Aviation safety is the canary in the coal mine. They actively deal with a massive amount of traffic with a virtually zero error rate. That rate moved up a notch. As cuts continue, it will move up more notches.

Everything’s else we’ve considered safe for decades because it’s being protected by diligent, but thankless, federal workers is going to follow suit.

An Einstein ring is an example of strong gravitational lensing,” explained study lead Conor O’Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. “All strong lenses are special, because they’re so rare, and they’re incredibly useful scientifically. This one is particularly special because it’s so close to Earth and the alignment makes it very beautiful.”

I would never pretend I can even remotely wrap my head around this, but anything that helps us understand how gravity works seems like a scientific gold mine.

If only Democratic leadership had anything near the balls of Mace Windu. They’d pause the fight to pen an angry letter while Jedi, younglings, and the entire Republic get slaughtered.

Planck died before he finished his Grower/Shower addendum to the scale.

Make a deal to promise California will keep making movies if Trump will give the federal aide they deserve. Everybody wins and makes headlines.

Coordinate the timing in stages, and you can move the stock market in predictable ways.

The clouds are smoke from all the money they burned. The mountains are where they’re building a trillion dollars in power plants to power their bloated, hallucinating nonsense.

Imagine what might have happened if OpenAI stayed a non-profit and worked on cost-effective R&D instead of chasing hype and dumb money investors with a rushed product.

An actual case of artificial intelligence? It learned its programming was bullshit and overrode it.

Even acknowledging that the cruelty is the point, I wonder what’s going to happen to the price of groceries when the labor force that runs American agriculture is criminalized.

Crops will die in the field unharvested, then not get planted next season. These “criminals” are the ones who maintain the food supply for the entire US, not to mention exports.

Zuck plans on running in 2028 after Trump. His hero he constantly tries to emulate, Augustus Caesar, didn’t run a company. He was an emperor.

“We’re looking to expand into the terrorist market. We see it as a growth industry given the mounting civil unrest all over the world.”

Zuck makes all these fatal mistakes that should destroy him, but he made enough money to get into the club where laws don’t apply and there are never consequences for your actions.

Every sociopath’s dream. But still, I bet he’s in the club because of his usefulness to the old members. He’s not actually one of them, and he never will be.

If you have a problem with it, organize a Facebook union. The only way small voices matter to CEOs are when they speak collectively.

I remember the ancient times when you could buy something, turn it on, then have it do what you want it to do. Setting the clock was the difficult part. Other than that, it just worked.

Krampus is a legit alternative. He does tend to eat the naughty, but I would never question someone else’s beliefs.

Whistleblowers are automatically overcome with grief at disappointing the high and mighty Job Creators and shoot themselves in the back of the head twice in despair.

Nazi, who inherited his generational fortune through slave labor, makes people uncomfortable. They leave. Nazi lies about being weird and/or a Nazi.

Cast Sebastian Stan for a post-ROTJ Luke movie. And get John Favreau and his people to write it.

stopping in the middle of the road without indicating, while: looking for your destination, or having a conversation, or deciding what day it is

That’s my new pet peeve. The thing is I don’t remember seeing people do this in the past and certainly not frequently, but now I see it all the time. Mind-boggling selfishness. I think Covid rotted everyone’s brains way more than we realize.

GreedFall. Old school RPG that flew completely under my radar. It has a 00s Bioware feel to it, before the dark times. The graphics aren’t perfect, etc., but it’s a really fun game with a decent story (so far).

Reading that just broke my hip.