Needs more trans-duractance and magneto-reluctance for the thermal wasel-vanes.

New, “hard-core mode” for Tennis just dropped. Just check out how heavy the new regulation balls are. Hedgehog for scale.

Combine this with beets for an extra good time.

That reading list might just make the series unwatchable.

Magic/superpowers and thermodynamics usually don’t mix.

Have you tried using it harder?

Answering that requires some calibration. What’s the middle ground between explosives and a healthy diet? Because I suspect that “I eat nothing but taco bell” qualifies as “harder”.

80 is a tad short these days, but that’s still kind of win/win since now you can have way more files all showing side-by-side.

My god… just look at it.

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Do you think they’re friendly?

Sure but, hear me out, imagine having most of your project sourcecode on the screen at the same time without having to line-wrap.

That makes sense. The specific heat of water is a real bastard to overcome.

This is the part that burns me the most. All this, for a handful of years to sit atop the ashes.

Exactly. God would probably want us to not need, want, or use the guns in the first place.

What a terrible day to know how to read.

I knew the bees had to be secreting wax somehow. But I always imagined it to be some kind of secondary oral process. Instead they really use… specialized pores under the segments in their thorax?

Now I don’t know which version grosses me out more.

I’ll never understand MFers in the rurals curating lawns.

Basically, it’s a flex. In order to have a perfect looking grass yard, you either need to kill all your free time to maintain it, or pay people a lot of cash to keep it tip-top. And the free time thing also requires money since you probably don’t have your life set up like that unless you’re paying for it somewhere else. Any other approach will yield mediocre results which will immediately mark you as unable to keep pace with your more monied neighbors.

Assuming you’re playing their game, that is. Which you clearly are not. Good job!

Ever since the 90’s, I’ve often wondered if some of these bubble companies are just the living end of the “eat the rich” philosophy. I can see no more practical a way to achieve this, than to convince investment capital to empty their wallets, funneling it straight into the pockets of dozens if not hundreds more people. It’s hardly Robin Hood, but it’s also cash that’s no longer hoarded at the top.

Plus, we also know that a worthwhile goal is to not go the distance, but simply become a tasty snack for a bigger company before you go bankrupt. This lets your flimsy business model and weak patent portfolio become someone else’s problem.

wasn’t the incitement they hoped it would be

I have my social media pretty tuned-up and locked down. The only nonsense I’ve seen about Kirk lately was some 20-somethings talking about how holy rollers were going to spread Kirk’s message about truth, and bring more people to jesus. While that’s some alarmingly twisted mental gymnastics at work, it’s about as pacifistic a response as possible considering the personalities involved. If that’s what’s really going on out there, then yeah, all their attempts to shape optics on this have failed.

to justify their next step, martial law.

Oddly, this gives me hope. It suggests that they don’t have full control of the media just yet, and are still trying to manufacture popular consent. El presidente missed a golden opportunity to lean into the pandemic and do this to enforce quarantine, and he’s been struggling to seize another opportunity even close to that scale.

As someone that has been through both of these crashes, 17 times the size of the .com bubble is really, really bad. I don’t think we can even conceive of how big a hole this is going to make.

It’s worth mentioning that, while possibly true, the book is nonetheless a satire of militarism and fascism.

A tangent if I may: how do we convince people that moving around from service to service after they go sour, is normal for using the internet?

Censorship, like in the article, is clearly a good reason to move on. But enshitification in general is usually the way this goes. I get that this is fatigue-making, especially for people that barely know how their phones work. So, does someone has a way to evangelize better services when the time inevitably comes?