John Stracke

Maybe in one of the Jurassic Park movies.

Paper cuts.

I have that model, and, yeah, it's much quieter than others I've heard. I love how it vibrates on purpose before each model to tune its noise cancellation.

I wish mine would do that. I can turn on the air heating via app, but not the seats.

It's safer that way—since impeachments start in the House, the Senate can do performative investigations without committing to anything.

It's a very bad attempt at a Hugo statue.

If they aren't following the 2019 law about back pay, why would they follow a new one?

Reagan was an awful man, but he majored in economics during the Great Depression, which was at least partly triggered by tariffs. That sort of thing leaves an impression.

The main exception that comes to mind for me is The Princess Bride. The book is full of irrelevancies; the movie boils the story down to its core.

The glossary of unknown words wouldn't even need AI, just spell check.

Ooh! I kept meaning to ask about this.

For extra weirdness: the publisher claims that "scaring off monsters with garlic" is an innovation.

Maybe you should have brought your hundred legionnaires with you.

Mittens tries to overcome his anatidaephobia.

It's all fun and games until somebody sacrifices a goat and gets bloodstains on the laundry.

Only the best people that can stand him.

Yes! Gradygrams, right? Diagrams invented (popularized?) by Grady Booch.

I always thought Gradygrams and UML were too heavyweight. A use case informs your requirements; it's not part of your design.

The article I saw quoted one rapturee as saying they were selling their stuff to help the people left behind. Of course, that leads to the question: why not just give it away?

First Wolf is right.

Thanks!

I had not heard of this book. I have Little Fuzzy in print and ebook; now I’ve bought The Other Human Race as an ebook. Thanks!

When it’s a sandwich.

I always liked that cover.

Could be. I may be misled because mine are less severe than those of other people I know.

Not in the same league as cancer, but I can tell you that migraine treatments have improved dramatically.

I mean, they look silly, but these are dogs bred to go down into badgers' holes and kill them.

I wish I could be the slightest bit surprised by this one, but I'm not: https://electrek.co/2025/08/25/scientist-exposes-anti-wind-groups-as-oil-funded-now-they-want-to-silence-him/

tl;dr -- a collection of right-wing lawyers and front organizations are trying to silence the researcher who has […]

Apologies if you know this already, but Mussolini didn't exactly make the trains run on time. He shifted priorities so that the People Who Mattered had trains that ran on time, while making things worse for everybody else.

So "ffs please let Us live in peace, but we don't care about Them".

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Generally, the negotiation is along the lines of "sign this treaty or we kill you".