Hard to say. I expect its more likely that you’re right than wrong, but that’s not to say it’s definitely that way.

So I’m not 100% certain this is how it would act, but them having a separate chip for screenshots - like, what does that mean? So I see two possibilities: a hardware subsystem Frankensteined onto an existing phone; or a separate SOC that exists within the phone’s frame for monitoring.

For the Frankenstein’s version, it’d probably basically be a timer, minor image processing (to read the screen), and a small memory store (to keep data from screen caps). It’d probably route instructions through the phones CPU. I don’t know thats flashing your OS would prevent this from operating, but that’s where I’d start in trying to bypass it.

For the separate SOC, yeah you’re fucked. Maybe you can bust open the frame and remove it…lol, but good luck without the internet handy.

This is good to know.

Is that to say they run copy cat versions of major services on a national intranet (so as to make it appear comparable to the real internet)?

My thoughts go to flashing the OS. I only have experience with Pixel Devices flashed to Graphene, but options exist. From there, VPNs might be helpful.

But I’m not sure that’d be adequate, and it assumes you have access to gigabytes of internet connection already and (as pointed out by other commentors) probably wouldn’t get around network issues.

Ultimately, getting an outside device with satellite connection is an easier route.

Ugh, just wish it was someone more…ideologically agreeable…that was making this kind of statement.

Much appreciated.

So I’m using the Voyager App.

At the top, I get the pic, then post title, then a one line description “body of the article” of how there’s a quasar expanding some 13x normal speed.

That’s way too sparse of details for me to take with any seriousness and I’d really like to read more.

Are you saying yours shows with more info than that?

No idea. OP appear to be a cool space pic and a claim about cosmic events.

Link to an article?

Makes sense, but couple clarifying questions:

By “ending careers for working with Obama”, you mean the people mostly left over from Bill Clinton’s time as president were threatening people within the Democratic party to not work with Obama?

Obama, rightfully pissed off made a stupid decision and allowed the neoliberals to hang onto the DNC.

Wait so, he was so mad at them that he…let them keep power? That doesn’t make sense. Can you shed any light on why he’d do that?

Man, that Victory Fund sounds corrupt as hell. Thanks for explaining things I was too immature/politically ignorant to pay attention to back in the day.

if you didn’t play ball they bankrupted your entire state and let Republicans take it to punish you and set an example to get there states.

I don’t think I follow the logic on this, most probably because I’m not sure which funds / fund pools you’re referring to.

Could you explain what you mean a bit more ELI5 level?

I actually prefer to microdit.

Eh, gonna have to soft disagree.

Its got a lot of those same elements, but you have a character that is only at one spot at a time, and so that limits how elective you can be at the expansion part.

That said, it is also not a typical RPG where you have just a character adventuring across the land. Really unique game in that its a bridge between those two broad genres.

Its honestly a very small facet of the game, and more so used to bootstrap your company/Army’s finances until you gain lordship of towns and cities (and thus collect rents).

But to try to explain how it comes together anyway:
So towns specialize in producing a single type of raw resource (grain, ore, grapes, sheep, etc) and they sell those goods mainly to a single city. A city will have 2-4 towns “feeding” it resources, and so if a city has 3 towns that bring it grain, then you’d expect the grain price to be cheaper than in a city who’s towns produce ore.

Next level, if you have two neighboring towns one producing ore and one with grain, chances are there will be a stable (and relatively low) grain price in both with reasonably high population (pop growth is primarily boosted by excess food). Imagine now an enemy army rolls up and burns all the grain towns and seiges the grain city (traders can’t enter a sieged city). After a week, this would lead to MUCH less grain in the ore city, thus prices spike.

So you, an enterprising new player with a dozen men and some spare horses, load up with cheap grain from somewhere else on the map and make a run to the ore city, selling grain at an inflated price.

Again, this general strat is good for bootstrapping the money to build a medium warband, but generally falls away as a viable source of income once you leave there early game.

Link for the lazy

You wanna look under Retirement Under FERS > Retirement with a deferred, full pension

Edit: god that document is a pain in the ass to read and comprehend. Looks like it was designed to answer specific questions (vs getting a holistic view of the retirement program)

Huh, and these experts get paid? And I assume good money too, yeah?

Hell, I can make assessments like this! Where to I apply?

Which OS / app is this for?

"Yeah Facebook, I’d like to report this post.

Reason: I’m in it and don’t like it"

It appears to be a widely circulated fan art, appearing on her page of the Fandom Wiki (though Tetsuya Nomura may be an official artist for FFX).

Point is that its accredited to an artist, so it would seem the missing teeth was intentional?

Oh, I thought this was going to be about the trading cards they implemented in steam. Those are so lame and cheap I wasn’t bothered by this.

For any non-readers-of-articles, this is about a loot box mechanic added to counterstrike (which is fair criticism imho)

So that says to me there was a worse economic downturn for farmers in mid 70’s.

I know there was a bunch of junk with oil at the time. Is that what the downturn was about or was there something else happening at that time to beat on farmers specifically? Any history buffs with the inside scoop care to share?