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Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you're a Nazi.

Should that not be properly, "Oi, cunt!" ?

Anakin: Self-driving cars will orbit the street's so there will always be one nearby if someone requests a ride.

Padme: But they'll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?

Anakin:

Padme: But they'll regularly come back to a central hub for cleaning, right?!

And he's on a H1B visa and can't leave.

Ah, yes, Little Bobby DROP TABLES;

Why does Baron, being the tallest Trump, not simply eat the other Trumps?

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there's only so much John Oliver anyone wants to see in a day

That limit is not known to science.

Instead of drilling a hole, another way to do it is to slam an asteroid on the other side of the planet.

https://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-killing-asteroid-caused-indias-deccan-traps/

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A Ukrainian drone was spotted in lunar orbit, directing HIMARS strikes.

"And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful."

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This is a state-level case, so it would be Georgia's criminal code that would apply, not Federal

But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!

He seems to be saying that the market value of Twitter is $40B less than what it was before stuff happened. "Value destruction" tends to be applied to "stock" (like market cap) rather than "flow" (like revenues).

He's basically saying Twitter is worth $4B, given that he paid $44B and seems to be saying $40B of values was destroyed.

Losing $40B in less than a year is, uh, remarkable.

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Given that we're in the dumbest time line, this is actually a plausible scenario.

Nothing beats the bandwidth of a ~~VW bus full of mag tape~~ man with SSDs taped to his stomach.

Edit: You guys don't have strike through markdown yet?

https://mastodon.coffee/@TidalFlats/110940255733069000

Putin:

I thought I had him in a box.

And then he got out like a fox.

And then I saw him in a house.

And I then he went to Belarus.

So I will track him here and there.

Say! I can track him anywhere!

I do not like this Wagner man!

Thank you! Thank you, SAM-I-Am.

Death by hubris

"I'm just like Tony Stark, making a sub out of a box of scraps!"

Besides the earthquake, there was also a literal rain of fire across the planet, like a blast furnace, that likely killed everything that wasn't underground or underwater.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/dinopocalypse-redux

And the BBC.

Frankly, all news organizations should run their own Mastodon servers as authoritative sources for their news articles and their reporters. Right now, with the ever changing badges on Twitter, they're just Star-bellied Sneetches.

To note, President Comacho was far, far kinder, wiser and more humble than any MAGA politician.

On the other hand, the Simpsons did a not-so-funny-now with this:

https://youtu.be/z77JFw2D6f8

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he likened the risk to the innovation of the industry as a whole and that if the Wright Brothers had fallen during their flight, at least the industry would have known flying was possible and would have continued on and learned from it

There's a Twitter discussion about the Wright Brothers innovating for safety. Basically, the Wright Brothers realized that innovating on control and safety were more important than innovating on power when it comes to developing powered flight. Once you have a controllable glider, putting on a motor was the easy part.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

There actually is a Dinosaur BBQ originating in upstate New York. Sadly, the only actual dinosaur they have on the menu is the chicken.

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Cryptographic signatures are too hard for people to understand.

Unless you cut the word down to size and just call it "crypto". Then everyone gets it. Like, it means stuff happens on a computer and magic money appears.

Or be on the waitlist to get a Neurolink implant.

Constructive = one after another

I think you mean "consecutive".

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Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.

I'm not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.

Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they're doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.

Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.

That's the Federal indictment brought by Jack Smith, not the State indictment brought by Fani Willis. Moving the Georgia case to Federal court would involve the Federal court district proximate to Fulton County, not relocation to a whole other state.

The loophole seems to be having an app pinned to the screen (I've never done this, but it presumably keeps the phone from locking) while requiring you to have an unlocked phone to use NFC payments. This doesn't seem to be a common scenario (I can imagine doing this in some sort of kiosk mode, or giving the phone to a kid and locking the app so he can't wander around).

Donald Trump doesn’t know how to operate a website

"Someone told me I need pipes for the website. We need to get the best pipes. Do they come in gold plate?"

Eh, they could just boot up another copy and restore from backup.

Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Really, there are so many moments from TFG that fit into the topic of this thread.

One other thought is to use Google Voice.

At least in that case, everything runs through a Google server, rather than through some possibly janky connection between your desktop and phone.

The drawback is that, if you have an existing phone number, you'd have to port it over to Google Voice (or maybe Google Fi can port that number to an actual cell phone; not sure if it can).

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"OK, how can we make a web interface more difficult to use?"

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As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers' computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it's a more efficient keyboard as long as that's the only machine you're on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.

Making the pee more expensive, yes.

I've been using Ian's Secure Knot.

https://youtu.be/1RbaIo4VdbA

IIRC, the Soviets placed their primary artillery school and tank factories in Ukraine. As a percentage of the USSR's military base, the Ukrainians were well above average.