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I imagine a huge game of whack-a-mole between Russia and Ukraine. Russia moving air defenses trying to anticipate Ukrainian strikes, and increasingly failing.

Ahoy, matey! 🤣

It’s funny to see cost per GB on the right. Back in 1980, most people didn’t even know what a Gigabyte might be.

I don’t want to laugh about this. I am seriously freaking out at the idea of using the built-in apps instead of the open source equivalents. Calculator with Internet access? Camera app with ads before I click? Browser that spies on me no matter what searches I perform? No thank you.

That’s the reason we can’t have nice things: the MoFos that will follow along when Evil Inc. does evil thing because they just can’t live without the latest wrinkle.

Silly you: no more wind farms means no more cancer! The Prez said so! /s

There are several paths, both natural (looking at substances, animals, plants, and fungi with antibiotic properties) and biochemical (chemical engineering), and some might actually yield relatively quickly. But of course nobody can tell how quickly that will pan out, and how quickly we will have to face a bacterium with full resistance that is transmitted easily.

I was surprised to find out that he actually stuck with his original issue text and defended it later on. I understand being frustrated and all, but an apology about the tone was definitely in order.

Sadly, it’s not just sluts that are affected. The genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics are routinely shuffled from one species to another, which means even bacteria that are passed indirectly start being immune. The article cites MRSA, the variant of staph infection that is resistant to almost all known antibiotics and is spread increasingly in settings as varied as gyms and public transport.

It’s going to be a scary time out there for a while, until new classes of antibiotics are released.

Please don’t send Celine Dion, she already won!

I don’t know you, but in my friend circle, it’s not the smartest ones that use ChatGPT. “I asked ChatGPT” might as well be the new “I saw it on Fox News.”

Always happy when the dissenters in the Roman Catholic Church are the traditionalists. It means the RCC is moving in the right direction.

According to the lawsuits, voters were encouraged to sign a petition supporting the U.S. Constitution after being told $1 million winners would be selected “randomly,” similar to a lottery.

The plaintiffs allege the giveaway was not random and cite a statement by one of Musk’s lawyers that the 18 winners were chosen because they “might be good spokespeople for America PAC.”

This is absolutely the party that is going to drain the swamp! /s

Increasingly, media in general, for even worse effect!

It’s weird that high tech CEOs didn’t learn the most valuable lesson from the Metaverse: people are not stupid. If they don’t like something, selling it to them harder is not going to make them like it more. It’s simply not solving their life’s problems.

AI behaves much the same way. It’s not that it’s useless, it’s that faced with the actual cost, its usefulness shrinks to almost nothing. People dislike AI because they know better, not because they are too stupid to see.

I suppose one way to reduce poverty is to kill off poor people by denying them health care.

It just feels so cartoon-villain-ish to give rich people tax cuts and cut health care from poor people at the same time. Like: I get that you get your payroll needs met by the rich people, but don’t you also have to ensure you get the votes from the poor ones?

It’s absolutely ridiculous that someone would threaten to change a tariff regime after negotiating one a few month ago. What’s the point of any agreement with this guy if it’s null and void the moment he changes his mind?

That said (loudly), we need more European digital solution that don’t suck like their American counterparts. Maybe use the money from the digital tax to fund the development and deployment of alternatives to Facebook, X, WhatsApp, Amazon, Google, etc.

Given the trajectory of this, we’ll probably have to start considering home cooling as fundamental to human survivability as home heating.

Luckily, in heat pumps we have efficient ways to cool and heat, and France has relatively cheap and plentiful electricity.

The article is sad, because it reveals just how ignorant the conversation is in Russia, currently. I am reminded of the scene in Borat, towards the beginning, where Borat goes to a feminist conference and trolls the present speakers by asking how they reconcile their opinion with Prof. Soandso’s finding that women have a brain the size of a squirrel’s. That’s how idiotic the comments on state media and in academia sound.

Was about to say: raspberries freeze really well. It’s a bit tricky to thaw them without damage, and they don’t taste or look as good as fresh ones from the bush, but the little plastic containers at the supermarket are the worst.