I think the grandparent comment’s poorly articulated point is that 911 is for emergencies involving an immediate risk of death. It’s better to call the non-emergency number for the local police department to report crimes that have already occurred because the phone system will prioritize the calls differently.
Also get a gun. That’s a no-brainer in this kind of situation.
I’m pretty pro-gun and absolutely in favor of armed self defense. This is not good advice.
We don’t know enough about this person’s temperament to say whether she would be psychologically able to shoot someone. OP’s description suggests she might not. Sometimes people unsuccessfully try to use guns for intimidation and end up disarmed by their assailant. There’s also the matter of proficiency; we can’t assume she knows how to use a gun safely and effectively. The costs of instruction and practice ammunition add up, on top of the cost of a firearm.
Some people in this situation should get a gun, and it’s something I would encourage OP’s friend to think about, but it absolutely isn’t a no-brainer.
The charitable version is that when PCs (I’ll include the Macintosh in that category) were the dominant way people used computers, the average person struggled to use them effectively, often misconfiguring them or installing malware. I had hoped the fact that pretty much everyone born after the mid 1980s grew up with computers would help, but it didn’t.
Mobile OS makers wanted to create systems that were harder to break so people wouldn’t have be stuck with devices they couldn’t use or expose their data to criminals. They did so in part by limiting the feature set. Vanilla Android won’t connect to ad-hoc wifi networks despite huge user demand on their bug tracker. Google locked the issue without explanation.
I’ll admit I haven’t really thought about installing Fonts on Android despite my eagerness to customize it in other ways (I have root on all my devices). None of the things I do with an Android device require it, and heavily customizing the look and feel of the OS doesn’t interest me.
Not using a derivative of Scheme as originally planned was a mistake.
Google RCS, which is effectively just another proprietary internet messaging app despite being based on a standard at least claims to use end-to-end encryption, and is probably more resistant to mass surveillance than SMS. If those are your options, Google RCS is an upgrade.
Spending too much time at the altar of Dionysus leads to unwise decisions.
I hadn’t heard of the WAN show before this comment. I learned about puffery as a kid when my parents were shopping for a car and I was very excited to inform them I had just heard on the radio that a specific dealership was the best.
This is marketing puffery. It’s an imprecise claim about the product’s goodness that cannot be objectively tested.
The difference I’ve noticed is that average people memorize how to accomplish their tasks with software and savvy people look for something that will accomplish their task.
It’s not unique to Xitter. Facebook has been deprioritizing posts with links in them for a while.
A person is smart. People, not so much.
There are good reasons to be concerned about Gabbard, including her ties to Russia and her meeting with Assad.
Tripping some TSA algorithm isn’t one of them.
I’ve been using Maddy for about a year. It’s easy to set up and has been trouble free.
Here’s an explanation from the Associated Press. The penalty is usually a fine, which impacts stockholders by making the stock less valuable and could lead them to remove board members or demand the termination of executives. It’s rarely used, but there is a corporate death penalty.
With a couple niche exceptions, AI hasn’t started making money. What it has done is attract venture capital investment.
Venture capitalists are driven by a fear of missing out on the next big thing. A billion dollar score pays for a thousand bad million dollar bets, and AI that lives up to the hype could be worth trillions. This is also why every existing tech company is scrambling to add an AI thing to its products even where it makes no sense.
Threatening political retribution against senators for voting against their party is generally not illegal in the USA.
he deserves the team around him that he wants. It’s not up to us to determine that.
It absolutely is up to the senate to determine that. The constitution says so.
Probably not. US international relations is heavily driven by an amoral power calculus.
Israel is a major foil to Iran. Iran is an ally of Russia and China and a threat to US interests in the region. Barring an extreme amount of pressure from constituents, which has not reached that threshold as far as I can tell, most US politicians will tolerate almost any human rights abuse from Israel.
Attempts to implement communism at the scale of a nation state have always involved significant concentration of power. It may be impossible to do otherwise.
Power corrupts, and concentrations of power attract the corrupt.