The ones in my garden only eat round inches.

Oh yes I did fail to include a full catalogue of all the base instincts it obviously appeals to — but it’s as if people are eating a giant pile of shit for breakfast, and you’re helpfully explaining that well, we all need to eat.

It says the opposite — they do have an engine that will be ready for 2026, unless they change the rules for 2026. They would want the 2026 changes to go ahead as planned for a couple years before then moving to V10.

… Red Bull that is; Ferrari might be the ones pushing the idea of dropping the 2026 change. If so maybe they just think they have an advantage with the current rules and don’t want to risk giving it up.

oh I would quit X, but I’d miss [ politicians / my friends / the latest gossip / the hottest memes / Stephen King ]

It might’ve seemed to make sense in 2016 but that bullshit doesn’t fly any more. It no longer takes any imagination or courage to see it for what it is. There are no more excuses.

I used to think that the worries about social media algorithms exerting some kind of profound mind control on the users were overstated, but holy fuck, what kind of perverted sci-fi brainwashing power does twitter have that people are still using it even in the year 2025?

I hear they’ve suddenly developed a tendency to spontaneously catch fire.

Antagonizing the journalists, what a strategy — it worked so well for Maxime Bernier.

Un-modded Skyrim has health regen (even during combat) unless you turn on “survival mode” but overall it’s a much better game if you spend the first 30 hours installing mods. In particular the melee combat can be much improved with MCO and related things. Or just pick a wabbajack, I hear Tempus Maledictum is one that people like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_evolution_fossils

I felt like I was reading educational material from a high school textbook illustrating the way in which journalists usually fail to understand anything involving numbers. It’s not so much cherry picking, more like just randomly grabbing a few data points in the vicinity of a cherry tree which might include fruit, squirrels, wingnuts, and ball bearings and then instead of doing any meaningful analysis just throwing them into an AI-powered blender. And then to top it off, it ends with:

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In case you were wondering why Canada needs so many fighter jets, so far in the 21st century their notable uses have included:

• Provide a show of force at G8 meetings, Olympic games, and other such events

• Drop bombs on Libya

• Drop bombs on Iraq

• Drop bombs on Syria

It’s not as if humans slavishly obeying the algorithms was a much better situation than robots doing it. They’ve just sped up the process and it can only hasten the demise of the new technofeudalist content mills.

Oh, literally unplayable. That’s even better. I was imagining a “lesbian? y/n” toggle in the settings that did absolutely nothing.

The Pirate Bay is perfectly fine for that sort of thing.

California is the textbook case of paying way to much for that sort of thing, isn’t it? It’s always the one they go to when they want to make a crazy inflated budget look reasonable by comparison. But yeah, I was seriously underestimating the cost anyway. Maybe we should just go with medium-speed rail.

It’s too bad that “The Great Reset” they have in mind is just tearing down democratic institutions and handing all power to fascists, because a reset that was truly great might be worthy of consideration: All debts cancelled, all bank balances zeroed, all existing copyrights and contracts annulled, ownership of homes falls to those who live in them, ownership of factories and fields are granted to those who work in them, and after a period of great confusion we start again from there.

You’re underestimating the size of $70 billion. It’s more like high-speed rail to every major city in the country.

For the $70 billion it would apparently cost in total to have these super fancy fighter jets, they could instead build a million new low-cost housing units and still have some money left over to work on inventing innovative air defence systems that aren’t so expensive…

The world has moved on. We tried doing nothing and it just didn’t work. Everything in life involves trade-offs and the cost of not fucking around with the composition of the atmosphere is just too high.

Huh. I learned about the potholes when I was a kid and saw a couple of them, but had no idea there was such a big region named for them.