More reasons to work together. Americans design stupid shit and pass to the Germans who make the stupid shit possible to the Japanese who act as a firewall to the Koreans who manufacture and market (better) the Japanese version for 20% less?

Funny piece on the character Waingro from the movie Heat. anteupfilmco.com/anteup/its-a...

TDS is just another way of saying "the evaluation and subsequent shunning of a soulless sociopath."

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

it’s like it’s her first day listening to someone else speak

I’ll see his point and raise him “when it comes to issues of reckless driving, some otherwise progressive pro-car people turn into flag-waving, truck-nuts-displaying, don’t-tread-on-me-even-if-kids-are-getting-killed zealots”

all i'm saying is that there were better options

So, if you're someone who follows the bureaucratic side of aviation safety, you probably already know about this, but if you aren't, you might not. This is something that I feel the need to raise awareness about. (1/10)

I suspect Microsoft is going to suffer soon. They’ve relied on cheap memory, CPU and storage to overcome tech debt and completely incompetent coding. Now that AI is making all of that much more expensive, they are f*cked. They have no idea how to they develop Windows 12 to fit in current resources.

1/4 For those wondering about the new Steam device versus current options: PS5=stylish and designed from the ground up with lots of custom hardware to play games running a custom gaming OS.

CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.

in a completely predictable series of events today I upgraded to an executive costco membership and then immediately threw out my back

My first thought on hearing about UPS2976 was "someone needs to light up the Admiral Cloudberg signal." I think it should look something like this:

We always had a sense of humour , we just take it very seriously .

11 November 2025.

SUEZ CANAL AUTHORITY: [pinching bridge of nose] how long did you say your ship was again ME: one astronomical unit

If there was an invisible object about the size of the Millennium Dome hovering over the Millennium Dome then what altitude would it have to sit at in order to avoid being struck by flights coming into London City Airport

I am cursed to be the only person who remembers that this company put an interface designed for tablets on their server OS

gonna be the biggest UX revolution since they put a touch interface on windows server 2012

it's not good for a profession when the highest mark of seriousness is pretending to be stupid

the corny nerds have it all wrong, the actual singularity will happen when Microsoft lets you run Hyper-V as a Teams plugin

The Milgram experiment but the guy in the white coat is a chef and he's assuring me that it's ok to add more butter

History rhymes a bit too well sometimes.

So long, Robert. I still watch Sneakers several times each year, and it makes me happy seeing you every time.

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

Wish granted...

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

New watercolor #sciart: Viruses and bacteria in blue and green artologica.etsy.com

There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years). It works out to three and a half gallons.

linkedin is the world's greatest open meat market, where the meat markets itself

customer: can you fix my car for me? it's losing power sometimes and takes a long time to get running in the morning. mechanic: sure!

customer: <throws keys at tech> here, fix it. it: uh. fix what? customer: <disappears> it: wait! come back! what's broken? what do you need fixed? <customer reappears 8 hours later and is now pissed off) customer: *angry* why isn't my car fixed?

A: We need to get rid of immigrants because they're moochers, lazy and shiftless, a drain on our society. B: Cool! Where do we find them? A: Where they work. B" But... A: Or with their tax returns. B: "Their tax..." A: Or when they show up to file citizenship papers... B: Wait... A: Or for asylum.

So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products. Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.