Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@cstross @rubenbolling I hear one of the technicians fell into the tank and they had to oyster out.

@mackayim2022 @hansbot @acsawdey

Well, he did say "even in space". I'm a big fan of the idea of solar power satellites. No atmospheric attenuation (except when beaming the energy back to Earth, but you can choose your wavelength to minimize that), no nighttime, unlimited size, no need to support its weight against gravity.

The only problem is how do you keep governments from turning it into a death ray to, e.g., win wars and suppress dissent...?

Getting reports from credible-sounding people who say they do indeed get these even if they've blocked him.

Reportedly on Xhitter now everyone gets a notification when Musk tweets, irrespective of whether they follow him. I have no info about whether muting him or blocking him affects this.

@acsawdey @mackayim2022

Well yes, but good farmland wouldn't be my first choice. Arguaably better to let it go fallow and reforest as a carbon sink and put your solar panels on our copious deserts and badlands.

@bruces We could at least be realistic and cut the bureaucratic and law enforcement overhead by making an explicit fentanyl-for-chips trade deal.

@w7voa
Imagine if he'd been president during Orson Welles' original War of the Worlds broadcast.

@rubenbolling I'd forgotten how much of the original Peanuts material was simply kids being mean to Charlie Brown. Note that nothing else occurs in that promo; not even one actual joke. Consider the punch line of the very first Peanuts strip: "How I hate him!"

I started reading as a kid in the late 1960s and early 70s, a point at which Schulz was putting in some fairly thought-provoking dialogue. I don't think I would have liked it otherwise.

@chris I still want to know what that watermelon is doing there.

@bruces I particularly like the packet sniffer blade, but it doesn't fit every kind of network port

@w7voa Oh good. Just in time for Trump to hand the plans over to his friends Putin, Xi and Kim.

@EUCommission

"Powered by your talent". I hope you've budgeted for compensation and reparations to the people whose incomes will be wiped out by this automated scrape-and-plagiarize system that you're publicly subsidising.

@randahl @forthy42
Russia has already broken and thoroughly trampled every agreement it made re Ukraine. How anyone supposes that the next one will be different -- now that Russia has infinitely more at stake -- boggles the mind. Russia's entire history weighs against this belief. Just start at Chechnya, work backwards and tell me when you find anything that remotely suggests otherwise.

@w7voa Er, Lockheed is a listed company, isn't it? What the hell are they celebrating him for?

@fulelo Is it weird that my first reaction is to how oddly sexy those two teachers are? Especially in that last picture.

Yeah, it's probably weird.

@commonst @beebrookshire And let's not even start on how sheer bad luck can make you and your family into literal slaves in privately owned workhouses, or with kids as young as six pulling ore carts in mines...

@alcinoe @Gurre @fulelo That's the usual case most prescription drugs, and absolutely so with therapies such as hormone supplements or antagonists. To pick one at random: thyroid supplements are necessary to people with thyroid disorder but extremely inadvisable to anyone without.

@Gurre @fulelo The headline leaves out the words "for under-18s with gender dysphoria", but they're in the first sentence of the article. So this doesn't mean it'll be halted for original medical purposes, e.g. the treatment of precocious puberty.

@Fife4Europe

Question Time has been like that all along. Just one rather telling example:
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17738177.bbc-question-time-fire-bias-towards-brexiteer-meps/