Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@EugeneMcParland Really getting tired of civilized countries letting Russia play them for fools. Enough is enough.

@bruce @w7voa
I converted a couple of my outlets to those years ago. Tired of the clutter of desktop chargers and wall-warts.

@w7voa You'd think manufacturers would appreciate the savings in no longer having to include a charger at no cost, since nowadays most people already have a drawerful of usb wall chargers and don't even want another one.

@andreas1 @rahmstorf
Yes, I meant I'd be interested to know if counterarguments have been made to the points in the one you posted.

@andreas1 @rahmstorf I'd be interested to know the counterarguments to the points in this paper.

@w7voa These stories never say which operating system had the vulnerability that was exploited. I just assume Windows but it'd be interesting if they'd actually report this stuff.

@w7voa These stories never say which operating system had the vulnerability that was exploited. I just assume Windows but it'd be interesting if they'd actually report this stuff.

@EugeneMcParland While the UN Law of the Sea allows peaceful commercial transit through territorial waters in the Baltic, they should reasonably be able to bar ships deemed uninsurable by legitimate companies.

"Attention ramshackle Russian rustbucket! Transmit your policy number for verification or turn back now!"

@EugeneMcParland "'If they are full of oil and if they collide with another ship because the [people on them] are drunk or not awake, or if they run aground … then you have a huge problem,' [the former head of the Danish Navy] said."

Looks like he has a passing familiarity with Russian crews.

@georgetakei He probably looked at a standard projection -- the Mercator used everywhere including Google Maps -- and thought: wow, Greenland is yuge. Yuge! It's bigger than the United States!

A few nights ago I watched an episode of "Route 66" from 1962. It's set in Oregon City, and opens with Martin Milner, at the wheel as always, giving George Maharis an encyclopedic recitation of all the Oregon City "firsts".

One rather cool thing about it is that most of the things shown in the episode haven't changed all that much. Apart from the main street businesses. And the way people dress. Even the municipal elevator, looking like something out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, was already there in '62.

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Oregon City.

https://www.opb.org/article/2024/12/24/oregon-city-180-anniversary/

@w7voa

Reminiscent of the old joke about the guy who kills his parents and asks for clemency because he's an orphan.

The fact that Kate Bush never guested on The Muppet Show is surely one of the great missed opportunities of the 20th century. Picture her, surrounded by pigs, singing "I'm Living In a Pig Sty" to the tune of Big Sky. What might have been.

@demi7en @w7voa

You've read this, I take it? You'd think Trump wouldn't want to call more attention to this period of his career; it served him admirably in its day but any renewed scrutiny now can only be bad for him.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html

Apparently whether you're a radical islamist or a radical anti-islamist, the solution is the same: to indiscriminately run crowds of people over.

Why is it you never see a story about a nuclear power plant that isn't decades late with cost overruns on the order of a multiple of the original proposed total?

It's almost as if planners know that if they submitted a realistic proposal it would never get approved, so they just flat out lie from the get go.

@w7voa
Since it's in Normandy they could have at least have topped those containers with crenellated Norman battlements. Honestly, won't someone think of the scenic postcards?

@rubenbolling I hope Quentin got his paycheck even if he wasn't in that one.