Tarantulas are wonderful little creatures. I’d have one as a pet, but I don’t think they should be kept as pets.

The bright golden wings contrasted with the black body is very striking. I take a minute to admire them when I see one.

I think they’re dead, too. They don’t just hang out with legs splayed and wings extended. But it shows how big they are, so I picked this image.

I doubt that.

We get these:

Tarantula Hawk Wasps. Fortunately, they only attack tarantulas, unless you antagonize them.

Great!

Now what? I’m guessing nothing will change.

You can go through iCloud settings and delete all backups then sign out of iCloud.

You probably know this. And, you might suspect as I do that nothing is ever really deleted, they just disable your access to it and don’t do anymore backups. There’s nothing we can do about that, we gave it to them, they’ll keep it forever, associated with your account, no matter what they say--at least that’s what I think. Maybe Apple really does delete it, but I doubt it.

Google doesn’t delete anything, I doubt Apple does, either:

https://medium.com/@istokovicsgyorgy79/the-great-google-scam-the-delete-button-that-actually-deletes-nothing-6fc2b169a778

One of the boomers you should be focused on instead:

I’ve noticed. It’s mildly annoying, not something I think about every day.

It’s always been this way, and like others said, it’s an artifact from when PC cases were horizontal, and there was no up or down for a connector, just left or right.

Of course, they could make the connectors attach to the board the other way 'round, but they won’t. Especially now that we’re not the main consumer of their products, and the people who are don’t give one fuck about this.

They want us angry at each other, afraid, lonely, sad, anxious, suspicious, isolated, paranoid and sick.

They’re doing everything they can to make that reality for as many people as they can, and they are succeeding.

“They” have names, and this is just a few of them. You, as I, likely only recognize a handful of the top of the list. But, there are almost 3500 people with a net worth of over $1 billion, 1/3 of them live in the U.S. They all stand together.

Here’s number 48, have you ever heard of this guy or his sons?

Apple is relying on an opt-in procedure: When activating Siri AI, the manufacturer asks for help in improving the chatbot, as developers with access to the release candidate of iOS 27 report.

The update will be released to the public on Monday, September 14.

You can either agree to this or press a visually inconspicuous “Not now” button. The dialog cannot be completely dismissed. Users can switch it off again after activation in “Settings > Analysis & Improvements”.

A rad-ish horse

The day of my birth. I’d like to know what my family was like before I was there. What my brother and sisters said about me. How my dad reacted, etc.

The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.

Shut the fuck up. This says nothing, it’s word salad.

“It’s more expensive because it’s more expensive. We’ve explained this already.”

It’s fucking greed at the top, that’s it.

The stupidest tech purchase I made, ever, was an Apple Watch. Useless piece of shit.

Right? They had the perfect opportunity. They could have him declared dead, and buried before he wakes up.

They can easily delay this for a couple of years while they plan, commission an artist, reject the artist’s proposal maquette, commission a new artist, etc.

I’m 6’4", the one time I rode in one, I felt like the windshield was two inches from my face.

The fifteen-minute engine change was a nice selling feature, though.

World record engine change, one minute, four seconds:

https://youtu.be/gKF6dcKjLJo?t=117

TIL Ron Jeremy is still alive. I could have sworn he died a few years back.