Not defending Trump in any way but I could imagine the Saudis did this of their own initiative, to please him.

Bit difficult to tell if all OP provided is a picture & a headline.

Got it, thanks. Hope I didn’t spoil the joke for everybody.

Confused metric person… I’m guessing 3 inches is significantly less than 1 foot?

My favorite hate during urban commuting: black SUV with soccer mom* talking on the phone, turning across the bikelane one-handed. No blinker, barely a glance in my direction. I always go as fast and as close as I can without endangering myself. Them shocked and suddenly braking (way too late of course) satisfies me, but far too many still don’t notice.

But now I live in the countryside and that brings a whole different set of dangers with it.

* this had something to do with the times I was commuting - during the day, off rush hour.

Well hooray to your darktable skills because this came out really well.

How do you prove a negative?

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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

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This is the important question. On my blog software It’s just one short page written in the blog’s templating language, very easy to create from scratch.

If the blog is a collection of plain HTML pages, you’ll somehow need to collect the pertinent info first (e.g. the ten newest pages, their titles, a short summary).

You remember the video where someone filmed the rainbows a sprinkler made in the sun, and claimed it was proof that “they” are poisoning our water?

Maybe in some country/countries. In others, it is extremly uncommon. Actually.

vinyl home siding

TIL that’s a thing. Eww.

Different article, but the picture just makes me so happy:

Oh, thanks for pointing that out… my head was just going “Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman … Fuck Sam Altman …” —

Literally skyscraper - ah, actually they’re called cloudscrapers in my native tongue.

Nice. Looks like not one tree was felled, too.

But we need to address these port-a-potties. What sadist would put them right under someone’s window? They have an exhaust pipe at the top!

Thanks for clarifying!

The time will come when we look back fondly on “organic” conspiracy nuts.

People always forget about the energy it takes. 10 years ago we were shocked about the energy a Google factory needs to run; now imagine that orders of magnitude larger, and for what?

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I have yet to see people using chatbots for anything actually & everyday useful. You can search anything with a “normal” search engine, phrase your searches as questions (or “prompts”), and get better answers that aren’t smarmy.

Also think of the orders of magnitude more energy ai sucks, compared to web search.

Not only in America.

I loved GOT, I think Daenerys is a beautiful name, but still, there’s something about parents naming their kids after movie characters. In my youth, Kevin’s started to pop up everywhere (yep, that’s how old I am). They weren’t suicidal but behaved incredibly badly so you could constantly hear their mothers screeching after them.