Just checked and my ISP is a good one. It does not offer nor support IPv6.
That’s awesome. I hope it never supports it.
Cool
How You Do Policy
In a way, massive US government support for Tesla and SpaceX could be considered some of the most successful industrial policy efforts in US history.
Source: https://t.co/E85Abq39m5 pic.twitter.com/yIRf36G2aI
— Kyle Chan (@kyleichan) December 27, 2025
Indeed. Worldwide ROI on that (including kicking off viable electric vehicles) is in the +$2 trillion neighborhood, and rapidly increasing. And that’s how you do it if you want to win.
From ’89
Not that long before this was written in 1989, all of it was “nerd fantasy.” But now, more than 30 years later, just about all of the engineering written about there — which would’ve seemed impossible to someone from 1889 — is obsolete tech. It’s all been replaced by better and much cheaper, safer and more reliable hardware to achieve the same result.
I hate pseudo-progressives and degrowthers so so much.
The Burden
One of the disadvantages of being loaded and having the awesomest girlfriend in the known universe is that you spend a lot lot of time wrapping presents before Christmas.
Using the Tool
I wrote a right-click (context menu) search extension with the help of AI in 25-ish hours of work and prompting that would’ve taken me 500+ hours to complete on my own, and for a competent programmer probably would’ve been in the 150 hour range.
Huge returns if you know what you’re doing.
My tool has more features, a better UI, is more extensible and is easier to use than any other similar extension out there. It’s not even close. Mine is just better by every measure that matters. And there’s no way I would’ve bothered to create it without AI.
Not Russian There
If Poland didn’t have about a 98% chance of being invaded by Russia in the next decade, I’d consider immigrating there.
Trust
One thing I think about often is the logistics of resupplying convenience stores in Poland.
Pallets of products are simply left on the sidewalk outside the store, left unattended, and slowly brought in by the workers.
Poles don't understand how much we benefit from having a… https://t.co/A9D1MH8GUj
— Polish Connection (@PoleConnection) December 17, 2025
Cool. I really hope Poland doesn’t cede all this to Islamoleftism and allow unrestricted Islamic immigration. It’ll ruin their entire society and perhaps the last redoubt of Western civilization.
Orb Hab
We need way more orbital habitats, far less degrowther nonsense. Launch, baby, launch!
Lator
I like that when we watch movies and TV shows, my role is often language/slang/subculture translator for my girlfriend. It’s fun.
Extent
With the help of (mostly) ChatGPT, I’ve now created 12 Firefox add-ons. They do exactly what I want them to do and help me every day. Sans ChatGPT, I could’ve eventually created them all, of course. They are not technically out of my reach, given enough time. However, I spent a total of about 18 hours or so on those add-ons. If I’d had to write all the code myself (and again, I am a bad programmer), I never would’ve done so as it would’ve taken me 300-500 hours. Huge difference.
In other words, ChatGPT allowed me to create 12 extensions that make my life noticeably better that even if I were technically capable of doing so without that tool, in practical terms I never would’ve done it due to the high time cost.
And that my friends is what we call a win.
Eject Project
Whoa I want to try that.
Weight Wait
Cool. Now that we’re getting rid of the curse of obesity, too bad we can’t also eliminate the scourge of tattoos. But I’ll take the win.
Guilder
That Proto-Indo-European “ghel” is everywhere.
“Glitter” and “gold” both sinuously trace their origins to that root.
No Re-bait
Refusing to be baited into something that can only harm you is a skill that more people should learn. Hell, I should do better at it. Sydney below shows how it’s done.
Spider Rider
Before it started getting cooler, there was a black widow in our yard that was getting almost large enough to be rideable. I was looking for a saddle.