shoved them down your throat at every corner. A typical “expert system” of the time was an OCR system or a statistical analysis software for optimization purposes.

Reform supporters for the most part aren’t fans of thinking.

Like GOP in the US, RN in France, AfD in Germany, etc. Right wingers everywhere love the stupid. Lack of education and understanding is the best fertilizer for fascism.

I’m not sure about the voters of Clacton. They had the chance to know how f-ed up Farage is, and they still voted him in. Which tells me that they have a majority consisting of idiots (who do not understand what Nigel Farage is doing) and assholes (who might understand what he is doing, but still vote for him).

USA strong in the debts.

The driver was probably “written” and “tested” by AI.

If it only did. Do you even know the Internet in the '90?

No ads, no spam, no AI. At least not at the beginning of the '90.

Thumbs up for the bird. Thumbs down for the idiot who “installed” them.