Clem Fandango

How is this not career-ending?

$500M for New Glenn's development. Bezos funded the majority at roughly $2.5B.

Even people who have only barely heard of ChatGPT will tell you we are in some sort of a bubble. This stuff spreads by osmosis

Shouldn’t this be spelled “underpinnings”?

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

“It built. Ship it!”

Wasn’t the Glob eventually annihilated by the Man-Thing? The funny part is the Glob was a rip-off of an old character called the Heap and Man-Thing was of course a Swamp Thing clone. One rip-off destroying another

The irony being that he’s Jewish

The loser eats a cockroach

i used to work in devops and the more i understood how the internet worked the less i understood why the internet works

Broadly agree, although I’d argue lowtax banning anime porn was the ur-event in terms of internet brainrot

likely late 70s living room with 5 boys playing space invaders on an atari 2600

and then you spend the rest of your life chasing this high

There are a couple of ways to mitigate this somewhat with Google search. First, add before:2019 to your search terms. Second, use the “secret” udm=14 flag to eliminate AI results. The site udm14.com will do this for you

Seeing Evil Dead 2 as a kid reassured me that there are indeed other weirdos in the world

“Romantasy” is eating fiction and it’s porn

Same, I had no idea when I followed him that I’d end up on 40+ blocklists but it’s fine actually

She is a troll seeking engagement

Solaris is pretty much peak Lem. It was adapted into a couple of movies. Can also recommend The Chain of Chance.

God is…what? Or is it intentional, eg “Darkseid is”

Not many 2nd gen Tacomas still on the road because their frames all snapped in half. Toyota eventually and quietly settled a frame rust class action lawsuit in 2016

You could add Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to your table (Argentina, convicted and sentenced in 2022 for corruption) to make it a nice even 32. Powers of 2 are simply more pleasing to the eye

On the stage at Trilith shooting the barrel roll through the mountains. All the plates were shot previously in Svalbard. 7.26.24

If you see this post a DC Comics cover you love.

Nick Adams is a joke/troll account

100% agree

The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls

They buy it from the US: www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical Reliance on America grows, as other countries clutch their pearls

“…the French government is the sole shareholder in a company that owns six plasma centres in America, which pay donors, with the fluid collected available for use in France.”

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

A lot of people find it offensive because there’s no cause specified and the whole thing feels deterministic. But there are no good counter-arguments and it’s worth understanding, I think

Doomsday argument - Wikipedia

You might also enjoy this, a probabilistic argument of how many humans will ever exist and what that means re our timespan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsda...

About 1 kg, give or take, of raspberries in a plastic container.

Raspberries going off early this year. About a kilo picked this morning

You look like you’d rather be doing anything else. It’s perfect