Peter Saumur

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Double the price for every succeeding buffalo ala the Persian Chessboard.

I imagine the whoosing sound of the point passing her head was the same sound as the money leaving her account to buy "the last Buffalo".

Victims of CIA-linked Montreal brainwashing experiments cleared to sue in class action | CBC News A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class-action lawsuit brought forward by victims of brainwashing experiments conducted at the Allan Memorial Institute in Montreal — experiments infamous ...

Wild shit that the case is proceeding.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Communist brainwashing, mind control experiments, a government cover up... MKULTRA sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories or science fiction. But it was real."

I hope you get it, bro!

50k signing bonus for retirees returning to service.

A "ready to play" linux distro that you can boot from a USB drive/SD card. It's pre loaded with a massive collection of emulators and a user friendly interface to play all classic games that you own. It is a free and open source software that turns your old machine into a gaming console

me when open source

our panel of experts get together to discuss what is the best way we should all just surrender

No need to apologize. I just felt like it's a weird design choice (by whoever made the mug); intentional or not.

A (semi) Serious Man

Someone missed out by not monetizing that.

Sure, on the one hand, this will make people worse off and contribute to climate change, but on the other hand it means higher demand on the energy grid which raises electricity prices for us all! 🥳

Yes, well, very ambitious. Hopefully, China will ramp up their Thorium reactor plans.

Are they planning a H3 reactor?

Love coming across stuff like this. Someone called Rickdadick450 on the welding subreddit created this mechanical vulture out of old typewriter and calculator parts. It rocks, and doubly so if you’ve read M. John Harrison’s “The Pastel City”.

Why a reactor when solar is literally right there at a fraction of the cost?

1070 card with 8gb would be pushing it for modern games.
Everything else looks solid enough - though some will argue 16GB of memory isn't enough.

Needs me to have an account/login - no bueno

Good for them … but also, bad for them.

Can probably swap that nvidia card for an AMD one.

Had priced out this build for future gaming pre-Linux consideration. It’d be waaaay cheaper in the US to assemble.

Would like to know your hardware specs since I currently have a workstation laptop from 2015 but it has an i7 and 24 (easily upgraded to 32) GB of RAM and twin 1TB SSDs.
The downside is it has an nVidia GPU, which limits which distros I can run with driver support…

i find these types of mugs upsetting since they are shaped too closely to funeral urns.

Used to have their poster ads on my walls from that era (80s)

Elusive because he’s a tenured professor trying to avoid his TA’s.

1999 was such an insane year for movies: the Matrix, Star Wars the phantom menace, Fight Club, the Sixth Sense, the Blair Witch Project, Office Space, the Green Mile, the Iron Giant, American Pie

Are you doing any coding on your little 'nix box?
I'm kicking the tires on VSCodium but wanted to hear if you used something better.