Bring knowledge of CFCs to a time when we’re able to make them but not able to detect the ozone problems they cause.

Hey Vegeta, what does the battery say about its Ah level?

IT’S!!!… nine thousand.

Mall playgrounds are gyms

A very reassuring technology to have!

But my worry was more about them changing their business model once they get big enough.

Only payable in British currency, not colonial paper money.

Legit, first time I heard a Brit say his name I thought it was a Japanese dude: Kiastama

I finally read his name some months later and realized.

I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I think I’m gonna stick with it. Paying with dollars instead of data/attention feels more healthy for everyone involved.

(Fully realizing, of course, that there’s nothing stopping them from doing both, and that’s why we need better laws. Voting with your wallet will never be a complete solution… but it is something I can do right now.)

We’re doing it to our infosphere with AI at the same time!

I wonder what other aspects of civilization we can obstruct with debris from irreversible deployment of immature tech.

Bags of dirt: The fourth little pig

Something that has always bothered me about this joke: Don’t news stands generally have the front page visible, to entice people? So like, you’d know well before you bought one.

Edit: I’m illiterate. I’ve heard this joke before as “guy buys a paper, looks at the front page, throws it away”. But this version actually makes sense.

That’s wild, cuz that case is still ongoing. SC just declined to hear an appeal on the stay. So they don’t actually know that the courts have their back here yet.

I know the bar is several miles beneath the floor at this point, but at least some senators are willing to walk across it in this one specific very limited instance.

Edit: It is truly a dark timeline when the best reassurance you can find is that the dismantling of democracy may yet be done through procedurally valid means.

Do it. Demand zero subsidies for Elon.

No one:

Everyone: adds a pointless “No one:” above perfectly valid memes

Starting at $939…

Remember when this was the meaning of “emotional labor”? Rather than “relationships require effort”?