"Because there is no better partner for an oxygen-rich atmosphere than a naked flame!" (Apollo 1 used 100% oxygen, which was ... bad. Reduced to 60% in subsequent missions.)

Sure. Now they're in our backyard we care. When they were in Venezuela where people were drinking salt water, or Chile which is experiencing a megadrought... If AI really does give us a $200bn productivity boost, the Global South will be paying for it. Again. Data is the new colonialism!

Sure. Here's a pair

Fun fact: it is believed that pressures in excess of 400Gpa (~4 million times atmospheric pressure) are required to create metallic hydrogen. Attempts to do it have used diamond anvil cells, but the diamonds don't survive and claimed "successes" have not been reproduced. Go, Jupiter!🎉

Fake ICE agents kidnapping undocumented people for organ harvesting was literally the plot of a recent episode of FBI: Most Wanted. I was surprised that the storyline was so current. Don't they have to write the scripts and film scenes months in advance?

Uh-huh uh-huh

OK, but odd that the hotel isn't named, and that the story is illustrated with a photo of Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Baba O'Riley

The entire administration is like this, e.g. "The Fake News losers at CNN immediately tried to fact check it, but President Trump was right (as usual)" from the official White House site: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202.... The US is being run by children.

Well, by most measures 15% is a pretty big margin. Unless, of course, it's actually down from 37% less than six months ago. But 🍊🤡 isn't going to want to talk about that.

I think he believes that if humans can drive using just eyes and a brain then an autonomous car should need only visual sensors and AI. Presumably if we were bats it would've been OK to keep the ultrasonic sonar as well!

That was an early indication that the mask was slipping. The final straw for me was when he insisted that all non-visual sensors be removed from Tesla vehicles. That is a terrible engineering 'solution' that proves once and for all that musk does not understand engineering.

Unless you count "not wanting to feel like worthless shit all the time" as an "addiction". If it were up to me, I'd send all of those annoying people who are "high on life" to some sort of rehab.

Ooh, fun! I love Japan (and its trains), though tourists (including Australians) have kind of ruined Kyoto in recent years. Are you going to be travelling on the Hello Kitty Shinkansen as well? www.jrailpass.com/blog/hello-k...

Yes, and they're excellent with maple syrup.

Don't forget that SCOTUS has ruled that the President has immunity from criminal prosecution for acts conducted under his core constitutional authority as president and presumptive immunity for all official acts. Makes you wonder - *so what* if all this is illegal? What's the consequence?

Can you also smell napalm?

Not mine. It's a Mastercard, and it's exactly as you would expect as described here: www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1... Are different card providers doing different things with notches? Now *that's* insane!