Manned spaceflight is stupid, risky, ruinously expensive, and of limited scientific value over unmanned missions; but it carries such an intense romance to it that I don't think we'll ever stop doing it or should.

As a relatively recent grad I find it really funny talking to my engineering friends learning new languages and using huge amounts of compute when my electrical utilities ass is still thinking about how nice it would be to replace electromechanical relays with schweizers with less than 2kb of memory

'Sir, the last few seasons haven't been received well!' "Add American concentration camps" 'What? The show is tanking, we need t-' "Have him say he's going to make America Great Again" 'I don't know if Amazon will be-' "Have him kill an Elon Musk standin in the last ten minutes for no reason"

Looks like Dr. White has moved on from setting large piles of NASA's money on fire to setting large piles of private capital on fire hawking a more sciencey perpetual motion machine

It's kind of inevitable some company is going to shove a small computer into the torso of a sex doll running a local model with a microphone and speaker for speech, then shit's gonna get real weird.

I find it very funny that Stellaris is the one paradox game that actually lets you do all the genocide and slavery but their default 'canon' human preset is probably the most hopeful and idealistic portrayal of humanity ever put to media.

Underrated application of self-driving cars: Gangstalking Waymo down the street parked facing your home Waymo two cars behind in another lane following you everywhere Waymo in your office parking lot opposite your car

Scheduling all my work emails to hit at exactly 8am because I'm a professional but also not a coward trying to make it look like I actually sent them in the morning.

As a zoomer I have no say in the millennial song wars but I'm pretty sure I spent my entire car riding youth listening to the first four Lady Gaga albums on repeat because that's all Canadian pop stations would play, oh, and Miley's Party in the USA

Bought a random drink out of the fridge at the Indian mini-market near me. Today I learned they have a variant of lemonade in which they put toasted cumin, salt, and pepper, which is not necessarily bad, but certainly unexpected.

I drink Diet Tonic Water for Gin and Tonics straight from the can and I'm tired of pretending I don't. The refreshing astringency with a slight sweet undercurrent is fantastic.

Absolutely stunning photography in this article

It's cool (derogatory) that we get to find out what every human in the middle income and up world will act like with over the long term with a mini vizier in their pocket that fawningly answers their questions.

Thoroughly recommend the World Cup themed Timbits folks, the Dulce de Leche and Key Lime ones are fantastic and the rest are great too.

> Getting CVT fluid changed on my 2011 Nissan that's never had it and is at 130k km > Mechanic reports no metal shavings or powder in the fluid

Signal Techs, Signallers, Signal Officers

Extremely Canadian that there's already a NIMBY group for our new spaceport that hasn't even started construction yet.

I really want to know why Spotify keeps recommending chudslop to me like this when I don't listen to any podcasts further right than the Bulwark or listen to audiobooks on the app at all.

I really wish he had done a deeper fireside chat because I am genuinely really interested if he thinks this is a compromise on what he actually wants to do. He's supposed to be Mr. Economy, so let's hear his big-brain takes on why this specifically is the move he's decided to make.

The banker PM can set up a weird little financial instrument, as a treat.

Me when my casual War Thunder friend wants to see top tier jet gameplay but only has his premium pack F-5C

People being reflexively stupid about any (especially western) country doing more defence spending as if all of this will be doing anything but being squarely pointed at the US and our own security interests. This isn't an option for us if we plan to remain as we are, it's the cost of sovereignty.

Retailer messed up my order for FR coveralls, where I merely requested coveralls fit for a 6'3 guy that lifts (64 Tall), I have received a 74 Tall, which I presume is for the inclusivity program to include Super Mutants and Sasquatch into Canadian industry.

There's a phenomenon that happens to you when your Counter Strike inventory value crests over 1k USD (I have put less than $100 into it but I hold appreciating items and have engaged in some arbitrage) where you constantly get friend requests from very girly steam bot accounts that want to "chat"

Median 18th Century Exploration Diary be like: I, the most racist englishman alive, my indigenous wife, my somehow even more racist french astronomer, his african wife, ten scottish convicts who promise to kill me but never do, and a couple unnamed guides spend years in the wilderness, find nothing

Maybe this is zoomer dooming because it's been like this my whole (albeit relatively young) life, but I just don't really expect any significant change on housing to ever happen without some kind of world-shattering event from any party that could win a general election.

I wish I could take the reimbursements allocated to crank medicine (chiropracty, naturopaths) in my company benefits package and put it into optometry or dental stuff, I could get a sweet ass pair of glasses with that change instead of it going unused.

Genuinely disturbing stuff. With this and separatism Smith seems to be committed to a death or victory approach to her party and the province, we can only hope people decide to give her the former.

SAM ALTMAN'S AGI ZAZA GOT ME IN THE METAVERSE SMOKIN STRAIGHT BITCOIN

A few chapters into The Company by Stephen R Brown, it's a history of the Hudson's Bay Company and how it affected north-western North America. Liking it so far, the narratives are engaging and the care given to the historical details of both early modern era european and indigenous societies.

Mooooom the Prime Minister is doing a fireside chat where he starts going off about 1812

It's really funny that FOX's go to when Trump has a diplomatic row with someone is to pull up their favourables. Like what does the Pope or Prime Minister of Canada's relative (higher) popularity to the president among Americans have to do with any of it.

Hot take: I don't really think ruck marching (as in on-foot moves over distance with bags larger than assault packs) should be practiced by militaries as anything but a team-building physical exercise with the exception of very particular mountain / light reconnaissance / special forces troops.

On April 15, 1935, Sgt. Gander was born in Newfoundland. He eventually became the mascot of the Royal Rifles of Canada and went with them to Hong Kong. At the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, he gave his life to save his comrades and died a hero. This is his story. 🧵 1/10

Few know this

I was wondering why my PC kept dying on big games and it turns out when running at full clip my Tdie avg gets up to 103c! I look at my CPU fan and yup, much of my thermal paste is dried gunk or just gone, repaste your CPUs every once in a while kids.

I've got to say folks, I do not enjoy owning a 2010s Nissan that's approaching the CVT implosion threshold on the odometer. I still think I need a year or two until I have enough saved for a big downpayment so until then it's flush and fill the NS-2 fluid and pray.

Trying to sneak my Kilo through the GIUK gap in Sea Power

To a certain newly unemployed Hungarian Shrek impersonator:

On one hand maybe the time has come to go electric as to avoid the impending hydrocarbocalypse, on the other hand it's kind of rough trying to rock an EV if you don't live in a house with at least level 2 charging in Canadian winter.

Spending a whole tax return on a ham radio looking at me like the green goblin mask

PLQ: You've made your last bid for independence, PQ. Sorry you got twisted up in the scene. From where you're kneeling it must seem like a 18-karat run of bad polling, truth is, the game was rigged from the start.

It is interesting seeing everyone converge on combining strategic fires and air defence architecture, this has of course been at thing at sea for a long time with VLS, but with land-based Mk.41 trucks, Russian S-300 land attack conversions, and now Ukraine is getting in on it.

My one weakness in buying Canadian is Cosmic Crisp apples, they are genuinely one of the most dazzling products of modern agriculture and genetic engineering.

Tapping the "AB's political landscape is shifting and it will not remain a Con fortress" sign again

The enemy (economic forces) are conducting counter mobility operations against me (moving to a remote rural town for a career making job) to deny access to allied forces (friends and a dating pool)

In a poor mood I'd say we exist in an icy hellscape ruled by a couple of banks, grocery stores, and boomer homeowners that prevent us from taking any nation-saving moves, and I'm sad to see this in my city, but I'm not so I'm optimistic given momentum for rezoning happened to begin with.

Genuinely upsets me so much that I can't own one of these here. I would pay ten gazillion dollars to just to have my weird little swiss steampunk gun.

I suppose if a certain leader gets to talk at the astronauts so should he.