If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table.

I think the cool kids today buy commercial “displays” (used for things like advertising in retail areas). They don’t have smart functions. They don’t connect to the internet. There’s no tuner. You’d have to bring your own antenna, media player, HTPC, whatever to send it content, but it’s 100% under your control.

The other option is a computer display - there are pretty large ones that act the same (probably just a commercial display in a different box for a different market). The prices weren’t historically that high if you didn’t need absurdly high resolution and refresh rates (gamer stats - irrelevant for general tv watching).

I haven’t tracked any specific brands for years so can’t give a specific recommendation, but I’d suggest looking for second hand. If a store goes out of business their displays will be cheaper than anything you get directly from a distributor.

If that’s a dead end, you can still look at a bloated smart TV. Just don’t connect it to the internet, ever. Generally the same result as using a simple display, except the bundled remote will probably have a bunch of stupid buttons you’ll never use. My tv has a huge Netflix button and every time o accidentally press it I get a giant ad to buy Netflix 🙄

“There are fields, Gonzo, where people are no longer born. They are sewn.”

what’s missing?

An AI disclosure for your app per the community rules, Claude.

This post requires an AI disclosure per the community rules.

The article does a clumsy job of explaining that different yeasts impart different flavours in beer, thus the random mentions of hops are because a novel yeast strain can achieve a beverage that has a neat taste without relying on imported hops (frequently from Washington).

Fun fact: a beer brewed without hops is not beer. It is called gruit (which is also the name of the bittering mix brewers used to use before hops became standard). And much like the champagne joke, a beer brewed by a homebrewer without using hops isn’t called beer, it’s called sparkling disappointment.

Before you get your next tattoo, just double check that it’s not more than “just a cool looking skull”.

You can’t control it. That’s the answer.

You should worry about the decisions you make every day that might hasten your death (or make it really horrible), but that’s where your influence ends.

lol Sweden. “Fuck everyone”

I used to have a neighbour that would wash his driveway on a weekly basis. It was coated asphalt. It wasn’t “nice”. Nor was it ever dirty. Oh, but it had a giant ugly orange traffic cone at the end to deter people from pulling in and turning around.

I used to constantly fight with two different relatives because they insisted on putting all their yard trimmings into a paper bag before putting them in the giant rolling bin. That gets tipped into the truck on collection day. Why? “So the can doesn’t get dirty.” I don’t understand why a GARBAGE CAN that SITS OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME ever needs to be kept pristine ON THE INSIDE.

People like to create work for themselves that I will never understand. I’m certain I do the same thing and leave people shaking their heads.

I’m laughing at the city planner that meticulously set all this up in anticipation of the courts being so wildly popular they required a booking system.

All that work and they’re sitting mostly unused.

That’s when you reply and fixate on completely the wrong part of the thread. Teach them for not setting the right context.

Eldritch horrors, get off my lawn!

Shut up, Mark.

A tale as old as written language, surely.

I went to the first one and didn’t enjoy myself. Saw the assholes are now cops and most of the self-proclaimed cool kids were now shilling one MLM or another. Everyone still hung out in the same groups they did in high school. They held a moment of silence for the popular dickhead who got drunk and drowned in a river after high school.

My uncle once wrapped his car around a telephone pole because an orange fell off the seat and he was trying to pick it up.

I feel like there’s a clever fruit/apple/iphone joke in there somewhere but I can’t find it and I give up.

LinkedIn has never been known for having any sort of intelligence.

I count 231 vehicles and the video ends before the line does.

You can get away with changing it once a year as long as you rotate it every few months.