What about a seabird? Albatross would probably be the pick for travel, gannet for extensive swimming.

Animal-wise, something simple with slow lifestyle. Man, I just want to chill and be left alone. Maybe a swimming sea cucumber, because echinoderms are cool and wide-open expanses of deep sea are cool.

There might be some kind of human equivalent, depending on the rules of how souls work in this hypothetical.

What alternatives, you assholes?

I did say “at present”.

You can install LineageOS (assuming you have a reflashable piece of hardware) and run it in airplane mode, it’s true, although that itself is slowly getting more difficult as everything gets app-ified. Just doing stuff the boomer way is easier in practice, in my experience - which, again, is at present.

If we’re allowed completely changing the way the telecom and tech sectors operate ahead of time, yeah, I guess we can get rid of physical signs and just look at the world through our phone screens. That’s obviously a taller order than adding a single regulation, though.

Smartphones at present are small surveillance devices vaguely dressed up as a tool. That medicine is far worse then the disease. I’m going to say at least a very plain description and open/closed signs need to be up.

Las Vegas wouldn’t be the same without all the lights. Where I live there’s a limit to one moderately-sized sandwich board, and I quite like it. Somewhere else they might want totally bare streets. All could be accommodated.

Or just allow on a whitelist-only basis.

Sure, a sandwich board outside your restaurant seems nice, but it seems like the actually-socially-useful examples are few enough that you could get through them all no problem.

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AFAIK meteors come with a velocity spread of about a digit, which translates to a couple digits of energy, and then back to a single digit of blast radius. In Siberia that’s a nothingburger all around.

Also, the headline did say “massive”.

Yeah, I’m sure more state propaganda requirements will make young people less doomer. /s

So, basically they’re just calling everyone else out of touch?

A 27-inch asteroid

Shameless clickbait headline.

That’s pretty much what the parliamentarians are saying, it sounds like.

Yes, it sure is. In geopolitics there’s no actual binding rules, just threats and relationships.

BBC is now reporting that the cabinet has lifted the martial law, which I assume means the immediate threat is over, without knowing how South Korean constitutional procedures work. There’s still a damn lot of “pieces to pick up”, though.

By what measure of disapproval? Not all Mexican immigrants are ready to rise up either.

(And it’s only ~0.5% in Canada)

Jesus Christ.

Edit: Okay, he said he’s going to withdraw it, like he’s supposed to when the parliament votes for it, but this is such a whirlwind I have to expect the unexpected.

Uhh, I just read the summery. A moment.

Wat.

Well, glad it didn’t work.

Dope. Not the call center gangs, but the internet getting places where people try to stop it.

I had heard of it way back when, and basically thought it was going to be another dead OSS project. Years later Reddit was enshittifying and to my surprise it came back as the main alternative. Now I’m here and not leaving.