Forgive Steven, he has a very low verbal IQ. […] He just takes everything you say literally.
The author seems to be avoiding mentioning autism, but since they’re trying to reduce someone’s likelihood to interpret things literally as a function of IQ scores the author ends up stil referencing autism, just misrepresenting it.
It is common for autistic people to have a relatively high verbal IQ and relatively low non-verbal IQ, yet still have a tendency to interpret things literally. The cause isn’t IQ at all, it’s autism.
The carnage caused by Israeli bombings of Beirut was regularly highlighted on the nightly news, causing reactions within the Reagan administration that cut across the usual conservative-pragmatist divisions. The speechwriters were appalled; one of them, Landon Parvin, refused to write remarks for Reagan when Begin visited the White House for a chilly visit in June. On August 12, after Israeli planes had bombed Beirut for eleven consecutive hours, Deaver told Reagan he couldn’t continue to be part of “the killing of children” and intended to resign. Shultz and Clark had been sending similar signals to Reagan, albeit more diplomatically.
Reagan, also disgusted at the bombings, took the unusual step of calling Begin. “Menachem, this is a holocaust,” he told him.
In a voice that the aide who monitored the conversation said was “dripping with sarcasm,” Begin replied: “Mr. President, I think I know what a holocaust is.” But Reagan persisted. Begin called back twenty minutes later to say he had given the order to stop the bombings. After he hung up the phone, Reagan said to Deaver, “I didn’t know I had that kind of power.”
As Biden’s colleagues “grilled” Begin over Israel’s disproportionate use of force, including by targeting civilians with cluster bomb munitions, Begin said Biden “rose and delivered a very impassioned speech” defending the invasion. Begin said he was shocked at how passionately Biden supported Israel’s invasion when Biden “said he would go even further than Israel, adding that he’d forcefully fend off anyone who sought to invade his country, even if that meant killing women or children.”
“Hey, it’s totally cool that Microsoft GitHub blocked access to one of the repositories in the very center of the xz backdoor saga,” Michal Woźniak, a white hat hacker who was part of a team that discovered DRM in a Polish train earlier this year wrote on Mastodon. “It’s not like a bunch of people are scrambling to try to make sense of all the right now, or that specific commits got linked to directly from media and blogposts and the like. Cool, cool.”
Security teams that break stuff to mitigate risk and call it fixed is exactly what Linus’s Do No Harm plea is about.
Starting in Android 15, radio vendors will be able to add support for Android’s new location privacy HAL, which can tell the radio not to share location data for any non-emergency requests.
A request not to share it is not control, it’s just a request. So any law enforcement seeking your location would receive it anyway
A U.S. federal court has issued a $9,918,000 penalty and an injunction against an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of “spoofed” robocalls to consumers across the country.
I wanna draw something from it don’t remember it clearly enough and can’t find any good visual references for the part, so I need to download or stream it to check
While we found no signs of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in HIM to date, it cannot be clarified whether this is causally related to the hypervaccination regimen.
I have had good results with Kdenlive. If you’re a professional, you might choose something else, but this is a question about noob-friendly video editing software
New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu....
They offer legal aid to high-profile open source cases. So if you want them to notice, raising awareness of Nintendo’s current actions against Yuzu is a good step
The developments come one year after tensions between the U.S. and China ratcheted to new heights after a Chinese balloon carrying sophisticated spying equipment flew over the continental U.S. for several days.
Even a year later, they haven’t abandoned the narrative that it was designed to intercept valuable US intel, such as the weather
All of the password managers they listed store your passwords on their servers, and you’re supposed to hope that their encryption is good enough that the hackers won’t decrypt your password the next time they get hacked (like LastPass, for example).
KeePassXC doesn’t store passwords in any “cloud”, it’s on your computer/phone only and nowhere else. It’s also FOSS
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Jan 6th made him the worst, say what you want about Buchanan or Jackson but at least they did their atrocities within the system they were elected to uphold.
“Say what you want about genocides, at least they weren’t Jan 6”
@tom I am seeing a lot of spam from kbin.social and, digging into it, it looks like there’s a bug in kbin so that moderation decisions don’t federate properly....
Bite me ! (jlai.lu)
How many reCAPTCHAs did you solve today ?
And did you suddenly feel the need to buy a motorcycle ?...
Any Ways to Block Twitch Ads?
Twitch has gotten insufferable with ads lately. Sometimes I’m getting 3mins straight of ads....
Saying you will not tolerate genocide is bad because.... [Check notes] This will push Biden to the right. Wait. What? (hexbear.net)
bsky.app/profile/…/3kp6dhld5qx2q
The Xz Backdoor Highlights the Vulnerability of Open Source Software—and Its Strengths (www.404media.co)
xz backdoor...
Android 15 may let you control when your location is shared with carriers (www.androidauthority.com)
US fines man $9.9 million for thousands of disturbing robocalls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A U.S. federal court has issued a $9,918,000 penalty and an injunction against an individual named Scott Rhodes for making thousands of “spoofed” robocalls to consumers across the country.
anyone got a hook up for dune part 2?
I wanna draw something from it don’t remember it clearly enough and can’t find any good visual references for the part, so I need to download or stream it to check
What comes after a red line??? (hexbear.net)
Netanyahu vows to defy Biden’s “red line” and invade Rafah - POLITICO
Musk's stupid car killed Mitch McConnell's billionaire sister-in-law (hexbear.net)
COVID: German man vaccinated 217 times had no side effects (www.euronews.com)
Doctors report a man from Germany has been vaccinated 217 against the COVID virus with no negative medical symptoms....
Switch emulator Yuzu responds to Nintendo's lawsuit (www.eurogamer.net)
Liberalism.png (hexbear.net)
What is the most noob friendly video editing software on Linux?
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu (overkill.wtf)
New documents filed Monday, February 26 reveal that videogame giant Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu....
China has raided seven American businesses in Beijing and arrested employees on suspicion of espionage, ambassador Nicholas Burns reveals (www.dailymail.co.uk)
18+ This is what they show you when you ask the Volcel Police for their badge (hexbear.net)
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business (arstechnica.com)
IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN! - High-altitude balloon detected over Western U.S. (www.cbsnews.com)
First as farce, then again as farce
Snap store from Canonical (Ubuntu) hit with another crypto scam app (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Trump ranked worst president in history by experts (www.reddit.com)
Worse than Buchanan, worse than Jackson, worse than Nixon, worse than Reagan
Block kbin.social (and other kbin) communities? (lemmy.world)
@tom I am seeing a lot of spam from kbin.social and, digging into it, it looks like there’s a bug in kbin so that moderation decisions don’t federate properly....