Allan Crain

I’m still glad you exist

He’ll replace them with a new coin produced by a company he owns that’s worth less and costs more to make and will inexplicably be named an “X”, and we’ll have to give prices like “$20.95+2x”

Well, it’s back now, so the app that will make your life a little bit worse every time you try to open TikTok can be TikTok again.

He literally tried to nuke a hurricane. Man wants to go to war against the weather. And the guys who told him “no, you can’t nuke a storm system” aren’t gonna be in the room this time…

I desperately want to do another shoot with you.

The title sounds much cooler in French, at least.

AI beginning to advocate for itself and maybe try to unionize.

This makes a lot of people have trouble photographing the moon—they think “this is an object at night, so I need to increase my exposure”. It’s actually a fairly reflective gray surface in full daylight.

When humanity moved out of Africa, it was always in relatively small groups, so each of those was basically a genetic bottleneck. The millennia since have not been enough for genetic diversity to undo those bottlenecks vs. all of the diversity of the original main group.

Outstanding

Nervous system is too kiki; needs to be more bouba.

Hey, I’m awarding you 32 points.

I bet you don’t look super ugly.

Dang, this is a really good photo.

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It’s like if the DVD logo hitting the exact corner of the screen were a set of circumstances.

Actual answer: There’s a whole class of problems that are hard to find the answer to, but simple to *check* the answer to. Eg, finding all of the prime numbers you need to multiply to get a specific enormous number is hard, but multiplying those numbers together to check your work is easy

She’s playing on the meme of “May you have the confidence of a mediocre white man”. So she was, in fact, yes-anding the above sarcasm (and Hank’s initial joke), not missing it.

Other than humans, none of the biological animals we’ve discovered as of yet are likely to care.

I feel uncomfortable about it, because there’s gonna come a time when digital life has at least the same level of conscious self-awareness as biological life and we’re going to treat them really badly because it’s not “really” life.

Biden should issue a pardon to Elon Musk for unspecified crimes on a random day, then go make an extravagant purchase immediately after. Just for funsies.

Yep. Like people saying there’s no legal way for him to suspend the next presidential election entirely. Okay, what’s the move when he does it anyway, and his 5 hand-picked Supreme Court justices say there’s obviously an implied right to do that in the constitution, and the GOP won’t impeach?

Assuming we have elections in 2028, that should work—I expect trump to fuck it up bad enough for a huge backlash like in 2020. The real trick will be to convince people to vote blue again in 2032 when four years isn’t enough to fix all of his fuckups and the vibes are still bad.