See I’ve succesfully navigated life and avoided country singers so this doesn’t really help. Is it like those people who sound like they’ve run out of air at the end of a sentence and the last few words come out like they’ve been through a grinder?
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Song sung entirely in vocal fry.
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It’s a type of cool artificial bass voice that you can give yourself, like holding a burping vibration in the back of your throat. In some languages it’s standard and in others not. And some Americans additionally like to argue about it. 
The German Wikipedia doesn’t even have a page about this Strohbass (it’s only mentioned in the Kontext of singing), so I assume German doesn’t use it? I have to admit, I would think a creakily German-speaking person was suffering from a soar throat… 
(Timestamp 00:18:53 has the funniest example)
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When the US Government banned the Kaspersky Security suite, they claimed it was because Kaspersky was sending sensitive information to Moscow.
It later turned out that the US Government creates its own spyware and malware, which it uses to spy on its own citizens. The US Government have a deal with US based tech companies, to the effect that their security software will ignore, and fail to find, US Government malware. So the likes of Norton and Windows Defender won’t protect you against US Government attack.
Kaspersky, on the other hand, was not party to this deal. Their software would find, and would remove, US Governnment malicious software. And that’s why they were banned. Not because Kaspersky are a security risk - but because the US Government want the freedom to spy on their own people.
I imagine something similar is going on with routers. Besides trade protection, the US Government can guarantee that US made routers have a handy little back-door, allowing them to see everything the user is doing.
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Musk has just demanded that any business using the SpaceX ipo use Grok.
Gok is now fully integrated into the Pentagon.
If we have to buy Starlink routers…you see where this leads.
They already have all of our personal info thanks to doge.
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I… don’t understand? It’s a public offering, he doesn’t get to say who can buy stocks and who can’t… ??
Or are you referring to something else with ipo?
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Elon Musk is reportedly forcing banks, auditors, and law firms working on the upcoming SpaceX IPO to subscribe to X’s controversial in-house chatbot Grok.
Ah. That makes a lot more sense, since Musk is the customer in this case, he can of course demand whatever he wants. And likely get it as long as the supplier thinks they’ll still be in the black.
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Its amazing how they all posed still enough for the picture, good doggos. Hopefully they all find loving homes
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