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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

I wouldn’t vote for Christie as dog catcher, there’s no way that motherfucker could catch a dog. I’m sure he would be fine at any number of minor bureaucratic roles, so long as he has a supervisor.

Room temperature superconductor (if it’s real) changes the game. We could pave the southwest in panels and send the power where it needs to go.

You have to give the industry some time to circle the wagons and enshittify led bulbs so that they only last 10,000 hours

The problem is that loot is random, and it takes a lot of gear support to get to the point where a character isn’t getting hurt by fire, even with the relevant perk.

Cursed surfaces in general were just a massive pain, considering how precious Source was by default. Using a mod to get Source back on rest makes things a lot more reasonable, particularly in the first half of the game.

“Deez nuts”

Orion lets you send a custom user agent in requests. I’ve found this to generally avoid the “go use our app” dogshit on iOS. It’s also, so far, been nearly perfect at ad blocking in combo with filtering via NextDNS. Kagi has something going, I sure hope they have a revenue plan.

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.

Feasibility aside, it’d be a lot more practical to get cracking on that Dyson swarm. Photovoltaics are a much more efficient way to capture solar energy, or even direct solar thermal (ie mirrors and steam turbines)

No, but that only works if the ads are being served by known ad hosts, so you should expect that adtech will get hip to that and proxy their traffic through the same hosts as the content.

That being said, it’s pretty easy to check if a user has network blackholing going on in clientside JavaScript, you just do a test request to a popular ad network and see if it resolves, no special browser support needed.

There is a whole lot of sky, my dude. I don’t think it’s plausible that we could capture even 1% of the kinetic energy of wind currents if we wanted to.

But also, wind is ultimately solar energy: the sun heats up parts of the planet at a time, the temperature differences cause pressure differences, and pressure flows from high to low. If we could somehow capture most of that kinetic energy, the result would be that areas which heat up stay warmer, and areas which don’t heat up as much stay cooler.

But we’re talking about gravity-bound gases, here. If we tried to capture too much, the gases would just find an easier route to equalize, such as going above our turbine network.

He’s a cleaner, a doctor, and also the best transporter tech in the business, better than folks operating teleporters a hundred years later.

M’Benga Sue

Oh that’s fantastic for AWS. I have a dozen chrome profiles for this type of behavior and it’s always sucked

I don’t understand, what’s hard to like about ortegas? She’s exactly what I’d expect a hotshot pilot to be like.

https://archive.is/6mRkf archive of the pluralistic article in full, which lacks the shitty authwall.

I do feel extremely fortunate to be American, but yeah, it doesn’t really seem like we’ve done anything worth being proud of as a nation since… ww2? That was a fucking while ago.

I’m not optimistic based on that first episode, did they have a hard time getting a writer’s room together this time?

The animation was extremely unambitious and the plot was, charitably, a minimum viable effort. I’ve loved this show for the majority of my life, but if you don’t have something to say, move on.

The comedy in this episode was the “Now that’s what I call jokes we missed 201x” and there wasn’t anything beyond it to latch onto. After the quality of that last finale, I just want to forget that this happened, so far.

It’s cute when the serfs tear each other down

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Let’s give Texas back to Mexico. Please.

Whether or not it’s on purpose, I think that Twitter was vulnerable to this outcome due to literally years of mismanagement. Dorsey hadn’t given a fuck for quite some time, and Twitter’s problems always grew faster than its solutions.