RecursiveParadox

The “gunned” is a good rhetorical effect.

Prices for the kinds of fuel ocean going ships burn have increased 25%-35% depending on the port.

Why can’t you use Proton VPN for torrenting? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

The general Bluesky mottos is block early, block often. I’m ok with that.

Quick note, petroleum sanctions on Iran from the US are not lifted - the only thing permitted is to buy the barrels now at sea, i.e., from the dark fleet. Same deal with Russia.

Fuck with Paul at your peril. He’ll write a song that will stay in the top 10 for weeks and weeks and the top 100 for years about your sorry ass (sorry John, you’re still my favorite though).

You’ll hear it everywhere you go…

From the article:

New Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider told TechCrunch, “We’ve launched a lot of things inside Bluesky — Starter Packs and custom feeds, and all those kinds of things. This is a standalone product, and it’s the first one that’s built by Jay’s new team.” [emphasis added]

@dadifer@lemmy.world is talking about Surface Detail, while I was talking about the Hydrogen Sonata.

No this was the simulation of the entire group that was about to subsume as to how they would react to finding out their very important religious document was actually an alien experiment. I think the mind was the Mistake Not… .

One of the Minds in Ian M Banks’ last novel, The Hydrogen Sonata, faces and addresses exactly this problem. Much is at stake, so it’s a meaningful discussion.

I saw that one too, was very cool.

Lamb tagine.

Why here, of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Northwest_tree_octopus

“They are Belgian, not AI.” Going to have to start incorporating this into my speech.

The LoTR movies are one of the few portrayals of positive masculinity a lot of people had growing up.

How the hell have the Tolkien estate not sued them into oblivion is beyond me. They are not known for their light touch either.