Except there is no utopia being chased.

Adam Smith : Neoliberals :: the Bible : Christian Fundamentalists

Anyone reading this who liked Disco Elysium: you will also like Night in the Woods. Very similar without being the same.

Just looked him up on Google Scholar.  Now I feel kinda sorry for PPK Agarwal.

Someone at Hainan Airlines must really like him some snu snu because it does get higher faster as height goes up.

It’s like BMI. Doesn’t tell you much useful about a person, but it can tell you a lot about a population.

What makes dealer service departments so hacker-proof?

It will turn into the old fashioned Redditbomb-era Reddit.

The problem with this idea is that moderation in many subs is so bad that it could be a net positive, even with the infestations that will occur.

One slip up and every bit of technology that a company has is public knowledge in China within seconds, no matter how unimportant it seems.

Thank you for the reminder of how AAA gaming is fucked and why I should never go back.

The original Marathon was an ugly game.  It was ugly for its time.  There is little there to grab onto to make something that would look good.  A completely new look was the right thing to do.  

After the (pre-Xi, so before they got someone hardcore anti-corruption in charge) melamine milk scandal, do you suppose that anyone in a position to create or purchase such a thing within China would think that they’d come out ahead on such a deal?

To the tune of Dethklok’s “Hatred Copter”:

He will most likely die

You’d think Elizabeth Holmes would have taught lay people how to have a science bullshit detector...!

It was security staff, specifically whoever x-rayed the package, or someone who was watching while it was x-rayed.  They would have been able to figure out what was in the package.  I don’t expect the contents of the package would have been otherwise heavily advertised, but there’d be no hiding it from the x-ray…

If you aren’t in the desert, and you’ve got a super dark tint, that’s the automotive equivalent of a vape and a fedora.

If you can’t see into the car to see whether anyone is in the driver’s seat, it is difficult to predict whether the car will move.

You’re selling the Miata short when you don’t at least show it with the headlights up, to say nothing of the complete lack of teeth and eyelashes.

And now it just has to get from Jolly Ol’ England to your secret extinct volcano lair in the American southwest.

What know-how was there to steal in the 19th century? Literally how to build a hammer.