Crazy, given the company name!

One of the first things drilled into me in journalism was “Smith thinks” should be recast to “Smith said he thinks.”

The C-suite is likely well aware of limitations, but shareholders like to hear about the hot new thing.

The thing is, the idea isn’t wrong. Automating complex tasks is a bitch, but the repetitive tasks that turn any job into a grind are prime candidates. The larger issue is instead of letting employees spend more time doing fulfilling activities because of increased efficiency, companies tend to do layoffs.

In Factorio, you have both belts with zero power consumption and the ability to fit a mountain of coal in your pockets to rush it over to the boilers, alongside burner inserters. Midgame, if you’re not leveling the grid with accumulators, you’re going to have a bad time. Solar can kickstart mining, but little else unless at massive scale – and by the time you’ve got the sulfuric acid for uranium mining, you’ve not been using coal for quite some time.

I realise you’re legally obligated as a Canadian to be polite aboot this …

Here’s a fig leaf for “oops, Brexit didn’t work.” The UK needed one, and Trump was happy to oblige.

The vigil on Sunday evening drew a crowd so large that police in Vancouver had to move the crime scene barriers back so that people would not spill out onto the busy traffic along 41st Avenue, writes Dustin Godfrey, in his dispatch from Vancouver, about the strength of the Filipino community in the face of a devastating car attack that has killed 11 people and injured dozens more.

I made an edit for not so much clarity, but “11 eleven”? Come on, Van. I know you can do better.

There are times where this is used for comedic effect. Fully unable to read the room, we get redundancy in the wrong order: “eleven (11)” is correct, but that’s just the beginning. This is not a moment of levity. You aren’t The fucking Onion.

Nothing that can be done, says one of the other countries where this is starting to be a regular occurrence.

Vancouver police have dialed the deathtoll up to 11. I spent lots of nights on Fraser, so this is really shocking.

Rock Celebrates 2 Billion Years Of Not Being Subducted

Inanimate objects don’t celebrate much.

Can’t resist.

Your vehicle not being yet another surveillance vector can be a selling point.

I have full control over my feed here. That’s an important distinction. I’d imagine if I end up in someone else’s hometown off Beehaw, we’d end up getting a beer or lunch.

Saying Facebook is in the same area code is specious.

As a thought experiment, it’s somewhat fascinating to ask what “social media” has done. I don’t really consider anything past MySpace truly social. The term now means “let’s keep you addicted to posts from people you’ll never meet” – essentially, the modern form of checkstand tabloids.

I pulled a U-Haul trailer with my Civic from Virginia to Oregon. Only took 2½ days, though the final few hours were harrowing. Maps back then didn’t so much express topography, so the trailer was actually pushing me down … I likely went through a year of brake pads in six hours.

Those questions are answered here.

Growing up in Phoenix, the national ads in the '80s that breathlessly noted “comes with air conditioning” was like … how could you sell a car that doesn’t have that?

I sincerely question whether your standard ChatGPT user knows what a Domme actually is. You don’t get that from movie descriptions. You get something – but nothing approaching BDSM best practices.

I have some experience making them feel better.

Amazing what subjugation of women can do for a sense of virility.

“I’ll take ‘shit we already knew for 800, Alex.’”

Calling this “conservatism” is already a fig leaf.