@ai6yr I have my Alexa bugging device on a timer. When I need it I turn it on; 30 minutes later its power gets cut. No evesdropping and no power usage.

@Lazarou LOL true on the supervillain trying to make the movie. Here's a great Bond plot:

Nefarious billionaire villain, who jets around the world and has a giant yacht, has started to place surveillance devices in every home in the world (calls it "The Echo Network"), as well as cameras […]

Rarely are we going to see big wins. And as I said, those of us fighting today for pluralistic constitutional democracy in the U.S. today are not likely to live to see our side prevail. So we aren’t going to be energized and refreshed by big victories. We therefore have to energize and refresh […]

@mgerdts @ai6yr Oh my god I was not aware of that

@ai6yr This is ancient but do you remember the writing store “Pen Island? Their domain was penisland.com

Here's the pretend RV scene I'd like to re-enact (one I witnessed at a campsite):

(Two women arguing, man standing nearby. SCREAMING ensues. Entire campsite wakes up and tries to figure out what happened)

One woman: "YOU SLEPT WITH MY HUSBAND! HOW COULD YOU?!?! I LET YOU STAY HERE WITH ME!" […]

I think the MOVE bombing isn't as well remembered as it should be partly because it's so over-the-top crazy that people brush it off as something where "there must be more to it than that". But no. The police department literally used a helicopter to drop an incendiary bomb on a row house in […]