I have mixed feelings about having locked in a price on a new EV 15 months ago. At the time, it was about the same price as a Tesla Model Y (but with a longer range), but prices have fallen since then, and now my $69k Fisker Ocean is probably $5k more than the equivalent Model Y. On the other hand, with inflation,…

I love articles like this. Gizmodo is a tech site, and this wooden structure was likely among the earliest forms of construction technology ever created on Earth.  While it’s true that “modern humans” didn’t appear until later, if we learned anything from the study of Neanderthals, it’s that other species of hominids…

They look too big to be chicken bones. My guess is either small mammal bones, or even the bones of human children that they scavenged from graves or something.

Take this star, dammit

You forgot the flat-Earthers, the moon-landing deniers, etc.

I went and saw Oppenheimer on Sunday, for $4, and there were way more than 16% additional people at the theater. For a late Sunday afternoon (5:25 pm), there looked to be close to double the normal amount of people at the Cineplex. There were large groups of teenagers, there to see Barbie and blue beetle.

The Z80 processor was also used in the Tandy TRS-80 (sold by radio shack), which is the computer I learned BASIC programming on, in the 7th grade.

That was my first thought as well, I had to look at the function keys on the right and notice it was two columns, and not a single column of wide keys.

Wow, So they had a safety officer who wanted to do at least the bare minimum. And they fired him. Unbelievable.

When this sub first went missing early this week, and I read a little about its construction, and saw it was built using carbon fiber, I told my sons (who were asking me whether they were alive or dead) that the sub probably imploded, and everyone was likely already dead. Carbon fiber has mainly been used in the…

I actually thought Infinity stopped selling cars in US during the pandemic. Learn something new everyday! Maybe they should sell a luxury version of that Nissan EV, the Ariya, with a really nice interior and some extras. Seems like there could be interest for that.

This is very much what I think, and have tried telling a few people. Sometimes, the truth isn't as fantastic or interesting as what people would like to be true.

Start? The tin-foil wing-nut crowd already is sure he's a reptilian.

I wouldn’t say no one - I have a Fisker Ocean One (the launch edition) on order, hopefully taking delivery before the end of August. The 5000 launch edition models are sold out.

“...they have to wait for Lordstown to finish crapping the bed...”

Elon Musk: building the next 4chan on the flaming wreckage of Twitter.

I don’t know - I worked at the 101st G-2 for a bit, and the docs just classified “secret” weren’t well tracked, and I could easily have walked out with a bunch of it (I had quite a bit of secret material in our safe at the brigade S-2 in any case). TS stuff was a lot more restricted - we weren’t allowed to take it out…

For material falling under normal classifications (i.e., “confidential”, “secret” and “top secret”), the military doesn’t use age restrictions (or at least, they didn’t use to). I entered the Army at 17 years old as an intelligence analyst with a top-secret security clearance, and I was read on for SCI when I was 20.…

Fox wasn’t interested in settling until they knew how strong Dominion’s case was. They now appear to be pushing for a settlement, which is what I was anticipating:

I'm assuming that Google/Alphabet and Apple will immediately go to court for an injunction, along with the ACLU.