fucking hell do I need to grind the engraving off my trauma shears now

fun tidbit from the swedish voting help site above, see if you can spot it

one interesting observation is that the actual set of countries that do vote by mail looks almost exactly like the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eco... map (with the notable exception of the Nordics but they mostly have equivalents like howtovote.se/voting-by-co...)

CAPTCHA idea: pick the struggling companies from the Astr*nomer brand grid

just doing some research on traveling on german trains with a bicycle

seems about right

for the past two years Berlin has had ridership comparable to NYC

Berlin has less than half the population, even if you don't count the commuters (LI is 4x Brandenburg alone)

Look at your cookies/ajax request. I would bet this is just two different promotions being applied and the monthly one happens to be better. These are the rates on the subscribe page currently.

if you're wondering how things are going in the .ru AI chatbot space, this is the login screen for GigaChat (it's free but you need to be KYC'd via federal savings bank)

haven't really had the stomach for social media the past couple of months but notifications look like this despite 0 content so I guess I'll be more actively posting on here now

this is my favorite quote from the Quanta piece because it has the same dead-on on potential yet completely off-base on context energy of a lot of early tech predictions