D61 [any]

Wait for it… Virgin Galactic is about to commit suicide after buying some Tacobell but before they eat it.

Fair… I’m pretty sure I was being needlessly evasive/pedantic.

You can’t even see the meme about flowers through all the content warnings…

Not everything in a contract would be allowed to be enforced by law… so no.

Try writing a contract that includes voluntary cannibalism, let it get out to the public, and see if the police just let that slide.

Sure there’s words there but are they actually legally actionable? Like something in an EULA that says, we reserve the right to delete this from your hardware if you don’t sent us a cookie every six months. Its there… but it doesn’t matter.

Removed by mod

Abuse maybe, but illegal? No.

Its kinda like sending a “cease and desist” letter with a lawyer’s letterhead (usually an empty threat) but with the automoderation system in place about copyrighted works it winds up being up to the person defending themself from the claim to do the work to prove fair use instead of the person making the claim of infringement.

brain gets information it can’t process

“Sh**!”

picks thing at random

Me: “Why do I smell marshmallows when I look at that thing that isn’t a marshmallow?”

Defrosting a skeleton with turkey baster injected microwaves.

The larvae is where they do nothing but eat and grow and eat some more. Then they turn into flying sex organs.

pretty much all moths, right?

The Odd Couple remake for the 2020’s is pretty cool, not gonna lie.

What can people build with Grok?

Bots to post on Twitter to talk to the other bots?

Weird article.

Putin says nothing about Navalny except that, “I’m cool getting him out of the country so long as he doesn’t come back.”

Navalny’s confederates: “See, see! Putin admits to killing Navalny!”

“Putin’s statements on Sunday were interpreted by his critics as an attempt to distance himself from involvement in Navalny’s death.”

Wait… didn’t Putin’s critics just say Putin was admitting publicly he had (or knew that) Navalny was about to die? Which is it, The Guardian?

“Putin already knew that Navalny was about to be killed, and that’s the only reason he agreed easily [to the swap], so that now he can say: ‘Well, you see, it wasn’t beneficial for me, I wanted to trade him,’ said Roman Dobrokhotov, an investigative journalist who was close to Navalny.

Wait, wait, wait… so did the prisoner swap happen, AND THEN, Navalny died? (checks internet)… Nope, he was still in a Siberian prison when he died. So… like… what would be the point? You can’t trade a dead prisoner for a live one, right? If you wanted the dude dead, why make a prisoner exchange deal that was (or would be) made public, and then have him killed?

And if I’m supposed to believe that Putin is willing to do the above… then what was with the a weirdly complicated “James Bond Movie” assassination scheme involving a very specific nerve agent to a Russian/British double agent in 2018?

“As you can see, once a heart is removed from a body, it goes limp and fades away.”

Heat Attack Gun: A CIA Field Manual, Illustrated

hmmm… “The White Helmets”? That’s a big yikes from me.

I didn’t click on all the links during my reading, but is there anywhere that states what evidence that the Syrian government is culprit? The article is very clear the drones are not special, they’re just moderately sized quad copter style that you can find anywhere now, so, what’s the link to the Syrian government?

Is this the “chemical weapon attacks” all over again?

Also… really don’t like the use of “suicide” in this context. Its a munition, missiles aren’t considered “suicide” missiles when they guide themselves to their target. Bombs that can correct their path to their target aren’t considered “suicide” bombs.

Nothing is suiciding, the operator of the drone doesn’t die when they blow up their drone.

Somebody made a graphic of 3 year old me’s understanding of childbirth…

Somewhere (and it keeps moving) is a small pile of cellphones that I haven’t gotten around to getting rid of. Every few years I’ll do some cleaning/rearranging and stumble across an old Motorola Razor flip phone and I kinda miss it.

The size and weight were good. Solid construction (dropped the thing a few times and it took the fall like a champ). Doesn’t do smart phone stuff, but hey, there was enough memory that it could store some audio files and simple text files.