I know nothing about parrots, but you want a cat. A bird that sits in the corner and squawks occasionally is not affectionate or interesting, and intelligent is debatable. But a cat who will come curl up in your lap or who is amenable to snuggles pretty much at will is going to be much more comforting.
Honestly I use discord for this because of the more immediate responses when I'm feeling lonely. I'm in a couple of medium-sized communities that have members around the world so there's pretty much always someone on.
The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.
I've been a nerd since the 80s and I'll have you know I'm a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.
Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.
That's not patriotism, that's oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.
I dunno if you're old enough to remember the Cold War, but both sides having nukes definitely did not stop the US and Russia from fucking with each other, shooting down aircraft, bombing shit, and especially spying and sabotage. All it stopped is open warfare, but even then it's debatable since we had several proxy wars.
They wiped out multiple levels of leadership, nuclear sites, missile sites. This is not a warning, it’s the opening salvo of a full on existential total war.
Yes to military leadership - at least two high-ranking military leaders are known to have been killed in this strike so far and probably more will be announced soon - and maybe to the missile sites. But not so much to the nuclear sites: experts say damage there is limited.
That's twice now they've threatened to attack US bases and twice they haven't done it, this is starting to seem like a negotiating tactic rather than a threat.
What do you imagine 'destroying the web' looks like if not killing off huge swaths of websites that relied on traffic/ads to sustain themselves? Do you imagine a man has to bleed all the way out before we can say he's going to die, or is it sufficient to look at the severity of the wound to critical systems in his body and determine that he is probably going to die?
Yup, that's the trend I was gesturing at with my initial comment as well, that it's weird that a government-sponsored news source would use a headline that echoes that sentiment in Western media.
Don't make this out like it's some brilliant plan only a mustache-twirling villain could pull off; buying politicians is what oligarchs do, Musk just netted himself a bigger fish than most. He saw a rare opportunity to dribble some money on the king of all grifter politicians who is only interested in enriching himself and inflating his ego to get the things he wanted. But it's not clever or brilliant or genius, buying politicians is in fact rather pedestrian these days.
So let me get this straight, you're worried about giving the fascists who have shown zero compunction about lying and making shit up at literally every turn a justification for being fascists? They've been spinning non-issues into crises and fabricating bullshit whole-cloth the entire time, why do you imagine they care whether their reasons are legitimate or not? Do you think they would just stop being fascists if everybody was super chill? Someone else refuted that idea far more eloquently than I can::
Yeah, it could be, but these guys aren't looking to replace human workers with a robust, well-trained, and properly-deployed AI, they're looking to slash and burn their labor costs with whatever they think will squeak by.
I've used Amazon's AI live chat bots a fair bit over the years and I have to say they're actually pretty good. 90% of the time they can resolve the issue themselves (at least in my experience) and faster than it would take to connect to a person. But most people don't have Amazon's budget or customer service-oriented business model.
I know nothing about parrots, but you want a cat. A bird that sits in the corner and squawks occasionally is not affectionate or interesting, and intelligent is debatable. But a cat who will come curl up in your lap or who is amenable to snuggles pretty much at will is going to be much more comforting.