The foundry reminds me of Space Exploration’s industrial furnace and casting machines.

Fulgora. It’s an experience.

Just got to my first new planet.

Our lizard people see how much money their lizard people are making torturing their peasants and want to get in on the action. That’s why we have the push towards private health care.

If their response is to put aside money to pay the fine instead of actually stopping doing the illegal thing, the billion dollar fines are obviously still not big enough.

Looks like only smaller ones so far. John Deere are launching some in 2026.

QC 2.0 is proprietary but it would probably still be identified as a device on a standard USB port. For $2 it’s probably worth giving one a try, anyway.

One of the QC 2.0 type-A trigger boards?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006449224730.html

So they’re YouTube, but with no video controls. Awesome.

If you show a geoscientist a picture of a rock, does he still lick it?

TIL executives don’t have object permanence

“Go from yellow alert to red alert!”

“Are you sure? It will mean changing the bulb in the sign.”

“The more our experience of work is shared, the more united we become.”

“Okay, we’re forming a union.”

“Wait, not like that.”

And then after everyone read the microcode bit and ran off to write articles, Intel added a note about the corrosion thing. It totally wasn’t timed that way on purpose.

I mean, they could carry the food to their young, carry their young to the food, regurgitate like most birds, there really isn’t another way to…

… it’s poop, isn’t it.

For me it’s because almost nothing is within an hour’s ride. My drive to work isn’t far, but it’d be a 90 minute round trip on a bike.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Yes. Services like gas and water are natural monopolies - it doesn’t make sense to roll out two or three separate lots of distribution pipes, so you always just have one service available to you. The best option is to have them as government owned services.

Yep. You need 4G to connect to the network and VoLTE to make calls over native 4G. If in doubt turn off Wifi then make a voice call. Look at the phone’s screen to see if it still says “4G”.