This is fucking evil

Herman noted that the hole has grown larger by the day. The divot appeared to be cordoned off by police tape and cones.

Please grow faster, comrade sinkhole

This is one of the reason McD:s have cameras - not just in case of robbery, but also if workers decide to redistribute some of that food

This is actually a pretty nice paper

"Before crime is committed" is a funny way of saying "innocent". Western politicians will no doubt act like they think these are grave injustices, while simultaneously pushing for similar systems in the EU

I went into the article expecting something about mental health, and memes as a way of dealing with crippling depression. Instead I got someone overthinking stale memes with the usual boomer blasting thrown in

I mean me too thanks

Yep, DRM is about power and being able to screw consumers over

This is reminding me that I have yet to donate to the EFF 😔

"Assault weapons" always struck me as a weasely word. Are machine guns what is meant? All fully automatics? Semi-automatics?

You don't really "know" things in science

Title is a bit misleading

But the boomers have arranged for healthcare for themselves. They're not going away any time soon

My bet is on this being a measurement error, or an extra force they didn't think about.

I e-mailed the main guy behind the paper and pointed out that they too easily disregard the possibility of this being an electrostatic effect because they say that can't be the case because the setup is "grounded". The air quotes are because I'm working on an electrostatic instrument, and our experience is that it is very hard to remove all surface charges. At the kind of forces this paper talks about it doesn't take much charge buildup for some nearby electric field to contribute force via Coulomb attraction. Any kind of grease stain or oxide patch can do this

Woo! 😄

Finally a good use for bitcoin :)

Heavy levels of Poe on this one

Meanwhile, real-life spaceships mostly tend to come in the "tin can" class :)

... are sites allowed to comnunicate with eachother over local storage? Surely i must be reading this wrong

Or maybe you're more right wing than you want to admit, OP. Additionally, the French are not an oppressed minority.

Kids these days and their smartphones not talking to people. In my day things were different!

What they're reading isn't central to what I'm trying to say. Also what kleinbl00 said

This day he wanted to live.

I like the "Men cannot approach women" rule.

What's the point of twitter anyway? I only use it for space news, but even that can be replaced by just subscribing to the relevant ESA/NASA blogs..

There's a reason SpaceX can do these things cheaper, and it likely has something to do with their high employee turnover. I also suspect there's quite a bit less guesswork needed these days than back in the 60's, and we have much better tools.

This is fortunate, because I'm a member of the local model rocketry club :)

If I had some Hubski stickers I could mayhaps stick them on one of the rockets..

For me Hubski is a place for taking one's time. Posts like these make me happy that hubskiers know how to have fun too!

First of all: it's never too late to change. But to answer the "what I'm doing" question: right now I'm looking for a new job, and I'm involving myself locally. While doing so I try to figure out and work on projects that feed the inventor within. I try to avoid using computers for those, as a break from the last 10 years or so of computering.

More personally, my friendships have improved greatly and I tend to have a potential date or two in the works. Sort of. Dating is hard!

Actually, yeah. I also realized we don't have a lot of gun violence in Sweden despite a huge part of the population being licensed hunters with guns at home. This means it's a social issue.

Why indeed

Yep. A few local hackers are also working on this (the so-called #fediverse). I haven't bothered looking into it yet. I've also heard talk of people giving old protocols like Gopher a second look.