If there is anything that this class of politicians understand, it is a sudden and dramatic demonstration that captures everyone’s attention in the middle of a high school assembly.

I was a tech writer. When I quit drinking, I had a friend who sat down with me to talk about skill sets. Turns out I’m really good at problems, and pointing them out while characterizing them. I have a tech vocabulary and acumen. My QA skills are very good but I won’t do life safety software.

Bill Cassidy is the biggest lily livered coward that exists in the United States.

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

In case you were having thoughts about everything that happened yesterday, here is a thoughtful and I think wise take about one specific thing.

My autumn hot take: People in the fall: “I love pumpkin everything!” No, you like fall baking spices because pumpkin tastes like vaguely sweet squash and nothing else It’s the spice blend you like 😄

Wow. Turns out I used to know someone very much like Olivia. (I’m glad we’re not married anymore.) That this person has been able to work as a top tier journalist for years tells me that practically every editor being paid today is corrupt and craven. It’s time to close the high school.

My favorite thing early on a cold morning is starting a fire and waiting two or three minutes for my tuxedo cat to sit on my lap while I enjoy my 1st cup of coffee

This is a great thread.

When I look at dating sites, I have certain thoughts in mind about who I might groove with as a friend or perhaps something more. I always skip people who intentionally add “I don’t follow politics” to their profile because in my mind, that’s even worse than voting for the worst person.

The Falcon rocket exited development for its first commercial deployment in 2012 and the success of this program is basically the only reason why everyone assumes this idiotic superheavy Starship program will work eventually. It's pure faith completely detached from engineering or design principles

NHTSA investigations found that 27 deaths occurred between 1970 and mid-1977 in rear-impact crashes involving Ford Pintos bursting into flames. Tesla had 28 deaths due to battery fires in 2023 alone.

“This says dog crate, but it is comfy enough for a cat”

This guy? He is having an era, that’s for sure.

Starship and Super Heavy summarized: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5q...

Anybody got a status check on this one?

This is like the paranoid friend who swears Facebook is turning on the microphone* and listening to everything you say and hear to sell you stuff. Why the hell would they bother, even if it wouldn’t take more power and data centers than currently exist to actually accomplish?

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

Hey, we did it! We saved a comics store! Portland is truly richer for it. Let’s keep doing it. Do you like books with pictures? Do you like cool spaces that are welcoming to everyone? Go shop here! Or kick them some cash. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-books...

I'd rather he focus on say..... -All the regulations that protected travelers that they immediately took away when they were voted in -The burnout/lack of air traffic controllers -The technical infrastructure of the airlines that keeps crashing out -Etc etc etc But no its "everyone dress better"

Reskeet with a time you looked cool

I’m sure that letting masked men run around and abduct people in unmarked and un-plated vehicles won’t have any negative repercussions whatsoever… …just a moment, I’m getting word that

I kind of saw this going in this direction, but to see the same thing happen over 40 years later really puts a bow on the fact that we’ve let our regulatory infrastructure decay… There’s no reason this should happen on a properly maintained and inspected aircraft.

Pssst…anyone want to buy some internet? Still in the tubes. I know what I got. .

I love that in California any cop can decide your car is too loud and then you can’t drive your car anymore because of the BAR and CARB…despite no true incremental value to fixing a single car for emissions reasons. But EPA violations on industrial scale? Go right the heck ahead, Apple and Tesla.

Elon Musk never had an original thought in his life. Here he is pretending to have Douglas Adams’ idea. Douglas Adams would’ve reviled Elon Musk.

The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either

Got a 1962 Columbia console stereo? No, you’ve got a home-grade IT and music cabinet.

Oh look, it is my set of bespoke, re-engineered timing chain guide parts for a 25 year-old BMW V8 engine.

This is encouraging news, especially down in Clark County. Good stuff. A lot of unprecedented things happening in Nevada with Lombardo as governor. None of the belly-acher types I live near has anything good to say about him, but compliments are hard to come by in Storey cty.

NOLA pals, let me know what you need.

wow nvidia beat on earnings what a huge surprise. anyway did anybody work out how anybody makes a dollar of profit plugging gpus in or are we still in a holding pattern

Coming to the realization that the Department of Justice, which should be where the best of the best of the most honest and civic minded attorneys in the nation end up, - isn’t as functional as your average traffic ticket attorney.

The bureau of land management is very much inside baseball to most of the country. Between the Rockies and the Pacific, it is the largest single land administrator. BLM manages things like permits for events like burning man and King of the Hammers. Cattle. Oil. Etc. This will be a disaster.

Tesla soon to start building the Mac Pro on contract.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwP... I think I saw this float across my timeline a while ago but just found it again, excellent analysis on why movies look like homogeneous blurry meaningless slop for babies nowadays.

I know it's hardly the top priority, but could is there any way we could add "mandatory headphone jack on every smartphone" to the Woke 2 agenda?

It's getting brighter, and ironically, it's not just because of legislation. It's because the tech in making headlights is so good it *technically* isn't too bright at the distance it's tested for. I'll have to see if I can find the I had read on it before.

Books with Pictures deserves your positive attention and help to stay a going concern in Portland. This is a business that has endured a lot of hardship and setbacks, run by genuine, good people. Help them if you can spare a bit.

“Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they always made me glad.” -- Malcolm X, December 1, 1963

“We vmaxed a car that’s had no design changes for a decade, and a couple of days later we realized the manufacturer didn’t fasten one of the wheels on the test article they sent us for review. We didn’t even check! We see no reason to shade them for something that could have killed one of us.”

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

They don't even have to edit them, my understanding is that Bondi can classify any Epstein file content she wants & in so doing exempt it from the release mandated by the bill. Luckiest outcome would be someone producing evidence that *they* supplied the investigation, proving deception by omission

😹 i mean

When you’ve lost the imbeciles, you’ve lost. (Ardal is by all accounts not quite as thick as Dougal)

It’s hard to explain how much it sucks to be more than halfway through the life of an American citizen and realize it’s all downhill from here for both you and the country that you grew up in.

In my opinion, this is a bracing self-own from Car and Driver. On the very rare occasions when I have Vmaxed either of my automobiles, I spend an hour checking all of this mechanical stuff first. The fact that c/d did not simply publish a “do not buy/drive” is…something else.

“The fragility of the Internet” is not a phrase that I thought I would ever read. I could probably deliver a fairly decent argument as to why it has not always been as fragile like the tech Titans who control the companies that built weak points into it.

In a physical world, a misplaced label can cause hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage. In the software world, a misplaced bracket or variable can cause 1000 times more damage. There are no enforceable government standards for software quality like we do for other kinds of engineering.