'We are taking immediate action to remove this hotel from our systems. Hilton is β and has always been β a welcoming place for all,' Hilton said in a statement.
Everyone has limited resources for thinking and decision making. It's rooted in the biology of being a live, organic human.
So to an extent, our biology wants to have easy answers that require no thinking. All day, we have to think and make decisions that are much more immediate or important to us: gotta pick up the kid at school, gotta finish a work project (need the $$$), what can we do about the backed-up toilet, et al.
This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.
In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.
Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.
The U.S.A. is now a rogue state. Remaining reasonable gov'ts need to work together to isolate the madness- all trade should be stopped. Forget tariffs, it's time for sanctions.
UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow - theregister.com/2026/01/06/uk_β¦ should have been done 10 years ago at least....
βIntersex people are individuals with sex characteristics which do not fit the typical binary views of male or female bodies... Consequently, many people, like the author, only find out later in life or not at all that they are intersex.β- Lexi Breen, Gender diversity in individuals with intersex variations
My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.
This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.
You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.
If I ever travel outside the US again, before I get on the return flight, I'll wipe my phone, since I have a nice backup on the cloud, go through customs, and then restore.
... that's if I'm allowed back in the States again. You know ... because ... reasons ...
@GayDeceiver you might want to watch this video first. Better solution would be to purchase a cheap handset specifically for travel with minimal data.
The authorities already have the ability to retrieve deleted data, and routinely ask individuals to explain why theyβve recently deleted large amounts of information from their [own] devices.
In this respect, the US has already reached Russia's level: you cannot travel there without fearing that you will be accused of some random crime or arbitrarily detained.
Microsoft renamed the whole Office suite to Copilot. π€£
Please bear in mind that calling "AI" output "slop" makes Satya Nadella sad. Under no circumstances should you call their office suite "Microslop Slopilot". That would just be mean and you're better than that.
*) Copilot might not be your favorite app.
Edit: Apparently they only renamed the "Microsoft 365 hub app" to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app". Whatever the hell that means. Sloppy branding, eh?
I agree with your points here, but a correction. This isn't a rename of the Office suite, just the Microsoft 365 Office application, which is standalone and a wrapper for the web suite of apps.
If you'd asked me back in October about this one, I would've said one of the best written Sunset Shimmer meets Twilight stories, but still just another one of those stories, but its really hit its stride. Not only is Sunset much better written than canon, not just the arrogant student of Princess Celestia who dove through a mirror into another dimension when she didn't get what she wanted, this one is a teenager with what that brings, angry about the Princess not being her real mom, and as we see about when this really starts getting good, an inferiority complex. Yes, this Sunset is a real person, one that runs into Twilight, and realizes that the system is failing her. When she asks a Professor for help getting Twilight into Celestia's school, its pass admission day, and Twilight is too young, the Professor puts a price on his sponsoring her, Sunset will have to be her official mentor. She's been teaching Twilight and Moondancer, but make that official? She does decide to do it, but struggles with the choice. Things really got good in the last chapter, canon Twilight hatches a dragon egg, something the fandom has generally assumed was an impossible task to see how the student handles failure, here that's unquestionably the case as Twilight examines the egg and realizes its a rock. When she points this out, she's told she wasn't brought here to identify it, but to hatch it, that's the test. Could you be more blatant? And umm,
Click to open/closeshe hatches it and gets her cutie mark, one slightly different from the show.
Yeah, this one is looking real interesting, assuming the author keeps this quality up, I have to wonder where they're going, will this just go on for the entire show, stop at some point only for there to be another story, or...? Seriously, if you like Sunset or young Twilight, you really need to read this one.
While I'm here, let me point out another good one, Twilight's Me Time. Originally a one off, the fans demanded it continue, so it has. Nothing real deep here, SciTwi (EQG) decides since she's board, she'll spend summer break with Princess Twilight in Equestria. Two nerds that have a habit of experimenting first and thinking second, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah, this is just a silly thing, easy reading, but definitely a fun read.
@Andrew Pam Yeah, up until she decided to help Twilight get into school, it was a good Sunset meets Twilight story that I'd read and forget about when it was done, but after that its pretty much guaranteed a slot as long as the author doesn't fall flat on their face.
And thanks for letting me know Twilight's Me Time was continued - I read the first chapter but hadn't noticed the continuation, so now it's on my tracking list.
@Andrew Pam Yeah, I stumbled on it on the front page a week or two after the second chapter was posted, and clicked because it made no sense that it was being featured again, and imagine my surprise to see it continuing.
I mean, if weβre going to get literal about it. Sausage derives from the Latin salsicus, which means βseasoned with saltβeverything and nothing, a Borgesian meta-concept that retreats as you approach it.
But to the legislators of the EU, a sausage can now have only one meaning: a cylindrical object containing meat
Never mind that cylindrical objects containing no meat have been marketed under names such as #Glamorgan sausage (selsig Morgannwg) for at least 150 years
Never mind that even Germans once felt the need to call animal sausages #mettwurst, to distinguish them from other kinds
Never mind that almost everyone knows what βveggie sausageβ, βvegan sausageβ or βplant-based sausageβ mean
A recent survey of 20,000 Dutch people found that 96% are not confused by such terms, which is probably a higher percentage than those who can readily distinguish left from right. The #consumer must at all costs be protected from an imaginary threat.
European legislators may ban plant-based products from using the name to prevent βconfusionβ. Just donβt mention beef tomatoes or buffalo wings, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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in reply to Mr. Funk E. Dude • • •Everyone has limited resources for thinking and decision making. It's rooted in the biology of being a live, organic human.
So to an extent, our biology wants to have easy answers that require no thinking. All day, we have to think and make decisions that are much more immediate or important to us: gotta pick up the kid at school, gotta finish a work project (need the $$$), what can we do about the backed-up toilet, et al.
Life is complicated!
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