I think by now if you’re still holding TSLA and aren’t an index tracker, you’ve drunk the kool-aid and very little is going to shake you out of it.

You can get on a horse, or horse-drawn carriage, completely wasted drunk out of your mind, or high, or just too tired to drive. Tell horse “home” and he will go to the stable he came from, dragging you with it all the way.

Horses are statistically more dangerous than motorcycles (or skiing). I can’t find any statistics on drunk riding because most horse owners aren’t stupid enough to try it, but it seems very likely that riding a horse drunk is way more dangerous than driving drunk.

As soon as I saw “Florida” I thought, what’s their real angle?

If the settlement takes the form of a new data center being opened in Florida, please quote this post in the comments section of the news article announcing it.

The guy I know who crows the most about AI, consistently can’t spot glaring mistakes in AI-generated art. It’s impossible to talk him down, not because he’s an unpleasant person but because he literally can’t perceive the bullshit so he assumes others are just nitpicking.

A Russian drone hit an apartment building in Romania, a NATO member state, sparking outrage across Europe, where nations have ramped up defense efforts against Moscow. The explosives-packed aircraft was ostensibly bound for nearby Ukraine, but crossed into a Romanian town near the two countries’ border.

Of the five posts I’ve seen so far on social media on this topic, this is the only one to give some sense of what actually happened.

Yeah, it did exactly what it said on the tin.

Yeah I’d only barely heard of it, and even then I thought it was just what they were naming the new season of the TV show. Marketing department fucked up.

The end of the stick would respond at the speed of sound travelling through the medium of a stick.

As for the laser pointer, the thing that’s moving faster than light isn’t really a moving thing any more than something appearing in a 24fps film is moving, if you know what I mean? It’s just an abstract notion of a moving dot. The light that comes back to you from above isn’t the same light that’s come back to you from below.

I’m not sure what you think an “example” would look like. It’s not taking a photo of you, it’s measuring what’s distinctive about the way you personally mess up radio signals and how it differs from how other people mess them up. Internally it’s just a ton of numbers.

This guy is the kind of cartoon villain that gets left out of the newer “dark” iterations of a franchise for being too fucking ridiculous

Their business model is retaining the trademark for when the streaming industry finally collapses under its own greed.

Blit, nobody says “Bet” any more, get with it frizzo

The important thing that often gets missed in stories like this, is that this apparently tiny harmless thing is actually a big deal, because it’s the canary in the coalmine that alerts you to how shoddy the entire structure is.

This is an extremely high quality list for spear-phishers, because it’s all gullible morons with highly visible levers.

and “here’s the wikipedia article that backs up my claim”

MC M!skondukt

Call me sexist but that guy has really girly handwriting

I mean ok, she’s definitely an awful woman and shouldn’t be doing this job, but judging an individual for their membership of a group that represents some statistical shift from the median is as close to textbook bigotry as you can get. You wouldn’t tolerate someone suggesting that women shouldn’t be allowed physical jobs because they’re statistically weaker.

It’s infuriating how successful the oil companies have been at turning solar vs oil into a fucking culture war.

I’m sort of 50:50 on that one. Whilst it’s a truism that controversy drives engagement, I think it’s still a winnable fight to make it clear to platform owners that most people really do not like slop. It’s not like when you platform fringe racist groups or something where nobody would have heard of them otherwise and they thrive on the oxygen of publicity.