I think it’s interesting, that they can steal all this stuff and yet be unable to figure out how to sell it.

All the money, all the data, all the energy, all the computer power, all the political control. And yet, they can’t manage to sell a single dollar worth of their product.

Of course it’ll be shittified by commericals in and out of the content, and of course that will lead to paid models, but it’s not going to be very profitable, because nobody _really _needs bad intelligence. “Oh, it costs something? No thanks then, we already have intelligence at home.”

Yes yes, the users are the product, yes, but who then is buying that user data? Commercials and stuff yeah yeah, but at what point does any of this manifest itself as a single fucking sales transaction where a real person pays a company for a real product? Fucking never.

The whole thing is worthless.

I tried, but it’s just endless rambling of numbers. Most car news are like this now.

It’s still a cool border agreement though. The new border goes right down the middle of the island, but it is agreed that whoever manages to get their sorry ass to that piece of cold rock are free to roam the entirety of it.

They should make a TV show.

F.R.E.U.N.D.E.

I have subscribed to a few skateboard channels that I have followed for a long time. Not because of the tricks, because quite frankly, these guys are not the best skaters, but they make good content for old skaters like myself who don’t care much about the latest tricks.

Ben Degros. Perhaps better known for his other channel The Vancouver Carpenter. Well, he’s also a skateboard product connoisseur, who can smell the difference between different presses of deck concave and wheel sizes.

Jon Bishop. An old fart from UK who started skating at an old age and walks through all the basics and thoughs of beginner and intermediate tricks.

And obviously: The Skate Nomad. Mike Boisvert. A (relatively) young Canadian dude who quit everything and set out to live the dream of skateboarding in every country in the world, while couch crashing at locals the entire way. It’s interesting to see the differences and similarities in cultures world wide from this perspective.

I have come to the conclusion that everything, from the largest galaxy clusters to the tiniest quark and all the laws of physics, is nothing more than a fractal caused by rotation in the initial moment of creation of our local instance of existence that we call the universe. There are no particles, no waves. Only rotation.

You’re looking for reason? In this administration?

You should be looking for motive instead. Handicaps are now a kind of diversity. ICE will get right on it.

So I guess the kids are gonna go to the dark web. What could go wrong.

I will look forward to Darth Musk throwing a tantrum against Australia when they eventually fine X for not complying, but that’s about the only good thing to come from this ban.

Oh yes sure, it’s great they stop the kids from being brainwashed by the algorithms. They really should ban everyone, especially the elderly.

It’s impossible to earn that much money, but at some point it’s also impossible to hold or spend. Banks can only take so much safely, so it needs to be placed in companies and investments that require some management and all the consequences and responsibility of running those. Spending it is problematic because it will disrupt whatever market it is injected to, potentially harming a lot of people.

The only real solution is to avoid billionaires in the first place by taxing corporations much much harder.

Same job. Same pay.

Breaking the preview pane in the final update for windows 10 was a nice touch.

Based on your description I’m going to take a wild guess: Your father is a “functioning addict”.

It explains everything, including his self destructive behavior.

Football is called football because it’s played on foot, unlike polo and other horse sports.

Land can be bought everywhere in all price ranges. The real hurdle is whether you can legally live there or what requirements there are, due to zoning and building codes.

I think the easiest way to get a self sustaining home with as little legal issues as possible is to buy an already legal home with the grid connection, but then just don’t use it.

If I were young and single again, I would look into auctions of derelict farms. Tear down the old building and instead build a small totally legal connected up to code cabin with water, waste and electricity connection. Then use the rest of land to do whatever actually interest me, while complying to the bare minimum of legal requirements for that land.

That’s definitely an American bastardisation. It’s a common word in all European languages with origins from Greek.

To make things more confusing, all these other languages also have the syllables mixed up, but at least consistently so.

Epoch is is from Greek Epi meaning a period of time. It’s pronounced with O and rhymes with fuck.

Epic is from Greek Epos meaning story or song. It’s pronounced with I and rhymes with dick.

The picture is from 1970. John Cleese is 30 or 31 years old in that picture…

I don’t remember asking Grok a god damn thing.

They won’t whine. They’re going to flip around and claim they never supported him.

I feel the same, but I do think there’s a threshold somewhere.

Insects. I don’t want to eat those, but if I had to, my conscience wouldn’t be the problem.

Fish. It’s not my pet. I wouldn’t worry too much about eating it. Breeding fish. Maybe not so easy, but fish will eat each other any chance they get, so why shouldn’t I.

Chicken. They’re not good pets. Fucking dinosaur would eat me if it could. I don’t know if I could have a pet-like relationship to a chicken. Maybe other birds are different. I’d respect a crow or eagle enough not to hunt it.

Then there’s mammals. I agree that most of them are like dogs. I don’t want to breed or hunt pigs, cows, deer or cats. But how about rats and mice? They are a real nuisance and breed like crazy. It wouldn’t matter much to anyone if there’s a few more or less, and I surely wouldn’t pet them in the wild. However, rabbits and hares. They’re just too cute. No eating.

So, there it is. Despite loving every living being, I could still eat some mammals, some birds and anything else in the animal kingdom without remorse.

Jeg har nogle gange hjulpet til i en æbleskivebod, hvor de laves på støbejernspande over gasblus. Opskriften er hemmelig, men den er også på industriskala, så jeg ved ikke om den kan omregnes til hjemmebrug. Det er en helt almindelig opskrift, bare i spande i stedet for deciliter mål.

Nå men, tips: Brug masser af olie. Du vil for alt i verden undgå at de brænder fast. De skal sejle i olie. Fyld hver hul op med dej til lige under kanten (vi hælder bare fra en kande). Når siderne er stegt, så vendes æbleskiven med en strikkepind eller grillspyd og steges færdige på den anden side. Pas på fingrene. Varm olie er rigtigt skidt. Der fyldes nye på løbende, men altid én ad gangen. Ikke hele panden på én gang. Vent et par sekunder mellem hver, så du giver dig selv tid til at vende dem og tage dem fra i samme tempo.