Wiping your ass with silk is still significantly more friction than water

This was always coming, and we’re going to do fuck all about it. But on the upside, the future is going to be absolutely rad for the .001%

Moving too dumb. Something caused Microsoft to ban OpenAI for its employees last week, probably a massive security blunder that we hopefully get to find out about eventually.

Veep is far and away the most accurate political show we’ve ever had

It’s moderately common in my social circles to argue that South Dakota is a hoax

It would probably cost like $1 of components to make most led bulbs resilient to all but spookiest of power delivery, but why sell something once when you can make them buy it over and over again

200 vulnerabilities, 2-3 that might actually be exploitable, and no prioritization. But look at these metrics!

Cybersecurity, as a profession, is a fool’s errand.

Dedicated security staff exist solely to teach real engineers how to do their job, and the fact that such personnel exist is a catastrophic failure in computer science curriculum

https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/app/uploads/sites/17/2020/06/carbon-cycle-1024x1024.jpg

The issue is that we have artificially accelerated the return of carbon to the cycle by burning coal and oil.

It sequesters the carbon while it’s alive, but you’d need to bury the plant deep underground to remove it from the equation

Blow up a coal plant?

The “puzzle” is that when you enter the temple, it goes zero-g and a spinny thing in the middle pops up. You have to float to a thing that looks like a spinning top, and once you float through it, another one appears. You float through a dozen of them or so and then you get a space power. Such a colossal failure of game design that this was acceptable to have as any puzzle, but the audacity to make it literally the same puzzle at every other temple completely boggles my mind.

240 times. Sometimes a dude appears when you leave the temple, and he’ll shoot at you. There are better puzzles on the kids menu at Denny’s.

It honestly feels like something he wrote as a joke

You are being ripped off, 10g sonic is like $60.

There are only 3 good Star Wars movies, and I’m tired of pretending that there are more: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One.

Risotto is easy but you do need to add liquid and keep it stirring for pretty much the whole cook time

REWIND

There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

• bill gets signed
• no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
• 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
• years late and at double the budget, it releases
• two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
• years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
• zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
• new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists

The dose makes the poison. A little scent can be nice, but it needs to be a hint. The problem is that most folks seem to think they need to overpower all other smells in every room they’re in. That’s offensive for sure.

The sad, basically abandoned subs for tv shows that I never got around to until after they were canceled (shout out to Hello Tomorrow).

Some of the more niche support communities for various reasons, the ones that really only had a dozen or so regs. I hope they’ve found something equivalent to do on the toilet at work.