Moore’s law of mad science: every year, the resources required to end civilization shrink by 1%.

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”

“Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

– Emo Philips

Theft.

how sideloading apps work on iOS

Short answer being ‘it doesn’t.’

And now Android is inching toward the same abusive restrictions, because we didn’t chop Apple in half the moment they pulled that shit. It is genuinely one of the worst events in the history of computer and I am counting the death of Turing.

Obviously well-motivated in this case, but it’s still intolerable for any company to restrict what software you can install. If removal from one store means total censorship, that store’s petit monopoly needs to be shattered.

It’s not their platform. It’s your phone. That’s what the money is for.

Putting aside how absolutely terrifying this will be when it’s not the good guys blowing up an invading army - I’m surprised there’s no directional filtering solution, for radio waves. You have a pretty good idea which direction adversarial signals will come from.

Alternately, given sudden overwhelming signal strength, the drone could fly toward the source with malicious intent.

It does sound like someone clicks the right blob onscreen, so in the absence of further instruction, the drone will go give it a hug. That’s missile lock-on via webcam, not a flying landmine.

Funny, he never married.

This makes the sauna work less.

This makes the roof work less.

Military thermal is fucking terrifying. You can’t hide shit.

And that’s gonna be nothing compared to radio imaging, which is already good enough to read heartbeats off passive wifi. Twenty years ago, making that practical would’ve been PhD thesis, as an absolute nightmare of modeling and filtering. Nowadays we can probably grind it out as a neural network and run it on the drone itself.

Beef tallow.

Seriously.

Folks, I was not joking; they were real and they looked sick.

… and they did infamously have issues with wildlife getting caught in the pipes while eating the airtight sealant.

The pneumatic railway tubes, with the homogeneous rat viscera?

(centurii-chan)

ITT: people with no idea how to represent a proportion.

Pie charts are correct, here.

Oregon and Vermont, yeah, that tracks.

Colorado and New Mexico: “In this weather? It’s your funeral.”

Couldn’t spell it.

Both sites have light and dark versions, and do not bother to share your choice, and for some damn reason neither one defaults to “automatic.”

Why the fuck did we ask?