I picture the Hindenburg collapsing in flames as the future of Twitter. 

The former Twitter CEO is supposedly already working on a new social platform. If that was the only threat, Twitter could last a while. However they were burning money and now face a $1B per year loan repayment to make, kinda hard when it wasn’t turning a profit to begin with.

At some point, for me, the Dark Tower series shifted from having and end-of-times world moving on story to an exercise in writing various pieces and putting them between book covers. The rampant borrowing of elements from other authors just to add a gory twist to it was particularly distracting. It felt like he had no…

Because people come after other users and harass them. Now go have sex with your daughter - is the tip of that iceberg, and just the tip.

And that “day off” is a day on if you want to be promoted or get a raise. If you aren’t in for 8 hours on the day off you are a slacker. 

I think only China has geostationary GNSS satellites. All others are moving rather rapidly relative to the ground beneath them.

$30M is the fee for Jackson’s lawyers; only $60M went to Jackson.

Just a reminder:

There is zero chance that any single round will hit a target. It’s more likely 5-10 rounds, but all of that ignores the initial purchase cost and ongoing support cost of the Phalanx. It also only takes one drone to make it to the Phalanx for it not to Phalanx anymore. 

The key is showing damages, which I expect will see a $1 award if it goes to a jury. Instead it will be dealt with as extortion, the legal kind, where they try to settle for some amount less that it will cost to defend and Barilla will have to decide if pounding these guys to dust will prevent everyone else from…

Recall when Galileo used a telescope to create a clock based on the moons around Jupiter? In the last day or so GPS was disrupted in the Houston area enough that aircraft landing their could not depend on it. It’s nice to have a backup.

Foreign Object Debris is redundant. It’s just Debris. What was useful was the original - Foreign Object Damage, as in “AVOID FOREIGN OBJECT DAMAGE” that was reduced to “AVOID FOD”. But sure, the FAA and NASA spoil everything.

Sure - single use every day by the spraying crowd. Need to go in with bunny suits to hose down the walls and the floor and the ceiling from explosive diarrhea or just grabbing handfuls of feces and throwing them.

A buddy of mine, no kids, forgot about Halloween, so when children showed up he did the best he could - canned tuna. The look of surprise was apparently amazing to see. 

Oh, but it is, by far, objectively dumber. It’s a pyramid scheme that uses successful career people like Masterson as bait to lure in more suckers. However, it’s not a “go rape people” sort of organization, so that seems like it would have little to do with this case. It will have a huge amount to do with the civil…

I think most messing with Wikipedia is a fruitless task. They have methods to observe high edit rates and anything worth paying attention to will have people complaining about unsupported changes and get reverted. Anything not worth paying attention to isn’t a worthwhile article to change.

Undermining confidence in previously trusted sources of information undermines confidence in institutions in general - leading to removal of public support for those institutions.

For this to work right requires a Jetson’s future. Presently we are far closer to Mad Max.

Also mentioned by Hathur79 this isn’t starvation - this is dehydration, literally dying of thirst, every organ screaming from loss of water, though perhaps he was spared some of that by the severing of his spinal cord. Still he would know as he lost the ability to form saliva and his lips and tongue became dry and crac…

More significant, except to those released, is Biden’s call for a review of why pot is a schedule 1 drug alongside heroin with the intent of removing it from that schedule. This would open the ability to perform research, particularly in universities, that is currently prohibitively regulated. Somewhat ironic I think.