Thank you! We just do not do enough fracking here yet.

Fun fact: Cleveland OH was all set to become North America’s hub for continental and transatlantic airship traffic. The problem was that airships fundamentally suck, something that the Hindenburg disaster merely highlighted.

Meanwhile Akash:

Let me tell you something about Jon. During a project at Berkeley, our group was utterly fucked because of his shitty code additions, so 2 days before the deadline we pretended that Jon had deleted our entire codebase. While Jon panicked, I substituted a version with his shit deleted and went home and got high - and told him I’d rewritten it from scratch in one night.

Edit: BTW how is it even fucking possible for one member of a team to completely delete an entire codebase, including all previous versions? Did he go to every other team member’s computer and accidentally delete their working copies too? His story might make sense if it was 1981 and the whole team was sharing a single VIC-20, but he wasn’t even born then.

Even 1% of their remaining stockpile would do a staggering amount of damage to the world.

I’m worried that he actually died during his first term (when he caught COVID) and was replaced with a younger stunt double - and that they could just keep doing this forever. I mean, it wouldn’t be that much more unbelievable than what’s already happened.

Elon first, then Putin, then Dump.

Very disrespectful to leave out Saudi Arabia here.

It’s a seat at Hannibal Lector’s table.

I would put AI’s clothes in the toilet while it was in gym class.

I only recently learned that Budapest was originally two separate cities on opposite sides of a river named Buda and Pest.

Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan statistical area is 3.7 million, Columbus metro stat area is 2.1 million. Cleveland proper is only 362K while Columbus proper is 913K. Direct size comparisons of “cities” almost always are dependent upon arbitrary border definitions.