Going to the aquarium today to look at some fish. I’m hoping they’ll let me take a hammerhead shark home.
I’m sure they have a spare.
Never Start Always Stopping
Drivers Celebrate the Demise of the Most Hated Feature in Their Cars.
Good. That start/stop feature was such an annoying, worthless piece of crap. Especially growing up with cars that often would just shut off randomly, it increased my aggravation level higher beyond all reason whenever I was cursed with a rental that had that execrable feature.
It truly sucked so much to drive one of those cars.
No one will miss it. No one should.
Only one of these degrees treated people as anything more than an interchangeable asset.
Hershey to resume using chocolate in most products; Reese’s grandson may taste sweet victory.
Another GLP-1 weight loss pill gets FDA approval, and it has fewer restrictions on how it’s used.
As arms agreements fray, China secretly expands its nuclear weapons infrastructure.
‘You’re a liar.’ Why the world’s biggest building boom has run into a wall in California.
A $22.5 million warning for the return-to-office era.
A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around?
‘On a whole other level’: rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists.
Why is my toothbrush texting me?
Retirees receive six times as much in federal dollars as young people.
The Rise, Fall, and Glorious, Gory Return of Practical Effects in Horror.
Iran war shows why WA should lean into all-electric future. As should everyone with a damn lick of sense. Which the US does not have.
Spectacular fossil treasure trove pushes back origins of complex animals.
America Now Has an EV Rust Belt. High Gas Prices Won’t Rescue It.
Hunter
Very cool photo of the Artemis launch.
Fake Imm
All of the rich nations who are being overwhelmed by Islamic terrorists and parasites should band together to buy land in Africa or somewhere else to house them. Any “refugees,” economic migrants or asylees go there. That’s their new home. Provide enough troops to safeguard it and send some food (enough to survive), but that’s it. Then after a series of years-long evaluations, education, and tests, you can move to a real country.
I bet that would cut fake immigration 99%+.
Chuckanut
A lot of Boomers seem to genuinely despise their own children and grandchildren and want them to suffer. I cannot understand it.
My Taxes
Please use my taxes for much more of this. I will send in some extra taxes if needed. I can also send cool stickers and slogans.
Waffleport
‘Haters gonna hate’: A top FEMA official defends his claim that he was teleported.
I kind of love this guy. I mean, as a stand-up comic. Not as a top government official. But he makes me laugh, and that’s worth something.
KuberNOTes
Kubernetes is such absolute shit to work with. It’s one of the worst tech products I’ve ever used. It perpetually feels alpha-level. Partially that’s because it’s based on the priorities and “needs” of developers, so it favors extreme complexity over everything else — with security, networking and performance as a very late afterthought. Infrastructure people wouldn’t overlook those items. But the reality is, most devs don’t care about them and don’t understand them. (Many devs think a millisecond is “not much different” than a microsecond, for instance.)
It’s also an example of “new, cool, so must be good.” Tech is much the same as the fashion world. Surprisingly similar, in many ways. Various flashy products emerge, most of which don’t perform in any way as well as the old versions, but offer some cachet, some sense of being “in style” and are adopted by people shilling things or too clueless to actually understand anything other than the latest headlines.
And then MBAs and poor tech leaders pick up on this and force others to adopt that tech, even when it is completely inappropriate to the use case. Kubernetes experienced significant growth and usage from that.
Kubernetes is needed by maybe 0.01% of companies. Everywhere else, it’s an absolute waste and pointless.
Tears of Tiers
I think this is largely correct. As for me, I am on the side of whoever does not condone rape gangs, does not support burqas, does not believe people like Iryna Zarutska being murdered is an example of social justice, and who would not join Hamas if given the chance1.
I’m willing to fight beside people who support progress, who are not degrowthers, and who believe we should be out in space doing cool space stuff. If that is fight is political or me with a big-ass sniper rifle, I can roll both ways.
That’s what side I’m on. I don’t care about labels. I care about the work and protecting civilization.
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles (stripped-down cover ft. dodie)
This is superior to The Beatles’ original — and I say that as someone who really likes that one. Dodie just makes it deeper.
From Done
The left was done ideologically when they started explicitly supporting burqas and rape gangs. There is no coming back from that.
All of them need to be sent to Somalia.
Jansi – Je suis une belle personne
Simple mais amusant.
Soc Wel
This is not correct. Of all social welfare (including Social Security and Medicare), native-born US citizens receive ~90% of that money. In fact, 60-70% goes to old people in the form of Social Security and Medicare.
Look, I’m against unrestricted immigration too. But it’s best to be accurate about what’s really happening. Fighting clowns with truth is much better long term than pummeling them with lies. Then you too become a clown (see the “Israel did a genocide in Gaza” doofs for examples).
Moon Mushies
Pro tip: There is no nature on the Moon. If anything, we should put some nature there.
Here is who has the authority to extract resources from the Moon: whoever fucking can. The rules you think are rules are only excuses for the weak and the worthless. You deserve what you can make, take, bake, or fake.