What a cover. That shouldn’t work but it does, mainly because Sarah just kills on the vocals. Damn, that’s good. (They are syncing here their own studio performance. There is absolutely no way to get audio this clean in an environment like that. There’s no drum shield and no one is really properly miked up.)

Upper stage issue causes Arianespace launch failure, costing 2 satellites.

That rocket has always been a piece of junk. I see nothing has changed.

Sweden’s new car carrier is the world’s largest wind-powered vessel.

1) This doesn’t exist.

2) It will never exist.

Why write such a disingenuous headline? These efforts occur every few years, just as with airships, and never go anywhere. Flying cars, too.

It’d be far easier and cheaper to convert all the existing ships to electric than it would be to do this — and there is no reliability in these at all, since it’s wind-dependent.

Nothing like this will ever happen.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

If you want to know how obsessed with icons I can be, I once compiled from source an application available in a package manager just because I didn’t like the icon.

It was the only way to change the icon (at that time). So it could be said I have a bit of a problem. And, similar to the cowbell conundrum, it’s a problem that only more icons can solve.

I was looking for Firefox icons. Found some. Unfortunately, one of them was this utter abomination.

“He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.”

-Joseph Conrad

How do Covid deniers deal with their own illness and even death. Ive been wondering about this. So horrifying … https://t.co/oX4hKVRvaw

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) November 16, 2020

Oh fuck. Few things disturb me; that did.

There is nothing more resilent and less amenable to change than ideology based in identity. The left has no lock on that, of course — they just tend to be more obnoxious about it in normal times.

But these are not normal times, and thus we are seeing the last literal gasp of dying of identity. These people are perishing and their final thoughts as they struggle to breathe are denying the truth of their condition.

You hate to see it.