I would like to refer to the ancient adage of “Skinfolk ain’t always kinfolk”. I would like to submit this picture in particular as the photograph in its dictionary entry. All in favor?

The way I see it, Senator Colom has just lifted a terrible curse. He, and everyone who carried him to this triumph, gets their drinks on me if I ever meet them.

HELL YEAH!!!

SearXNG is a little tricky to set up, but worthwhile. If you’re lazy, I trust DDG over Brave any day of the week.

Yeah, it looks cool. As a concept. If it were just a design in a video game, I’d just shrug.

But it literally is the worst truck ever, made by one of the most evil men ever. Good fucking riddance.

It looks pretty bulky, but compared to the data centers necessary to run engines like Google or Bing, it’s decimal-est search has ever been.

Tanya Chutkan, back at it again with the banhammer!

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Exactly. Conservation of energy being a thing, this would metabolically be a net loss for me. Even if I ate my own egg every morning, I would still need a consistent source of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorous to keep my bones from turning into styrofoam.

I was on a sailing ship trying to deliver a very important package. For some reason, a wooden tall ship was the only ship that would work for this specific task.

There was a talking chicken in the crow’s nest named Winona who informed me that she got the job because chickens don’t get seasick.

… and apparently, according to a chicken-keeper on c/NoStupidQuestions, that’s actually quite plausible.

I was 20 minutes late to work once. Boss gave me a freebie when I told her that I was playing crossing guard for a family of ducks crossing the road.

I’ve been fixing machines long enough to know I don’t want to. Flesh is weak, but flesh adapts. It also doesn’t get an internet connection, which means I get to sleep at night.

Edit: Thought about this a little more. I think a better frame for this question is whether or not you’re comfortable accepting the flaws and limitations inherent in our bodies as they are. Obviously I, as an able-bodied person, am more comfortable accepting that my body isn’t perfect. Someone with significant disabilities wouldn’t hesitate to fix what causes them pain, discomfort, or applies cruel limits to the life they want to live.

I can accept that other people would choose to change, and their reasons are their own. I have no right to force them to accept a body that they hate, for the same reason no one should force me to accept a body that I hate. The Deaf community has had years and years to debate the ethics of cochlear implants, and their impact on their community’s cultural values. I’m not Deaf, just a little HoH, but I try to pay attention to what they’re talking about for reasons like this.

But as a trans person, I can accept that my body isn’t ideal. There are things I would happily change, for the sake of personal comfort. But having put a great deal of thought into it, I would be much happier to live in a society that understood and respected how I perceive myself, and how I want to be perceived. It would render the desire for those aesthetic changes a point of preference, rather than emotional necessity. An accepting culture has been better for my dysphoria than an acceptable body.

It is a complicated philosophical question. I think the right answer is that people should have the freedom to make that choice, and it shouldn’t be mandatory, dangerous, or open a path to exploitation.

Besides, boondoggle is fun. Some of those patterns are wild af.

This was the ELI5 version, and admittedly, network security isn’t my strong suit. Thank you for the correction.

Okay, the other comment was actually pretty funny. But this one’s a serious answer.

Transport Layer Security protocol is a way to share secrets. Basically, it’s the lock on your airport luggage. All your personal items–regardless of how trivial or treasured–are secured with the same lock.

When you send an e-mail, your computer puts a lock on it that has been signed with your private key. It’s sent to a recipient, who can unlock it with their own key. There’s a complicated exchange of keys and ciphers called a ‘handshake’ that happens when a website is loaded on your computer, or an e-mail is received. A TLS certificate basically proves you are who you say you are, and that your website is trustworthy.

The really big problem is that apparently someone has been using hilariously bad luggage combination locks on some of the most important secrets on the internet, and now they can freely make copies of some really important keys. It’s a really big deal, and it means that someone who wants to steal that luggage (like a hacker looking for passwords to your bank account) can just pretend to be a luggage handler, and take what they want.

It’s a preference, sometimes for health reasons. Why would I be mad that they don’t like coffee? Or tea? As long as I have something in my cupboard for them to drink when they visit, I’m good.

You’re chill, man. Keep on keepin’ on.

Treasure Planet.

It’s probably a good thing that Disney’s forgotten about it. I don’t wanna see them try to remake it.